Alex Jones

Owww I liked Chenny.

There you go:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c...

Actually, mjp2, I disagree.  

The Sports Minister does not have to do the review himself, he appoints a retired judge for that. It usually costs between 50K to 200K to do a minor review of a minor organisation, one retired judge and 2-3 junior interns doing the legwork.   

And the outcome is guaranteed to reflect well on a brave minister that puts an end to an incompetent organisation like NZF which is sucking  money not just from the junior player families but also from the taxpayer (just when the NZ committee of America's Cup is crying out for more funding).

Legend

I'm hearing from a reliable source that the NZF are clearly jealous of the 33 screw ups the FFA have done in the last 2 years and want to get their title off them. 

"How dare those Aussies grab our title for total incompetence, we'll sort that out. Now where in NZ does Spark not have internet coverage? We'll send our man there for a few days, the Phoenix are looking at signing a player."

(Fixed the spelling)

Sham Bulls

Shame bulls

No one has written a comprehensive history of NZ Football yet so no you can't :-)

If I'd emailed a last minute job application to a business when they're closed on a Saturday and it's a long weekend in that city with the only possible time for them to process my application being Tuesday before the cut-off point, I'd be phoning and emailing that business on the Tuesday to make sure they received my application.

So, it seems to be a joint clusterfudge between David Dome and NZF.

Leaving this transfer application so late on an Auckland long holiday weekend was always going to carry risks.

Numerous transfer applications over the years haven't gone through in Europe because they were left too late and the paperwork wasn't sorted.

Unfortunately, I can't see Jones playing for the Nix this season....

Oh well, the Phoenix have signed Hamish Watson who, like Jones has played four games for Grimsby Town.

One of those funny coincidences.

He didn't exactly se the A-League on fire in his last spell but has looked good in the ASB this season.

Auckland has a holiday and the whole world has to wait.

It's grim.

Something fishy about Grimsby ?

I miss the days when our only worry was that we were sharke.

Jesus Christ the transfers in Europe are going through at 11.58pm on the deadline day, but a whole fudgeing working day is too much for our precious lot...

Hudson was right, not only some of the players are lazy...the fish stinks from the head.

It is literally a minute job too.

I am reminded and encouraged [more on encouraged latter] of when I was living in Whangeri and working along with a few others on the building of the Marsden Point Petro Chemical Refinery [1982 to 1986].. anyway the port authorises got the Crane on the dock wrong and this massive bit of equipment as it was being lifted out of a ship from Holland ... the crane broke its anchors and both the crane and the equipment  and half the dock went to the bottom  hitting the ship on the way and putting a hole in it... Boy did the blame game start....

Any old how how this is encouraging the current and depth of water off the dock at Marsden Point is quite something and maybe a tour could be arranged then a small accidental shoulder in the back and let the seas have their way... 

Any chance he could turn out for the reserve team to get a bit of game time tomorrow? Dunno how the lack of paper work will effect this

Here's what gets me:

My job is to handle international transfers

The deadline for that window closing is in 3 days

It's a weekend and a public holiday for that period of time

I won't be at my desk to do my job on the day I get back....

"boss, can you delegate someone to keep an eye on this for me on Tuesday please?"

no internet coverage is a piss weak excuse when you can get a landline, ring the office and tell someone to check. 

Or

-My job is to handle international transfers

The deadline for that window closing is in 3 days

It's a weekend and an Auckland public holiday for some part of that time, but things happen right up to the deadline

I  will stay at my desk, catch up on emails, listen to spotify, cruise all the football sites to see what might be happening

Go home late at the end of Tuesday knowing I was there if needed, cause thats my job

or "boss, can you delegate someone to keep an eye on this for me on Tuesday please?"

Job done-

But not done in this case. 

Jeff & Hep, you guys are so spot on. Deadline date day after tomorrow, so let's go away for a long weekend. Un-fudgeen-believable! NZF employee who thought this one up and did it is my nomination for the "complete cock of the year" award.

The major difference between Europe and NZ is that the football authorities in Europe expect numerous transfer requests from hundreds of professional clubs on deadline day.

So they have staff ready for it.

In NZ this was the only transfer request on deadline day - and something that is extremely rare.

Maybe they've never dealt with (or very, very rarely dealt with) transfer requests on A-League deadline day.

Lets face it, the Phoenix are the only professional club in NZ, the only local club in the A-League.

Transfer deadline day quite understandably simply wasn't on NZF's  radar.

Though of course it should have been just in case.

It seems the Phoenix never notified NZF at all that they were intending to sign a player (apart from sending an email on a holiday weekend).

If I was the Phoenix CEO or whoever was in charge of the transfer, I would have followed it up with NZF by telephone and email.

After all, this is NZ and people are often slack.

Especially NZF - who have always been this way since Adam was a baby.

The guy in charge of transfers wasn't in the office Tuesday - what you expect in NZ.

But getting through to someone in an organization is usually easy in a small country like NZ.

I've phoned NZF in the past with business and the then CEO Michael Glading personally phoned me back.

Football is nearly entirely an amateur sport still in this country, with amateur standards in administration.

The Phoenix are the only professional club and to survive in the A-League have had to achieve professional administrative standards.

Some onus was on the Phoenix to chase the transfer up on the Tuesday to make sure NZF had ticked it off I believe.

Some Onus might have been on the Nix but some Anus at NZF should have been awake to it.

so, no more Alex Jones? Or....?

Has he tweeted that he is back home yet?

So what is actually going on with this. Everyone other than this site has gone way too quiet for my liking.

The Phoenix / NZF joint statement was that there was going to be no more press release until FIFA gets back to them, obviously FIFA hasn't gotten back yet.

Hudson was the the nix game last weekend so I would of thought that this issue would of been sorted within the given deadline? Which wasn't

There's no way he will play for us before the next window unless he's released by his club.

FIFA would never allow this, otherwise many will use it as a precedent to get around the deadline when they need to e.g. De Gea's failed transfer to Real Madrid.

What I'm more interested in is a proper explanation of exactly what happened here, and who is mainly at fault. The hypothetical scenarios, assumptions, and crazed blaming going on around here is ridiculous. 

NZF are the ones at fault. It is their job to clear the international transfers and they didn't.

You can argue that the Nix should have followed up, and they definitely should have done that. But it's not their fault that NZF are incompetent. It's not the Nix's job to make sure NZF do theirs.

After venting my anger here I had an early pre-game craftie and decided to chill.

If FFA, a professional football governing body in Australia, screws up repeatedly and blatantly, we may need to cut some slack to the amateur football governing body in New Zealand.  Sure I would prefer neither of them screwed up ever.

I would still like NZF and the Nix to come clean on this debacle once everything is finalised (either way).

Anyone else puzzled by this? 

NZF are far from amateur. They get paid very well to screw basic tasks up. 

Send NZF down the gurgler.

Well it is really, the Nix are a business that needs to survive and any of us that deal with other firms know that we have to chase people up.

The Nix knew that they are dealing with a bunch of lazy fudgewits in the NZF who I think would like to keep football in this country as parochial as possible.

I'm guessing that folk at the NZF are paid not just well meaning amateurs?  Well they should be ashamed at themselves I'm guessing they didn't have too much work on during the christmas break so didn't check their emails.

Anyone with a bit of self respect would resign but I doubt they will as they are on a good thing. 

Due diligence is all we are asking for