@ sub007

Good point. But a straight swop with Aloisi going to Fox and Miller to Roar ... both sides of that equation would improve.

Harry?

Can't disagree. 

Just watched JAs post match press conference. I wished I hadn’t (but man he’s good in front of the camera)

yeah on TV he does .....do did JA

Whatd he say? Any good excuses? 😂

@ BrissyRoo

We’re still in the title race apparently

That's audacious

it's also delusional

It's getting to the magical round 10 where a bad start becomes the trend of season. Given the Gap starting to appear it's not good. I don't think scraping into the 6 is any way respectable. 

After next week,MV will be on 18 and we will still be on 6.
If PG win they will be on 20.
How can we possibly be in the title race,when we cant win games and concede at least 2 goals in every away game?
Next up after MV...
WP , SFC and NJ away.That's zero wins.
PG and MV will be lapping us a second time by then.

@ crimsoncrusoe

Nah, it was just a classic Aloisi press call - he was almost daring the journos to challenge him on stuff, but they didn’t.

Surely the Bakries can fire him based on not being mentally fit for the job after the comment :laugh:

@ WSF

lol

This though is one of the main problems with the club. The coach reports to the Chairman who lives in Jakarta and visits 2-3 times per year.

In between the club is left to roam “free range” so to speak hence how the various financial crisis occurred. Pourre has sorted the administration out, but JA is not his concern - right now I doubt the Chairman knows or cares what today’s result was.

There was so much hope this year......like we might be a top 3 team.......and no......just a bottom 3 team and here we are.

I'm boycotting games.....can't stand to see the Aloisi s on the sidelines any longer, was looking forward to taking my little grandson this year to his first games........but why would I bother.

JA and co are done as far as I'm concerned. The team has gone down hill since JA stepped into the role. Credit has to be given to him for the circumstances he operated in at the start of his tenure but that will only get you so far.

The squad looks decent enough but JA just cannot manage a side well enough tactically. Putting Henrique up front for 90mins has never worked. Why would it have all of a sudden work yesterday? 

This looks like it is going to get a lot uglier before it gets better. I really like JA, but he appears to be heading for the door.  JA looks like a great "coach" of players and fairly good at recruitment, as a manager though, he seems to be all at sea and is relying on an assistant who is clearly out of his depth.  

Scott Miller is definitely not the answer (unless mediocrity is the question).  He took Newcastle to the lofty heights of 8th and is currently signed on as Langwarrin's manager (Vic NPL2). 

As always, JA showed a total lack of awareness on how to change the game once we were 1-0 down.  We're playing the 7th placed team in the league and have two strikers on the bench, yet we couldn't create a single decent shot on target all second half. At no stage was Merrick forced go on the defence.
You know you are in trouble when even Archie Thompson is pointing out that McKay is unlikely to create or score you a goal, so not much point continuing with him at number 10 when you are a goal down.

Scott Miller is not someone i would like to see at our club. unfortunately there doesn't seem to be anyone floating around in Australia that i would like to see at the helm. 

the only one that sort of pops into the head is Harry Kewell but i doubt he would want to move back to australia. he seemed to do good things at Crawley and really shouldn't have left.

Yeah, you guys really lack creativity in the middle of the park which is a killer considering 2 of your better players (Taggart and Mauk) are predominantly off ball attackers. 

Teams understand right now is that if you shut down Bauthec, Roar are unlikely to create much. 

A creative left sided player has come in January for you guys to have a real crack. 

JA is incapable of coaching a team to attack and defend at the same time.It's one or the other.So his game plan is a lottery.
Go on the attack and hope the defence can handle the fast counterattack or go defensive and hope somehow to score from a lucky moment ,when a ball is hoofed long with the opposition defence pressed high up the field.
If the opposition defence is deep.Then lob it in anyway.?

