i'll cut the club some slack and work on the assumption that Sydney are willing to pay far in excess of what we can afford.
Don't understand what your blowing up about Thomas.
This could be Middlebys finest piece of work yet
Saving us from the Gypo Overlord in the midnight hour of desperation.
****ING GENIUS
NOW ROBBIE
SIGN GRIFF FFS
Fair point, MFKS, but if Sydney go on to win the league with Arnie in charge, and we again, don't make the top 60% of teams in the league, won't we look the fools.
The only reason we won't win the spoon next year is because Perth are a bigger joke than us ATM.
Middleby Gone
Lawrie Out
I hope it played out like this...
Player revolt, lead by Griff, demanding that the club reject any former gypo overlord as potential boss. Players are one thing, coaching staff another. Middleby refused, got sack whacked and voila, no more Gypo Overlord.
Regardless of where Arnie goes and regardless of what success he may have at their club the reality is we still have to find the right man to lead us to the promised land and get us into the top 60% of the League.
This is quite achievable and I would even offer that even InZane if giving the full season could actually achieve it.
We are a long way from winning a title but we ain't that far enough away that making the promised land of the Top 6 is an impossible achievement
Our success in this relies on us and our management being the right choices. That we actually do control
^ I thought we were shitter after Zane took over, and this was only covered up by the fact that we had Griff and Carney come into the team. But that might just be me.
Either way, if we are serious about wanting to do well next season then we won't have Zane as coach.
Coaching is one thing and Clayton Zane might be able to handle that.
The one thing that the Jets have never been good at is scouting new talent. We had Remo set up the initial Jets and that all went well until the team imploded. The Jets have never again been on the front foot when it comes to recruitment.
Even with the likes of Taggart, Brillante (who were a one time deal from GVE's exposure to them) and Heskey, the team wasn't really performing until Griffiths and Carney came along late in the season to add quality out wide. We had Burns on a half season loan etc. It's always a patch up job. It's no way to run a professional sporting franchise.
I doubt Clayton would be able to source or attract some exciting but relatively unknown creative players from Spain (as an example).
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at the likes of you, militia, bel, etc judging Zane purely on the results he got on the back end of the season.
He had someone elses squad. He had SFA time to implement his philosophy as (brace yourself militia, heartbreaks coming your way) GVE had completely fxxxed our team up.
Wasn't it militia himself who gave GVE more than 2 seasons, and probably still thinks, that he couldn't properly be judged results-wise because he hadn't had enough time to form his own squad & build his own philosophies?
Zane went from taking a team that was never, ever the same each week that played the most mind-fxxx-filled tactics you've ever seen, to going to a set starting XI who were implored to keep it simple. And the players responded very positively to it IMO.
OK
**** building his own squads. The guy doesn't have a ****ing clue how to change a game. "Oh shit, Perth are suddenly dominating us in a game we need to win. That's alright, I will wait another 15 minutes till we completely cock it up as I have the excuse of it being someone elses squad".
**** off, he is a gimp and can **** off with Deans and co as far as I am concerned.
m8 go easy, I haven't been able to play disc golf for several months after the injury I occured when I was playing with Gary Fish, Bon, sammydog, q-mun, militiamon, stretch & superdyl during our bi-weekly DG game @ Jesso. It was a shame too - I was trying to impress Rubez and the other Jerks players who came down after we casually invited them to come check it out, and popped my shoulder throwing too hard.
OK
Agree with what Grimario said. He made some shit decisions on game-days that ultimately cost us a place in the finals.
His prior record with the W-League team speaks for itself.
No matter how you spin it, having Zane appointed as our coach next season will be a very disappointing outcome.
Edit: Oh yeah and for the record, I definitely DID think GVE needed to go. There were some positives to his time in charge, but in the end he couldn't get the results after 2 years in charge, and his shit man-management also cost us.
Replacing him with Zane mid-way through the season was a bad decision though imo.
Surely you don't refer to the W-League team that featured the then Matilda's captain, the then German captain, and one of the best attackers the womens game in australia has ever produced? The one that was the glamour side of the league that year that failed to make the finals?
Who was the coach again? Oh yes, Zane.
Middleby Gone
Lawrie Out