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Posted April 19, 2023 04:15 · last edited April 19, 2023 05:00

Ryan
Lachyloolaa
Showtime Nixie
kiwis. coach and squad. Can you argue that? nup. Engagment was through the roof!!

Good luck to this fella...he's worked hard. I hope it works. 

Just doesn't have me tuning in anymore than the last flop.
You are the all-time bad take machine.

The idea that the Nix had good attendance in the early days because of a Kiwi coach and players is a load of rubbish. We had good attendance with Merrick at first and it fell off because of poor performance. Either way, I assume you just want to focus on the Ricki era, but even Ricki had shark attendance in the 12/13 season. What's the common denominator? Shark performance. Also who was the club's goalscoring superstar back then again? A Bajan. You seem to reckon the casual fans didn't care about Ifill because he wasn't a Kiwi.

And somehow you're calling Talay a flop, despite him stats-wise being the best coach we've had ever. If he's a flop, what does that make everyone else? The club's in the most stable place it's ever been, yet you still have to find something to whinge and whine about.
I remember being at a game with Ricki in charge and realising that there were no NZ born outfield players on the pitch. The only NZ players were Australian, like Durante and Lia, who had gotten citizenship by playing for the Nix.

There's a bit of history re-writing going on here. Under Herbert we were much more interested in signing Australian journeymen rather than playing young Kiwi's. 

I should be working, but was interested to see what the stats showed.

Out of all of our coaches, Talay has given the highest proportion of total minutes to Kiwis (47%), next closest is Herbet on 41%.
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Herbert fielded the most Aussie based teams (39%), this looks like it is due to several of his foreign players getting pretty limited minutes, the 2008/09 imports played a combined 1,500 minutes (by contrast, Zawada has played 1,800 this season by himself). 

The data I used is on a season by season basis, so I haven't split out the caretaker periods. I've treated Dura as an Aussie, I do think that he became a kiwi at some stage, but I don't think he was one in 07/08 or 08/09 so for the stats I chose to treat him as an Aussie throughout. Given he has been on the field for 62%(!) of all the minutes that the phoenix have played this does swing things a bit,  Herbert increases to 48% Kiwi if Dura's a Kiwi from day 1. 

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Ryan
Lachyloolaa
Showtime Nixie
kiwis. coach and squad. Can you argue that? nup. Engagment was through the roof!!

Good luck to this fella...he's worked hard. I hope it works. 

Just doesn't have me tuning in anymore than the last flop.
You are the all-time bad take machine.

The idea that the Nix had good attendance in the early days because of a Kiwi coach and players is a load of rubbish. We had good attendance with Merrick at first and it fell off because of poor performance. Either way, I assume you just want to focus on the Ricki era, but even Ricki had shark attendance in the 12/13 season. What's the common denominator? Shark performance. Also who was the club's goalscoring superstar back then again? A Bajan. You seem to reckon the casual fans didn't care about Ifill because he wasn't a Kiwi.

And somehow you're calling Talay a flop, despite him stats-wise being the best coach we've had ever. If he's a flop, what does that make everyone else? The club's in the most stable place it's ever been, yet you still have to find something to whinge and whine about.
I remember being at a game with Ricki in charge and realising that there were no NZ born outfield players on the pitch. The only NZ players were Australian, like Durante and Lia, who had gotten citizenship by playing for the Nix.

There's a bit of history re-writing going on here. Under Herbert we were much more interested in signing Australian journeymen rather than playing young Kiwi's. 

I should be working, but was interested to see what the stats showed.

Out of all of our coaches, Talay has given the highest proportion of total minutes to Kiwis (47%), next closest is Herbet on 41%.
image.png 11.05 KB

Herbert fielded the most Aussie based teams (39%), this looks like it is due to several of his foreign players getting pretty limited minutes, the 2008/09 imports played a combined 1,500 minutes (by contrast, Zawada has played 1,800 this season by himself). 

The data I used is on a season by season basis, so I haven't split out the caretaker periods. I've treated Dura as an Aussie, I think that  he became a kiwi at some stage, but I don't think he was one in 07/08 or 08/09 so for the stats I chose to treat him as an Aussie throughout. Given he has been on the field for 62%(!) of all of the games that the phoenix have played this does swing things a bit,  Herbert increases to 48% Kiwi if Dura's a Kiwi from day 1.