Former EPL Centre back, Spencer Prior, has just been appointed TD by Football Fed Tas.

He has the current FFA A Licence and is currently undertaking the FFA Pro Licence.

He takes up the appointment in October.

Edited by Decentric: 10/8/2013 04:53:42 PM

not a good chose IMO

Interesting, Krones.

Despite being a product of English football, he must have pursued a lot of coach education in Australia, advocating different coaching methodology.

One of the underage Socceroo assistant coaches is a product of the English system , as is Darren Davies, the Victory youth coach. They both advocate the FFA NC and technical football.

they will always say what ppl want to hear. do you think our friend tells ppl what he says on this forum?

Give the bloke some credit for moving here and trying to start a new life and help our game, he could have stayed in the UK and helped them, his name was known enough for that.

If he’s suitably qualified, interviewed well and met the selection criteria for FFT, then give him a go.

Not many on here would like it if they went to the UK and were knocked back on a job ‘because they are Australian’.

Obviously his stint with Manly United in the NSW Premier League assisted with his transition to the role of a state Technical Director. Also what is plainly obviously that the lack of any significant results with Manly United stood him in excellent stead to slide into such a position. But as the new creed within Australian Football dictates, it's not what results you acheive but whether you go with the consensus & participate according to the specific obviously successful nationwide directives being spouted from the Ministry Of Truth.

Bitters, Eurosnobs and archetypal Anarchy cynics, like yourself, just don't get it do you?

Arthur has posted a very good article, comprehensively researched on the significant aspect of chance in football results. I think something like 40% of a game is attributable to chance events.

One player from Chelsea missed a penalty by a few centimetres in a UEFA final. Avram Grant was summarily sacked. If the penalty had been converted he would have kept his job. Does that mean he is a poor coach because that player missed the penalty?

There was another Chelsea coach recently, De Matteo. He coached Chelsea to European Cup success, yet was sacked a few months later for mediocre results in the EPL after a few games.

Once Joel Griffiths should have been awarded a penalty for the Jets in Theodorokopulous's last game in charge. Instead, I think Griffiths was sent off. If the decision had been different, the probability would have been that Jets would have converted the penalty, won the game and Nick T. would have been given another chance. Instead he was sacked.

Spencer Prior having a mediocre a results based coach at Manly at that point in time, with a squad of nebulous quality compared to the quality of other teams in the NSWPL, does not mean he is a poor choice for a Tassie TD. A big part of this job is administrative and having the communication skills to mentor other coaches, coach players of both genders and a range of ages.

Nearly all results based coaches in history have probably been sacked, or failed to achieve an objective, or live up to expectations in results based football, at some stage of their careers. This includes Hiddink, Van Gaal, Clough and Taylor, Benitez, Beenhakker, and possibly Wenger, plus innumerable others.

Conversely, Ali Edwards has met with unmitigated success as a results based coach, in the short term. He implemented the methodology of the FFA NC, which extrapolated to immediate, ephemeral success with PG.

Spot on, if by results you mean the score, its about how much you much football you have actually taught the players.