Judy Free wrote:dirkvanadidas wrote:Will the cost of coach education be part of the football review and when will be there an exit strategy for giving control back to local coaches.
I recall there was once an exit strategy (giving control back to local coaches) however Ham Bergler has had a fairly recent change of heart. He intends staying until the money runs dry.
Can't blame him I spose. Where else is he likely to earn $650k pa for doing bugger all and accountable to people with zero football knowledge?
To provide a counter perspective to your cynicism, Chips, the alternative is that we should have continued the former Soccer Australia coaching paradigm. You must believe this. You have consistently proffered this over the years on the internet. Yet you have provided no plausible, antithetical scenario to the Dutch hegemony in Australian football.
How else should we have changed the orientation of the direct, physical second ball football methodology, or ad hoc approach, which was the status quo imparted by the previous national coaching scenario?
Which curriculum should we have replaced it with?
Should we have continued as we were?
Who would be better TDs than Berger and Baan with the same money?
From what I understand with the American football milieu, they are still playing direct, overly physical, second ball football in college ranks. I find this abhorrent. To my knowledge they have had no overhaul.
At current FFA coaching seminars many of the old hands, with considerable experience (which you posit as being of paramount importance), claim that football in Australia is becoming ever more technical. If we had not had the Baan/Berger overhaul, this would not have occurred.
The amount of money paid to Boultnee and Buckley
is pertinent. You've raised a fair point. Conversely, there is now a more technical thrust in FFA development of coaches/players through the likes of Baan/Berger.
Again, the current cost of FFA courses is exorbitant. Fair point raised. Rob Baan addressed this in the KNVB course. He claimed in Holland that the KNVB derived considerable revenue from transfers from players like Sneijder, Robben, Van Persie, et al, to big clubs outside Holland.
I don't know what percentage of the transfer fees KNVB received, but Baan contends that Australian players are not yet earning the revenue for clubs/FFA in Australia that top Dutch players are.
Baan claimed it is the aim of FFA to produce players of this calibre to earn big transter fees, henceforth advantaging the local authority. This in turn, according to Baan, should lower the cost of FFA coaching courses. Consequently, according to Baan, it should make them more accessible and affordable in Australia.
In hindsight, the money I spent, $1400 ( I saved $900 because I stayed independently of the AIS accommodation), was the best money I've spent on anything.
Edited by Decentric: 2/5/2011 12:42:28 PM