How much do you think the assistant coach has helped? I recall they hadn’t even met prior to working together.
Not looking for a reason just opinions. When we had Zdrilic it was better pressing, still with some defensive issues.
Stanton was good with Corica before he went to Newcastle
Those I know connected said that Zdrillic was very good as assistant
Corica ignored his input, whilst Talay embraced it.
“Out to vanquish demons”
Which one?
Dr Rugari on twitter seems to believe we’ve already offered Talay a renewal 
reaches for lozenge
Do us a favour Newcastle.
Surely there is some top six clause.
This is totally unfair on John Maisano, but if we’re faced with another season of Talay, for my own sanity I’m going to start blaming our assistant coach for our poor results this season.
If I keep telling myself that things were looking ok when Zdrilla had us doing the RB geggenpress, and things started to go pear shaped when he left for Perth and Maisano came in, then maybe, just maybe I can pretend there’s some hope for next season.
I obviously don’t believe this, but I’m not sure how else I can look at another Talay season with anything but grave concern.
Sorry John.
Theres not nothing to this.
We have a coaching staff that comprise of a number of individuals. Talay’s best periods have come when he’s had pretty good assistants under him (Chiefy, then Zdrilla).
This doesn’t necessarily mean that Talay is a shit head coach and he’s just been relying on good assistant coaches (I think Italiano and Zdrilic have shown this season they aren’t perfect).
You do need the right combo.
If A. Popovic deserved a 3 year contract extension after showing us what’s in his locker, then I don’t see why Talay doesn’t get an extension too?
Coming 7th in what is arguably the highest quality A-League comp to-date and getting knocked out by a Singaporean team in the ACL2 is basically exceeding expectations.
Just need to sign a few midfielders in the off season and our squad is looking good!
Gee that’s one of the saddest things I’ve read if true.
That’s quite an argument there
It’s the worst quality comp I can remember. The whole post was extreme sarcasm.
Oops sorry, my detector was way out of tune there
I dont think we’re at Farina levels yet. But if he gets another seaspn. I can see it being worse than the reign of terror
Farina’s doughnut felt like it was every game. Ufuk has generally at least tried to fill the middle of the field. There’s no current HAL manager I’d swap for though really.
Arnold back; sure if its offered I’d bite your hand off. I’ll daydream that he could squeeze out the dominance of the glory days of Adrian from Costa et al