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Arnie, you don't live here any more. Stay out of the pantry.
- Thread starter capauau
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Back to the good old days where no one rated us but we didn't care. Tbh thats just how i like it, i get a bit nervous when everyone starts saying nice things about us. Especially on SBS.Maybe thats the reason for our slow start to the season.
Gives us a reason to whinge too... they said WHAT about us!? Outrageous!
MagpieMariner
Well-Known Member
Love it. And I didn't have to Google it, I already knew it."We'll all be rooned......."
If still wondering, google it.
Gratis
Well-Known Member
A-League championship-winning coach Graham
Arnold has revealed how his decision to quit Central
Coast Mariners for Vegalta Sendai in Japan nearly
broke his heart.
After three “fantastic” years in Gosford, Arnold was
given the opportunity to weigh the remorse of leaving
his football family in a familiar environment against
the challenge of testing himself at a higher level in a
foreign land.
In the end the lure of the yen and particularly the
prospect of finding out how far his coaching ability
would take him won out.
”I left the Mariners with a very heavy heart, to be
honest,” Arnold said from freezing Sendai, north of
Tokyo.
”Believe me, it was a very tough decision to leave the
Central Coast. It nearly broke my heart.
”It's not easy to put aside all that we achieved in the
three years I was there.
”The people on the coast are fantastic and I tell you I
could have stayed in the job for another five or six
years.
”I miss home and everything about Australia.
”But I am also ambitious and I have set myself the big
challenge of trying to improve myself and my career.
”Hopefully it works out well for me. If it does not I will
come home with the knowledge that I gave it my best
shot to try to step up and that I won't die wondering.”
Arnold said he felt that after winning the A-League title
with the Mariners in 2013 there was not much more he
could achieve in Australia and this may have helped him
make up his mind about his immediate future.
”I felt a bit that way, yes,” he said.
”I had aspirations to go back to the national team even
though it was publicly documented that I was a
candidate and I wasn't … but let's not go there.
”I came back to club football to achieve certain goals
and I derived extreme satisfaction at developing players
like Matt Ryan, Trent Sainsbury, Oliver Bozanic and so
on.”
Arnold said he was fully aware of the big job he faces
to lift the standard of unfashionable club Vegalta.
”I am under no illusion about the challenge that lies
ahead of me, not just from the football side but from the
cultural side,” he said.
”Trying to understand the Japanese mentality is a
challenge in itself. It is very different to ours.”
Arnold, who played for Sanfrecce Hiroshima in
1997-1998, said he was coping pretty well with his new
environment but conceded his inability to speak
Japanese was causing him plenty of frustration.
”I only understand bits and pieces but I've got an
interpreter at the club who is doing a great job,” he
said.
”It is frustrating at times that you cannot directly relay
a message you want to get through.
”The communication side is the toughest part of my job
at the moment but day by day and week by week it is
getting better.
'But I have no doubt that this is going to be the
toughest challenge in my career.”
Arnold said he was not given any specific target by the
club when it named him as its next coach but it is the
ambition of most J.League clubs to finish in a top four
spot that would enable them to compete in the lucrative
AFC Champions League.
”I'm enjoying every minute of it here … except for the
freezing temperatures,” he said.
”We've been in pre-season training for 17 days and
we've got two more weeks to go before the J.League
starts. We play Albirex Niigata at home on 1 March.
”We've played four friendlies and won them all so it's
looking good.
”We have some good quality players and I'm pleased to
say that Michael McGlinchey is doing well.
"Vegalta is a smallish club because Sendai is a small
city but we get 20,000 people at every home game.”
tp://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1181394/Leaving-Mariners-broke-my-heart-Arnold
Arnold has revealed how his decision to quit Central
Coast Mariners for Vegalta Sendai in Japan nearly
broke his heart.
After three “fantastic” years in Gosford, Arnold was
given the opportunity to weigh the remorse of leaving
his football family in a familiar environment against
the challenge of testing himself at a higher level in a
foreign land.
In the end the lure of the yen and particularly the
prospect of finding out how far his coaching ability
would take him won out.
”I left the Mariners with a very heavy heart, to be
honest,” Arnold said from freezing Sendai, north of
Tokyo.
”Believe me, it was a very tough decision to leave the
Central Coast. It nearly broke my heart.
”It's not easy to put aside all that we achieved in the
three years I was there.
”The people on the coast are fantastic and I tell you I
could have stayed in the job for another five or six
years.
”I miss home and everything about Australia.
”But I am also ambitious and I have set myself the big
challenge of trying to improve myself and my career.
”Hopefully it works out well for me. If it does not I will
come home with the knowledge that I gave it my best
shot to try to step up and that I won't die wondering.”
Arnold said he felt that after winning the A-League title
with the Mariners in 2013 there was not much more he
could achieve in Australia and this may have helped him
make up his mind about his immediate future.
”I felt a bit that way, yes,” he said.
