Talking Heads Struggle with Own Credibility

It didn’t take long for the grubs in the media and squawking talking heads to get a knife into our Matilda’s over a friendly.

So let’s look at the landscape here in laymans terms so their will be no mistake on how these bozo’s “The Commentary Gentry” have got their shirt without performance.

Unlike the Matilda’s Babes who are our future and should be celebrated by achieving national representatives regardless of any friendly result 4 years out of the big gig our Media Mongrels decide to gain their shirt by seizing the opportunity to knife the coach or reputations of these kids so early in their careers.

Let’s look at the critics form. who is Slater, those stooges who set themselves up as authorities on Football in Australia??

What have they achieved, played in England maybe, sniffed a bit of coke , and I could go on with the misdemeanours as I am old enough to remember, but one thing is certain, they are failures on the international stage, every single one of them as we have No Stars On Our National Shirt.. None Zero.
Yet they celebrate themselves with “the older I get the better I was” mantra

Then comes the audacity they promote by hating any international appointee that could expose any comparison of our Football business to nations who have won World Cups as whats left of their credentials would be trashed once people woke up.

Hiddick to his credit lifted the Socceroos on a temporary platform then bolted the day after his contract expired, then the rest of any appointments were systematically white anted by these serial losers for decades, destroying our international status that continues to this day, while stymieing youth by their cynicism and toxic incompetence, aptly demonstrated by their reaction to a simple friendly.

Then come the keyboard warriors who write the copy without any Football IQ whatsoever.
In fact name one commentator, talking head, or keyboard critic who have coached at any level????

I’m hearing crickets all over the septic tank …. Not Fucken One but they have opinions on how it should be done.. Sure they have opinions, and I have an opinion on nuclear science or brain surgery but I’d be out of my depth.

These wankers think they are self appointed judges of Football with actually no experience on how real powerhouses of the game win World Cups, and they don’t want to know either, as it’s beyond their intellectual capacity to even think how players reach World Cup levels then actually Win.

Oh FFS, we in Australian TV and Broad sheets celebrate getting flogged in world cups. We even extend their contracts, not after one failure but involvement in multiple failures, because they are mates of the media and that cosy relationship keeps them all in jobs, and stuff the football, that’s irrelevant, yet these slimes attack our potential players that who would take us higher than any of their wanna be careers they desperately cling to.

If our.coaches were any good they would be head hunted… Their Not Not One BUT Ange Postagolas has reached a level in 4 countries but was lambasted by the numb nuts here out of pure animosity when he told them all they were idiots on the record and that statement proved correct after that friendly and nothings changed.

They do not have the purchase to criticise as they all failed at the top level, so bottom line is if we do not have intellectual capacity to accept advice, management structures-from Clubs and Nations that have those stars on their national shirts we will be all just dreaming and procrastinating..

And secondly we have to tear ourselves away from the colonialism of brainwashing our kids into thinking England is the only league with history. They jagged it once when Europe was in recovery from Cold War and will never win a World Cup while the money launderers own their game and soul. They haven’t woke up and live in a fantasy land created by the TV rights and advertisers as they do it here,and like us they actually believe the yank franchising model is great, little do they know it’s for the owners while the punters in the stands are the suckers and the media talking heads are paid to indoctrinate you into keeping it that way..

Yes I’m pissed off again..and have a very long memory..

And for the record, back in the time when coaching certificates in Brisbane were given out like bus tickets to poms and Aussie coaches had to pass a course, I rejected that culture and based my education on my workmates who were migrants from all over the world entering Australia from Yungabar hostel and working the Shipyard.

Language was never a problem as football was opening for me and to them, the English language. Their knowledge willingly imparted over that time and was far ahead anything our country could imagine at a time when Soccer was Sir Stanley Mathew’s and the English only please.

I was blessed with having the privilege to work with youth and adults who loved the game as much as me, and as in football the journey is a never ending learning curve for all if you are prepared to a listen, and keep a open mind to the science.

The Game is Simple, Only people complicate it.

Our Sporting Tide is Out.

Sporting Junkie, yep that’s me. A football tragic since 11 years old but have followers all the other codes and sports especially when they put on the green and gold,

The fact I have been involved in the world game and watched for my own benefit how nations prepare and perform in World Cups I struggle with how we Australians at times get it so wrong.

Most nations have a automatic review at the end of each Cup and after a celebration or commiserations the management’s and players hand in their shirts, and the process for the next 4 years commence within a month. (The top tier commence before the cup and appointments are within that month as the process is expected.).

We sacked two coaches in football women’s and men’s and installed one stand in and one new coach months out, and in the rugby reviewed a coach appointed him, knowing full well it was going to fail as the world knew when we went to the toilet.

Our Football and Rugby administrators need to hand in their shirts as well full stop.

We need to look at our international codes with a world perspectives.and ask ourselves how are we going to be competitive, and how do other Nations maintain their standards.

In my mind our parochialism in management is toxicand infects the backbone of the codes. We should encourage and welcome overseas appointments of the highest standards and learn the trade from a different prospective. Our culture will have to change over time and in the past it’s got just too hard not only for the players but the media and they have driven them out, especially when the media loose the dressing room key.

