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A-League Mens 24/25 - Round 27 + Round 16

WhatAmIWatching said:
Congrats to BR. They are starting to play together as a team. They just need to fill in some gaps. IF Berenguer wasn't so old and injury prone, BR would have had a very different season. I don't rate Bility and cannot see any improvement forthcoming no matter where he plays or who he partners with.
@RIMB Jelacic was not the only one who decides to take on three defenders - Brazzette and Klein did it as well. This needs to be coached out of them.
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One thing I forgot to mention on that point was that it looks to me like we are not letting the ball do our work as much as we should (cue the Goal quote again).

As often as not players will hold the ball and play around with it before attempting to pass or cross. It is a 'need' to beat your opponent and run to space when perhaps it is simpler and more efficient to pass to a free player or space.

It has the effect of looking like something dangerous, certainly draws opponents out to cover, and potentially sets up opposition teams for fast breaks at other times.

I thought we did too much of the on-ball stuff instead of passing faster when opportunities were there.

Certainly loving the style of play though. I see it as similar to Tilio early on - it was his main strength that he could and would take on multiple opponents to create havoc and having it coached out of him turned him into nothing special. Now that he is getting back that confident attacking style he is becoming properly dangerous again.

To me the coaching aspect required is to help them develop the judgement about when to do it and when to not do it.

Zadkovich has no doubt said "get out there and just do what you can do" to shake it up and get different results. It is promising and I do not want it taken out of our play that much - just not running into 3 players in the first place when there are options to move them around more first to isolate them more.
 
melbcityguy said:
Surely Ruben needs to go though?
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There's the puzzle.

Looking at most of our results this season, having one good solid centreback to replace a player like Bility in the starting role to give us more resilience, and getting the front third to attack the goal with more clinical finishing like we have been doing better lately and we have a very different system.

Zadkovich chose Van der Saag, Warland, Shour and Bility as our defensive base. I think 3 of those are outright suspect in the roles chosen for them (Shour being the better one in his DM role). He also chose Halloran and Berenguer who have both had moments but have not earned their places across the whole season. If he had only "Football Manager" money to spend maybe that is the best he could get and maybe that is not on him.

In any normal professional world Zadkovich would be long gone based on the worst season ever for us (and we are only one Perth win/draw away from the spoon still).

His tactics have been ineffective when we needed something different but at the same time we have squandered opportunities in most games that a more composed finish might have converted. We could see is frustration when his strategies, plans and tactics produced great opportunities only to have the final player waste the chance.

As a business, this season we had Waddingham, Brazete, Herrington and Klein in our shop window to earn transfer money and they all came on under Zadkovich.

From the owner's perspective it does not require much for Zadkovich (on paper) to appear capable of producing and perhaps even being profitable.

At times I have screamed silently in my head for anyone to take over - but at others I have seen potential, passion and promise in Zadkovich. Results are almost everything in football. Zadkovich fails outright on that score. But for a cost effective (cheap) option has he shown enough lately to continue...?

Would anyone else that we can afford be better?

I am so confused.
 
RIMB said:
There's the puzzle.

Looking at most of our results this season, having one good solid centreback to replace a player like Bility in the starting role to give us more resilience, and getting the front third to attack the goal with more clinical finishing like we have been doing better lately and we have a very different system.

Zadkovich chose Van der Saag, Warland, Shour and Bility as our defensive base. I think 3 of those are outright suspect in the roles chosen for them (Shour being the better one in his DM role). He also chose Halloran and Berenguer who have both had moments but have not earned their places across the whole season. If he had only "Football Manager" money to spend maybe that is the best he could get and maybe that is not on him.

In any normal professional world Zadkovich would be long gone based on the worst season ever for us (and we are only one Perth win/draw away from the spoon still).

His tactics have been ineffective when we needed something different but at the same time we have squandered opportunities in most games that a more composed finish might have converted. We could see is frustration when his strategies, plans and tactics produced great opportunities only to have the final player waste the chance.

As a business, this season we had Waddingham, Brazete, Herrington and Klein in our shop window to earn transfer money and they all came on under Zadkovich.

