well stop teasing us , and spill some bloody names


What do you think about the FourFourTwo article CEO Happy With Roo Applicants?
BEN Buckley has hailed the high calibre of potential replacements for Pim Verbeek with Football Federation Australia confident they will select the right candidate for the post.

Have your say.

Ben Buckley knows nothing about football. He is good in terms helping run the game and administration but he has close to no football knowledge.

you idiots there obviously arent that many.. hes trying to stir up interest

If knowone good enough comes along before Asian Cup i would be more then happy for Ricki herbert to take over until we can find some.

Davstar - who cares if Ben's knowledge of football is limited? Thats not his job, his job is to run the business that is the FFA and appoint head coaches and technical directors to worry about the actual game.

Edited by RJL25: 17/6/2010 12:53:30 PM

what about the Sydney coach......... he is the best in the a-league

He's not even good at that.

he wins one league and suddenly he is the best in Australia and ready to coach the national team? The last time we made a suddenly successful domestic coach the socceroos coach we got Frank Farina!

no no no no NO! We need someone who is vastly experienced in running a national team. Accomplishments at club level mean absolutely nothing because its a completely different job running a national team compared to running a club.

We need, if at all possible, a manager who has won the world cup before, and has a proven track record of developing young players, because that is what is going to be crucial for the next 4 years because with the majority of our best players into their last few years of their careers there is no doubt that the starting 11 at the next world cup is going to be almost completely different and is going to be a hell of a lot younger. We need a coach who is going to have the balls to say "sorry you old blokes, you've been great for us but your not going to be at the next world cup which means unfortunately you've played your last game for the socceroos"

Playing players post this world cup who won't be at the next world cup is just taking vital international game time away from the players who will be there for us in four years time, players like Vidosic, Rukavytsya, Rhys Williams, James Holland, Tommy Oar, Shane Lowry, Matthew Spiranovic, Zullo, David Williams, these are the kinds of players who could well end up being in our starting 11 at the next world cup, they need game time! Keeping them out of the side so that Harry Kewell for example can play, knowing that Harry is more then likely not going to be at the next world cup, is a complete waste of time but we need a head coach who is going to have the balls to recongnise that and follow through with it.


Edited by RJL25: 17/6/2010 01:07:43 PM

Davstar- not the worst suggestion put forward. he promotes attacking football, now has a good knowledge of the A league, likes living in OZ and oozes professionalism. he probably would be comparatively inexpensive as well.

So you've turned on the players.
You've turned on the team.
You've turned on the coach.
You've turned on the administration.

Who's next 442 forumites?

You

Well bring it bitch.

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I vote they hire Bora Milutinovic

I think Zola is looking for a gig at the moment. I know it doesnt fulfil your other criteria but he did promote the young players during his brief tenure at West Ham.

come on, we all know that the good coaches do not send in their application. They need to be approached directly.

When did we turn on the players and the team?

gerrard houllier!

Give Miron a crack :lol:

We need to play compact direct football 4-1-2-1-2 it would suit us best i've been saying this for 12 months with Macce kewell in the front cahill behind.

We have the players for it and its balanced football. PLaying to offensive is stupid despite what fozz says if u dont have players like Messi and Xavi on ur team and playing to counter attacking is boring and when playing against superior sides you are garenteed to lose.

It works for italy i agree but italy have techincally skill midfielders and clinical finishers who can score with just a few chances. I've noticed alot of nations in the WC have set up defensivly with superior sides and there are getting beaten by weaker oppisition.

As I've said previously elsewhere, how many truly top level managers (in the mould of capello, mourinho, Hiddink, Mancini, benitez etc) would consider a long term position with the socceroos for the sort of money on offer? My guess would be less than 1....

The fact is its not a particularly attractive position to managers that dont need the money anyway and are looking for prestigious positions at the top of the football pile.

Moving to a geographically remote football backwater (which we still are in many opinions) probably just isnt very compelling to those types.

Hiddink only took the job on the condition he didnt have to move here, and it was for a short spell in conjunction with his European gig. He wouldnt have taken a 2-3 year posting that meant moving here as well...

