The trouble is, with the A League requiring a coaching licence that has hitherto been unavailable for New Zealand coaches to obtain in New Zealand, the number of feasible coaches with a New Zealand connection is not high. OFC have started running an OFC Pro Licence course here, but I don't think anyone is yet to graduate from it. Assuming that Football Australia treats it as equivalent to an AFC Pro Licence, then maybe the next coach for Auckland or Wellington could be a local, but until then it's a waiting game.
A prior New Zealand connection isn't necessarily required; Ufuk Talay joined Wellington with similar NZ connections to Corica (ie he played a couple away games) and ended with a lot of people thinking he was hard-done not being given the national team gig. Des Buckingham came to New Zealand on a whim to be WaiBOP Football Coordinator (or similar) and left with similar, if not more, admiration than Talay.
Outside of Greenacre, who could feel hard-done by, there aren't many I can think of. Hay, Bazeley, Figueira etc national (age group) coaches all lack a Pro Licence. Ricki Herbert has one but he, of course, is out of the picture. Olli Harder is another, but he's only coached women's sides (West Ham and Norwegian champions Brann, whom he left in May). I don't know any ex-Phoenix Australians that could have been candidates; excluding Aloisi who is at Brisbane.
But if there are half-a-dozen Australians and five additional visas players signed up, making 'actual' local players a minority, then I'll be annoyed, but it's a clean slate for me at the moment.
A prior New Zealand connection isn't necessarily required; Ufuk Talay joined Wellington with similar NZ connections to Corica (ie he played a couple away games) and ended with a lot of people thinking he was hard-done not being given the national team gig. Des Buckingham came to New Zealand on a whim to be WaiBOP Football Coordinator (or similar) and left with similar, if not more, admiration than Talay.
Outside of Greenacre, who could feel hard-done by, there aren't many I can think of. Hay, Bazeley, Figueira etc national (age group) coaches all lack a Pro Licence. Ricki Herbert has one but he, of course, is out of the picture. Olli Harder is another, but he's only coached women's sides (West Ham and Norwegian champions Brann, whom he left in May). I don't know any ex-Phoenix Australians that could have been candidates; excluding Aloisi who is at Brisbane.
But if there are half-a-dozen Australians and five additional visas players signed up, making 'actual' local players a minority, then I'll be annoyed, but it's a clean slate for me at the moment.