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Heart have erred in letting Foxe trot
Honesty. Loyalty. Perspective. Understanding. Intelligence. Intuition.
All qualities Hayden Foxe has in abundance. Funnily enough, they're same qualities Melbourne Heart need to develop in order to create the type of culture the club has been lacking. The pity is Foxe and the Heart have now parted ways, but then that's a measure of the man. John Aloisi was sacked. Foxe wasn't, but he still chose to go with him. In a country where full-time coaching jobs are in desperately short supply, Foxe walked away from his role as assistant because of his principles. The way he saw it, Melbourne Heart's woeful results were a shared responsibility, as he and Aloisi were fundamentally on the same page. It may be time-honoured practice in most major football countries that the no.2 follows the no.1 out the door, but the fact is we don't see it very often in the Hyundai A-League.
Nonetheless, the unheralded departure of Foxe goes down as another missed opportunity for a team which might be about to join New Zealand Knights as statistically the worst in A-League history. At times likes these, the team could do with the sort of honest virtues embodied by Foxe. And as we all know, the club itself is also in need of an identity.
Pressed on Fox Sports last weekend what exactly the Heart 'stood for', former player Josip Skoko drew a deep breath before eventually replying: 'Umm, I've got to say it's sort of a family club.'' Not exactly a convincing endorsement from someone employed as a Heart ambassador.
Depending on your interpretation, a 'family' club could be construed as a weakness as much as a strength. Certainly there's a legitimate view that the Heart's biggest problem over their short journey is that they've been way too nice.
In a result-orientated business, accountability - both in the dressing room and the front office - seems to have been in short supply. Foxe, like Ante Milicic before him, possesses the sort of strong-willed personality which might have given the team, and the club, what it's been missing. A hard-nosed approach. Now we'll never know.
It's no co-incidence both Foxe and Milicic have been heavily influenced by Tony Popovic, arguably the meanest hombre we've got in the coaching ranks. And when you look what Western Sydney Wanderers have achieved in half the time, it's hard not to wonder what might have been for the Heart if their decision-makers had chosen the boot room as the best place to build the culture of the club.
As it is, we're about to find out if a change of ownership brings a change of direction. The word is the new owners will be publicly unveiled the day after the home game against Newcastle Jets, and it will interesting to see what message they will take to the world.
Living in the shadow of Melbourne Victory - especially without a defined geographical base - isn't easy, but if the Heart truly aspire to become a successful club in their own right, then they have to change their tune. Being a 'development' club - which was their original charter - won't cut it in a market dominated by the AFL and, in football terms, saturated by the Victory.
No, what Melbourne Heart need to do is convince those fans they have, and those they wish to embrace, that they're a serious club with serious ambitions. The only way to do that is to get the right people involved. Losing the likes of Milicic, and Foxe, doesn't help.
Shame he doesn't mention in his list of 'achievements' how Foxe had only coached at U13 level before? Joke of an appointment and found out in the end
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One of the biggest problems we have with football in this country is this mates club mentality. Foster, Slater etc they all give me the shits. They stick up for their mates and carry on like they are football gods really pisses me off. Football experts my arse.
Feel better now that's off my chest.
What a joke of an article and highlights the mates club that exists in Australian football, lets all roll over for these bums as we all know nothing unless we have been a socceroo!!!
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Craig Foster is just another mate of the clique in our game fuelled by SBS and his cronies, Aloisi being one of them.
- Based on this article is this consistent with why he publicly tried to humiliate Ange Posti when in charge of U20's, wasn't he a young australian coach at the time?
- Similarly do you notice how he rarely mentions Mike Mulvey and the great work he is doing, is this because he wasn't a Socceroo?
We the Australian football public deserve better than hearing the constant tripe and agenda driven media that keeps coming out from these idiots!
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JA has his mates now in the media coming up with stories about how needs to make sure he has the time to build his own team! All to protect him and deflect the blame from him.
Propaganda at its its best!!
I vividly recall him claiming in the pre-seaon how he was responsible for every signing and the release of many players, add to this the culling of very capable staff as well, to now be at a point where he boasts the highest number of back room staff of any A-League club!
DUD!
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Edwards is a mug, like we need a coach who signs his own sons and can't manage a group of senior players?
What had he actually coached at senior level before this job? Just another job for the boys situation!!
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Carbonara!
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This club has become an absolute joke. Look at this rubbish we are coughing up on the field!
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This banana who had the most expensive budget in the VPL at Oakleigh Cannons in relegation position last season will be Melbourne Heart coach by Tuesday!
Met with Scott Munn this week
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This kind of coaching is based on fear, I have never seen a team of Ange's go to an opponent ground and just be happy to sit off from the first minute!
What is our clubs philosophy? There is no youth on the field, there is no possession game.
We are really a joke no matter what the result ends up
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If we defend any deeper we will be sitting in the Cove!!!!!!!
Anti-football = Melbourne Heart
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Great another game of counter attack football. We have become the most anti-football side in the league. When we began the club was all about providing Melbourne a team who is pro-active and looks to control the game with a slick passing style. This was the opposite to the dark side who had become renowned for their channel ball approach.
Oh how the landscape has changed and it is all based on the coach and nothing else!!
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Is it true Tom Reddin has walked out on the club?
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Knowing our incompetent board they might just promote Foxe, then say its part of their long term succession plan and at the same time tie up a sponsorship with Pizza Hut!!
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Arthur Papas come home. Our very own Jose Mourinho in the making
When exactly did he leave Heart? Feedback I recall at the time from NYL players was once he left both the results and development went to shite!!
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should go simply because he is a midget, surely he is the one who signed Misfud only so he could look down on him?
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Rudan is a one year State League Coach, of course when he can pump his own tyres in the media it helps but he is another JA in the making!
Milicic is a standout once again, well done JD on this stuff up! This guy was the only option when JVS left and look at WSW today and know he is a major part of this!
Pappas is a coach who has survived longer in a very tough Asian country than any other Aussie coach has plus has done what Rudan did already and more, including a very thorough education, aus youth teams, AIS and A-League experience!
Miron & Kosmina last two jobs in local leagues almost yielded relegations for each respective clubs! If we go that way close the doors today!
This club is dead to me with all its political decisions!
Vidmar = 0-0 boring!!
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Not to mention Oakleigh have been pathetic in the VPL this season!
We are in deep trouble.
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Aloisi has taken over the fitness aspect this pre-season saying last year that was the reason we struggled, looks like he is doing a great job!
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Basically admitting JA is a lemon with all this talk of extra support staff, mentors etc around him.
Don't see any other A-League team doing this to cover up their Head Coach's inadequacies!
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Club has appointed someone to oversee the JA show and has given him 6 games to get it right.
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This article on the A-League website focuses on Arthur Papas and his effect at Oakleigh.
I thought it had enough about Melbourne Heart players and in it, not to mention a former NYL coach, to be topical and generate discussion.
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/oakleigh-a-fertile-breeding-ground/66454
Topic is not accurate, this club does not develop players but has a fine record for identifying players.
As for Pappas, bring him back ASAP, guy is a genius!
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Way too short for a position of such responsibility.
Would be more suited to sitting in the front of a garden around Xmas time!
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We should have looked at top VPL coaches like Ian Dobson, Stuart Munro or Chris Taylor, all have won numerous coach of the year awards and yet we give the job to a guy who struggled in the NYL.
Then all of a sudden give him the job and put a guy who hasn't ever even coached an U10's match as his assistant!
Debacle!
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Start planning for 2016-17 now
in Melbourne City
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What about we bring Aloisi out of retirement? Surely still got something to offer as a player still