Man the state of this club… what have we become.
What are you talking about?
We’ve got a coach who had a bad year trying to win over the supporters.
We’re not owned by a petro-state, we haven’t gone looking for dodgy bridging finance or crypto-bros to prop us up, we have got players fighting each other on the park, we don’t have an absentee owner who doesn’t invest in the teams, we aren’t going bankrupt, we pay our players, we have a ground to play on…
Our women’s team on a 10-0 streak and as of today our men are on a 3-0 streak.
There were some employment issues last season as we cleared out after terrible results and terrible football. It’s a matter of debate that the coach should have gone too.
Our main issue is a series of home losses early in the season has seen low home crowds.
What are you talking about?
Are you saying we should shutter the club because we have a coach who was/is unpopular and trying to redeem himself ?
I mean exactly what I said. The club is not in a good state.
I know I get accused of talking too much, but would you care to elaborate? And compared to?
This club has gone through so much. Metrics and Gallop. George. Terry’s finances. Terry looking for dodgy finance. Senior players staying too long. Kalezic. And Rado and Dario Vidosic. Handball goals. Relocating the team to Woollongong for the pandemic. Drinking and golf carting. The last seasons for Ernie and Uffie. Fox sport breaking their contract and the league pay out dropping off a cliff. Any number of beatings in Adelaide and Melbourne.
Are you saying Chief being coach is worse than all of these times? That he personally is more toxic than a pandemic, David Gallop and Darjie Kalezic put together? And the fact the club has backed him this season will damage it more than those things?
It’s clearly not salad days. But we’ve done better on our imports this season on the men’s side and we’ve improved the football we’re playing.
And if in the end, he’s not quite up to it (and I thought that last week and I’m aware it is a popular opinion, though I am much more on the fence again after today) we replace him and start again.
And also Central Coast had two last place finishes and a third bottom before it finished 1st and second. And they’ve had ownership challenges because the guy who spent money on them for those years couldn’t cope in the current environment. He burnt out in 2-3 years. Welnix certainly haven’t done that. And I don’t recall us finishing last in back to back seasons.
I feel you can’t spray and walk away. What are you talking about? What in your-Johnny Cash-sings-Hurt-state do you think we’ve become?
All I see is a football club and things within the circle of expectation of being a football club happening.