The last few weeks has seen this section return to what the original purpose of this section was conceived for - constructive discussion about football performance. Trolling, baiting, insults, etc, have disappeared. Someone has been given an 'enforced holiday' for two weeks.

I've run this idea past a couple of other 442 members and one involved with the running of the forum. Occasionally a few Australian players have taken part in a discussion with 442 members. Ljubo Milicevic and Dylan McAllister are two names who spring to mind.

What I propose is that some professional coaches appear regularly in Performance section to answer 442 members' questions who post here about football performance. Amongst other 442 members, 442 mods, people I know off forum and myself, we know, or have been coached by, a number of well-known coaches in the Australian/international football community.

Raul Blanco, Les Scheinflug, Steve Heighway, Miron Bleiberg, Rale Rasic, Ian Ferguson, Ron Smith, Arthur Papas and Steve Darby come to mind.

One suggestion has been that one of the 442 journalists, such as Aidan Ormond, interview one of the aforementioned coaches. Then put a question and answer session in Performance at a specific time for about an hour or two.

There have been concerns about trashing, derailing of topics and insults directed to coaches. A permanent ban from 442 is a possibility. There may be a mechanism to permanently exclude any aberrant member from the Performance section of the forum.

For this to go ahead it might be useful to work out a number of generic questions we can all use for different coaches, if one is stuck for specific questions for the particular coach.


If there is little active response to this idea, then this thread will be the last time the topic is raised. It will reflect poorly on the forum and be a waste of the coach's time if only one or two members of the forum take part in a discussion with a particular coach.

For this concept to proceed I want to hear that at least ten 442 members state they will actively participate in discussion with the aforementioned coaches and others. If you think is is a bad idea please state it and why.

I will start to post some generic questions after this post. Please feel free to add others and constructively comment on some of other generic questions.

Also, register your response to the concept.

Thanks.
















Edited by Decentric: 12/2/2012 11:38:07 PM