Yes, it's Sunday afternoon and I'm bored.
With all the recent discussion about coaching appointments, the Welnix "Moneyball" approach (ahem) etc I started wondering "who actually works for the Phoenix and what is the structure?".
Here's what's on the Phoenix website at the moment:
General Manager: David Dome
Executive Assistant: Lynsey Greenacre
Head of Commercial Operations: Alex Brandon
Head of Marketing: TBC
Events and Ticketing Manager: Lizzie Cummings
Football Operations Manager: Mal Impiombato
Media Manager: Russell Gray
Head of Commercial Operations: TBC. All enquiries to David Dome (not sure why this is listed twice?)
Sponsorship Account Manager: TBC. All enquiries to David DomeHead Coach: Ricki Herbert
The website also still lists Lee Taylor as the Strength & Conditioning Coach but we already know that's wrong and the job was recently advertised. It's also common knowledge that Jonathan Gould is back as Goalkeeping Coach and the Nix are recruiting an Assistant Coach and an Academy Coach, with Chris Greenacre tipped to get one of those.
This recent piece on Stuff also confirms:
Baranowski, who had a previous stint as the Phoenix's strength and conditioning coach, will take on the role of sports science manager.
Wayne Roberts will remain as physio but the Phoenix are hunting for a new strength and conditioning coach with Lee Taylor having returned to England for family reasons.
There was also a Financial Controller role recently advertised which directed applications to Neil Hammond, Commercial Executive. A search of LinkedIn confirms someone called Neil Hammond has been in that role for 1 month. Not sure if this is a new role or perhaps one of the Head of Marketing or Sponsorship Account Manager roles from above under a different name.
So putting all of that together the Nix structure looks something like:
General Manager: David Dome
Executive Assistant: Lynsey Greenacre
Head of Commercial Operations: Alex Brandon
Commercial Executive: Neil Hammond
Financial Controller: TBC
Head of Marketing: TBC?
Sponsorship Account Manager: TBC?
Events and Ticketing Manager: Lizzie Cummings
Media Manager: Russell Gray
Football Operations Manager: Mal Impiombato
Head Coach: Ricki Herbert
Assistant Coach: TBC
Academy Coach: TBC
Goalkeeping Coach: Jonathan Gould
Sports Science Manager: Ed Baranowski
Strength and Conditioning Coach: TBC
Physiotherapist: Wayne Roberts
Does anybody know of any other positions that exist or any corrections to above? Do the Nix Nine have plans to recruit in other areas such as match analysis?
This is obviously a big step ahead from last season, but I'd also be interested to know how this compares to the set-up at the height of Terry's reign, and to other A-League clubs.