Too close to call?
I guess Talay has just enough credits from the start of his tenure to have a chance to fix this over the second half of the season, though. I hope he takes that opportunity, but I have a feeling it’s not likely. We’ll need an off-season to fix the uber-imbalanced squad we have. January is probably not going to provide enough opportunities to do that.
We are playing so badly… reminds me of Corica teams when he’d lost the dressing room. Maybe not seeing Sena and odd substitutions makes me make up conspiracy theories about disgruntled players
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Someone told me there was free room, free food, free swimming pool, free HBO & Free Willy if I voted No.
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And free Hilly?
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Went back to look at my opinion when he was appointed:
I was half right about him being underwhelming but half wrong about him not being worse than Corica.
Let him keep destroying this season while praying for a miracle and see out his contract, but start lining up a replacement now imo.
Speaking of which, where the hell is he?
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we are performing worse than the sum of our parts, and regularly. get rid - immediately.
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It’s interesting though that last season he took an existing underperforming team and turned it around.
Now that he’s had a chance to build a team he has us playing awfully. Maybe he’s more suited to be an assistant manager? Let someone else build and manage the team but help out tactically etc.
Corica had potentially built a decent team but had lost the dressing room.
Anyway hard to disagree with him being very clearly in over his head now.
#arniein
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I don’t think anyone said that while he was at Wellington. He brought in the likes of Davila, Zawada, Steinmann, Hemed, Steven Taylor, Piscopo, as well as giving young Kiwi guns like Ben Waine some handy playing time in the league. Cacace was also an absolute gun in Talay’s first season.
When we signed Talay as manager, I didn’t believe he’d completely change our fortunes long-term, but maybe ruffle a few feathers and get some under-performing players motivated, and continue his a good track record signing foreigners.
Whatever plan he had for this season has backfired pretty spectacularly, though. Someone like Sena would probably start as an #8 at any other club in the league, but because we’ve overstuffed ourselves with non-defensive midfielders, either he, or someone like Ouahim, has to sit out. Waste of a foreign spot. Why wasn’t it used on a solid foreign CB instead? Adelaide did it, and they look night and day more balanced as a result. We could all see we needed it. Why couldn’t Talay? That is the worrying bit for me.
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I still feel we probably were going for a foreign CB but Costa became possible and we grabbed him… going for the publicity over balance
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It has little, if anything, to do with a disobedient whale.
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We all knew and understood that at the time, it was a gamble and just then meant we needed to pluck a quality Aussie CB from very thin stocks. If we landed a fit Sainsbury we may be far better off, and Degenek may yet help us there 
, but the wealth of evidence shows Popovic ain’t it for this season.
The worst part of it imo is that it’s shafted Ouahim, he’s got the quality to dominate but we’re now not getting enough out of him. He’s been moved all over, multiple positions per game as well, and so hasn’t been able to really settle in and build combinations.
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Arnold In
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Uffie has 20-odd days to sort out the Max/CB issue (+2-3 games thereafter) before I tip over into the ‘Out’ camp.
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I think most managers would struggle to find solutions with our backline to be fair.
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He has me until the moment we get knocked out of Asia.
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