Aim for the top and try to suceed there. I know the PC thing is "To take part" but we want to adopt the "We desperately want to win this competition" mentality. almost a "Take no prisoners" mentality. You want to be a winner, 2nd is not an alternative.
Think you're not adequately taking in to account timeframes here. There's nothing wrong with the goal for a season being a playoff place as part of a longer term goal to win the league. And I've never heard anyone from the nix talk about the top 6 being the long term goal.
Aim for the top and try to suceed there. I know the PC thing is "To take part" but we want to adopt the "We desperately want to win this competition" mentality. almost a "Take no prisoners" mentality. You want to be a winner, 2nd is not an alternative.
To be fair, when he is constrained to the sideline and isn't kicking/shoving/being a cheating twit in general he is a bit more likeable, and gives good interviews. More entertainment, less ruining of games and injuring players.
Out of interest, how do you measure ambition?
I think you're just being overly negative based on nothing to be honest.
I've seen clear signs that we're heading in the right direction on the field, including an ambitious change in our style of play and our coach (who has previously won the league). Plus some very ambitious moves off the field.
Aim for the top and try to suceed there. I know the PC thing is "To take part" but we want to adopt the "We desperately want to win this competition" mentality. almost a "Take no prisoners" mentality. You want to be a winner, 2nd is not an alternative.
To be fair, when he is constrained to the sideline and isn't kicking/shoving/being a cheating twit in general he is a bit more likeable, and gives good interviews. More entertainment, less ruining of games and injuring players.
That gif actually makes me ill.
and no thanks to musa - looks like footballer...but isnt really.
Disagree. Expect another A-League club to pick him up in the next season or so
He was pretty good when I watched him play for Hereford.
"Moo ...sa!!!!"
Out of interest, how do you measure ambition?
Hard to measure, but I think it's something you can demonstrate. For example, when Riera got injured a team that was ambitious would have really looked hard to replace him with a similar or even better player in the hope of pushing on at a time when we had form and momentum. We looked within the squad (plus took the chance to trial some cheap local signings), possibly due to financial constraints, and predictably stalled. That to me demonstrated a clear lack of ambition.
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Out of interest, how do you measure ambition?
Hard to measure, but I think it's something you can demonstrate. For example, when Riera got injured a team that was ambitious would have really looked hard to replace him with a similar or even better player in the hope of pushing on at a time when we had form and momentum. We looked within the squad (plus took the chance to trial some cheap local signings), possibly due to financial constraints, and predictably stalled. That to me demonstrated a clear lack of ambition.
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Terrible example. You can only have an injury replacement player on at most the same wage as the player they are replacing.
Dam that tackles is bad, ouch
Aim for the top and try to suceed there. I know the PC thing is "To take part" but we want to adopt the "We desperately want to win this competition" mentality. almost a "Take no prisoners" mentality. You want to be a winner, 2nd is not an alternative.
To be fair, when he is constrained to the sideline and isn't kicking/shoving/being a cheating twit in general he is a bit more likeable, and gives good interviews. More entertainment, less ruining of games and injuring players.
Don't expect too much - Rob Morrison in the news today saying that signing big names didn't work for the HIGHLANDERS, so we don't need to either.
These are the guys running our club. FFS.
Sorry but that is complete BS - if we'd finished 5th we'd have won a hell of a lot more games, which would have been a much more enjoyable season as a fan.
The target of "making the playoffs" is a complete cop out - finishing 6th and in the bottom half is not a good season. We need to aim a lot higher, we need a plan for how we're going to win the competition because in a 10 team salary capped league if you're not trying to win why are you even competing? There is a lack of ambition on the pitch which is dragging the club down off it
This isn't about marquees either, it's about putting together a team with the AIM of winning the comp, not with the AIM of finishing 6th - the two are very different and you'll target different players.
Think you're not adequately taking in to account timeframes here. There's nothing wrong with the goal for a season being a playoff place as part of a longer term goal to win the league. And I've never heard anyone from the nix talk about the top 6 being the long term goal.
Do you see a plan to win the competition? That to me means finishing top 2 over the league season. I think we've got some things right but I also think it's pretty clear our ambition is to finish 5th/6th and reality is we're quite a long way behind the top sides over a season, even though we can compete in one off games.
