Farina DUI (again)

[OJ]

24 delay =player revolt

 

[marinermick]

24 delay =player revolt

delay = goooooooooooooone

 

[dibo]

24 delay =player revolt

delay = goooooooooooooone

frantically ringing around anyone with a pro coaching licence to see if they're stupid enough to go into a dressing room with moore, miller, malcolm and tiatto.

 

[marinermick]

24 delay =player revolt

delay = goooooooooooooone

frantically ringing around anyone with a pro coaching licence to see if they're stupid enough to go into a dressing room with moore, miller, malcolm and tiatto.

you'd think the only two looney enough would be moore himself or kosmina

by the way, it is official - fwanky is gone

 

[dibo]

seems that money is an issue as well - fwanky wants a payout, club wants to pay no mroe than 3 months.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,26206178-5000940,00.html

Brisbane Roar sack Frank Farina but pay dispute delays announcement
By Marco Monteverde

October 14, 2009 Brisbane Roar have sacked controversial coach Frank Farina, but a bitter pay dispute on Tuesday delayed the announcement by 24 hours.

Farina's Roar tenure, one month shy of three years, is over following his weekend drink-driving offence, his second during his time with the Brisbane side.

Concerned by the poor discipline that has infested the club on and off the field, the Roar board has acted strongly in ridding the club of the man who has failed to set the necessary example to his team.

Farina is contracted to the Roar until the end of the 2010-11 campaign and wants his deal - understood to be about $250,000 a season - paid out in full.

However, the Roar board, perhaps of the belief that their coach has breached his contract after being charged with drink-driving while on his way to training, were only willing to offer Farina a three-month severance package.

A compromise is expected to be reached on Wednesday, with the club to officially announce Farina's axing on Wednesday afternoon.

"It was a silly indiscretion, Frank knows that," Roar chairman Chris Bombolas said on Tuesday.

Gold Coast United's billionaire owner Clive Palmer had plenty to say about Farina's plight.

After being released from hospital on Tuesday following a health scare during Gold Coast's 1-0 A-League win over Brisbane on Sunday, Palmer showed he was on the way to a full recovery when he took aim at the besieged coach.

"If I was Frank I would be going to see Alcoholics Anonymous and facing up to the problem," he said.

Former Socceroos captain Paul Okon has been identified by the Roar as an ideal candidate to replace Farina. But it has also emerged that the Roar are interested in the services of former Brisbane Strikers, Adelaide United and Sydney FC coach John Kosmina.

Adelaide-based Kosmina was reluctant to comment on Tuesday night, but admitted that if the position became available he would "have to think about it".

Okon, now the assistant coach of Gold Coast United, said that as a friend of Farina, he felt uncomfortable discussing his interest in the job.

"It's unfair to speculate about Frank's position," said Okon, who has a season-long contract with Gold Coast. "I guess anything is possible in football."

Roar assistant coach Rado Vidosic will run Wednesday's training session, which the media have been barred from attending to ensure the Brisbane players remain fully focused on Saturday night's home clash against Central Coast Mariners.

Vidosic, in line to be named as the club's interim coach, feared for the club's stability in the absence of Farina.

"He did the best that he could every day," Vidosic said.

"You need someone with the power to bring the right players to the club."

What a joke: "However, the Roar board, perhaps of the belief that their coach has breached his contract after being charged with drink-driving while on his way to training, were only willing to offer Farina a three-month severance package" reports the Daily Telegraph.

"You attempted to show up drunk to work and in attempting to do so committed a serious crime for the second time in your tenure with our club, don't let the door hit your arse, bucko" the club apparently hasn't, but should have said.

 

[midfielder]

LOL from the article ... But it has also emerged that the Roar are interested in the services of former Brisbane Strikers, Adelaide United and Sydney FC coach John Kosmina.

 

[Bear]

He would be a good choice

If anyone could crack some heads up there, its Kosmina

 

[midfielder]

Well there going from strength to strength ... looks like Ange Postecoglou

http://www.theworldgame.com.au/a-league/postecoglou-tipped-to-roar-245356

Next it will be Arnold Out ...

 

[dibo]

Ange will do well.

We've had two shit games and are due for our bounce, they've got a new manager and will get the bounce from that.

Whose bounce will win out? Find out Saturday night!

 

[midfielder]

One small mercy is Fozzie will hate a coach LM more and may lay off a bit...remember

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6u8LoGpvKk&feature=player_embedded

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Ange is certainly a better choice than Kossie.
Kossie is unbearable, but does add drama.
Ange is a much safer bet for them.

Personally I'd be talking to Bozza,
a class above the lot of them.

 

[elevated position]

Thanks midfielder, great clip and I look forward to the A League Wrap.

