Hopefully you are right. Fact is, its a better option than what we have!Quote:
Originally Posted by hausmann
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Hopefully you are right. Fact is, its a better option than what we have!Quote:
Originally Posted by hausmann
We have form in this matter. We did it to Eags too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thomas477
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Originally Posted by Blackmac79
Wonderful way to treat the "football family"
Yup Caravella is pretty disappointing news. It's not his circle work the ever bothered me, the guy cannot defend to save himself.
Would have rathered Paul Kohler
especially concerning when we wanted a defensive midfielderQuote:
Originally Posted by borat
I think it would be fair to say that Stubbins has screwed up his first transfer window. Yes we got some creativity in midfield but we let go our best left back option,our captain (our most industrious midfielder) and he neglected the need of a quality defensive midfielder. After missing out on the Spanish guy, he used all his spots up on attacking players, who we probably didn't need all 5 of them and in the end Stubbins put all his eggs in the basket for Paartalu and after that failed we're left signing someone whos not an A-League quality holding midfilder (I don't mind him in a more attacking role) who we previously rejected
So what you're really saying is Stubbins = WengerQuote:
Originally Posted by joel31
Signing Steele was a mistake IMO. Seems like a really good player but a complete waste of a foreign spot when we already had Carney and Goodwin at the time.
That spot could have been used to buy any number of foreign CDMs on the market rather than the very few available Australians
Nah, even with all his transfer failings, Wenger makes it into the top 20% of the league. We can't even make the top 60%.Quote:
Originally Posted by GazFish35
But if it is true, expect long term injuries to whatever positions we have the least cover in.
I agree, with game time Goodwin could've been just as good and we'd be more solid in the centre of the park as a resultQuote:
Originally Posted by borat
Stubbins hasn't had a season to finish anywhere yet!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
But I suppose the injuries are already happening, hence why we've had to get zenon back.
From memory, a lot of the time when I saw Caravella scurrying back out of position, it was because Gallaway turned the ball over cheaply. I guess that's case for any defensive midfielder. Stu Musialik always seemed to have good positioning to snuff out counter attacks back in the day. I'm hopeful that Caravellas defensive weaknesses (lack of defensive strength) may not be as exposed as much if Gallaway isn't playing and we aren't playing the hoof the ball up to Heskey who heads it on to the opposition defence kind of play that we saw last year (before the arrival of Carney and Griffiths, when we had genuine playmakers for Heskey to lay off to).
It was speculated on soccer stoppage time on Monday that stubbins had his hands tied with many of the signings. Purely rumour ofcourse but one of the hosts said his mail was that stubbins had little to do with most of the signings.
Who signed them then? Deans?
Calling Stubbins a failure is a bit harsh when the season hasnt started yet. Im willing to give him a chance!
It seems we have gone the Melbourne Victory route. Sign a very impressive front third and hope the defenders can do enough. At least we should (for the love of god please) see some entertaining football, win or lose!
Calling Stubbins a failure might be a bit harsh but you get mad street cred when he is sacked after going 1-1-8 to start the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by leftrightout
Use your imaginationQuote:
Originally Posted by hausmann
Bridges.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommyjet
Palmer is the one in overall charge. I would hazard a guess he is the one who issued the directive to cut costs to the wage bill.Quote:
Originally Posted by hausmann
Isn't the club though obliged under the PFA agreed deal to spend a minimum on the salary cap anyway which ain't that far from the actual cap limit??Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
Looking through our squad you could argue some are overpaid individually but it ain't like we have 23 kids on minimum wage
Ironically 23 kids, which would be the full squad spots allocated,on minimum wage doesn't actually meet the mandatory salary floor in the collective agreement.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
The host on sst seemed to have a rather strong grudge against middleby. Anyone on this forum happen to be a host on sst? Hehe
Minimum spend is 85% of cap
15% of $2.55Mil = $380k approx
No marquee wages = $400k (Heskeys rumoured salary)
So that's $800k cut from expenses.
I can categorically deny I have any involvement whatsoeverQuote:
Originally Posted by Tommyjet
That would be Tony Rallis - who is a football agent. He is critical of the club under the HSG regime as being very difficult with the media.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommyjet
It would be an improvement if you did. Have listened to it once, is absolutely horrendous.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Lol the unprofessional nature of the show is part of its charm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
But Tommy Jet said that Stubbins had little to do with the signings. Palmer may say to cut costs but that doesn't mean that Stubbins can't still decide who to sign, albeit with financial restrictions.Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
Really? That's the reason I hate it, it seriously sounds like a bunch of morons from the Herald comments section getting together to breathe heavily through their mouths and spout garbage into a microphone.Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
Stubbins says "here, sign this bloke he is available for $x"Quote:
Originally Posted by hausmann
Palmer says "no that's too expensive, here is Gallagher who is available for half of $x"
Press release: Jets are pleased to announce the signing of Sam Gallagher.
Rinse & repeat.
so it's like here, but with sound? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
We spout nonsense, not garbage. Most people on here know the name of marquee signings and wouldn't, for an entire show, refer to Robert Koren as "that Slovenian bloke" a dozen times.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
I don't normally listen to it. They do apparently have a good track record at predicting transfers but I can't validate that as I rarely pay attention to sst. I merely posted the above for the purpose of discussion.
The main contentious signing tony rallis was alluding to was Sam Gallagher. It was said he trialled and stubbins declined but middleby stepped in and said Gallagher is the best you'll get Phil
I find this is a problem with a lot of podcasts. The first pod to have their contributors assigned to learning the names of players for a start and track their performances will be a jump ahead. 442 were very good for this reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
I'll conceed however that for the most this isn't their day job, where-as for 442 it is.
They have a good track record at it because the bloke doing the predictions is a player agent who does it for a living. It's not the two buffoons who guess this stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommyjet
They made some interesting comments regarding the sale of the club. Be hard to sell because current management must be kept and the average membership cost is so low not much money can be recoupedQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Surely this is not a requirement in a firesale. Tinkler wants out so the management of a poorly performing club would be the first thing you'd want to cut. I can't see Tinkler knocking back an offer just to save Middleby's arse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommyjet
Regarding the price of tickets, a new owner can just raise the prices. That shouldn't be a massive hinderance.
What was the date of the podcast that they discussed all this?
If you up the cost of GA another $80 or whatever it is to match the rest of the league, how many people are no longer members?Quote:
Originally Posted by hausmann
And you can't just cut staff... you have to pay out their contract. If the management really is inept, what is the cost to get rid of all of them and start fresh? Couple of years each on contract, few hundred thousand to get rid of the shit ones, pushing a million to get rid of the lot?
We aren't exactly an exciting purchase for anyone. Maybe opportunities during the Asian Cup are about the only thing going for us and that's just the region, not the club itself.
Add to that we aren't a capital city which I reckon matters to overseas buyers
Obviously it is all speculation as to whether the club is gonna be run on minimum spends in the future but besides the minimum spend they are forced to do it ain't like we ain't running anywhere far from our rivals anyway.
Birraz BK Reegz Chilli Peppz Kanta Kew etc were under contract well before Tinks alleged firesale has started. Whenever this decision was reached we were already committed to spending plenty anyway. Add in griff and Carney who neither would have come cheap or taken a well below market offer and we are still spending heaps.
Flores Jeronimo Madaschi etc have been around the traps long enough to not have to sell themselves short.
The only way I can see us saving some coin is with the removal of players Goodwin/taggz/Beard/Zads etc and signing players on less coin.
All in all we may be on the path to getting shafted but HSG can't have done that much damage yet