Jets v Western Sunday 16th March 5PM AEDT at Maccas

[My2BobsWorth]

Pity Adelaide let the Bulls win but we have a few games up our sleeve on them
Hopefully despite the shit facebook brown strip, we can still win
Minns has granted full strength beer to the Sydney stadiums, Maccas too or I'm voting One Nation

[My2BobsWorth]

Gunna be a few knackered players by the end of play today, not soccer weather

[Mark325]

Kota not in the side again, lineup announcement mentions he's out with an injury. Can only hope he's good to go in two weeks time.

Only change to the squad is Bayliss back in the starting XI

[Mark325]

Yeah we look sluggish, this will not only end our streak but this is going to be a rough game for us

[belchardo]

gee, get natta off before he can do more damage!

[Jeterpool]

In the A-League we've talked by 4 at half time just 3 times (and 3 times in the NSL)

One notable was the 0-7 Adelaide match under Stabbins. Another was a 3-5 loss to VARctory last year

[mic22]

Not that it's his fault only... but what is Bayliss even doing on the field? I mean, apart from jogging aimlessly back and forth and looking uninterested

[belchardo]

Disappointed to hear booing. They're 7 games unbeaten, and have had a stupid schedule. Yeah, this ain't great, but not worth booing - half of them look out on their feet already.

[Jeterpool]

If they have ambitions to be professionals overseas, they need to get used to playing 3 matches in a week. No excuse. They're paid professionals and the coach can rotate. He had chosen not to

As for the booing.... What should we be doing? Give them a standing ovation? I didn't boo but hopefully it fires them up. But where I'm sitting, which is near our tunnel, there wasn't a sound or a boo heard.

Might have been the retaken throw in Elder made us take

[belchardo]

not asking for a standing ovation, just don't see the benefit of getting stuck into them.

I'm laying the blame on the coaching bench - fresher legs should have been on from the start.

[Jeterpool]

Fair enough.

I'm sitting here and it's dead. Crowd are flat

[Mark325]

Biggest dissapointment is this happening at a home game with a crowd who had just started to get some belief in this club

[belchardo]

Fair enough.

I'm sitting here and it's dead. Crowd are flat

Surprised anybody is still there.

[Jeterpool]

Surprised anybody is still there.

There were quite a few leaving at half time, belch. It's still sticky with little breeze too. Much nicer at home

[My2BobsWorth]

That was an embarrassment to the club, to Newcastle and the poor bastards that pay to watch that shit

[Mark325]

Looking at how we're playing with fresh legs, you've gotta wonder how we'd be going right now if some of these players started the game today.

[Jeterpool]

Surprised anybody is still there.

The sixth goal set off a departure flurry

[evolution]

The good old Jetties are back <3

[baldrick]

The good old Jetties are back <3

Normal service has been resumed.

[mic22]

If they have ambitions to be professionals overseas, they need to get used to playing 3 matches in a week. No excuse. They're paid professionals and the coach can rotate. He had chosen not to

As for the booing.... What should we be doing? Give them a standing ovation? I didn't boo but hopefully it fires them up. But where I'm sitting, which is near our tunnel, there wasn't a sound or a boo heard.

Might have been the retaken throw in Elder made us take
Being professionals in Australia should be enough of a reason to be ready and fit to play 3 games in a week, once every 6 months.

Some players out there are so lucky to actually get paid to do this, when they can barely control the ball or do a decent pass under pressure.

Europe is a looooong way away.

[Jetmaster]

Three games in 7 days is standard overseas for all professionals. These are young blokes who had the previous week off...absolutely no excuse.

And I'm sorry, but Noah James needs to learn to catch a ball.

Booooo....!

[Couscous]

If they have ambitions to be professionals overseas, they need to get used to playing 3 matches in a week.

Playing twice a week is a reasonable expectation. No leagues require teams to play three times a week, except on the rarest occasions.

[The Dunster]

Euro teams don't play 3 games in seven days in this type of heat. They also have a bigger player list and far better facilities for recovery.

The schedule is a joke.

Players should forget about this one and move on.

We all should.

Next game is the focus.

[plague]

I'm just glad we are all back to normal.

Some of you lot on here were getting way out over your skis.


Thankfully the stink is back.


I feel safe again.

[anfield]

Euro teams don't play 3 games in seven days in this type of heat. They also have a bigger player list and far better facilities for recovery.

