Keinzley to stand by his promise

Wairarapa United soccer coach Phil Keinzley, pictured right, has made a promise he is determined to keep.
Keinzley will not stand for the coaching role again in 2007 if his team fails to win the Capital Soccer premier division men's title this season.
It's a big call considering that at the end of the first round Wairarapa United sit third on the points table with 22, five points in arrears of leaders Petone and just one behind third placed Tawa.
No other of the 10 teams seem to have any chance of competition honours with fourth placed Island Bay United on 15 points.
Keinzley said he had decided to put his coaching future on the line because he was convinced the current Wairarapa United squad had both the personnel and the desire to be premier division champions.
"We have everything we need to be top of the table so if we fail then the coach has to wear the blame," he said. "Unless we win I haven't done my job?..it's as simple as that."
Keinzley is aware of feelings in some local soccer circles that to be title holders he would need to make changes to his squad, but he himself is "more than happy" with the present make-up of his side.
"I've looked at the possible changes we could make and, quite honestly, I believe we have it exactly right in that respect," he said. "If we don't win the league it won't be because of any weaknesses in the playing department, that's for sure."
Keinzley said his team's title aspirations therefore came down to tactics and that was where he came in.
"Tactics are very much a coach's call and if I don't get that right then I don't deserve to be there," he said.
For Keinzley the whole scenario can be likened to any employer-employee relationship with his job in this instance being to formulate a side capable of winning the premier division title, and then actually winning it.
"The first part is done and now it's a question of whether we can add the second part," he said. "And if we can't the coach should go, end of story."
Keinzley said he "very definitely" wasn't using his possible resignation as coach as a motivating force for his team over the remainder of the season because they simply didn't need it
"All the machinery is in place for them to win, they don't need that sort of motivation to do the job," he said.
Keinzley does agree, however, that very probably Wairarapa United will have to secure maximum points in practically all of their second round matches to have any chance of taking the title, and certainly can't afford a loss.
And they would be dependent too on Petone being beaten by teams other than just them.
"Right now the odds may seem against us but I firmly believe that the title is still very much there for the taking," he said "If we keep winning it will happen for us, I'm confident of that."