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**** me! I just saw an ad for jets membership during the half time break of the under 17s!
Wonders will never cease!
Kew lives...in Newy!
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/34...castle/?cs=306
Yep, old Con was right all along, people love the Newcastle lifestyle!:rof:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/34...m-game/?cs=305
only two comments, but the first one is a corker.
orright, own up. which one of you is taking the piss? :rof:Quote:
Shazza No.3 This is probably the final straw for the Jets unfortunately.
The FFA are looking for reasons to stop propping them up financially and run their club for them because they have no one in the organisation with any idea how to run the place, and this has provided the perfect get out for them.
I cannot comprehend how a club and its 50 supporters could be so incredibly ungrateful to pick fights with a club that has just doubled their crowd figure, and therefor revenue.
The Jets are a basket case that no one wants to touch, including the FFA which is very sad for Newcastle which has always been a soccer town
Not guilty your honour.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
But seriously ****ing envious.
Shazza No.3 ay..
I was hoping it was going to be Shannon Cole who was number 3, but he's number 2.. In more ways than one..
it's the 50 supporters bit I love.
Obviously the journo Sam Rigney has done his homework, another one of these amateurs who thinks that The Squadron "retreated" because of WSW supporters. Seems mud sticks though because I've had a few people say the same thing to me over the last 12 months or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Seems too hard to contact the club or The Squadron and get the facts, much easier to keep speading a myth because hey it sounds good and belittles Newcastle sokkah supporters!:angry:
This Rigney is on twitter @SamRigney if you want to tell him to get his facts straight.
deadset some of the blokes you see giving shit to the squadron these days, ffs - i prefer the kids to these mouth breathing knuckle draggers
Lol yes too difficult to contact us - all you need do is call the Jets, or do a google search. They don't care enough to check the facts.
I don't expect a response but have hit him up about it
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blo...-jets-fortunesQuote:
Jean-Paul de Marigny, the quiet achiever helping revive Newcastle Jets' fortunes
Jean-Paul de Marigny’s move from assistant coach at Melbourne Victory to assistant coach at Newcastle Jets was one of the more curious transfers of the off-season. Why would anyone leave a championship-winning club to go to the last-placed, crisis-ridden club he had taken to court just a few years earlier?
It was family, not football, that forced “JP” to leave Melbourne. On 1 May earlier this year, as Victory were preparing for a blockbuster A-League semi-final against Melbourne City, De Marigny’s wife Donna was undergoing surgery for breast cancer. Victory went on to win that semi-final 3-0, and then repeated the same score in the grand final against Sydney FC. De Marigny, however, found it hard to enjoy the moment.
“Football-wise it was the highest you could go in this country, but personal life was as low as I could be,” he says. “So it was mixed emotions. It was like a double life basically.”
When the season finished he left Melbourne Victory immediately, turning his back on a two-year deal at the most successful and most stable club in the country to return to Sydney and look after his wife. For a coach who was out of the A-League from 2006 to 2013, that’s a big call. De Marigny, of course, says “there was really no decision to make”.
There are two JPs – the ruthless, football-obsessed competitor that the fans see, and the doting husband and father his friends and colleagues know. You get a complete picture of the man when he says: “I still regard one of my biggest achievements – apart from being a father and a husband – is actually making a full-time living out of football in Australia.”
Born in Mauritius, at 15 De Marigny migrated to Australia with his mother after his parents divorced. In 1986, he met Donna on the Central Coast after a National Soccer League match, and since then his number one focus has been family. Four years ago, when his son Jake was 15 – the same age De Marigny was when he left his best mate in Mauritius – he turned down a coaching opportunity in Asia so that his son wouldn’t have to go through the same experience.
“Everything you do always has a cost,” he says. “My goal was always to break the cycle of my family being dysfunctional.”
His football career – 318 national league games, three championships, five Socceroos caps – has been one of crisis management. Just as he was hitting his strides as a young player, his first club Hakoah Sydney City collapsed and withdrew from the NSL after three rounds in 1987. In 2003-04 he had one season as head coach with Marconi, but that was interrupted as the NSL folded and re-started as the A-League 15 months later. In 2006 he was sacked as assistant coach by the Jets with two years to run on a three-year contract (he successfully sued the club over the dismissal, with the judge describing his treatment as “appalling”). And when Donna fell ill this year, they were preparing to move to Melbourne permanently.
With the long shadow of former owner Nathan Tinkler slowly receding, Football Federation Australia as stand-in owners and under the guidance of 33-year-old rookie coach Scott Miller, Newcastle Jets sit third on the A-League ladder ahead of this Saturday’s derby against Central Coast Mariners. Ten years ago, De Marigny was the head coach of the Jets in their first ever competitive fixture against the Mariners. Now, he says he’s back for “unfinished business”.
De Marigny is a quiet achiever well-respected by his peers. He’s content to be recognised by the likes of Kevin Muscat, who sought him out to be his assistant, and Tony Popovic, who wanted him at Western Sydney Wanderers after he left Victory. Since joining the Jets, Miller has said De Marigny has been one of the biggest influences on his career – a big wrap from a coach who has worked with the likes of Martin Jol, Roy Hodgson, Mark Hughes, René Muelensteen and Ange Postecoglou.
