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Coaching/managing requires thinking and evolution. For me he has never shown either of those qualities. Did he do well? Yes he did but as has been pointed out he inherited the team from Mombaerts. Just about anyone would have had the success that he did. In France he was found out. PK was better than Rado in that he was hard enough to push the players but Rado, intentionally or not, allowed the players to be more creative. With Vidmar is too early to tell and he has inherited a brand new team with players that are rapidly ageing at the back, and inconsistent from the middle onwards. What would PK bring to the club? Not much in my opinion.

It's criminal that Galloway hasn't been starting.

I admire your optimism...

We look shit. Jets look shit. On for a pearler of a game.

When you realise we're the feeder club to Mumbai 🤯

What a relief! He is gone, he is finally gone. Thank the Lord, he is gone. His choices, his thoughts and his vision were a complete disaster. His first year was bad, but at least only the police was involved for a few games or practices. To calm down the ultras. A few concrete examples: https://twitter.com/ultras1899_/status/1625080339843661825/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1625080339843661825&currentTweetUser=ultras1899_ When PK arrived in November 2022, the team was 13th out of 20 and 5th for the attack standing. We finished the year by being relegated and we were the 18th team in the attack standing. ___ The second year was an absolute nightmare. The biggest problem started when he declared he was happy with the situation. The public and sponsors put pressure by showing a definite disinterest in the team : boycott in the stadium, the games, boycott by being a sponsor. For the first time, we saw a funeral procession with PK and the team targeted. The team, the sponsor, the politics and the public had to consider seriously an other relegation and potentially a significant risk to lose the professional licence. PK denied that fact and we could see how disconnected he was from the reality. Journalists asked him if he knew the league’s rule, etc,… pictures mocking him were more and more popular online ______ Of course, by being a coach of a French team, owned by one of the richest group in the world, people asked him when he is going to consider speaking French (not fluently, French is a difficult language to learn), but nothing. In 1 year, not a single word in French. That did not help his cause. During a few games public asked him to resign but he said : « sorry I don’t understand ». This is when we started to see more and more people offended _______ in conclusion, a few statistics: - 40 games played in total, only 3 victories - 23 players injured during his mandate - 12 members of the staff left because of their lack of confidence with PK (especially the medical staff who complain because PK never respected the medical protocol) Please, you deserve better, don’t bring him back. I will never advise anybody to get Kisnorbo for a being their coach, even to my worst enemy.

Goal for Bos has been a regular starter

No way.

Ventforet Kofu's active support showing everyone how active support should be! They haven't stopped the whole game and are still going even though they are down a goal! Respect where Respect is due! Well fuck..

Not sure I can see the logic of preferring Talbot to Galloway. I suspect I'm not alone in this view.

Perths team is like the a league all stars of journey men

I don't think we've ever done really well in the GK Stakes except for Tommy Sorensen's first season - 2015/16 - when we were first with two matches to go and lost the last two to finish fourth, and then at the beginning of the 2016/17 when we won the FFA Cup and then faded in the second half of the season and Bouzanis was preferred over Sorensen. IMO he was the best GK we've ever had. The rest have been rather mediocre, and we've let so many promising youth GKs leave too.

Jamie Young is a fucking spud and needs to be sat.

Just needed more time.

Impotent... and ejaculatory failure. We can't get the supporters to come.

This team lacks speed, lacks creativity and has little if any leadership on field. On top of that Natel is uninterested. First up return Natel ASAP. Don't care if we bring a kid from the NPL. Even if the kid is crap, at least he is our own homegrown crap and I know he will give a damn. Secondly, take the captaincy off JMac. Give it to Arslan or Behich. Third, JMac to stop taking penalties. Against Bangladesh he said that he was not confident taking the penalty and gave it to Luongo. If he is not confident taking penalties give it to Arslan or Jakolis. Fourth, someone has to explain why Talbot is preferred ahead of Galloway. The only thing I can think of is that Talbot is considered a project. Personally, I think that he will be an A-League journeyman. Start Galloway and play him for 70 minutes then sub with Talbot. Fifth, the club has to accept that it has an ageing squad specially at the back. Reis contract should not be renewed. Good to be given a one year option as he has also considerably slowed down. Hall will either be given an opportunity to play or just be released. We should also note that JMac is not as fast as last season and his confidence is down. We should also note that if Nabbout and Leckie return, then they are also going to be slower. With Nabbout is more likely to commit fouls.

It will be great for his confidence, he did really well tbh, same as Behich. How great was it to see Metcalf, O'Neil and the Boss as well?

I think one of our main problems is that we have too many players who are ok but nothing more. Young, Reis, Souprayen, Talbot, Sakhi, Ugarkovic, Natel, Lopane, Antonis, Jakolis are all at a capable aleague level but they lack the killer punch or star quality that you need from your best players in this league. To get anything out of this season we are going to rely so heavily on Arslan and Leckie to create and Maclaren to score, while it will work in some games it's not sustainable without getting regular better contributions from everyone else.

