Effecting Change at NZF

I have been living offshore for a few years and came back for the match. There is a few things I have noticed since I've been back about football in NZ

1, Its much more mainstream. You would never have Checkpoint discussing football governance a few years ago. With 100,000 people(mainly youth) playing the game football is now a big part of many many NZ households. The support is widespread and strong....a good example was the 35,000 fans at the ROF creating  as good an atmosphere as any you would experiance OE....and we were getting dicked.

3, What with the NZ sports media?  You guys are probably used to it but viewed as a new arrival I found some of the football coverage incredible. There seems to be down right hostility towards football by many sports journalists. Many stories seemed to be deliberately negative. 24 hours out from the Wellington match...a game with 35,000 fans and beamed to 130 countries TV1 buried the match preview behind a host of rugby stories including a 3 minute clip about the Wallabies. Football is NOT a fringe sport anymore in this country.....about time some of the media realised this. 

heard Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group on the Sound today

it's more heading towards jazz-fusion

I have been living offshore for a few years and came back for the match. There is a few things I have noticed since I've been back about football in NZ

1, Its much more mainstream. You would never have Checkpoint discussing football governance a few years ago. With 100,000 people(mainly youth) playing the game football is now a big part of many many NZ households. The support is widespread and strong....a good example was the 35,000 fans at the ROF creating  as good an atmosphere as any you would experiance OE....and we were getting dicked.

2, NZF may have done lots of good things with setting up playing/coaching at junior level but they are a disaster higher up. The WC qualifying program was a total screwup. There was a complete lack of professionalism...from everything like organising the warmup games right down to the little things like team announcements. schedules. Gareth is right...it looks like a local tennis club organisation. 

3, What with the NZ sports media?  You guys are probably used to it but viewed as a new arrival I found some of the football coverage incredible. There seems to be down right hostility towards football by many sports journalists. Many stories seemed to be deliberately negative. 24 hours out from the Wellington match...a game with 35,000 fans and beamed to 130 countries TV1 buried the match preview behind a host of rugby stories including a 3 minute clip about the Wallabies. Football is NOT a fringe sport anymore in this country.....about time some of the media realised this. 

4, Despite the media and NZF I think the game here is in good health. The number of young kiwis getting picked up overseas into good clubs is amazing....and it will continue to grow. We are at a kind of crossroads....IF NZF appoint the right CEO and IF they appoint the right AW coach and IF they both are supported and not undermined by petty local politics then the game has a good future.

p.s  I know kiwis don't tend to like larger than life outspoken characters but you should cut Gareth some slack. Sure he has a scattergun approach and fires a few blanks but he is getting NZ football more widely discussed. Anything that encourages debate should be supported.

Why is Nzf seen as so rubbish? I was quite impressed with the 'whole of football plan' (which I doubt Morgan had even heard of) but which is far too new to judge in terms of results. Player nos up, women's game on fire, won rights to 2015, financially stable etc. things aren't that bad. Doing ok with limited resources. I think they're short-sighted re Asia, but while we're stuck here in oceania, and with our players spread to all corners of the globe, supporting the national team in terms of a high quality coach and a decent schedule of international fixtures is always going to be nigh impossible.

This is all 100% accurate. Well said.

Maybe all that is required is a decent communications manager and strategy? They do struggle with getting their messages across, if at all. Sorry, as well as a decent new coach (and i dont care where they come from)

Maybe all that is required is a decent communications manager and strategy? They do struggle with getting their messages across, if at all. Sorry, as well as a decent new coach (and i dont care where they come from)

This. Latest coms guy has just left after a few months in the role.

Maybe all that is required is a decent communications manager and strategy? They do struggle with getting their messages across, if at all. Sorry, as well as a decent new coach (and i dont care where they come from)

I have been living offshore for a few years and came back for the match. There is a few things I have noticed since I've been back about football in NZ

1, Its much more mainstream. You would never have Checkpoint discussing football governance a few years ago. With 100,000 people(mainly youth) playing the game football is now a big part of many many NZ households. The support is widespread and strong....a good example was the 35,000 fans at the ROF creating  as good an atmosphere as any you would experiance OE....and we were getting dicked.

2, NZF may have done lots of good things with setting up playing/coaching at junior level but they are a disaster higher up. The WC qualifying program was a total screwup. There was a complete lack of professionalism...from everything like organising the warmup games right down to the little things like team announcements. schedules. Gareth is right...it looks like a local tennis club organisation. 

3, What with the NZ sports media?  You guys are probably used to it but viewed as a new arrival I found some of the football coverage incredible. There seems to be down right hostility towards football by many sports journalists. Many stories seemed to be deliberately negative. 24 hours out from the Wellington match...a game with 35,000 fans and beamed to 130 countries TV1 buried the match preview behind a host of rugby stories including a 3 minute clip about the Wallabies. Football is NOT a fringe sport anymore in this country.....about time some of the media realised this. 

4, Despite the media and NZF I think the game here is in good health. The number of young kiwis getting picked up overseas into good clubs is amazing....and it will continue to grow. We are at a kind of crossroads....IF NZF appoint the right CEO and IF they appoint the right AW coach and IF they both are supported and not undermined by petty local politics then the game has a good future.

p.s  I know kiwis don't tend to like larger than life outspoken characters but you should cut Gareth some slack. Sure he has a scattergun approach and fires a few blanks but he is getting NZ football more widely discussed. Anything that encourages debate should be supported.

Maybe all that is required is a decent communications manager and strategy? They do struggle with getting their messages across, if at all. Sorry, as well as a decent new coach (and i dont care where they come from)

I saw Fred de Wanker before yesterday's game. Even got the chance to call him that too. Must say though, the pressure must be telling as he's suddenly gone grey at the sides. Pretending he was talking on his cell phone. Tisk tisk.

I saw Fred de Wanker before yesterday's game. Even got the chance to call him that too. Must say though, the pressure must be telling as he's suddenly gone grey at the sides. Pretending he was talking on his cell phone. Tisk tisk.

This mornings "Down the List" satire on national radio

Is NZ Football run like a suburban tennis club or a highly professional outfit producing results we can all be proud of?

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2578132/down-the-list-for-1-december-2013

I take offence that the Suburban Tennis Club I run is compared to NZF

I saw Fred de Wanker before yesterday's game. Even got the chance to call him that too. Must say though, the pressure must be telling as he's suddenly gone grey at the sides. Pretending he was talking on his cell phone. Tisk tisk.

Why? The total balls up of a trip to the Usa as our pre world cup warm up for a start. The lack of quality teams to play against. There are countries out there that would would have obliged, surely. That the players were told to turn up at the airport without a clue of whom they were in a squad with is another.

I take offence that the Suburban Tennis Club I run is compared to NZF

he has always been a bit grey on the sides..

I'm sure your witty comment was the final straw though, he must lose sleep over the "constructive critisism" offered by such footballing brains as yours.

I think the title of this thread is effecting change at NZF?  how are you doing this exactly?