When he took over the team he relied on a lot of good players ,who knew what to do.He was able to tinker and not do too much damage.But the slide was on in style and tactics.
Some bad scorelines were dismissed as anomolies and the players managed to get us to third.(Thanks to TB and Macca)

Last year the wheels fell off,with a totally disastrous disabled recruitment campaign and delusional coaching.
This year he has removed two of the deckchairs from last year (Big Mac and FBK)and replaced them with a slightly faster ,but only slightly more effective striker and another Dane ,who appears no better than BKF.

Then we have two new midfielders,one who can run around a lot and another who is pretty similar to TK.But neither can turn and run to defend or create in the front third and neither can score.

Our best player,Bautheac,gets an A for effort,but never looks like scoring.

The defence ,structure and tactics are recycled failures from previous years.
Throw in a few injuries and its all too much for JA.
There's no real plan,except lob it into the box.......Yes, eventhough you have put Henrique on as striker and the other substitute striker is one inch taller....FMD?

Unfortunately/fortunately (whichever way you look at it) it does look as though JA's time may be coming to an end.

He's good with the media and is clearly well liked.

However tactically we're just not good enough. I never have faith that we can win any match anymore.

Yesterday it was painfully obvious there was no tactical flexibility.

Constant high crossing into Henrique who will never ever win a header against the tall Jets CBs. If Taggart was upfront, sure, it may have worked, but Ricky? No.

Do we not have another game plan which allows us to move the ball around quickly in the front third and open space up, utilizing Ricky?

JA's subs are never game changing. Any coach who is smarter tactically will always have the upper hand on us. I can never see a distinct tactical change within any game, ever.

With this squad we should be top 4-5. Instead we're towards the bottom, exactly where we deserve to be.

Agree, all very valid points.
The only view I would slightly change is Mikkelsen being no better than BKF.  My view is that I would much rather have BKF if the choice was between the two of them, even though I thought he was generally quite poor last season.  Mikkelsen is still my choice for the worst import of the season (and he is leading by a long way at the moment).  He only seems to get a handful of touches per game, most of which are poor to average, and he is completely anonymous for the rest of the time.

and yet only one player in the competition has created more goal scoring opportunities than Mikkelsen. It’s not his fault they’re not getting converted.

FWIW, Opta doesn't even have him in the top 10.

If that is correct I am truly amazed.

It was correct before the weekend anyway.

But while defending him on that point it’s fair to say he’s not bring as effective as an import should be. Against victory if Taggs starts then I’d start DWH over Mikkelsen and bring him on for the last half hour.

But his failings point again at JA. Mikkelsen clearly hasn’t got a good left foot so why persist on playing him out on the left? I know he can cut in and shoot with his right but that’s only happening twice a game because defenders are aware of it.

even more so that Eric is a natural left footer so why are they playing that way? Its because he wants hingert and otoole to overlap and play outside the wingers but that is neutralising the attacking threat of eric and tobi and exposing the defensive frailties of otoole and hingert as they are expected to bomb forward and play in front of the wingers.

 I really dont like inverted wingers, Unless you have a truly gifted player i just dont think it works out very often. statistically we are not a million miles away from the top 4 (goal difference, goals against, possession, passes, passing accuracy, passing accuracy in opp half, shots, shots on target and more) all suggest we should be slightly higher than where we are right now on the table and that we are not too far off some of the much higher teams (top 2 are probably out of reach looking at the stats). So there seems to be some merit to JA's insistence that we have been unlucky. 

One can be unlucky in one or two situations, but consistently unlucky suggests that there is a flaw in the design phase, ergo, the coaching.

I would say we have been unlucky Taggart has missed sitters and lucky .Lucky WSW didnt finish us off.MC left out Fornaroli ,some opponents cant hit an open net and Young is a good keeper.Things could be a lot worse.
But we are the worst team for first half performances and are close to the best for second half performances.Which shows we arent a 90mins team.
Last year CCM under Okon had third best statistics for possession...All meaningless.The main statistic is goals scored and golas conceded.That's why we are ninth with MV,WP,SFC amd NJ to come.