That sort of respect is engendered by hard work and modesty, the values which are central to engineer a rebuild at the Jets. On the club’s past mistakes, De Marigny is blunt: “The way the owners conducted themselves was completely different to the values of this town. They didn’t take the responsibility that was given to them. For me, they took it with no humility and honour. They disrespected the whole process.”
De Marigny intimately understands the local aesthetic. When asked which players he wants to see at the club, he talks of uncovering the next Col Curran, David Lowe, Joe Senkalski, Craig Johnston and Ray Baartz. Ten years ago when the Jets put together their first A-League side, he was the first person to move to Newcastle, instructing the players they had to live in the area they wished to represent. “You’ve got to bring everything here to be part of it,” he says. “That was not negotiable. If you’re going to sign you need to live here in a proper manner.”
Nobody knows the fragility of Australian football better than De Marigny, but he’s already thinking of a long-term future in Newcastle. The Jets, like all regional clubs, operate best as an extended family, and now that Donna is on the mend, De Marigny is ready to nurse Australian football’s most dysfunctional family back to good health.
“I saw this as coming back to finish the work that we started,” he says. “I saw it as a big opportunity. I really believe that this football club can be a very, very big club. It has to be a big club for the benefit of the A-League.”
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I don't agree with this. We shouldn't be saying that in the media. It's important to the fans.Quote:
Coach Scott MIller defends Jets defensive style
THE Central Coast Mariners have accused Newcastle of a negative playing style, but Jets coach Scott Miller gives the impression he takes it as a compliment.
As the Mariners taunted their arch rivals on Thursday with barbs about playing ‘‘ugly football’’ and ‘‘parking the bus’’, Miller declared defensive standards in the A-League left much to be desired.
‘‘It’s not just a Newcastle Jets thing,’’ Miller said.
‘‘Across the board, defending needs to be better as a country, as in Australian football.
‘‘In this country, we need to be better. I think it’s ad hoc.
‘‘It’s not organised. In a lot of teams it’s shown that their balance in the back four is not there. Whether or not they’re continually working on it or not, I’m not sure. But there seems to be a mindset here that’s not a defensive mindset at all.’’
After almost 10 years as an assistant coach with English club Fulham, Miller’s appointment as Newcastle’s head tactician this season is his first involvement in the A-League.
His top priority has been organising Newcastle’s defence, which last season leaked 55 goals in 27 games, more than any other team.
This season the Jets have conceded six goals in five games, an improvement that has helped them to three wins and third rung on the ladder.
That has not stopped the eighth-placed Mariners, who have not won since the opening round, from criticising Newcastle’s tactics.
‘‘It mightn’t be the prettiest game – they won’t want it to be the prettiest game,’’ Irish striker Roy O’Donovan said on Thursday. ‘‘We played them a couple of times in pre-season and they pretty much parked the bus.
‘‘It’s ugly. If I was a supporter, I wouldn’t go and watch it. But that’s the way they want to play. That’s fine.’’
O’Donovan said the Mariners ‘‘know what to expect’’ from their traditional rivals.
‘‘It’s going to be a tough game,’’ he said.
‘‘They play very defensively and they don’t play a very expansive game.’’
The Jets have scored as many goals (seven) as the Mariners this season but conceded five fewer.
Central Coast and Adelaide share the worst defensive record.
Miller had his own subtle dig at the Mariners when he said: ‘‘We’ve obviously started very well and they need to improve their form.’’
Miller accepted that last week’s 2-1 loss to Western Sydney had provided Newcastle’s critics with ammunition.
‘‘People were waiting for Newcastle to fail, and that’s a big motivation,’’ he said. ‘‘But any team can fail. The table doesn’t lie at this point.
‘‘We want to remain very focused on our ambition for the year, which is not to drop off whatsoever.’’
Despite the derby tradition, Miller insisted Saturday’s showdown held no extra significance for the Jets.
‘‘It’s just another game for us,’’ he said. ‘‘That’s the way we look at things.
‘‘It’s the next fixture, the next opposition, and we need to maintain our focus for that.’’
Miller said a win on Saturday, and 12 points from the first six games, ‘‘would be reflective of the commitment we’ve shown, as well as the performances’’.
I hope the message behind closed doors is different.
This is, in my opinion, the first thing I can recall Miller has said wrong.
Prob just playing it down a tad so we don't lose Boogs to a straight red early on.
Fair enough I reckon, keep it calm.
If we want emotional pandemonium we just need Hutch and Griff to appear prematch in sunglasses, a la WWE managers and have a face off.
Hutch pushes Griff and Sasho flies out of the crowd with a chair to the head of Hutcho, grabs the mic, denounces his Gyponess and apologises for the 2008 semi final comeback - game on.
