Aside from snide one-liners and sniping from the sidelines I've never seen Mr Free contribute a single idea or put forward any proposition on how anything can be done better so I'm not sure why you bother posing any question to him.

If you want someone to bag the shit out of anything by anybody then he's your go to man.

Couldn't offer a positive or constructive opinion if his life depended on it.

Bitter and twisted would only half cover it.

Or he just says things youse do not like to hear.

yes you could be right.

no on second thoughts

he is a dick.

Maybe your both as closed minded as each other?

Meh. Problem always happens at every workplace; someone has an unhealthy obsession The Old Way and hates The New Way, while someone else is a zealot of The New Way and constantly preaches to the heathens who still follow The Old Way, possibly due a perceived mental handicap, the poor dears. Meanwhile, everyone else just gets the fuck on with the job at hand.

Maybe, maybe not. Like anyone you're entitled to criticise but mindless automatic naysaying is boring as batshit and adds nothing to the conversation. If the bloke is so smart then lets hear some ideas from him that we can judge on their merits.

So far from what I can glean from the limited information in his posts is that he thinks foreign (especially the Dutch) coaches have come here to steal all the FFA's money. Really that's about it.

He's the Pauline Hanson of the 442 forums. All complaints and whinges, no solutions.

Isn't he just a common troll? Apart from that though, who is he? He sounds like someone who would tell his team at half time they weren't showing enough 'bottle' or they weren't 'getting stuck in' hahaha ... no but seriously, who is he? who's he coached?

I think it is difficult to answer the question unless you saw Tim as a young player. Two things are certain though the old system didnt identify his potential and the new system would have worked consistantly on the technical areas you suggest are lacking.

Tim Cahill with great touch , long and short passing of both feet, some real deception and the ability to run at players added to his current strengths could be the 1st true world class Australian player.

The major problem for the National Cirriculum is educating the coaches to understand the pupose behind the practice, not just the disenfranchised but those who are activly involved.

Some truth in that.

And I will admit that I've never sought advice from the mail room lackey for board level matters.

Still, I'm mildly amused why you old ladies are discussing this over the FFT paling fence?

Edited by judy free: 25/1/2012 12:41:47 PM

There is a chasm between what we had in Australia before and now European based methodology.

The way FFA implement it as it goes down through the ranks maybe a problem though. It seems too prescriptive and some stakeholders are using it as an exercise to wield power. This may be the way Frank Lowy operates Westfields.



Edited by Decentric: 26/1/2012 06:55:05 AM