He did a great job. WdOriginally Posted by baldrick
He did a great job. Wd
lol
At least Nick T 'made it' to Rnd 7......
****ing lol.
Feel sorry for Crook though, seems a class act just had a shit squad.
Middleby Gone
Lawrie Out
6 games ffs. And that is with 2 wins in the bag. A new low has been reached.
The amusing consequence is that now SFC fans might think they will do better. It's just a shit hole of a squad they have, perhaps one of the shittest in the history of the league (apart from ADP). The fact that SFC fans are hoping Jason Culina will save them basically sums it up.
What odds for the return of Branko?
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I'd be going for Bleiberg if I was them.
ADP captain/coach.
Probably another unknown foreign coach.
farina/merrick mentioned on the radio today, but i think merely speculation by the journo.
Vialli mentioned on Fox
Golden boot tally in the paper today shows Heskey on 5 and Griff on 3.
This is how you build a sucessful team. Yes everyone knows you need someone who will reach 12-15 goals (heskey) but to have someone else on the charts looking to score around 10 goals is massive. Us and Adelaide are the only teams with two people near the top of the list at the moment and thats fairly telling
True but have you seen our goals against.
And Crook needs to stay well away from newy. He's a walking jinx
From what I understand Crook was given an opportunity to re-invent Sydney FC. Then with just four weeks until the season starts the SFC board sign ADP. Expectations for the team suddnly changed from rebuilding to must win the championship.
Add to that the baggage of an Australian marquee who's little more than a squad player these days and it's obvious that Crook is on a hiding to nothing.
Because at Sydney FC: If the team win it is due to the board, and if they lose it's because the coach ****ed up.
Yeah I miss Miron......he'd say: " well 19 games left....57 points on offer...yeah we can still make the top 4!!!!"
the king is dead. long live the king.
http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/11/12...not-expansion/Gallop’s FFA task: Consolidation not expansion
Former NRL chief David Gallop has been introduced and he’s started work as the new CEO of Football Federation Australia (FFA), riding-in off the back of the wave of success that A-League has enjoyed this season.
Gallop’s first task at his introductory press conference was to prove that he is a “football man” worthy of leading the code, as the third outsider to do so from the third different code.
At the press conference, chairman Frank Lowy countered the claims that the FFA lacked “football people” by stressing that Gallop was surrounded by a board full of talent nurtured in the round-ball game.
But nevertheless, Gallop is at the forefront of that team, the visual leader and spokesperson. One of the great weaknesses of his predecessor, Ben Buckley, was his lack of conviction when promoting/defending the game. That weakness was viewed as the code’s weakness.
Gallop is a better performer under the spotlight. But while he insists over and over again that he is a fan of the game, his knowledge of its unique culture will be tested in his new role, especially given the focus on grassroots development and the reconnecting of the different tiers of the game. And he needs to prove that to the game’s supporters, who will inevitably view him as another outsider from a rival code.
Little surprise, therefore, that Gallop acknowledged this in his press conference with the following:
“In 2005, I was at Homebush Bay when John Aloisi kicked us into the FIFA World Cup finals. I jumped out of my seat, but remember also being one of the first in the ground to quickly sit down.
“With my rugby league hat on I sat down and thought, ‘Uh-oh, this could be bad – the sleeping giant just got a giant prod’.
“When Archie Thomson scored the second goal against Iraq a few weeks ago, I jumped up in my lounge room and this time I didn’t need to sit back down.”
At least he was honest in his previous concerns as the chief of a rival code.
With a television deal on the brink, which is set to include a free-to-air component for the A-League for the first-time, record crowds and television ratings, Gallop is walking into the code in a strong period.
As he stressed in the press conference, matters such as expansion seem to be on the backburner. The main message to come across from Gallop was that the game needed to tread with caution and work at building on the strong growth seen in the A-League.
“My early sense is that in terms of its strategic direction, the game is in an execution rather than creation of new strategies phase,” said Gallop.
“Government reviews and strategic plans have been put in place. While there is always an opportunity to review things much of that work has been done.”
However, suggesting that other codes should be “concerned” by the growth of the game and emergence as arguably the strongest summer league showed a glimpse of the aggressive administrator he can be.
So what to look for in Gallop’s first term? If expansion of the A-League is being discussed as a long-term option only, he must build on the media and crowd growth by looking beyond the league to matters such as youth participation and development, the W-League, National Youth League, development of Australian Premier League and how the state leagues will converge as part of the National Competitions Review, and finally act on the FFA Cup.
Football fans should feel more at ease with Gallop than, say, Buckley. There is a less of a gamble here as he is a more proven product in the role of CEO, at a time when the code is in a far stronger position having survived the disastrous expansion period of recent seasons.
This is the version of the story I'd agree with the most.
I haven't watched a lot of SFC this season, but it did look like they had improved in attack and possession on previous seasons. Even against the Mariners I thought they dominated large portions of the game up until their defence went to shit and they gave up (e.g look at the way they scored their second goal, beautiful).
You can't bag Crooky....he should have been the first Jets coach but Con "went" for El Tel to "go to the next level". When that fell through we went for second best.
And remember this is the man who brought the family Griffiths to Newy. For that at least, we must always be grateful.
First question I have is why the **** is it so important to have "Football" People in the job???
Second Question I have is in future years with the advent of professional footballers who have spent from 17 >>> 35 years old playing for a living and obviously not studying where are these "football people" who are obviously so important gonna come from when they don't have the qualifications to do the job.
Third Question I have if we are after football people why not give some of the glorious fans of the code in this country a ****ing job running the game/clubs etc??? I am sure if we had some of the people on this board and who go to our games and love the club to bits holding down positions at HSG we would be in better shape as a club.
I would rather be seeing someone like Timmy V with the passion and commitment he has to the club getting paid to do a job at HSG because we all know a bloke who has that sort of passion will go well and above the call of duty for the cause rather than some knob who is doing it for a pay packet and a notation on his CV.
Want football people??
GIVE THE FANS A ****ING JOB
They are football people
Offal story at the end....ROTFLMFAO..+ tears
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