Jump before youāre pushed.
He might also be sniffing an opportunity at another Sydney-based A-League club ā¦
I suspect he is certainly going to Croatia - probably try and look for work there, or just drink coffee with Dukesā¦
I do hope that they get someone in with a bit or personality, both on the sidelines and with injecting the way the team plays. It is a very good squad that locals just are not excited about. They have one of the best attacking players in the competition yet people are very disconnected. Considering just how big the local playing competition is, would be a shame if they canāt use this as an opportunity to connect better with the community.
Reading fan posts on Facebook really highlights how little confidence in the management of the club that the loyal supporters have. There has been some ārumoursā that Talay will be the one coming in, but I have no idea how much truth is in that.
It says heās going back to Croatia for āfamily reasonsā usually ageing or ill parents, so it seems unlikely.
Plus WSW have signed Rudan for 3 years havenāt they?
The whole club needs a personality injection
There could be other Sydney-based clubs with upcoming coaching vacanciesā¦
The club have done almost everything to torpedo their chances of actually getting a decent fanbase. I think itās already too late for them to get it back unless someone else comes in at board level to try and sort it out, and even then itās no guarantee.
I think it is still possible to build a fanbase. Yes they have put a lot of actual supporters of side with some of the things they have done, but the advantage they have is that they have actually been very anonymous with their publicity, so a lot of potential fans would have zero idea about these āissuesā - so they are actually in a situation where they could āstart againā and try a big push within the local community with a new coach as the new face of thisā¦ probably wonāt happen - but it is possible for sure.
They launched during COVID which was always going to be hard. They also play terribly boring football and have overpriced tickets. They had cheap tickets and managed to pull around 3,200 against Victory in the rain on Friday night - a higher crowd than a lot of our home games this season sadly.
They have every chance of turning things around for the better. Cheaper tickets and playing a better style of football will help greatly.
They just need some basic community connection. My boy plays in the under 6ās in the Macarthur district - the amount of teams is unreal, our club alone has 8 under 6 teams - there is 11 conferences in the association with each conference having about 10 teams - that is 110 under 6 teams in the districtā¦ I am not sure how that compares to other districts, but it seems a fair amount to me. A quick look at the association website shows the under 7ās have 12 conferencesā¦ so some basic engagement at this level alone could yield some decent results.
At training, the dadās are usually talking about NRL results, so this the Bulls are probably not even on their radarā¦ that is what needs to change
Didnāt they decide to charge more for home supporters to sit in the home end as it was a āprivilegeā to be able to support?
Yes, and then because of this they basically had to dick everyone else with ticket prices because otherwise people would just buy in GA and go anywhere since the stadium is empty. I remember for one Sydney away game they were charging $40 for away tickets so obviously I was just going to buy GA on the hill and move to the Cove, only to see they were one step ahead and also charging like $40 for GA 
No casual fan is going to pay that to watch an A-League game, the APL needs to do something about it.
They got so much basic stuff wrong for what will always be the āunderdogā and ācommunityā type club in Sydney.
Yes, plus I think it was made 18+ and they were shifted from the original allocated place to elsewhere in the stadium, which they home supporters didnāt like. There was also some shenanigans with registering the Bull Pen as a trademark.
But I guess this is my earlier point, this would matter not a jot to 95% of potential supporters really. General affordability and enticement to the games in general needs to be looked at.
As Trash said, there is some general sympathy from me on the fact that they launched during lockdowns and Covid crappiness, and then we have had floods and terrible weather mixed with fixtures being all over the place, so it is not all their fault at all.
And donāt forget the absolutely ridiculous situation with the pitch at the start of the season that was at least 99% the clubās fault.
Also just another dumb basic thing they got wrong (while weāre all ranting) is to not put the Bullpen on the side of the stadium where the camera is facing. What better way to promote active support and make the TV viewing experience better than to tuck it into the bottom corner so that nobody sees it.
This isnāt necessarily a bad idea, their version of it though showed zero understanding of why you shoud charge more or how much.
The logic runs like this.
If the active area is the cheapest seat in the stadium, people will buy active tickets, not because they want to participate but because itās the cheapest seat, so you end up with a bunch of people who donāt want to do active support in the active area, a terrible idea.
By making active tickets slightly more expensive than the cheapest seats, it addresses that issue. What the Maccas did, jacking up the price to almost the same as gold tickets, on top of already overpriced GA tix is the issue.
I donāt understand why they are not behind the goals at the athletic track endā¦ it is perfect for a home end that sizeā¦ always seemed to odd to me.
Itās there family hill (alcohol free), but they should definitely be behind the goals at the leagues club end.