From the owner's perspective it does not require much for Zadkovich (on paper) to appear capable of producing and perhaps even being profitable.

At times I have screamed silently in my head for anyone to take over - but at others I have seen potential, passion and promise in Zadkovich. Results are almost everything in football. Zadkovich fails outright on that score. But for a cost effective (cheap) option has he shown enough lately to continue...?

Would anyone else that we can afford be better?

I am so confused.
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I'd say give someone else a chance
 
RIMB said:
There's the puzzle.

Looking at most of our results this season, having one good solid centreback to replace a player like Bility in the starting role to give us more resilience, and getting the front third to attack the goal with more clinical finishing like we have been doing better lately and we have a very different system.

Zadkovich chose Van der Saag, Warland, Shour and Bility as our defensive base. I think 3 of those are outright suspect in the roles chosen for them (Shour being the better one in his DM role). He also chose Halloran and Berenguer who have both had moments but have not earned their places across the whole season. If he had only "Football Manager" money to spend maybe that is the best he could get and maybe that is not on him.

In any normal professional world Zadkovich would be long gone based on the worst season ever for us (and we are only one Perth win/draw away from the spoon still).

His tactics have been ineffective when we needed something different but at the same time we have squandered opportunities in most games that a more composed finish might have converted. We could see is frustration when his strategies, plans and tactics produced great opportunities only to have the final player waste the chance.

As a business, this season we had Waddingham, Brazete, Herrington and Klein in our shop window to earn transfer money and they all came on under Zadkovich.

From the owner's perspective it does not require much for Zadkovich (on paper) to appear capable of producing and perhaps even being profitable.

At times I have screamed silently in my head for anyone to take over - but at others I have seen potential, passion and promise in Zadkovich. Results are almost everything in football. Zadkovich fails outright on that score. But for a cost effective (cheap) option has he shown enough lately to continue...?

Would anyone else that we can afford be better?

I am so confused.
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The first thing that needs to happen is moving on players that are not producing much such as Zimarino, Halloran, Beringuer and finding replacements. The second one is to find a new coach, noting that Stanton and Veart have produced something on the smell of an oily rag.
This is of course dependent on the club's and owners' finances.
 
Rufer is a dirty prick and I cannot understand how he does not get a card early in every game - let alone how many times he does nasty hacks and nothing comes of it.

He came in late from behind and kicked someone in the heel early on, clearly tripped Mauk when he was getting in a tangle with Payne, and grabbed at one of the Adelaide players running towards goal totally off the ball.

All 3 were at least yellow card worthy and Rufer did not get a single card.

The trip on Mauk deserved a VAR red card check because it was nothing to do with play, involved him as the third party in and yet it came to nothing.

Pisses me off every game with what he does and is allowed to do.
 
RIMB said:
Rufer is a dirty prick and I cannot understand how he does not get a card early in every game - let alone how many times he does nasty hacks and nothing comes of it.

He came in late from behind and kicked someone in the heel early on, clearly tripped Mauk when he was getting in a tangle with Payne, and grabbed at one of the Adelaide players running towards goal totally off the ball.

All 3 were at least yellow card worthy and Rufer did not get a single card.

The trip on Mauk deserved a VAR red card check because it was nothing to do with play, involved him as the third party in and yet it came to nothing.

Pisses me off every game with what he does and is allowed to do.
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Mauk kicked Payne in the nuts trying to get the ball and only got a Yellow card, the true mugs are Adelaide. Your talking crap.
 
NoMates said:
Mauk kicked Payne in the nuts trying to get the ball and only got a Yellow card, the true mugs are Adelaide. Your talking crap.
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I hate the way Mauk plays and he gets away with shit too - you are talking crap though if you think that Mauk is the only culprit and Rufer did nothing wrong.
 
Newcastle please do us a favour and give us the bullet so the board can have the balls to sack the entire coaching staff.
 
Just had a watch of WSW MC. Behich should be about 6-7th in line for the national team. Skinned twice and was nearest man for the alte disallowed goal.

Bos, Farrell, Iredale, Gersbach, Elder and others have more football acumen than he does.
 
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