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Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

  • Yes

    Votes: 109 48.0%

  • No

    Votes: 118 52.0%
  • Total voters
    227
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Suitman

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Gary Gutful said:
Fans come and go as well. The moment any coach starts obsessing about what fans think they are f**ked. Focusing on your players and winning is way more important and thats where he should be criticised.

Imagine some gump coach that high fives all the fans and gives them reach arounds but doesnt win any games. Would last less than a season...unless they had soft hands.
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Interesting discussion.
Ange Postecoglou is a perfect example of a manager that values both the fans AND his team. He never throws his players under the bus and takes full responsibility when things don't quite go right.
He is also brutal with the media bums but in a very subtle way. He currently has the English press eating out of his palm, and still tears them down when they ask stupid questions, yet, and in a humorous way.
Yes, he is running on a wave of success, but that is all he has pretty much ever had everywhere his has gone.
He is probably one of the most impressive managers I've ever seen in how he deals with press conferences. He doesn't talk shit, yet is honest and up front, and he rarely gets surly, like Bellamy, Bennent and Stuart.
In his Aussie style, he tells it how it is succinctly and with style.
He would be the perfect case study as to how to deal equally with his players, the fans and the media.
 
Gary Gutful

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Suitman said:
Interesting discussion.
Ange Postecoglou is a perfect example of a manager that values both the fans AND his team. He never throws his players under the bus and takes full responsibility when things don't quite go right.
He is also brutal with the media bums but in a very subtle way. He currently has the English press eating out of his palm, and still tears them down when they ask stupid questions, yet, and in a humorous way.
Yes, he is running on a wave of success, but that is all he has pretty much ever had everywhere his has gone.
He is probably one of the most impressive managers I've ever seen in how he deals with press conferences. He doesn't talk shit, yet is honest and up front, and he rarely gets surly, like Bellamy, Bennent and Stuart.
In his Aussie style, he tells it how it is succinctly and with style.
He would be the perfect case study as to how to deal equally with his players, the fans and the media.
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Fair call. I don't know a lot about Ange but he seems well regarded.
 
the phantom menace

the phantom menace

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Gary Gutful said:
Let’s just judge him on his results rather than any other irrelevant bullshit. Based on those results, I can see him being shown the door.
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Yep, that's the bottom line.

For a club like ours, with the length of BA's reign and recent achievements, surely making the finals each year is a KPI of some sort within the last extension he signed.
 
hineyrulz

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Eelementary said:
It's not a popular opinion, but I think Penisini is just as dangerous as the guys you mentioned.

Problem is our genius tactics want to use Penisini to beat his man with power, rather than giving him some space to create something.

Much like our team as a whole, we are horribly misusing Penisini.
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I’ve been horribly misusing Penisini for years as well.
 
hineyrulz

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Poupou Escobar said:
He was captain of every junior team he ever played in. I am/was also fairly close to someone who played President's Cup with Arthur's back in the day (and also played a couple of games of first grade with the Eels), and this guy told me almost 30 years ago that Brad Arthur's was the smartest footy brain he'd ever known. He said he was smarter than any coach he'd ever had. It seemed like a weird thing to say, about some under 21s player. Then Brad Arthur reappeared as our assistant coach years later and it all made sense.
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That doesn’t say much for who your mate was coached by before then does it?? It’s like we are coached like a pub side.
 
hineyrulz

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Gary Gutful said:
If he’s an effective man manager with his players why give a shit about whether he brushed you? His commitment is to his players, not fans.

Given the same situation Bennett and Bellamy would have had you roughed up.
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Us fans are the only reason the bald fraud has won the lotto 10 years into a row.
 
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