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Matildas ‘over-achieved’ at 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup

zimbos05 said:
Nothing to applaud here. The fact that the FA has not appointed anyone is showing their incompetence at gettig this done. It shows they had no succession plan for Gustavsson and that they have no idea what they are doing.

The fact that they confirmed Sermani will stay on till we play South Korea is shocking. We have a home major tournament soon, and the coach we have will have almost no time to prepare properly. If we crash out, you can just imagine the uproar. It's a lose lose situation for whoever comes in.


As for the World Cup, we definitely did overachieve. It was clear Gustavsson got very lucky and was out of his depth, but at the time, there was no need to upset anyone.
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Obviously you are far better equipped to ascertain the pros and cons of the Matildas coaching setup than someone who has been involved for years.
 
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libelous said:
Obviously you are far better equipped to ascertain the pros and cons of the Matildas coaching setup than someone who has been involved for years.
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Again, with the "attacks". I've never discounted anyone else's views or opinions. I've simply provided mine from my perspective and my work within the game. The whole point of this forum is discussion. If you resort to attacks and responding in such manners as soon as someone disagrees with you, that sounds like a problem you need to address.
 
zimbos05 said:
Again, with the "attacks". I've never discounted anyone else's views or opinions. I've simply provided mine from my perspective and my work within the game. The whole point of this forum is discussion. If you resort to attacks and responding in such manners as soon as someone disagrees with you, that sounds like a problem you need to address.
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From my perspective it seems that you ARE discounting other opinions as your ‘skin in the game’ gives you a much better understanding of the topic being discussed.
It is not an ‘attack,’ as you put it, just my opinion.
 
libelous said:
From my perspective it seems that you ARE discounting other opinions as your ‘skin in the game’ gives you a much better understanding of the topic being discussed.
It is not an ‘attack,’ as you put it, just my opinion.
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I'm not. I'm sorry if it is coming across that way. I read an opinion, I disagree with it, and offer a retort. That person is entitled to do the same, and if a perspective is put forward that makes sense and gets me thinking, I might switch my viewpoint, or be more inclined to that view. I haven't read one of those hence why I keep disagreeing.

You specifically singled out my comments and responded to them with statements that had nothing to do with what I said. Your tone was sarcastic and the statements were facetious. You then also began questioning me and accused me of being a plant or someone from outside the game whose whole purpose is to discredit football.

I don't think I'm the foremost forum member -or expert- on women's football. I just have my coaching experiences, my badges, my experiences with FQ, FA, and the A-league, and my experience with the Matildas to go off of.
 
zimbos05 said:
I'm not. I'm sorry if it is coming across that way. I read an opinion, I disagree with it, and offer a retort. That person is entitled to do the same, and if a perspective is put forward that makes sense and gets me thinking, I might switch my viewpoint, or be more inclined to that view. I haven't read one of those hence why I keep disagreeing.

You specifically singled out my comments and responded to them with statements that had nothing to do with what I said. Your tone was sarcastic and the statements were facetious. You then also began questioning me and accused me of being a plant or someone from outside the game whose whole purpose is to discredit football.

I don't think I'm the foremost forum member -or expert- on women's football. I just have my coaching experiences, my badges, my experiences with FQ, FA, and the A-league, and my experience with the Matildas to go off of.
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Seeing as this could go on forever we will just have to agree to disagree.
 
erogenouszone said:
People want the Socceroos job. Nobody wants the Matildas one.
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I wonder why that is so? Is it not lucrative enough to lure a top class coach here? The European countries particularly might be more attractive as regards salary,conditions and proximity to football culture and tradition.Is there some perception that there is a difficult culture within the team that makes prospective coaches shy away or is the fact that apart from our top players the standard of women's football in Australia has fallen behind European,Asian and the American( North and South) rivals?

I don't know the answer but the Matilda's shiny image is becoming tarnished especially if results continue to go south.
 
I think nobody wants the Matildas' dirty laundry - the job itself would be a sought after appointment for many aspiring managers otherwise.

I cannot be convinced by 'where's your proof' requests that there are not unhealthy power games and attitudes in the Matildas camp.

You do not have the likes of Polks and Van Egmond as staple players through recent years regardless of form and lack of pace - and other players that I personally do not think were up to the national level at the time and whose performances bear that out - unless there is a bond of some sort holding them safe in the squad. You cannot have a national professional team based on friendship and loyalty alone - that does not cut it when performances suffer as a result.

Even a lazy manager who wants to make life as easy as possible has to to recognise that slow players and ineffective players make it impossible but they kept popping up on the field when everyone could see their impact was negative.

You do not lose a successful manager instilling a professional work ethic into a professional squad to surveys unless there are considerable powers pushing against them from both within and externally.

The only thing that makes sense of this is if there is a powerful group within the squad that insists on sticking together regardless.

I do not believe that you have to see something concrete to know it is there.

Who wants a job like that?

If you have similar thoughts (yes, theories) about what goes on behind closed doors, the question is whether an incoming manager would believe the powers in Australian football have the gender specific attributes to give a new manager free rein and backing to turn the squad upside down, inside out, and to work with the players that they choose. I do not mean they should throw everyone out - but the manager needs to have the authority and backing to get rid of anyone or everyone if they think it in the best interests of their team.

You are paying someone for their expertise in selecting and managing players - in choosing that manager you HAVE to support their views and efforts on how they think they can achieve results from the start.

I do not believe Football Australia has the strength to do it. But I would really love them to prove me wrong over the next couple of years.
 
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