I find the Jakolis comments unwarranted. I didn't rate him at all the first couple of games I saw him either. But since then, of all our attacking players he has been one of the most effective. Natel, Lopane and even Jamie for most of the games have been average majority of the time. He's been the one outlet that actually runs at defenders and has assisted many goals so far this season. Maybe it's some of his theatrics earlier on which make people not rate him.

How many times from a goalkick did we allow a Macarthur player to run straight down the middle of the pitch into their front half with no one near them? Recall at least 5 times, in a straight line. It was like we parted the red sea for them to come straight through.

Viddy has had two training sessions with the boys, it will take him much longer than that to assess where he wants the squad to be. I'd think bringing on the kids was to assess what he's got available which doesn't appear like much from that source. I think Petrillo has to take a lot of the blame for this year's squad. Feel we've gone away from the under 30 visa pick ups and bought in a lot older and slower guys. And lost some good youngsters from last year because they weren't getting game time which was fault of Rado

Agree 100% on the back passing. Why not try a long pass to a player further up field? At least the ball can be contested upfield. Back passing, as has been shown time and time again is lazy play, puts pressure on the backline and is highly risky.

Some Perth wombat has pulled the plug in disgust. They'd bought the ref and they still ended up behind.

How so? Players can commit fouls and not have a contract terminated. And as far as fouls are concerned, the Jet's player was able to continue playing. Young has been a decent A-League keeper. But the slow back four would have any GK under the pump. Should Beach be played? Let's start with Cameo appearances first maybe the last 10 minutes.

He still has enough credit in Australia to land another ALM gig

Take it as a momentum and confidence builder. Our last ACL game showed we are starting to look more like a team. Today again had a many signs of better cohesion. Can we continue to build on it and become stronger? Time will tell next game, but for now can't ask for much more from the team than what they did. Let's enjoy it I'd say.

Jakolis looks up for this. He may blow hot and cold, but today definitely warmer....

Who knows whether Hall is any good. He gets no game time, no matter how bad the back four are.

We are in complete control of our destiny, and are playing the weakest team in the group at home for our next fixture. If we don't qualify for the next round it would be a disaster. Kofu has to go and play Buririam at home which is no easy task. Everything is in our favour. .

Play Beach from now on. We signed him because he's good.

Spirit of Glover lives on!!!

Arslan should take penalties from now on.

Imo Caputo is much more suited to our style of play than JMac.

Perhaps there is a sense of complacency with Pertrillo, Poole, and within the club. We looked at our best in the 2020/2021 covid season when the league was at it weakest. It's been a little less for us every season when including finals whilst other teams needed a season or two to recover again. In the mean time other teams seem to have strengtened up by now. Perhaps if you are stuck in the past without acknowledging how and why you peaked in the first place, keep repeating the same blue print with attempting like for like players - then you end up wondering why things don't work, keep saying to yourself that our ''list is fine'' just like some of our fans. Looking at how other teams can recruit, find gems and bring in talented younger players - I'm not convinced Petrillo and Poole are anything special.

In a word, at the moment, the team is impotent

Very difficult to watch 11 geriatric look a likes running around the pitch

I cannot see anything that has prompted anyone to sign Natel. Lazy player.

Galloway correctly punished for playing positive football.

I am not so sure on that, to me the article is Petrillo saying that Natel is more than capable of filling Nabbout's shoes. Nabbout was injured on playing on the 6th, Brasil media reported a deal had been done in substance on the 11th (loan with option to buy) and Corinthians confirmed on the 12th the deal was wrapped up. Given the short time frame, that Andy woukd have had to have had scans first before confirming he was out for full season, comments from Petrillo in person and the structure of the deal (full year loan with option to buy), I am inclined to believe that the deal was being negotiated prior to Nabbout's injury.

Well I tried

Des Buckingham's been appointed as manager of Oxford Utd in League One. Currently running second. Could be promoted to the Championship next year. Apparently he is Oxford born and bred.

I just love the way we can watch the whole match...except the replays on which often the result depends!! More than anything IMO VAR is killing the game.

Jakolis isn't a visa player, in very early evidence and what we have seen I wouldn't be against keeping him. He is at least positive when he gets the ball, his decision making and final ball is very 50-50 but he doesn't take a visa spot and I doubt much cap room.

I reckon Galloway and Behich were best on ground for me today.

After the game he said he missed his last one and Antonis was confident, so he let him take it

He's missed a fair few penalties.

Gret to see us roll up our sleeves and fight it out until the end. Shouldn't have had to, but good to see us showing that fight again

Actually looked up a report by Yale University says depending on the sport women are up to 2 to 8 times more likely to suffer an ACL. They attribute it to a few things: different pelvic floor, less mass surrounding knee than men, and a more knee then men.

Surely the club won't be as stupid as they were this time around when it comes to signing a permanent coach as they did with Rado.. still can't believe they signed Rado on after what was it 7 games? Bloke inherited the best squad possible and then got absolutely outclassed at the end of the season when it counted..