I think that shows in the complete lack of concern over finishing 9th this season by the club - if you thought you could win the league then finishing 9th is a disaster. If all you're trying to do is sneak into the playoffs and you miss out then you're not that concerned are you, which seems to be the state of affairs right now. I do think that's a problem for attracting fans and players - we do completely lack ambition.
We may be slightly moving in the right direction, but one league placing per year is not really enough is it?
Personally think we have priorities a little wrong. All very well taking months and months to get EPL teams here but I'd take a few good signings and a much better 2014-15 season as a result over 2 pre season friendlies.
The 2 aren't really mutually exclusive are they? We aren't getting the EPL teams over here to the detriment of the squad, if anything it (very loosely) helps.
It would've been very interesting to see where we ended up if we didn't get killed by injuries. We were talking about being one of the top teams in the comp until that happened. If that isn't a step in the right direction after last season I don't quite know what is?
And just to take an earlier point, We were never realistically going to pick up an ifill on a 6 month injury replacement so to say the fact we didn't do so shows a lack of ambition is pretty unfair. I thought Krishna was actually one of our better players toward the end of the season, and if he isn't an import next season he is a great pick up and shows the style of football we will be looking to play going forward.
We may be slightly moving in the right direction, but one league placing per year is not really enough is it?
Personally think we have priorities a little wrong. All very well taking months and months to get EPL teams here but I'd take a few good signings and a much better 2014-15 season as a result over 2 pre season friendlies.
I think you're just being overly negative based on nothing to be honest.
I HOPE the 2 things aren't mutually exclusive, I just worry we've blown a large chunk of budget that could've gone towards wages (marquee or not).
Time will tell!
The FFA effectively pay the salary cap. I imagine welnix would have set aside enough $ in the budget to pay the players wages up to the salary cap. At least you'd hope so!
Well then it becomes a debate about marquee again - I'd rather have a marquee (not just a 'name' but someone who could genuinely make a difference) than a friendly. Given the choice anyway, realise it's probably not that simple.
I also assume we are set to make some $ or break even on these friendlies, otherwise I doubt welnix would bother.
I HOPE the 2 things aren't mutually exclusive, I just worry we've blown a large chunk of budget that could've gone towards wages (marquee or not).
Is there no chance that the FU tour could actually turn a profit and help us buy better players?
We can but hope.
This bloke wants to come back and play for us.
Not an import and would be a cheap impact player...
swap Carlos for Finkler
If we tell them he was on Toronto's books they might get distracted
We may be slightly moving in the right direction, but one league placing per year is not really enough is it?
Personally think we have priorities a little wrong. All very well taking months and months to get EPL teams here but I'd take a few good signings and a much better 2014-15 season as a result over 2 pre season friendlies.
Traroe released by victory to pursue a career overseas..... we are overseas!! Come on traroe!!!
<Daniel> wants to come back and play for us.
Traroe released by victory to pursue a career overseas..... we are overseas!! Come on traroe!!!
<Daniel> wants to come back and play for us.
<Daniel> wants to come back and play for us.
Staff members
General Manager: David Dome
Executive Assistant: Lynsey Greenacre
Head Coach: Ernie Merrick
Assistant Coach: Chris Greenacre
Goal Keeping Coach: Jonathan Gould
High Performance Manager: Ed Baranowksi
Physiotherapist: Rob Lee
Strength and Conditioning: Lee Spence
Football Operations Manager: Shaun Gill
Head of Marketing: Kyla Lange
Head of Commercial Operations: Thomas Ben
Events and Ticketing Manager: Lizzie Cummings
Community Development Officer: Rachel Martelli
Match Operations Assistant: John Schmitt
Media Manager: Russell Gray
Where's Nixie?
And where's Ernieclucks?
Staff members
General Manager: David Dome
Executive Assistant: Lynsey Greenacre
Head Coach: Ernie Merrick
Assistant Coach: Chris Greenacre
Goal Keeping Coach: Jonathan Gould
High Performance Manager: Ed Baranowksi
Physiotherapist: Rob Lee
Strength and Conditioning: Lee Spence
Football Operations Manager: Shaun Gill
Head of Marketing: Kyla Lange
Head of Commercial Operations: Thomas Ben
Events and Ticketing Manager: Lizzie Cummings
Community Development Officer: Rachel Martelli
Match Operations Assistant: John Schmitt
Media Manager: Russell Gray
Massive Cock: Nixie
Coach in Waiting: Ernieclucks
Director of Football: Gazza
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