Good question. Let's have a look at the 'recycled' options.


Kosmina - Can produce results, can't seem to sustain them without some sort of drama. Do not want
Aloisi - lol. Do not want
Rado Vidošić - Seems tactically astute by all reports but players didn't seem to take to him very well. Edwards-like? Not ideal
Miron Bleiberg - Excellent press conferences, football seems attacking enough, but seems a bit unstable. Not ideal

Local Options
Jamie Harnwell - Club legend, Women's/Sorrento coach, but still too green for my liking. Do not want
Chris Coyne - Seems a hard task master, done well with Baysie, but has a great squad there. Unsure of overall A-League quality. Not ideal
Graham Normanton - Local who has had success with cashed up teams. No indication of A-League quality. Previously Glory 'scout'. Do not want

Overseas
...to me seems to be the only option? Someone new, from outside the gene pool, different ideas, and ideally not another lump-it-and-chase Briton. Racial profiling I know, but I don't want that stereotype at Perth yet again.

Miron Bleiberg - Excellent press conferences, football seems attacking enough, but seems a bit unstable. Not ideal

Good question. Let's have a look at the 'recycled' options.


Kosmina - Can produce results, can't seem to sustain them without some sort of drama. Do not want
Aloisi - lol. Do not want
Rado Vidošić - Seems tactically astute by all reports but players didn't seem to take to him very well. Edwards-like? Not ideal
Miron Bleiberg - Excellent press conferences, football seems attacking enough, but seems a bit unstable. Not ideal

Local Options
Jamie Harnwell - Club legend, Women's/Sorrento coach, but still too green for my liking. Do not want
Chris Coyne - Seems a hard task master, done well with Baysie, but has a great squad there. Unsure of overall A-League quality. Not ideal
Graham Normanton - Local who has had success with cashed up teams. No indication of A-League quality. Previously Glory 'scout'. Do not want

Overseas
...to me seems to be the only option? Someone new, from outside the gene pool, different ideas, and ideally not another lump-it-and-chase Briton. Racial profiling I know, but I don't want that stereotype at Perth yet again.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/soccer/a/22218967/glory-closer-to-naming-new-coach/

There are several overseas coaches under consideration apparently.
Also I would add Ante Milicic and Rudan to the Australian list.
It would be interesting if Perth fans asked management what style of Football they want the coach to implement.Attacking,possession based,etc.

Miron Bleiberg has got to be the best of the re-cycled options. And in his defence, anyone would look a bit unstable if they had to deal with Clive Palmer on a daily basis. Currently at Oakleigh Cannons in Victoria since middle of last year. No idea how he has been going there.

Good question. Let's have a look at the 'recycled' options.


Kosmina - Can produce results, can't seem to sustain them without some sort of drama. Do not want
Aloisi - lol. Do not want
Rado Vidošić - Seems tactically astute by all reports but players didn't seem to take to him very well. Edwards-like? Not ideal
Miron Bleiberg - Excellent press conferences, football seems attacking enough, but seems a bit unstable. Not ideal

Local Options
Jamie Harnwell - Club legend, Women's/Sorrento coach, but still too green for my liking. Do not want
Chris Coyne - Seems a hard task master, done well with Baysie, but has a great squad there. Unsure of overall A-League quality. Not ideal
Graham Normanton - Local who has had success with cashed up teams. No indication of A-League quality. Previously Glory 'scout'. Do not want

Overseas
...to me seems to be the only option? Someone new, from outside the gene pool, different ideas, and ideally not another lump-it-and-chase Briton. Racial profiling I know, but I don't want that stereotype at Perth yet again.

Also, there were two replies to your post, not one. The substance of your claims is fading fast.

I wasn't going to respond to you as it seems to be an increasingly pointless exercise, but its lunch time and I have nothing better to do.

1. When did I say " ... it's ok to support the board and owner who are ruining the club"?
2. When did I ever express a view that could be said to support "If Lowe is appointed for next season (with Burns at the club as coach) that is the 4th time an assistant will be coach of Glory, the fifth time Sage has gone with a cheap option. If you think there's something to look forward too, again that's your view"?
3. Please tell me where I put any words in your mouth or claimed that you hold views that you don't have?

If you are as "insulted or disgusted by what is happening at Glory off the pitch" as you claim to be, why don't you either do something about it or walk away? Doing something about it however doesn't include merely spouting off to the small number of people who read this forum. It would mean actually engaging with people at the club and more broadly, making your views known and explaining them. You might dismiss the Fan Forum as a "Members Only Press Conference" but you weren't there, so ...

This bit is a bit self indulgent but anyway. My wife is a basketball person, played State basketball, lot of friends in the local basketball community. As a result, I became a fan as well. Watched every game, season ticket holders at the Wildcats etc.

