Kind of embarrassing I trusted AI on Adelaide. I’d looked this up before and felt from memory that brilliant era collected more silverware. Geez and 2008 when I watched a lot of them wasn’t even their A league prime. 3 successful eras there at least. We used to take a guaranteed hiding at Hindmarsh. So much so that one of my most cherished Nix memories is watching Boxall and Boyd score an icing on the cake goal. I think we’d really battled the time before and got some tough, tough late ref calls. Against the young ginger Aussie RB iirc. Anyhou.
Sure.
I mean several things: what’s the alternative? How are you suggesting doing things differently?
As I said before Milligan is now a star coach, but he was still getting bagged after the Australia Cup win. Chief, who is now fairly poorly regarded, came close to winning. Shouldn’t we give Greenie his shot?
WSW splashed cash and got nowhere last couple of seasons. We splashed the cash with Uffie and didn’t get there either.
Why is it only Domey’s fault? Surely if you’re lauding Foley, you’re also saying WelNix are part of the problem? We just need a billionaire owner who also owns an EPL team and has a network of analysis and data available through his multi-club empire. Wonder if there are any going spare?
We all want to win something, but do you want a team of Becker/McFlynn/ Corica? I mean fine if you do, but it’s a choice of doing things a certain way. There’s a reason Auckland top the fouls list and flop too. And they charge and surround the ref. Corica and McFlynn did it as players! It’s how they play.
Yeh, MacArthur and Western pump money into their teams, but for some reason haven’t picked up the fans.
I think we’ve talked all this through before. And good on you guys to keep the pressure on.
How do we go from that table to one where the Nix have numbers on the board?
TBH, I’m really pissed off with Chief because his arrogance or whatever it was cost us the chance of following up on our progress, at least results wise, from his first year. We should have extended that team’s era and challenged at the least.
And I can’t understand how we didn’t win stuff with Roy, Burnsy, McG, Roly and co.
Austin suggests a new DoF.
There are a lot of things that happen that are beyond our control. To nullify those things, like CC or Newcastle, or especially Adelaide, we really need to get the community behind the team on and off the field.
Again another area where Chief’s most recent era has been a disaster. I loved to see the fans in Melbourne challenge players and get rewarded. But then the team bottled things in the home stretch and the MacArthur game…phhhh.
We need to recreate that first year feeling or recreate a local buzz. We can’t have the team circling wagons and their hardcore fans booing. A bit of PR couldn’t hurt. A statement signing on a poster pasted in the city.
It’s got to be good to overcome local issues with cash flow. Perhaps the central government is waiting for the bank of Rob to revitalise Welly. Who knows? You could move the team to Christchurch. That’d be one thing not tried in 18 years.
But it feels like an uptick for the league is on the way, perhaps Mata inspired. New broadcast deal. Good football being played. I’m always optimistic.
I’ve bitched a lot about the VAR this season and how they seemed to operate outside their remit to re-referee situations. And then they re-refereed a situation in our favor and the onfield ref decided to disagree, instead of being a push over. That doesn’t help.
Long story short, we want to win the league every year. If we’re not, we’ve got to enjoy what we can, otherwise it’s not much fun turning up.
I think the most frustrating thing is that it doesn’t feel far away. We beat Adelaide. We expected to get points off the Jets. We won in Melbourne…once, but it has to start somewhere. And yet not even a first round knockout this time.
You’ve diagnosed a problem. Give us your prescription.
Sure.
I mean several things: what’s the alternative? How are you suggesting doing things differently?
As I said before Milligan is now a star coach, but he was still getting bagged after the Australia Cup win. Chief, who is now fairly poorly regarded, came close to winning. Shouldn’t we give Greenie his shot?
WSW splashed cash and got nowhere last couple of seasons. We splashed the cash with Uffie and didn’t get there either.
Why is it only Domey’s fault? Surely if you’re lauding Foley, you’re also saying WelNix are part of the problem? We just need a billionaire owner who also owns an EPL team and has a network of analysis and data available through his multi-club empire. Wonder if there are any going spare?
We all want to win something, but do you want a team of Becker/McFlynn/ Corica? I mean fine if you do, but it’s a choice of doing things a certain way. There’s a reason Auckland top the fouls list and flop too. And they charge and surround the ref. Corica and McFlynn did it as players! It’s how they play.
Yeh, MacArthur and Western pump money into their teams, but for some reason haven’t picked up the fans.
I think we’ve talked all this through before. And good on you guys to keep the pressure on.
How do we go from that table to one where the Nix have numbers on the board?
TBH, I’m really pissed off with Chief because his arrogance or whatever it was cost us the chance of following up on our progress, at least results wise, from his first year. We should have extended that team’s era and challenged at the least.
And I can’t understand how we didn’t win stuff with Roy, Burnsy, McG, Roly and co.
Austin suggests a new DoF.
There are a lot of things that happen that are beyond our control. To nullify those things, like CC or Newcastle, or especially Adelaide, we really need to get the community behind the team on and off the field.
Again another area where Chief’s most recent era has been a disaster. I loved to see the fans in Melbourne challenge players and get rewarded. But then the team bottled things in the home stretch and the MacArthur game…phhhh.
We need to recreate that first year feeling or recreate a local buzz. We can’t have the team circling wagons and their hardcore fans booing. A bit of PR couldn’t hurt. A statement signing on a poster pasted in the city.
It’s got to be good to overcome local issues with cash flow. Perhaps the central government is waiting for the bank of Rob to revitalise Welly. Who knows? You could move the team to Christchurch. That’d be one thing not tried in 18 years.
But it feels like an uptick for the league is on the way, perhaps Mata inspired. New broadcast deal. Good football being played. I’m always optimistic.
I’ve bitched a lot about the VAR this season and how they seemed to operate outside their remit to re-referee situations. And then they re-refereed a situation in our favor and the onfield ref decided to disagree, instead of being a push over. That doesn’t help.
Long story short, we want to win the league every year. If we’re not, we’ve got to enjoy what we can, otherwise it’s not much fun turning up.
I think the most frustrating thing is that it doesn’t feel far away. We beat Adelaide. We expected to get points off the Jets. We won in Melbourne…once, but it has to start somewhere. And yet not even a first round knockout this time.
You’ve diagnosed a problem. Give us your prescription.