The schedule is a joke.

Players should forget about this one and move on.

We all should.

Next game is the focus.

I agree with all this. I would have rotated a little more Susjnar and Scarcella in for starters. Not sure why we got Scarcella in if we weren't going to use him.

Finally we got caught out with 3 at the back, man on man defending is way too risky.

[mic22]

Were they so tired that they could not run and went down 0-2 in the first 8 minutes?
Come on.

[Mark325]

On reflection and rewatching the start of the game, I think just chalking it up to being tired is incorrect, though it clearly didn’t help.

At the end of the day, I think Aloisi and the United team just had us figured out. They press real high, they have the pace and skill to get in behind us effortlessly, and can punish us when they do. When we played United in January, it was one of our worst of the season and he addressed none of those issues tactically to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.

The playing out from the back style can work sometimes, but some of our best moments, like the goal against City, which happened in 4 passes, are from moving the ball quickly and efficiently.

[ForeverRed]

Three games in 7 days is standard overseas for all professionals. These are young blokes who had the previous week off...absolutely no excuse.

And I'm sorry, but Noah James needs to learn to catch a ball.

Booooo....!
Correct, he cost us 2 goals yesterday parrying stuff any 12 year old would have caught, plus he cost us 3 points against Auckland coming for a high ball and didn?t get to it, there?s a hell of lot more to keeping then being a shot stopper, he needs to do a lot of work to become a good keeper, very shaky

[380]

Coincidental is it that particular aspects of what makes a sound keeper have gone south since the departure of Bowling to WSW ?

Just putting it out there .

[Jeterpool]

Euro teams don't play 3 games in seven days in this type of heat. They also have a bigger player list and far better facilities for recovery.

The schedule is a joke.

Players should forget about this one and move on.

We all should.

Next game is the focus.

Fair point on the heat, and many played 270 minutes across that time too. The player lists is also fair point too.

Agree season is still up for grabs and a big few matches ahead

[Macca]

Fair point on the heat, and many played 270 minutes across that time too. The player lists is also fair point too.

Agree season is still up for grabs and a big few matches ahead

Heat and squad depth are big factors. How much rotation can Stanton really do, we saw last game when he started M'Mombwa in place of Bayliss it didn't work out too well.
(To be fair to M'Mombwa he looked better this game once he was pushed a bit further forward and able to utilise his running)
Susjnar and Ingham back in the squad helped a bit this game, but they are only just back - and there's many players in the first team who don't really have equivalent replacements.

Something else I haven't seen mentioned is the 3 games this week were against the top 3 teams in the comp.
More bad luck for us than anything else, but it still doesn't help.

[Jetmaster]

Correct, he cost us 2 goals yesterday parrying stuff any 12 year old would have caught, plus he cost us 3 points against Auckland coming for a high ball and didn?t get to it, there?s a hell of lot more to keeping then being a shot stopper, he needs to do a lot of work to become a good keeper, very shaky

I am not just blaming him - this is an A-League wide thing with all these young keepers coming through. They are all excellent shot stoppers and showmen who love impressing the girls with feats of agility. But, I can't think of one who can dominate the area out to the penalty spot, and balls not being claimed inside the 6 yard box is out of hand. They just don't seem to be able to catch, even with their Mickey Mouse gloves.

With Vuka, Redmayne and Jamie Young all moving aside this season the last of that crop of dominant keepers is gone.

[Buddha]

I am not just blaming him - this is an A-League wide thing with all these young keepers coming through. They are all excellent shot stoppers and showmen who love impressing the girls with feats of agility. But, I can't think of one who can dominate the area out to the penalty spot, and balls not being claimed inside the 6 yard box is out of hand. They just don't seem to be able to catch, even with their Mickey Mouse gloves.

With Vuka, Redmayne and Jamie Young all moving aside this season the last of that crop of dominant keepers is gone.
I'm sorry, did you just label Redmayne as a dominant keeper? The bloke was far from it. Flapped constantly at crosses and was prone to errors consistently

[ForeverRed]

I am not just blaming him - this is an A-League wide thing with all these young keepers coming through. They are all excellent shot stoppers and showmen who love impressing the girls with feats of agility. But, I can't think of one who can dominate the area out to the penalty spot, and balls not being claimed inside the 6 yard box is out of hand. They just don't seem to be able to catch, even with their Mickey Mouse gloves.