Again I’m seeing calls for a Aussie coach for the wallabies hours after being belted and loosing world rankings. Media attacking the kiwi Rayleighne Castle for asking hard questions when she knew when she was outvoted retaining Cheika we were not up to standard..

I’m tired of listening to the commentary from “The older we get the Better we were” brigade on out TV’s and outlets and in fairness I’m seeing Academies emerging but those institutions must have the worlds best practices and personal leading the way or we will always be also rans or a wanna bee nation on the world stage.

SBS Performed where Optus Failed.

The greatest show on earth has concluded and what a learning curve it was for the ones who underestimated the following in Australia.

Optus crashing on day one was not surprising as it assumed it had the capacity to serve all the other eastern seaboard codes so why not Football?

Little did they realise those who follow the other codes national allegiance emerges whenever the World Game takes to the stage., and miscalculated that well known fact, a fact often scoffed at but now well proven.

One can only congratulate the performance of our SBS for its outstanding coverage, commentary and presentation of the event showing we have the professional knowledge and expertise to deliver a world class product with the minimum amount of fuss, in the true Australian way.

Four years from now none of us know where will we be, but one thing is for sure is the Wold Cup will capture the hearts and minds of that billion or more who love and watch the beautiful game.

Culture Change a Must for Aussie Football Future.

Blame is Important and strategic.

As another 4 year football campaign concludes the media will disembowel, regurgitate, agonise, then allocate blame accordingly to suit the football structure they see what Football should be in Australia.

Nothing new, the same process, and the same outcome will result if we qualify in 2022.

Yep the Australian Football guru’s have all the answers and anyone dares to change their vision will be dispatched, replaced or ostracised as Un Australian, ignorant of Australian culture.

My opinion from here on in might just get me 🛑red carded 🛑 but I’ve been around long enough to see this charades played out all resulting in Australian Football being the looser and I’m tied of it.

Why is it we see our football culture requiring we do things our way?

The simple fact is the biggest problem with Australian Football is their are too many Australians having too much say in how how the football culture develops.

We are a infantile nation in real football terms and even though we made to top table in the world we are merely nuisance value in the picture we want to become a player.

Our record with coaches says we cannot adjust or do not have the talent yet to elevate us past battler class and looking at the level of our professionals only Moyes is playing in what can be called world class premier leagues, while the rest making a living in clubs under the world super powers.

World Cup winners have players in the top echelon playing weekly at club level day in day out. Beyond the average Australians comprehension. It’s not NRL or AFL as Optus found out it’s massive game in Australia that has been underestimated for decades with supporters that might support Aussie eastern seaboard codes but their heart and culture will always be with world game.

The appointment of Arnold highlights the crucial fact we look continually look inward because we don’t have the football intellect to accept that countries no where near as wealthy as Australia have cultures that we cannot comprehend or compete.

We wonder why international coaches think twice about putting their reputation on the line when they are often surrounded by well meaning parochialism not prepared to look at a 5 or 10 year year plan beyond the World Cup timelines.

Postacogolas had that vision but that vision did not suit the boys clubs self appointed specialist journalists that feel they have all answers. They’ll blame coaches, they’ll blame referees, the Video but the simple fact is we are just not good enough …. Yet..

Until we accept that fact Nationally then Internationally we will not make any major steps to securing a top 8 performance. And doing the Australian thing is total bullshit.

We need spend on Youth Development at a level far above out A League level. We need to have Full Transitional Management Teams employed from selected countries at our Sporting Academy that will develop a style and professional culture that is competitive yet identifiable with Australia as Germany is identifiable with clinical, fastidious application to precise performance.

Our benchmarks are below that and until we choose to raise them we are just in the world pool of wanna bee’s

Tough decisions, not cheap, not easy but as I look around I see Women’s Football making the right noises, international players On local rosters, and the young will feed off that and it will become the normal while our men’s ALeague is becoming a exit lounge for the past icons.

No reflections intended on our 2018 squad, we did our best, I could not ask more as a Australian Football fan from coach or squad, that’s football.

But I don’t and will not accept is Blame lays on the pitch. Blame is fully on the FFA management team and for the sake of the game heads should roll at that level first and foremost.

Postecoglou’s White Ant Problem.

The uncertainty around Ange Postecoglou’s status with Socceroo campaign has been created by media speculation combined with a concerted effort to white ant his position by commentators who see themselves as lords based on their own self promotion.History of past coaches be it imported or in Ange’s case local the self appointed brains trust are fine when they see themselves in the inner circle of Australian football but when the coach moves to close the dressing room door the friendship sours as it has today. 

Postecoglou’s effort in bringing players worldwide home plus the restructuring the game locally has been outstanding and while the A league has seen marked improvement in his time the simple fact is we do not have the depth to compete at the worlds highest level “yet”. Our game is growing fast and our biggest hurdle is avoiding the nepotistic view and embrace overseas coaches and managers to expand our education across all levels.

We can’t compare or compete with the wealth of club sides like Bayern Munchen or Real Madrid but we can steal their ideas and thinking we have all the answers here doing it our way is ludicrous, so when the CEO Gallops statement of Australia first for coaching replacement when it becomes vacant is less than visionary for the games future. 

I am not advocating European takeover of Australian football but our football culture must reflect that of the top nations if we are to rise to that level. That means the media commentary has some growing up to do and leave the boys club culture of the older we get the better we were off our TV screens

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