Terrible, just terrible.Originally Posted by GazFish35
Terrible, just terrible.
Hesky needs to start. He must sit on the bench and wonder what he's doing here. Nearly every ball he got was to his head. Hit is feet for **** sake.
how good is heskey at jumping heaps high and heading the ball towards the moon ay
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Thiis makes you want to cry............
I admit he has different cattle at the Roar but I wistfully think of what might have been.Mulvey could become head coach of Jets
Daniel Fraser | October 18th, 2011
GOLD Coast United assistant coach Mike Mulvey confirmed yesterday he is in the mix to replace Branko Culina as the next head coach of the Newcastle Jets.
An excited Mulvey told the Gold Coast Bulletin he was contacted by Jets officials regarding the position two weeks ago and again last Monday.
With his impressive coaching resume and strong history in youth development, the 48-year-old Mancunian looms as a genuine smoky to snare the coveted coaching gig ahead of more renowned applicants such as former Newcastle coach Gary van Egmond.
"I have been in contact with Newcastle regarding the head coach position, yes," Mulvey said.
"I am very happy they are interested in me and like any assistant coach I was naturally interested in a top position. The indication I got was they (Newcastle) will be making a decision sooner rather than later, so we will just wait and see."
After weeks of deliberating the Jets are poised to announce who will be taking over the top job from interim coach Craig Deans at Newcastle as early as today.
In addition to van Egmond several former A-League coaches including Lawrie McKinna (Central Coast), Ernie Merrick (Melbourne), John Kosmina (Sydney) and Frank Farina (Brisbane) have all been linked to the position along with former Jets assistant coach Mark Jones and former captain Paul Okon.
Aware of the high-profile names linked to the job, Mulvey admitted his appointment was greatly contingent on which direction the Jets board wished to go.
"There are a lot of good candidates," Mulvey said. "It just depends which way Newcastle want to go.
"My history is in development; I was the head coach of the football program at the Queensland Academy of Sport for 11 years before coming to Gold Coast.
"At United we have had a fair amount of success in recent years with our youth team that we built up from scratch.
"We won the Youth League two years running, and six of those young stars have signed with Gold Coast. When you are successful people take notice."
The youth guru assured United supporters his focus remained on the Gold Coast despite the pending announcement.
"My focus is 100 per cent on Gold Coast United this season but as I said I have ambitions," Mulvey said. "Miron knows that, Clive (Palmer) knows that.
"It is the natural progression for an assistant coach to want to coach in the top job. I feel I'm ready but you have to be realistic. There are only 10 top jobs in the A-League."
Hard to take.
Anyone else heard about the Okon "rumour". Heard from a sauce that he will be taking over next season. The longer it goes with GVE not being re-signed the more I am starting to believe this one.
That rumour has been going around since Branko was here
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Still a lot of talk of GVE taking over the emerging jets program. I don't have an issue with that.
Okon talk has been going on longer than the Mark Rudan talk, can't see either eventuating.
Surely middleby and palmer are aware of our seasonal fade each year. Hopefully they grow some balls this season and address it. I'm predicting if its a loss against a depleted victory next game gve is gone. Unlikely though with our gutless management
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Regardless of how much we want him gone reality is he will see the season out.
Regardless of results/performances the players are still playing for him and trying.
We didn't win yesterday from a lack of effort and desire. The boys busted their arses and it just wouldn't happen for them.
Even if we get rolled 5-0 next week he will still be in the gig until end of season or Tinks finds some spare cash he currently hasn't found he wishes to piss away just for a laugh.
The Gutless Management was last season when they came out and backed him to the hilt in the days after our season ended when the Herald had a pop with some facts about the sides efforts that should have seen him fighting to keep his job.
Interesting stats
Last Season we played 13 times at home
We scored 12 times and 3 of them were penalties.
6 out of the 13 times we failed to score
Most goals seen by Jets was 2 in a game
This season so far we have played 6 times at home
We have scored 7 times and one of them was an Own goal(THANKS PASFIELD)
3 out of the 6 times we have failed to score
Most goals seen by Jets was 3 in a game
Now this is pretty damning evidence that our football isn't attractive/exciting to watch for the 11k of Members
I suspect tinks not having any spare cash to piss away is the reason he wasn't given the arse at the end of last season, not the management.
If tinks wasn't going to splash the cash, what option do the management have other than to throw up the facade of backing him to the hilt.
Quality Management would engineer a solution to rid the club of him without costing Tinks a dollar more than he is currently spending.
We could have ran at a reduced salary cap spend to accommodate the new coaches wage.
We could have also not utilised the Marquee spot and used Heskey's current wages to pay him out.
Many things could have been done by thinking with some ingenuity.
This lies squarely at the feet of Palmer/Middleby for not doing so
And had they done that and we still weren't winning you'd be on here bitching about management for not utilising the salary cap to its fullest, for not utilising the marquee slot, ticket/merchandise prices are too much.
Really, its catch 22 for them and either way they are farked in this scenario.
If it meant getting rid of GVE I wouldn't have given two ****s what price we had to pay.
The bloke showed me he is making it up as he goes along last season when after Bridges was ignored for selection for the best part of 2 years by him he was given a new contract for a couple of games played.
Basically by doing this he said to me that a bloke who couldn't do it for him in the last 18months is allegedly worthy of a NEW contract when he had the whole world to find a player to replace him and wasn't prepared to EVEN ****ing look.
Now I am not bringing Bridges up to debate his worth to the club but just as a reference to the insanity of the Manager
NFI
You don't have any answers so why would Gary. A new coach would still have a team of Gumbys
Don't get me wrong, I am not defending GVE. The sooner we see the back of him as first team manager the better. I don't even give him the kudos for making it up as he goes, the team plays better when he is being told how we play.
But the club is in a no win situation. No money to ditch him without making massive cuts elsewhere that would equally have people coming out of the wood work to complain about results due to a weakened squad/resources.
If GVE gets a contract extension beyond the end of this season, then the knives should come out.
I don't think we have a team of Gumby's, more a team lacking guidance/direction and tactics that suit the players strengths.
I agree..
Good squad just lacking in direction and confidence
Me too. Overall we have a good squad
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