Andy Martin - All you expect and less

Oi! Keep the snoring down please.  Honestly it sounds like there are three guys spooning in the neighbouring thin-walled room.

JD you have lost me here. What technical director role are you talking about above?

Was Herbert not Technical Director before taking over the Kinghts and Knix?  He definately had another role with NZF as well as being the AW coach prior to becoming a professional club coach.

Time for a new board maybe.  People not associated with 70/80s AWs and tobacco sponsored national legaues.

RH wouldn't be HP manager. De Jong has ballsed it up bad enough. It needs planning skills rather than tactics etc

Agree, and certainly a new chairman. This van Hattum mates club thing with de Jong and Herbert is the last thing NZF need at the end of November. NZF will then have no money, and no WC qualification (they are no chance without Herbert getting help)

You slag off the last few CEOs and when an article suggested it may be the board and not the CEOs that are the problem you say it proves you right! Think you need to change your medication.

I've not followed NZF closely, but the staff turnover, especially in senior positions is very concerning. It does have a feeling of an old boys club given the number of former players heavily involved in these positions.

Was that the line you were looking for?

Seatter put us in a financial hole. Yes he got our teams active again but he mortagaged the game for it. We could argue to death about the pro and cons and whether it was right or wrong but it should never get as bad as it did so you can argue poor excution. Glading came in and dug us out of that hole and did a good job. The person I know was not happy working for Glading but I have no issue with what Glading did as CEO.

Prior to Fred's appointment I'm pretty sure the only ex-player was van Hatt employed in the office - although as Chairman I'm not sure he counts as an employee.. 

Obviously the playing management side will have ex-players as they are more likely to be a profile coach than you or I.

The paper basically said that de Jong would give the appearance of being a likely front runner and David Parker from Auckland Football would be another candidate. I don't really know enough about de Jong from a business standpoint but his background would give the suggestion of having some suitable skills. The reason I don't like de Jong is because he is an annoying commentator but that's hardly grounds or correlation to say he would be a poor CEO. It may well be his forte.

David Parker I have met a couple of times and seems to be doing a good job at Auckland.

I don't think I would have too much of an objection to either of those two getting the job. The writing does appear to be on the wall for Fred to get it though. I was the one that speculated about Ricki moving back to HQ because either December or August, he wont be in the AWs role anymore. It would seem that such is the support he gets from the mothership, he would be scooped back under the wing as technical/HP director (speculating)

Anyone want to put a friendly bragging rights on it the next courses of action?

I've got de Jong to CEO, Herbert into the role that deJong currently has now and Emblen as AWs coach.

If anything, my criticism of the last three CEO appointments is that they have not been football people, or even people with backgrounds in sports administration (Bill MacGowan was the last one we had with previous sports experience). Instead we seemed to have been obsessed with getting people with strong commercial backgrounds - a strategy that has probably had only mixed success at best.

At face value I'd be OK with Fred de Jong as CEO. Depends on who else applies of course, which we will never know unless they declare it themselves. Weirdly, I think Fred de Jong might be better qualified to be CEO than his current role, if that makes any sense.

I agree with this.

Mark Aspden named NZ Football Interim Chief Executive

July 9, 2013

The New Zealand Football Board has appointed Mark Aspden as Interim Chief Executive. He will retain the position until the process of appointing a new Chief Executive has been concluded. 

A commercial lawyer, Aspden is currently a partner of Harrison Stone Lawyers. He has previously worked in management roles in law, telecommunications and home care.

Aspden will be known to many people in the game having played football since the mid 1970s for North Otago and then in Dunedin and Auckland. He currently coaches an 11th grade team at Western Springs AFC.

Appointed to the Auckland Football Federation Board in 2003 he chaired that Board from 2006 to 2008. He joined the New Zealand Football Board in January 2008 and was reappointed for a further four years at the May 2013 Congress.

As Interim Chief Executive Aspden will take a leave of absence from the Board until a new Chief Executive has been appointed.

“Mark will ensure the organisation delivers on its strategic goals and partnership obligations,” said Chairman Frank van Hattum. “He will provide leadership and direction as required and provide oversight on a number of key projects for the Board.”

Mr van Hattum went on to say "This appointment will also help to deflect criticism that the permanent appointment of Fred de Jong to the role is a foregone conclusion, which it is, but this makes it look a little bit less so".

Whatver gets de jong off commentary

Lets make Dewhurst CEO lol

Diversion for CCup about face

What's this about the Blackburn thing JD,

nah I think Term has it right. Bev was more about WOF whereas HPM manages the NZ programmes -so scheduling NZ age group camps/games etc.

The Football Development role that Bev Preistman was doing is definitely more the grassroots development stuff.

Yes, Ricki Herbert might be a shit HPM, I really don't know. I'm just saying I wouldn't automatically exclude him as a candidate, which you seem to have done JD. I don't think the example of the World Cup is really fair either. Even if true, that was a very specific and exceptional situation at a WC where Ricki was actually the coach. The HPM is basically a desk bound job here in New Zealand that has more to do with using Microsoft Project and writing job descriptions.