With Vuka, Redmayne and Jamie Young all moving aside this season the last of that crop of dominant keepers is gone.
Covic has probably been out best

[Jetmaster]

I'm sorry, did you just label Redmayne as a dominant keeper? The bloke was far from it. Flapped constantly at crosses and was prone to errors consistently

Fair enough, didn't say he was good at it, just like the great Flapman, Birraz.

[Jardelsimage]

Milligan
A Griffiths
Rads

thoughts if these are the only candidates.

[Buddha]

Milligan
A Griffiths
Rads

thoughts if these are the only candidates.

Milligan - in the Adelaide coaching setup I believe. No real experience as a head coach (may need to fact check this) so would be the biggest risk.
A Griffiths - Currently in Wellington setup. Has experience as a head coach at Manly United in NSW NPL. Would probably be my pick IF it was only these 3 mentioned
Zads - Roar coach currently and former Perth coach. Please stop giving this guy a job I beg. Has been awful at both Brisbane and Perth.

All 3 are a big risk but given our standing as a club we're not in the market for a decent name.

[Mark325]

Milligan
A Griffiths
Rads

thoughts if these are the only candidates.

1. Griffiths
2. Milligan
3. Literally anyone else, like absolutely anyone else then Zads
4. Zads

[ForeverRed]

1. Griffiths
2. Milligan
3. Literally anyone else, like absolutely anyone else then Zads
4. Zads
Milligan has gone to Malaysia to be assistant to national team coach

[Jetmaster]

None - just lazy reporting.

"Who are ex-Jets at other clubs that might want a lead gig"?

Pfft.

[Alton]

Milligan
A Griffiths
Rads

thoughts if these are the only candidates.

Exactly what Buddha said about Zads

[Jetmaster]

2NURFM this morning reporting "Andy Griffith" being a chance...

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[The Dunster]

Stanton isn't the problem.
The prolem is a lack of resources, mostly financial.
If Stanton is to be replaced it should only be by someone with a high profile that could lure quality players the club for non-pecuniary reasons.
No chance of that happening.

Give Stanton a better budget for player recruitment and resources to work with and I think he can get us into the top 6.

Changing coaches every 5 mins isn't the answer at this stage as we are at least winning games.

[My2BobsWorth]

Any mug can coach with a big budget, we need someone who can coach on a small budget and get big results

[Jeterpool]

I have mapped the trending of Stanton's rolling 10-game average points haul, and it's clear he's getting more from the squad now than he was at the beginning of the run.

Seems to be potentially letting him go too early based on results.

[Macca]

Transfer window additions improved the quality and depth of the squad, as well as the return to fitness of Rose.

Subjectively I also thought we were a bit unlucky in some games in the first half of the season, and have had luck go our way at time so far in the second half.

[My2BobsWorth]

It's no surprise that results have improved since Kota arrived and Rosey is fit again. The rest are so inconsistent, it doesn't take much for the wheels to fall off, like a bit tired last week

[Mark325]

Any mug can coach with a big budget, we need someone who can coach on a small budget and get big results

The issue for Stanton doesn't even seem to be getting a bigger budget for better players. From what we've been told, he wants a second assistant and another physio in, these are small asks in the grand scheme of things, and in the case of the physio something that hugely benefits the players.

Take this team, release Ingham and Wellisol and use that money to sign some key players as I imagine they're big money earners, and this is a team that could easily make the top 6 with Stanton still at the helm

[Frodo]

The issue for Stanton doesn't even seem to be getting a bigger budget for better players. From what we've been told, he wants a second assistant and another physio in, these are small asks in the grand scheme of things, and in the case of the physio something that hugely benefits the players.

Take this team, release Ingham and Wellisol and use that money to sign some key players as I imagine they're big money earners, and this is a team that could easily make the top 6 with Stanton still at the helm

You would have to assume that's not the real issue. He obviously wants the club to start moving forwards and be competitive off the field so it can improve on the field and the owners don't want to invest any more money for that sort of stuff.


We got told at the start they didn't care about competing, they just wanted to make us financially stable. So I think we are going to spend the next 5 years seeing anyone mediocre or above at their jobs leave and cheap replacements brought in.

I won't be surprised if Kota moves to another club next season either, whether by sale from us or us not being able to afford his wages.

[My2BobsWorth]

Anyone that needs a sugar hit, Jets women play Victory Friday night 7PM on Para and 10play