Two years is the surprise with Brattan at his age and post ACL. Hopefully that means it’s relatively cheap so less of a risk?
I don’t think he would sign a cheap deal for two years. More likely we’ll have a deal that is either front-loaded or back-ended so we get one of his years for relatively cheap.
Front load it so the insurance pays a good chunk of it, and we can sign a decent injury cover.
He’s not going to be out for that long into the new season, right?
With good rehab, players can come back well from ACL injuries these days. Grant came back better each time after his two years off. I am sure the club has looked into the probabilities regarding Brattan’s full recovery. Really looking forward to seeing him out there again, dictating the game for us.
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Then he got selected for the Socceroos, spent months in Scotland, caught covid and has looked a bit piss poor ever since.
He wants to be there for the first game in the new stadium according to the man himself. Safe to assume his rehab is going well
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He misses the Haggis.
I remember that from a movie about an EPL club that sacked the manager , this was the new one’s first press conference , can someone remind me ???
Mike Basset
Joey Lynch catches up with the silver fox for all the usual cliches:
This bit did my head in but…
“Corica is targeting the biggest shift the Sky Blues have seen in approach in years: a pivot from the ‘Arnieball’ 4-2-2 to a 4-3-3. Wingers, forward runs, and dribbling are the name of the game.
“Last year wasn’t great and towards the end of the season I was starting to think about it already,” he said. "But I don’t think we had the players to make that change. So we stuck it out the way we had been doing for quite a while, which was very successful [in the past].” 
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It’s true though, right? Towards the end of a season is a hard time to try and change a formation, and it really is clear that last season’s squad wouldn’t fit too well in a 4-3-3. I think if he had tried to shoe-horn that squad into a 4-3-3, we would have had some devastating defeats. We still look a bit shaky with the squad that we have now and them settling in to the new way of playing.
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That’s why you always have the team learning a new formation in FM just in case.
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We’ve covered it to death but from the outside the January signings of Narsingh and Amini are exactly what you’d do if looking to make that shift. Why otherwise would you sign a winger and an 8 and continue with a system that uses neither? Nevermind the others that were already being shoehorned and rendered ineffective.
Maybe it’s just poor phrasing but it’s still staggering to have made those moves and then say “we didn’t have the players for it”. Supreme confidence in the box system or lack of time to implement might be valid, the latter still raises the same questions over the January signings though.
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this interview was made unlistenable by Corica saying “obviously” every 4th word.
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We didn’t have the players to play 4-2-2-2, but that didn’t stop him…
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Sound familiar?
Corica on wingers:
“Luciano Narsingh will frighten defenders with his speed and ability to get into great attacking positions. He has topped the Dutch first division with assists before and can also score goals so I expect he will open up our opposition. Added to the strength we already have going forward, it’s going to be an exciting finish to the season with plenty of goals.”
Corica on defenders:
"James Donachie is a first-class defender, I think he has proven this over the course of many seasons in the A-League. He is a winner, his stats show that, and he will complement what we already have here in terms of our defensive structure. Alongside Wilko, Ben Warland and Anton Mlinaric returning for next season, we have four excellent centre-halves who will be vying for places in our starting eleven.”
Reality was we ended up with scoring 37 (our fewest in 5 years) and
conceding 44 (our worst since 2012)
And yet here we are yet again…
“Joe Lolley likes to dribble, he’s got a great left foot so he can shoot and score goals; good deliveries into the box. Robert Mak, he likes to make forward runs, he’s got tight control and he likes to play little one-twos and stuff like that. These are the areas that we wanted to improve and excite people as well. I think these two players can excite people.”
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What would you like him to say instead?
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Ohhhh, can I answer?
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Manager showers praise on new signing. How could he do that! Sack him
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