It’s not like it hadn’t happened before yet here we go again with the excuses and endless analysis’s from the same people who say exactly the same thoughts and we are that dumb to accept it..
Before you go into LA LA mode this Asian Cup debacle has no reflection on the men who pulled on the That Guernsey with green and gold, but it does reflect the state of the game for the last 20 years run by the overpaid and underperforming Australian management performance and like the good old Australian way we swallowed the media spin by the non performers themselves.
If you accept not winning a World Cup as acceptable don’t compete.
If you accept the results from the team as that’s about as best we can do, hand in your employment ID. Your doing you national a disservice..
Patronising the players in the media does not exonerate the management failure.
Quite frankly, I’m sick of this colonial attitude we have forced upon Australian football since my time starting in the 60’s
This close nit group of talking heads we have to have been covering each others arses since they handed out coaching qualifications like tram tickets to their pommy mates and made Australian coaches go off to their courses at a price… FACT
Pick up a paper, or tablet and it just a replay from the same people making a buck from the game and any change the money stops.
Unlike Europe or South America the nations with STARS ON THEIR NATIONAL SHIRT WE ACCEPT NON PERFORMANCE OF COACHES period, and if someone comes out the attack’s performance of the protected they come racing to their side as they are doing right now.
For those who are still indoctrinated in thinking the English Premier league is the benchmark, well stop press, it about 3rd and tell me again Bobby More was the last winner and they destroyed him.
We need a hard clinical approach by professionals from nations that have won, and won again, World Cups, and when the hammer falls they must be listened to and acted upon , without prejudice, and we need to reshape Australian Football to World Standards, and that must be supported much better than what they did to Eddie Jones when he was given the task of rebuilding Rugby
We must accept 3 World Cups time (12 Years)to put us in the top 10.. with the right people at the helm…
Accepting mediocre performance and hope has no place in professional football. We are not NRL or AFL where they play in their own little bubble and fed by their owners into believing they are bigger than a fly shit on the worlds stage..
Our code is much bigger, our support is much larger home and away, our standards of performance expectations are beyond their IQ , yet we cow tow in playing in the summer months to keep the yank owned Fox coffers full..
We need hard hitting critics to start a conversation at the grass roots level to change the landscape and we will not get the support of the media who are part of the mafia that props up the old boys club.
Forget looking to the English for direction, they have sold their soul to the money launderers, we must look for models like Germany, who keep clubs in the hands of the supporters (bar one) , and tv rights go to them the clubs not the franchises, and have a clinical approach to perfection built in to their football culture where second best is not good enough, ever..
Laugh you may Australians but how many stars on their shirts ???
How many European Cups? And you do the research on the rest
In closing I’m totally frustrated by seeing our youth totally ignored.
We have talent, we have class, recognised overseas but we have a system and stupid ideology you have to sit some of a qualifying apprenticeship set by the obviously incompetent present managment to get to the ball boy status keeping the over thirties on the pay sheet.
It’s time to let in the dogs and clean out the rats in our magnificent game in this country, starting admin, media, at the highest levels, our kids deserve the same as what other kids get in Europe and other top 10 nations..
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