Season 25/26 General Discussion

Big time. Also found it interesting re some of the players comments re Greenacre going back to basics and clear messaging. 

Not a full on dig at Chief but definitely gives some insight into the end of his reign. I mean was pretty clear with the amount of chopping of formation/tactics (highline... yikes) and changing + players being played out of position constantly that he was trying to be too clever for his own good. 

it was pretty clear tat whtever the message was from Italiano it wasnt getting through to the players, I said it early on in the season, his idea had merit, a team thatcould play with fluidity and attack and press from multiple areas, but we didnt have th players to do it and I suspect it was more complex than he made it sound compared to the structured style of play most teams enjoy.

Both Italiano and Greenacre have a background in coaching age group teams (Sydney FC and Wellington Phoenix respectively). It could be that Italiano had a success record because of the availability of the good quality players wherever he went, until two years ago.  Hopefully Greenacre might have experienced "working with what you got" that will translate into a better success rate with a lesser crew (and I do not mean it condescendingly).