Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Zdrilić: The Ufuk Talay Thread

The Cove
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Probably one of the most inevitable appointments that our club has ever managed. Boringly mature and unexciting because this seems to have been the known path from the moment Uffy left SFC and went to Wellington.

Zdrilic represented that thing that football fans crave - the unknown possibility of your club being the one that uncovers some footballing genius sent from the gods to revolutionise your clubs very existence (much the same way fans crave the signing of an unknown Brazilian or youth product who has torn up youth football)…

The appointment of Talay, feels like something a sensible club with a plan would do - which isn’t something that normally gets the masses overly pumped! There is no unknown to this, no foreign coach who studied at the feet of a foriegn footballing genius - just a former player who has studied under our two previous coaches and managed a club in the same league to a position slightly higher than expected. No Vite bringing Kisel or ex-Barca player bringing ex-academy products. Just a bloke we have known for the same amount of time as the coach that just left with similar tactics to the coach that just left and has had the same football path as the coach that just left - so yeah - exciting times!

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I get what you’re saying.

But the Phoenix had great foreign players under Talay. Better than Kisel (no shade).

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Sometimes the boring answer is the right one.

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You take that back!

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What the hell is it with everyone making me feel old in this thread???

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Look, Kisel is better than Davila, in my heart, ok?

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All I ask is he brings more scenes like this

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This Karol “King of the sideways pass” Kisel slander will not be tolerated.

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Sure you’re not thinking of Disco Stu? Drink

FWIW I still refer to secondary assists, the money pass that carves open opposition defences, as “the Kisel ball”. On the rare occasions we actually see one anyways.

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the TMAC knee slide :joy:

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Such a pity that the coverage missed the pitch invasion (well maybe not given Conan and I got off scott free).

Seems like half of the managers in the league played in that game.

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Was it an actual invasion? If it’s the game i’m thinking of where there was a bomb threat at one of the train stations on the way to the game and the NSW riot police were up the top, that was a gate that wasn’t closed. I was standing right next to it and remember seeing everyone pile forward to the barrier and then subsequently fall through, not realising the gate was open. The cops arrested a whole bunch of people that game for no actual reason.

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Would love to see crowds like that at Gosford again one day.

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Someone may have opened the gate intentionally but I am not at liberty to confirm or deny until someone can confirm the statute of limitations on in such matters.

Having said that the first two through the gate received no punishment.

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A good reminder of just how irritating Heffernan was.

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To be super topical, didn’t Uffy also break Heffernan’s leg at the very end of that same game?

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Maybe got to 10:14

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It misses the key moment, which is probably for the best.

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And a PL manager on commentary

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That doesn’t look like a Daft Punk concert :thinking:

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