Ange wont last he is an arrogant jerk.
He also wanted the scum. The man has no pride.

 

[marinermick]

Thanks midfielder, great clip and I look forward to the A League Wrap.

Ange wont last he is an arrogant jerk.
He also wanted the scum. The man has no pride.

Fozzie was the dickhead in that clip and wouldn't listen to the valid points Ange made.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Jeff Hopkins

Roars W League coach, 200 games for Fulham - obvious choice

 

[David Votoupal]

Foster, Kosmina, Farina, Arnold- they act like the game owes them something, rather they act like they own Australian football.

 

[elevated position]

Mick, Fozzie is a gaylord dickhead full stop but he had a point, Ange was the coach over along period with that team so the results win or lose should stop with the coach or is it only in Australia that coaches are a proctected spieces.(I dont think so, ask Farina)
For this occasion foster will be right as if ange is given a long term coaching role rather than fill the gap for this  year (ala GVE) he will bring nothing new to the coaching standard of Aussie Football.
That's not to say we dont have any good coaches but the system so far has not allowed many if any world class people to emerge.

Like him or not even Arnold went back to school to refine his craft and maybe FFA should sponsor the likes of Okon, Milicic to take up junior posts at Euro / Sth American to further their education.

 

[dibo]

Mick, Fozzie is a gaylord dickhead full stop but he had a point, Ange was the coach over along period with that team so the results win or lose should stop with the coach or is it only in Australia that coaches are a proctected spieces.(I dont think so, ask Farina)

That would appear to ignore Foster's fawning over the team (and by extension, coaches) from the recent U20s campaign in spite of failing to register a point.

Cop a load of this obsequious little effort:

Dear James,

I thought it appropriate to write to let you and your team know how proud I am of your performance against Costa Rica yesterday.

For decades, SBS has been pushing for Australian teams to approach football in the correct fashion, to play a sophisticated passing game and to begin the process of Australia becoming a true football Nation.

This cannot occur without an insistence on playing football with possession and relying on the quality of our play, not the physical qualities we are too well known for.

Too often our under age National teams have approached World Cup tournaments with a reliance on running and fighting rather than playing football, and whilst many have gained better results than this tournament, none in my experience have been brave enough to take the world on face to face, to test our football against theirs, and to play with great technical courage, not just physical strength.

In the past we have beaten all of Brazil, Argentina and West Germany however not by playing the quality of football required to develop top level international players, but by fighting away in the old Australian style.

Your team have now demonstrated the new style of Australias future and as a former Socceroo, I was immensely proud to see you apply yourselves bravely in a tactical system which is years above our recent past.

One day, many years hence, when Australia wins the FIFA World Cup I will be telling people that the journey truly started this week, in Port Said, by a group of young Australians who found the courage to play attacking football, the way Australia must play to succeed.

Whilst Australians always play to win, do not be at all concerned by the results. You are there to learn to play properly, not to gain a few lucky wins or points without passing the ball, and you will be judged in time as the Class of 2009, those who finally set us on the right path.

I wish you the best against Brazil. Believe in yourselves but, above all, believe in your approach, because in the end this is what will form you all as quality senior internationals, and show the world that Australia is at last moving forward in the game of football.

Others have taken the easy route to cheap results, you are taking the more honorable path to lasting football success, and I heartily congratulate you all.

Kind Regards,

Craig Foster

Chief Football Analyst

SBS Television

Ange's boys took points against Benin and Japan too, while this side lost all three. A bit of a contrast, and remember that this is a side that had considerable resources devoted to them, especially compared to the old SA of Ange's time where Chipperfield was the only Euro-roo to fly back for an OFC playoff because he was the only one willing/mad enough to pay his own way.

Ange did alright considering everything. Oh, and two years before the apparent disaster in Holland, Ange led the side to the top of their group, including beating Brazil. We were knocked out in the second round by UAE...

 

[OJ]

Slap on a nice italian suit, cross your legs, get the weekly facial and compliment your articulate manner with european style hand gestures. That my friends is the Craig Imposter Foster make over. Has he spawned a new style of reality show??

 

[FFC Mariner]

Cant see Miller,Tiatto or Moore giving Ange any respct whatsoever.

This will be a disaster long term

Lets hope it starts this week

 

[dibo]

Cant see Miller,Tiatto or Moore giving Ange any respct whatsoever.

This will be a disaster long term

Lets hope it starts this week

For BRFC, the best thing Ange could do is to not cop any shit. If any of them don't like doing as they're told and respecting the manager, they can play youth leaue for a few weeks. If that's not good enough, they can find somewhere else to play.

Here's a thought - what odds that one or more of that four (adding Malcolm to your list) were on the piss with Fwanky as well? Could this be why he is so keen for a payout? Has he been hung out to dry?