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National League<br />
COACHING HERO<strong>ES</strong><br />
Malcolm McPherson:<br />
Head Coach:<br />
“The gaffer”<br />
Like many coaches<br />
Malcolm started his<br />
football life as a player.<br />
He enjoyed a professional<br />
football....<br />
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MALCOLM’S STORY<br />
Martin Bullock:<br />
Assistant coach<br />
Martin enjoyed playing<br />
to a high standard<br />
of football in the<br />
UK. As a midfielder,<br />
Martin made 452<br />
league....<br />
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MARTIN;S STORY<br />
Micheal O’Keeffe:<br />
Goal Keeping coach<br />
Michael comes to<br />
Suburbs coaching<br />
staff with an outstanding<br />
footballing<br />
and ‘keeping pedigree....<br />
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MICHAEL’STORY<br />
ARTICLE #2<br />
Enzo’s Rant<br />
Another team for Auckland – nay!<br />
You greedy sods! You already have three of them,<br />
what makes you think you deserve a fourth team<br />
in the Stirling Sports Premiership?<br />
I know what you’re thinking – “Auckland<br />
is where it’s all at. If you can’t<br />
even get a decent latte between<br />
Ellerslie and Petone, how on earth<br />
are you going to find any half decent<br />
footballers in that vast cultural desert?<br />
And that’s before we even start<br />
talking about the South Island.”<br />
But hold on to your gluten free<br />
bagels Aucklanders, there might be<br />
one or two things you need to consider<br />
before taking your divine right<br />
to more teams as absolute gospel.<br />
First of all, do the maths. When you<br />
have under a third of the population,<br />
shouldn’t you have a third of<br />
the teams at the most? Currently at<br />
three out of ten, Auckland is roughly<br />
on quota. If the league was to expand<br />
again to twelve teams at some<br />
stage in the future we would then<br />
have a strong case for one more –<br />
but the recent competitions review<br />
made it clear that another round<br />
robin is a much higher priority than<br />
more teams.<br />
If you base a ten team competition<br />
solely on population in this country,<br />
there should be roughly one team<br />
for every 450,000 people. So Auckland<br />
deserves roughly three. Wellington<br />
gets no more than one even<br />
though they currently have two. The<br />
South Island are lucky to have three<br />
when they only have the population<br />
for two and a bit - and that leaves<br />
a lot of the rest of the North Island<br />
pretty solidly short changed.<br />
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