Unfortunately I think we need an ambitious younger manager of the Troussier type. Its more realistic. That or appoint a supersstar but have an assistant oversee the day to day running with the big gun to be around leading up to games and major comps. probably the only way we are going to snag a truly great manager. IMO of course

somewhat contradicting this statement is the fact that Hiddink took a 2 year spell with South Korea and then a full 4 year spell with Russia, neither posting could be considered particularly prestegious. Now he is about to start a spell with Turkey, again hardly the most prestegous of posings.

Good coaches will take up a challange, a coach like Guus Hiddink may not want to coach England for arguments sake, many don't want to put their reputations at stake with such a high profile position whereby failure can basically destroy your reputation (Sven-Goran Eriksson anyone?)

Edited by RJL25: 17/6/2010 03:07:27 PM

at least the money started talking since only a couple of days ago they had no one of interest... 6 million a year or something there abouts for the coaches wage?

One good thing that will come from this, no more bloody GA.

well glorious mentioned gerrard houllier, this is a great selection, he was responsible for the french developement program that see's many french players in the top ranked footballers in the world over the past 10 years, we have to stop being in a hurry, make the right decisions on which to build and get started,we will only be successfull once we develope some talent and a depth of talent from which to draw, those who accept pims verdict,that we have no real talented players and no pool to select from, and the a-league is shit are completely wrong, ricky herbert has proved that, he has his team playing to a good game plan, playing to their strengths and he has instilled belief in themselves, from a population of 4 million??? FFA stop looking for quick fixes and make the right decision.

batfink - your right, you don't need a team of superstars, Greece won euro 2004 with a team that is really no better then what Australian teams can offer, its about how the team plays, the game plan, the system, etc

The old saying, a champion team can beat a team of champions any day of the week.

Heres a somewhat hopefull one - Arsene Wenger. He is out of contract with Arsenal at the end of this coming season, Japan are chasing him for their national team, if Japan could potentially sign him, why not us? Yes he has some history with coaching a Japanese club in the J-league, but still - if Japan could potentially get him, why not us???

Can I be the coach. I play with a 3-4-3 in a sort of diamond formation. Very attacking not defensive soft touch BS! Australia FTW!

3-4-3 - with a diamond midfield no doubt?

Sure would be attacking... I think we'd leak a lot of goals though! Who would our back 3 be? Neil, Moore and Chippers? Wow that would be slow...

Just to clarify, there is nothing wrong with a 4-2-3-1.

There does, however, need to be a plan B and C. You also need a manager/coach that has confidence and belief in his charges, with the ability to make them bleed for the shirt and feel they can beat anyone on their day - which is something that Australians are notoriously good at doing. You want a manager with charisma and swagger that won't baulk at the sight of champion teams.

A bit of tactical nous doesn't hurt.

The Australian public won't tolerate lay-down Sallies.

Something that Craig Foster said which I agree with, which is fairly rare actually, is that it's the Australian way to die on our feet rather then live on our knees. The way Pim had us play against Germany clearly shows that he doesn't understand this mindset, and any future coach willing to take on this role does have to understand this!

We, as Australians, want to fight! we want to attack! WE WANT TO TRY AND WIN!

We do NOT want to go out there and try and flog out a sneaky draw, we're not interested in that! And our defense is simply not good enough to hold out a top team for 90 minutes anyway, it was a dumb tactic, totally outside of what Australia expects from their sports teams, which is why Pim just doesn't get it!

We outplayed and nearly beat Italy at the last world cup because we came out and said stuff you italy and your tradition and your prestige and your superstar players, we're gonna beat you blokes! It didn't work in the end, but at least we where competitive, at least we MIGHT have won, on another day we probably would have won. If we had played that way against Germany theres no fuckin way we would have lost 4 fucking nil!

Edited by RJL25: 17/6/2010 04:10:21 PM

to put it in perspective $6 million a year would make them the second highest paid coach at the world cup, behind england's coach at $12 million. pim verbeek is currently 8th highest paid(insulting isnt it?) at 2.5