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Originally Posted by Jetmaster
I think it's a pretty good indication of the shittiness of the coast that we've had quite a number of people turn their back on the scum and head north.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
McBreen ran off to China to escape them and then came back to coach in Newy. Gumprecht coaches in Newy as well, doesn't he?
Sasho, Holland, Boogaard, Mitchell saw the light and came to us.
Are there any examples of Newy folk turning gypo?
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I said Newy folk.Quote:
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Stuey is back in Newy
Realised his mistake, never played a game and moved to Rosebuds, didn't he?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zico
Troy Hearfield went to Mariners. Now Playing for Weston Bears.
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Well in.
Of course it's important to fans, but it shouldn't change the way the team prepare for it. And let's be honest, why would Trifunovic, Alivodic, Leonardo, Carney and whoever the Mariners have signed this season give two shits about this game more then when they play any other club? The derby concept is a joke when the players keep changing. If both clubs can keep the same group of players for a few years, then maybe we'll see it ramp up a bit but you can't expect it to happen out of nowhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
I don't want Miller to come out swinging. I don't want them to change what they're doing. I don't want the players to feel like they have to act differently on the pitch just because we demand it? And what, see Boogaard get so caught up in the derby and he's sent off within 20 minutes? Let the Mariners work on the pre-match banter and we'll just do the job on the pitch. The 3 points today is absolutely sweeter than anything else.
Complete and utter bullshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by halo se7en
If these blokes on our side don't buy into the derby they can **** right off.
If Millertime doesn't buy into the derby he can **** right off
If anyone at the club isn't buying into the derby they can **** right off
Our fans ****ing care about it and it is high time those at the club showed the same level of passion and commitment to the cause.
Winning these games V Gypos are more important to me than any other game this or any season.
If these khunts don't get that then they can **** off
I personally couldn't give two ****s about the lack of talking it up from our club this week. I think it is actually a good thing
What I do give a **** about is that when those blokes in gold walk out on the pitch today they tear in and play for their fans at the intensity we deserve and tear into the Gypo filth. That is Millertimes job today and this week to instill a level of raised commitment and passion from these ****s so they all play like Griff come 5:15 today
Publicly "bigging up" the derby has resulted in some draws over the past 3 years.
If a more controlled approach from the coaching staff and players gets us a massive 3 points over this lot, I'll gladly take it.
It's up to us to go mental, and the players to give us something to go crazy for.
3-0 Jets today. Get on it
No it wasn't bullshit - it just doesn't match your opinion.Quote:
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I don't care if they're fired up or not. What I care about is that they turn up switched on, play the football they're capable of, and get the 3 points.
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Well don't being "fired up" and "switched on" go hand in hand?Quote:
Originally Posted by halo se7en
Go to youtube and checkout some Derbies like Everton-Liverpool, Lazio-Roma, the Milan derby or the Manchester derby and see what it means to not only the fans but more importantly the players....why should we not expect anything less from our players but to give their all?
There is a big difference between being calm in the media and getting fired up behind closed doors, or going retard like the other mob to try to get more than 20 blokes hitch-hiking to Turton Rd.
As you dont know what is happening in the sheds maybe wait and see what eventuates on the pitch.
I can see what you're saying and I think you're right in so much as that's the approach we are taking. What you say makes senseQuote:
Originally Posted by halo se7en
Not necessarily. Being fired up too much can mean losing sight of what's actually important. We might want a coastie or two to cop some hard tackles and broken ankles and see our players flying in all over the pitch, but ultimately it doesn't mean anything if we don't win the game. Being switched on means knowing exactly what they need to do to win the game and not lose concentration, like we have in our two losses this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by stopper2
And you clearly haven't watched any of the Manchester derbies from the last few years - the last one in particular was one of the most boring games I've ever watched in my life (and I'm a United fan so I'm not picking on them with bias). The derby meant nothing to the players. Why would it? None of them are from Manchester.
And at no point did I say the players shouldn't give their all. In fact they should be doing that EVERY game, not just the derbies.
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Okay the Manchester derby is a bad example.
I get what you are saying Halo but you are probably over-analysing what "fired up" means.
To me "fired up" means you are basically showing you care about your own pride and the pride of the club you are representing and that these scumbags will not run roughshod over.
I will never forget the '08 Grand Final, one of the first exchanges Hutch goes in hard on Griff in an overzealous challenge with probably the intent to injure him and at the very least to get one up in the psychological battle by intimidation, Tarek comes in and grabs Hutch by the throat and basically set the tone for the rest of the match with his action in defending Griff......hey today you will not get the better of us you filthy grubs!!!
That's what "fired up" means and the intent is usually set in the initial stages to make it clear to the opposition that you mean business today and will not be intimidated....then hopefully you can focus on the football and your game plan.
And theres the game plan.....play like griff..... you will get everything needed
Glad to see this attitude of not actually playing with fire in the belly worked well today.Quote:
Originally Posted by halo se7en
Last time we won a derby we won it because we got stuck in. Zads launched at Rose.
The one with the bigger fire in the belly wins the games.
Until we get this into our heads we won't win **** all.
You have to want it more. Our blokes just don't get it and haven't got it for ****ing years