After the 2002/03 season when the Wildcats made the Grand Final but lost, Alan Black was suprisingly sacked as coach. My wife was friends with and played in the same team as Alan's wife and as result, we knew what (in fact, who) was behind the sacking and why. I made the decision then that I would no longer support the Wildcats while the two individuals concerned had anything to do with the club and I haven't. Not even watched a game on TV. We still follow basketball eg we go to WNBL games, Boomers when they are here and went to an NBA game in the States but refuse to have anything to do with the Wildcats. I would suggest that option is open to you.

You made a comment in an earlier post about the enthusiasm and energy of Ryan Edwards v WSW. I agree he showed a lot but he also had a successful pass % of only 62% (21/34) and successfully took on a player only 4 out of 14 attempts. So he turned over possession 23 times. He did recover the ball 8 times though (one of them out on the left as you pointed out) but that still leaves him 15 down. Doesn't compare favourably with most of his team mates (McLaren and Clisby had equally poor passing stats)

I think Ryan Edwards is a good player who has been badly treated. You don't come through one of the best academies in England and play for the Socceroos if you are crap. I don't think he is good enough at the moment that he was a seemingly automatic first choice #10 as he was under his Dad. The fact that against WSW he kept trying to take players on despite his lack of success, suggests he was trying too hard, which you probably would do if you had been left out of the side for as many weeks as he had. I hope he gets another run this week against Newcastle.

That people are tired of conversing with you?

This "story" (presumably press release) about appointing a new coach is, I fear, just preparing the groundwork for Lowe. Glory shove two senior players out there to make the blindingly obvious point that getting a permanent coach in asap is important and then have them back Lowe. Glory will go through their process and appoint him because "he knows the players" (a la Fergie) and we are away.

I HOPE I am wrong. I hope that Lowe is being kept in the mix to keep him doing his job for the next 2 weeks and as a means to justify having him as an interim coach at all. If Lowe is appointed, he is going to have a HUGE mountain to climb in terms of gaining many fans' confidence that he can achieve something - because implementing any proper structure will take some time. A new coach will be more likely to be given the benefit of the doubt in changing things up and copping bad results in the process.

@ Begbie. Why do we all have to run along and endorse your epiphany (if that is what it was). If you can't understand what the general mood is on here, then you have very little grasp of the english language.

For an announcement likely to be made in two weeks, just after Glory's last game, it has to be Lowe.

All other reasonable leagues would be in full swing. It would be bad form to make such an announcement at that time.

Not too sure an an announcement of a foreign coach would occur in two weeks but in two months after all seasons have finished.

Vidmar - seems to know what he's doing, Rudan comes with a good wrap, I guess they'd be the best of the bunch for the Aussie blokes? Especially as I don't think Milicic will drop the Aussie job.

Edited by f1dave: 28/3/2014 05:30:32 PM

Good ol' forum cliches. Reminds me of 2006. :lol:

You were the one who responded to Bov's claim of wanting a new club with sarcasm and indignation. If you can't handle people discussing your opinion and posts then what are you doing on a discussion forum? That is the whole point of them. To express opinion, which incidentally, I have done too.

Who says I haven't talked to Brewer (through face to face, phone, email, twitter etc), how can you? And why does it matter when I, or others, want to vent their frustrations or reveal their opinion - in an appropriate place for that, like a discussion forum on a football site?

Whilst I'm sure you got your kicks and thrills out of the selective grandstanding performance you like to call a 'fan forum', if there's any information from it that has not been revealed (I can't imagine what would be told that 50 people and a reporter would all hush hush about) then please elaborate for all us special people that did not attend. That includes not just those fans who aren't members but also the 4950+ fans that are and didn't attend. Otherwise, I'm not sure why you default to that statement, it doesn't actually mean anything.

Your anecdote is nice and all but I don't see the relevance of it, or if it does have some commonality, why it doesn't give you any empathetic insight into the feelings of others about the club.

I don't see how it is that hard to grasp that some people (This means specifically Bovs, myself, any who agree) would prefer a New Club in Perth as opposed to a Perth Glory that is STILL run the same by Sage.

And given what the current crop of players are doing I'm not going to form a negative opinion on a player for 'trying too hard'. That is the least of the worries on the pitch.

I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour? ;)


@bovs - Ugh.

I guess some people come on here for a conversation, while others come looking for an argument.

I think it can't be understated how big a factor the "external recruitment consultants" or whatever they call themselves are.

To be doing something like that, they really need to be going to Perth Glory with something bankable. "Gave a good presentation in an interview" or "Seemed to really have some good ideas about how to play the game" aren't bankable.

"Highly marketable due to prior national team playing experience" or "Proven at A-League level having coached XYZ with a ABC win percentage" are bankable. Therefore I think we are highly likely to end up with a coach that ticks certain boxes, rather than anything at all exotic.

I guess some people come on here for a conversation, while others come looking for an argument.

He's a great player. He would be a marquee though wouldn't he? Not just injuries, but he's proved that he's had difficulty settling within some teams. Given that we have Marinkovic and probably DDS next season, I would like us to focus on getting in the following quality players:

1) Central midfielder
2) Probably a striker (to replace Smeltz/Makeche/Sernas)
3) Wide central mid/winger
4) Centre back