The most shit given to Western Suburbs is that they are still going on about the ACL six years later, their club has done and won nothing since.
The most shit given to Western Suburbs is that they are still going on about the ACL six years later, their club has done and won nothing since.
“there was 30 mins to go…”
Also, I think you guys underestimate how difficult it is to manage a team through the utter shit show of the last year.
At certain times the league has looked like not restarting, players are being stood down, players have been asked to take pay cuts. There has been genuine uncertainty about the future of the league. Most other sides have had important players leave over this stuff. Marquees and captains, etc.
There were players for whom it would have been so much easier to go home. Corica has kept the team invested and everyone came back to finish the job. And when it mattered we got it done.
That’s kind of special, imo. The fact that we might not successfully counter attack as often as we’d like - probably not significant in the scheme of things.
All this and his hair was immaculate throughout
Im not even considering the period post re-start as part of the a-league. I’m only looking at pre-restart
OFC club championship is still my favourite.
Those cunts will never win it!
The post-restart is relevant though. Maybe the performances weren’t great (though they were good enough when it mattered) but Corica maintained a culture that enabled success through some seriously difficult circumstances. Brattan and McGowan for instance probably suffered more than just about anyone else as a result of the pandemic. They ended the season in each other’s arms singing the praises of the club and its support structures.
This is a professional sporting team, traditionally a fairly mercenary environment, where there is very clearly deep respect and compassion amongst the players and staff. Compare that to clubs like Perth and Brisbane where people fucked off at the first sign of trouble. It’s no accident that that didn’t happen here.
I think the more relevant question is who is in our succession plan? Do we bring Van Weeren up to the seniors at some point?
Pretty sure that Uffy would be the first one approached if Corica was to go anywhere in the next 1-2 seasons. If he knocked it back then Paul Reid or Robbie Stanton would probably be ahead of Van Weeren at the moment.
If Corica doesn’t leave during that period then you would imagine Van Weeren would be at the head of the queue given that the majority of players ready for the first team would have played under him for several years.
In saying that, didn’t he say on the Sky Blue Stories pod that he didn’t have the ambition to be a first team manager and that he preferred the youth development side of the game?
Didn’t Grant Brebner say that like 6 weeks ago?
Taking over that basket case of a club is hardly a sign of ambition.
Corica’s league finishes as a head coach:
20/21 2nd
19/20 1st (GF winner)
18/19 2nd (GF winner)
Corica OUT
Standards are slipping. At this rate we’ll be 3rd place next season and then out of the six in 25/26!
Corica out!
Yes and still the finals series still to play, imagine winning 3 GFs in a row…
How much of our continued success is due to Corica’s management specifically though? I’m not sure you can imply he’s been a complete success, the results have been a success but not his managerial decisions. In a lot of games it seems like our quality with players like Ninko is what gets us over the line, in spite of our poor tactics.
He’s played the same tactics/formation for nearly 3 years now. And his approach to tactical problem solving in the 4-2-2-2 seems to be “do what we are currently doing, better”. Furthermore his indecisive/incorrect substitutions definitely cost us a fair few points this year. E.g. not bringing on subs early enough to kill off games, bringing on Trent when WSW parked the bus. I think our continued success is more to do with still having superior players compared to the other clubs in the league, not anything Corica has done. In Coricas defence signing Burgess for next year is a really smart move and might help fix some problems with how slow we attack.
Fuck me you miserable cunt.
Can’t you wait until we’ve been humiliated in the finals before pissing all over Corica…
He’s still won two Grand finals. But my point was that just stating league positions doesn’t really tell the full story and makes him look better than he is imo.
Given that it’s effectively taken Alfie to return and the first 20 rounds out of the way for us to look convincing this season, I reckon it’s fair to remember those months looking slow, ponderous, and about as threatening as a Nickelback album.
City have looked better this season than we have at any point in the 3 years under Corica, and that is with them having a rookie coach. We have some properly amazing players at this level. So it’s pretty reasonable to want more, even while appreciating that we’ve been blessed with unprecedented success in this league.
I reckon he should have done better with these squads.
Last weekend was the best we’ve looked since maybe the destruction of Melbourne.
Hopefully that verve and vigour continues.
I really appreciate the irony that this was posted while Castro and Keogh at Perth Glory, who just two seasons ago had the third-best regular season (by PPG) in A-League history, lose a game which mathematically eliminates from even making the top 6 this year.