Football Queensland is pleased to announce the appointment of Gary Phillips as State Technical Director effective Monday 24th September.

What do people know about Gary Phillips?

I've seen him on TV a bit, but know little about his coaching background, or football philosophy.

i remember his early tv appearances

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Played for Sydney Olympic during the NSL era. Currently holds an A licence but not sure about his footballing philosophy, although I would dare to say that he will more than likely uphold the FFA's national curriculum criteria.

Im assuming de roo got snapped up by barca?

ffa

Another snout in the trough.

Edited by judy free: 23/9/2012 07:41:03 PM

You have just shot an innocent bystander with your scatter gun approach. Take dead aim.

Gary Phillips had a stint with the Matildas or coaching staff for a while, didn't he? Or was that coaching a team in the W-League?

I remember he was head coach of Sydney Olympic for a season or two in the latter NSL era - he may've even been the coach in charge who took them to a semi-final or even GF against Glory, if memory serves correct? He was amongst a number of younger, newer to the job coaches about the NSL back then - this was the early 00s.

He's actually one of the few coaches from that latter era not to get a gig in the A-League, he and former Socceroo Mike Petersen, who was coach of South Melbourne a short while to some success in the late 90s. There's probably another unlucky coach or two from that latter NSL era to not get an A-League gig, aswell.

Guys like De Marigny, Ange, Nick Theo', Dave Mitchell, Lawrie McKinna, Branko Culina, Frank Farina, Stu Monro (Assist at Glory now), Ian Ferguson (Senior player then young coach assist at Northern Spirit back in the day, iirc), John Kosmina and perhaps 1-2 others are all who coached in the latter era of the NSL and made the transition, got jobs, in the A-League.

Nick Theo' had alot of success in the latter NSL era, with Wollongong Wolves back in the day when Chippers, Paul Reid, Sasho Petrovski and others were there and with Parra Power and Syd Olympic, if memory serves correct. But perhaps he had most unlucky spell in the A-League - only one brief shot with Newcastle Jets, which didn't last due partly due to falling out with playing staff. Nick Theo' was regarded as one of our most promising/prominent coaches in that latter NSL era and like Ange went to coach in Greece's league short while. While guys like Bleiberg, Culina and Kossie get multiple A-League gigs, Theo only got the one - have no idea why - maybe like some others from the NSL-era he just turned to other things?

But anyway, as to style - I can't remember much and was a newer fan to the game back then. But Phillips seemed to be regarded amongst the batch of promising young coaches coming up then. Sydney Olympic were an attacking team back then and always challenging Glory, Wollongong and South Melb for the NSL title - one season or two they were league leaders and had the likes of Ante Milicic leading the league in scoring - he scored a goal or two against Glory in that GF too. Looking at Phillips' Wiki now, he's now 49 and spent a season coaching in Malaysia's league just a year or so ago. Nothing in his wiki about coaching in the W-League or with Matildas - I may've got confused there or his wiki lacks detail - there's a gap in detail between his NSL gig and Malaysia, I doubt he was sitting on his hands doing nothing those 6 years, lol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Phillips_%28Australian_footballer%29

To cut answer short - Spathi is probably right. :p

Edited by gloryperth: 26/9/2012 08:31:07 AM

I'm sure he'll recover soon enough to pick up his pay cheque.

His 1st year they won the final in Perth. The next year they were 1st and he got sacked out of no-where. Then he went to coach in Tonga or some other Pacific Island.

What I can remember about the style of how they played from sitting on the sideline as an 11 year old is that they had very solid defence with advanced fullbacks Andy Packer and Lydnsay Wilson. The team was described as the league's entertainers but struggled to score until Nick Carle was sold and the money used to buy Milicic.

Not sure what it says about his coaching ability but he had a brilliant squad most of whom were stars in the early years of the A-league, some still are, and one is a still a socceroo to many's disgust.

Good bloke, knows his stuff. Good appointment.

Who is he related to at football Queensland to get a gig

Tell him to get his finger out so that APL junior trials can start this side of xmas.