”I had aspirations to go back to the national team even
though it was publicly documented that I was a
candidate and I wasn't … but let's not go there.
”I came back to club football to achieve certain goals
and I derived extreme satisfaction at developing players
like Matt Ryan, Trent Sainsbury, Oliver Bozanic and so
on.”
Arnold said he was fully aware of the big job he faces
to lift the standard of unfashionable club Vegalta.
”I am under no illusion about the challenge that lies
ahead of me, not just from the football side but from the
cultural side,” he said.
”Trying to understand the Japanese mentality is a
challenge in itself. It is very different to ours.”
Arnold, who played for Sanfrecce Hiroshima in
1997-1998, said he was coping pretty well with his new
environment but conceded his inability to speak
Japanese was causing him plenty of frustration.
”I only understand bits and pieces but I've got an
interpreter at the club who is doing a great job,” he
said.
”It is frustrating at times that you cannot directly relay
a message you want to get through.
”The communication side is the toughest part of my job
at the moment but day by day and week by week it is
getting better.
'But I have no doubt that this is going to be the
toughest challenge in my career.”
Arnold said he was not given any specific target by the
club when it named him as its next coach but it is the
ambition of most J.League clubs to finish in a top four
spot that would enable them to compete in the lucrative
AFC Champions League.
”I'm enjoying every minute of it here … except for the
freezing temperatures,” he said.
”We've been in pre-season training for 17 days and
we've got two more weeks to go before the J.League
starts. We play Albirex Niigata at home on 1 March.
”We've played four friendlies and won them all so it's
looking good.
”We have some good quality players and I'm pleased to
say that Michael McGlinchey is doing well.
"Vegalta is a smallish club because Sendai is a small
city but we get 20,000 people at every home game.”
tp://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1181394/Leaving-Mariners-broke-my-heart-Arnold
nebakke
Well-Known Member
Doubt it... His comments in the article make perfect sense - to me at least - what's the point of staying in a development league, once you've won just about everything on offer? Particularly if you're offered something more challenging? If anything, it could probably be argued that while it, obviously, frustrated him, I think our financial pressures may have been one of the things to keep him here for as long as we did... It's enforced the "embattled" culture of the club and helped build the family-feel that he said he is said to leave
Onya Arnie and best of luck
style_cafe
Well-Known Member
Maybe next year he might take his team somewhere warmer for their preseason training.
Somewhere where they have some all weather training courts, maybe a hotel on the training site, a club for meals,maybe even a beach or two for some workouts.
Any ideas?
Somewhere where they have some all weather training courts, maybe a hotel on the training site, a club for meals,maybe even a beach or two for some workouts.
Any ideas?
sydmariner
Well-Known Member
Are u hinting @ the coe
why does it take so long for a proper explanatory statement to come forth? same can be said for the Tommy Rogic statement I just read in another thread. It would put so many more people at ease to have a clear understanding of what may have transpired or the though processes behind them. There has been so much speculation, some reasonably close to the truth, others nothing more than conjured up rumours. The jeering at Tommy's return to Bluetongue wearing that god awful blue jersey may have been avoided to some extend if the information had come forth at an appropriate time.
sydmariner
Well-Known Member
Was interesting comment about the national team. He been saying he had no interest but statement says he wanted it but was pissed they said he was a chance when he wasn't.
”I had aspirations to go back to the national team even
though it was publicly documented that I was a
candidate and I wasn't … but let's not go there.
”I had aspirations to go back to the national team even
though it was publicly documented that I was a
candidate and I wasn't … but let's not go there.
bikinigirl
Well-Known Member
. that doesn't quite read correctly ... i had read it as a transcription error and that he actually had 'no aspirations' ... he has said that a couple of times - but that he would still have considered it IF he was asked
yellowcake
Well-Known Member
Yep, I feel sad for Arnie. And Weemac and Danny.
I feel sick thinking of him being at SFC or the Jest.
tsd
Well-Known Member
And clarkie
iEatHands
Well-Known Member
Wow, I'm speechless. I was looking at his results on Monday and was wondering whether they'd keep him on much longer. Hasn't won a game and 2nd last on the ladder, the writing was on the wall but I didn't think it would be this early!
If he moves to any team in NSW other than a role at CCM I'd be gutted, especially considering he may cause more disruption to CCM by poaching more players and staff just when we seem to have settled.
But most of all I feel sorry for the poor guy, obviously something wasn't right behind the scenes and even if he did come back and coach again in the HAL I'd imagine he's not going to be the same Arnold for quite some time.
If he moves to any team in NSW other than a role at CCM I'd be gutted, especially considering he may cause more disruption to CCM by poaching more players and staff just when we seem to have settled.
But most of all I feel sorry for the poor guy, obviously something wasn't right behind the scenes and even if he did come back and coach again in the HAL I'd imagine he's not going to be the same Arnold for quite some time.
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