Playoff games in Darwin are tomorrow and Wednesday. Tuesday 13 May Central Coast Mariners v Perth Glory Kickoff: 7:00pm Local Time 7:30pm (AEST) Darwin Football Stadium On 10 Play (not Paramount+ as far as I can see) Wednesday 14 May Wellington Phoenix v Brisbane Roar Kickoff...

No - he is just looking out for the forum in general. We have a 'policy' of respecting the owners of threads for specific clubs on the site. Keeps the rubbish talk out of their house so they can talk shop. Pasquali is just politely suggesting you respect that too.

If you were to change your statement to make it the National team (men's or women's) and one domestic team you would be more accurate. A lot of support for the Socceroos/Matildas in NPL and local club supporters with strong feelings or even no feelings about the aleagues competition itself...

No great insight from me - but I think the main difference is you look at things compared to how they should be and I probably compare them to how they have been.

I have often been at odds with how most supporters view games. I see good things in moments that give me a real lift where most just see overall dross or dire football. That is where I see the good stuff that Zadkovich has been doing and where I see progress in him as a manager. I think I...

I understand your point of view and your perspective. I don't begrudge you that or consider you wrong. At the same time though I genuinely don't think it is possible for you to understand my perspective or appreciate the things that I see as progress and good football in general. I take the...

Funny how the number of bans increase around Christmas and when Pasquali gets parking tickets.

He he hee - they were called discussions in the dinosaur era before single sentence multimedia forums ruled the world ;). You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

I said a lot because there are a lot of elements that make up a review of a manager in my eyes - not just the results. That you choose not to rate those elements in favour of the black and white results as your overriding assessment criteria is how you choose to see it instead. I can live with...

Your first paragraph seems to be exactly what I said in my response to keeper66, except I disagree that the style of play dictates results. I know from watching that as the season developed we got better at close passing in pressure situations and with the cohesion and vision resulting in more...

We are talking history in his early days at Perth aren't we?

I accept the head coach gets and deserves whatever comes from results, but I think the players deserve flack for not being able to finish what they created from following the coaches instructions - be it conceding the weakest of goals time and again through poor decision making, focus or...

Mono bound by confidentiality clause - obviously appointed head coach. I'll leave you to your thread now :)

Well done. That took a lot but you got there.

On Zadkovich's football I disagree. We were bad at it, but he had us playing attractive, positive football that generated chances we were unable to put away. I don't think anyone believes we were close to being winners and no-one calling on bad luck as behind our woes - but we were competitive...

Switch to South Melbourne and feel some real pain :) Thinking of you (if that doesn't sound too creepy) for tonight's game Mono.

I am actually sorry that it did not work out with Ruben. Listening to him speak and watching him on the sidelines has shown him to be a genuine, decent person who encourages rather than abuses and went so close to pulling it off week after week without being able to get his playing squad that...

Email from the club today. The club and Ruben have mutually parted ways effectively immediately. They have reviewed the Men's program, have interviewed candidates from domestically and abroad, and will announce the replacement Men's Head Coach and technical staff in the coming days.

I mean hypothetically using the same players under the same limited club conditions. The only thing we can say for sure is that Zadkovich did bring on some duds that maybe another manager wouldn't have. With his limited budget that might have been all he could get. I agree Ross Aloisi looked...

Listening to Zadkovich's postgame interview after our last game he lists a few things that are pretty hard to manage around. Among them was his comment that Henry Hore was given a transfer elsewhere to 'save a little bit of money'. Looking across the issues and the years I would be looking at...