Wasn't that always part of the plans? I seem to recall the idea of the Academy hosting overseas youngsters being a possible revenue stream when it was set up.
Wasn't that always part of the plans? I seem to recall the idea of the Academy hosting overseas youngsters being a possible revenue stream when it was set up.
Wasn't that always part of the plans? I seem to recall the idea of the Academy hosting overseas youngsters being a possible revenue stream when it was set up.
The academy isn’t in wgtn city
Call the whole thing off. I'm sure the Chinese will be furious to find it's situated a few kms outside the city boundary limits. Best the Welnix owners just keep propping up the whole enterprise.
Oh and hope the locals are taking on the mayor's bar tabs. She seems to like a drink apparently.
RRDirector of Football Shaun Gill talks about the focus on the Men's pathway Good summary of the current thinking re recruitmnent and focus on the Academy pathway. According to Gill they do look at other NZ players - Greenacre went to the OFC U23 tourney - but definitely a bias towards Weenix players who have been through the Nix system for a few years.
Sounds like up to 4 scholarship deals will be announced during, or at the end of the Weenix's NL campaign.
RRDirector of Football Shaun Gill talks about the focus on the Men's pathway Good summary of the current thinking re recruitmnent and focus on the Academy pathway. According to Gill they do look at other NZ players - Greenacre went to the OFC U23 tourney - but definitely a bias towards Weenix players who have been through the Nix system for a few years.
Sounds like up to 4 scholarship deals will be announced during, or at the end of the Weenix's NL campaign.
Greenacre and Coleman were on the NZ U23 coaching staff
RRDirector of Football Shaun Gill talks about the focus on the Men's pathway Good summary of the current thinking re recruitmnent and focus on the Academy pathway. According to Gill they do look at other NZ players - Greenacre went to the OFC U23 tourney - but definitely a bias towards Weenix players who have been through the Nix system for a few years.
Sounds like up to 4 scholarship deals will be announced during, or at the end of the Weenix's NL campaign.
So likely no more first-team signings and the rest of the squad will be rounded off with scholarship players? I'm expecting Lorenz, Nguyen, Rudland, and Supyk.
I was just thinking (given some of the chat in the Melb City game thread) how many players the club has created, as young NZ players who we could argue were developed through the academy - or through youth contracts with the Nix - and who reached the standard of regular starters for the Nix (or better)? A stab at those?
Fenton Singh Cacace Waine Sutton Surman Old Kelly-Heald Paulson
I think maybe that'd be the list of young kiwis the club could take full (or near full) credit for from youth level?
Elliott, Sail, McCowatt, Rojas, Boyd, Ridenton are other youngsters that made it, by my definition, I think, but I'm not sure if they were really academy or Nix developed players from youths? Maybe Boyd, McCowatt, Sail? Rufer, Payne maybe not on account of being older and/or having experience elsewhere? Would we say Rojas was here young enough and long enough to really be a Nix 'product'?
Not sure how accurate I am with the above, but in say six(?) academy/youth development years we've produced nine? Fenton getting in pre-academy. Maybe a couple more. Or some we should part count.
Any bloopers I've missed or some you'd argue we didn't develop?
Allowing we're only a few years in and it takes a bit for the pipeline to get going, maybe we're producing somewhere near the couple a year that someone suggested in the City game thread, that overseas pro team academies would produce to become regular starting level players in their league?
We've got a bumper crop of academy kids getting pro contracts this year but we'll see how many will become regular starters over the next few years? Two or three of them sound not far off getting to the right level, and maybe one or two that came into the squad in previous years?
Anyway, idle thoughts. What do you think? Maybe this has been discussed before?
Others will have a far better idea of who really made it because of Nix development, vs young NZ kids that were pretty much already formed by the time we got them.
And a decent number of NZ reps in there. I'd say the club is doing the NZ player development job Welnix intended.
Gardiner (CB) from Hamilton Wanderers Foord (GK) from Cashmere Tech
Understand the Wellington Phoenix have signed NZ U17 internationals Dylan Gardiner (17, CB) and Matt Foord (17, GK) to youth deals - two massive gets for the Nix academy.
Both impressed in New Zealand's U17 World Cup campaign, each playing every available minute.
Gardiner (CB) from Hamilton Wanderers Foord (GK) from Cashmere Tech
Understand the Wellington Phoenix have signed NZ U17 internationals Dylan Gardiner (17, CB) and Matt Foord (17, GK) to youth deals - two massive gets for the Nix academy.
Both impressed in New Zealand's U17 World Cup campaign, each playing every available minute.
Gardiner (CB) from Hamilton Wanderers Foord (GK) from Cashmere Tech
Understand the Wellington Phoenix have signed NZ U17 internationals Dylan Gardiner (17, CB) and Matt Foord (17, GK) to youth deals - two massive gets for the Nix academy.
Both impressed in New Zealand's U17 World Cup campaign, each playing every available minute.
He’s only 17 so I’ll refrain from calling it a massive signing, but Dylan Gardiner is a really, really good pick up. When Surman eventually heads to Europe Gardiner will be a ready made replacement.
Former Napier City Rovers and Havelock North Wanderers midfielder, Harry Huxford has signed for the Wellington Phoenix Reserves side. The U-17 National Team player will be looking to make the U-20 side, also coaches by Chris Greenacre, for next years World Cup pic.twitter.com/O2mT90iK0P
Spoke to new Nix Reserves signing Matt Foord on his move from Cash Tech in the Southern League - represented NZU17 at the WC and has turned out for the U20s as well. Top top young keeper with a big future ahead of him.
Pedantic one - but do you sign for the reserve team like stated or do you sign for the academy? Surely if there are two preferred keepers you end up playing thirds
Pedantic one - but do you sign for the reserve team like stated or do you sign for the academy? Surely if there are two preferred keepers you end up playing thirds
You sign for Wellington Phoenix. There is an expectation by a certain age you’ll be playing reserves, but you need to earn you spot. They are about player development. At least supposed to be. But they also cannot afford to be relegated.
Pedantic one - but do you sign for the reserve team like stated or do you sign for the academy? Surely if there are two preferred keepers you end up playing thirds
You sign for Wellington Phoenix. There is an expectation by a certain age you’ll be playing reserves, but you need to earn you spot. They are about player development. At least supposed to be. But they also cannot afford to be relegated.
Well yeah just trying to point out that statements made about these players ain’t really correct
