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Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Tony Sage: Business Management No 1: Pro-bono
Dear Tony
Thanks for what you've done for the game in the west, you know putting loads of dosh into it and all that, but it's not been working has it?
Not really.
And as a football fan I hate to see guys chucking dosh at the game year after year and seeing nothing tangible, nothing long-term for it.
Imagine what you could have acheived if you'd put a tenth of what you spend into community and long-term planning!
And bet you don't run your mining business in the same way and if you did would you keep your men in charge, or maybe you employ women in mining but we won't go there.
It's not to late to learn from your spending sprees, get more bang for your buck and basically get a team your hard efforts and dosh deserve to be proud of.
Sage advice in no particular order:
1.Learn from your competitors, think Roar, think Mariners. No World beaters in those teams, but some fit boys, and some very young Aussies coming thru and when the big guys are out, the young Aussies play exactly the same. COACH is the key.
2. Get rid of Fergie - he's yesterday's man - a thug on the field - has yet to produce a team worthy of the modern game.
3. Read Soccernomics - and read it fast - or else you are gonna do a load more dough. Heard you were after Dean Heffernan. Arsene Wenger doesn't sign 29 year olds - Perth do in their dozens. Is Fergie better than Arsene?
4. Football is a fast modern game. Everyone says Barcelona and Arsenal are the best styles to watch - and they win most of their games. They don't have many if any players over 28. Arsenal even got rid of Thierry Henry at 28. At Perth you don't sign them until they are 28!
5. Invest in the future. Australia is booming with young talent. Robbie Fowler, Mile Sterjovski, Jamie Harnwell, Jacob Burns, Steve McGarry, Branko Jelic, Victor Sakora, Andy Todd, Chris Coyne can I stop. Only two of these can be in your squad. Got it?
6. I'm going to stop now - but the boys and girls in the east are all watching and laughing at the Glory and the re-appointment of Fergie and his next possible signings.
7. And I'll throw in for free - coffee in Canberra. Next time you are over this way let's get away from Perth and talk Glory - dispassionately, let's look at what you can do to improve your dough and have a great team for the future.
I'll leave you with this?
If you spend heaps to get Shane Smeltz and Dean Heffernan to the club and you don't win the league (you won't) what is your next plan, sack Fergie and spend more?
In business you need to act, surely you know that, or has your business skills being over-inflated due to Chinese market demand? Looks like Clive Palmers has, you in the same boat?
Coffee's a me. Consider me a critical friend!
Thanks for what you've done for the game in the west, you know putting loads of dosh into it and all that, but it's not been working has it?
Not really.
And as a football fan I hate to see guys chucking dosh at the game year after year and seeing nothing tangible, nothing long-term for it.
Imagine what you could have acheived if you'd put a tenth of what you spend into community and long-term planning!
And bet you don't run your mining business in the same way and if you did would you keep your men in charge, or maybe you employ women in mining but we won't go there.
It's not to late to learn from your spending sprees, get more bang for your buck and basically get a team your hard efforts and dosh deserve to be proud of.
Sage advice in no particular order:
1.Learn from your competitors, think Roar, think Mariners. No World beaters in those teams, but some fit boys, and some very young Aussies coming thru and when the big guys are out, the young Aussies play exactly the same. COACH is the key.
2. Get rid of Fergie - he's yesterday's man - a thug on the field - has yet to produce a team worthy of the modern game.
3. Read Soccernomics - and read it fast - or else you are gonna do a load more dough. Heard you were after Dean Heffernan. Arsene Wenger doesn't sign 29 year olds - Perth do in their dozens. Is Fergie better than Arsene?
4. Football is a fast modern game. Everyone says Barcelona and Arsenal are the best styles to watch - and they win most of their games. They don't have many if any players over 28. Arsenal even got rid of Thierry Henry at 28. At Perth you don't sign them until they are 28!
5. Invest in the future. Australia is booming with young talent. Robbie Fowler, Mile Sterjovski, Jamie Harnwell, Jacob Burns, Steve McGarry, Branko Jelic, Victor Sakora, Andy Todd, Chris Coyne can I stop. Only two of these can be in your squad. Got it?
6. I'm going to stop now - but the boys and girls in the east are all watching and laughing at the Glory and the re-appointment of Fergie and his next possible signings.
7. And I'll throw in for free - coffee in Canberra. Next time you are over this way let's get away from Perth and talk Glory - dispassionately, let's look at what you can do to improve your dough and have a great team for the future.
I'll leave you with this?
If you spend heaps to get Shane Smeltz and Dean Heffernan to the club and you don't win the league (you won't) what is your next plan, sack Fergie and spend more?
In business you need to act, surely you know that, or has your business skills being over-inflated due to Chinese market demand? Looks like Clive Palmers has, you in the same boat?
Coffee's a me. Consider me a critical friend!
Nearpost talks finals football fever - w-league review and more
Lucy Zelic, Peter Funnell and myself Eamonn Flanagan talk finals football.
We've got all the news and what does Lucy think of the PFA Media Scholarship for Ross Aloisi?
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We've got all the news and what does Lucy think of the PFA Media Scholarship for Ross Aloisi?
How many football poddies only cover Aussie football?
We are clearly Australia's number one football poddie, apart from all the others, We discuss all the news from Australian football. What more could you wish for from the Australian media?
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Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Robbie Kruse a Socceroo: So who is next?
Robbie did it at 22. Played in the A-League and made a significant contibution for the Socceroos in a big tournament, the Asian Cup.
So if Robbie can step up who will be the next guys to challenge, the next young guys currently plying their trade in the A-League but good enough to make an impression two or three years from now?
Here's five to consider....remember where Robbie was two years ago? In and out of Brisbane.
1. Luke Devere - okay he's just left but hey he could do it.
2. Matthew Leckie - a lot to learn but could make an impression a la Robbie sometime soon.
3. Iain Ramsay - left field? no left side and we need him. Could he develop further?
4. Mustafa Amini - has time on his side, heaps of it.
5. David Williams - like to see him at a decent club to start to really get success in a winning team.
6. AndIf Robbie can do it, can his mate Mitch Nicholls make the next step. A leap to far? Robbie did it!
oh and Dimi Petratos another bolter with time on his sides
Heaps more around but if Robbie is the marker we could have some decent squad members coming through our young boys.
So if Robbie can step up who will be the next guys to challenge, the next young guys currently plying their trade in the A-League but good enough to make an impression two or three years from now?
Here's five to consider....remember where Robbie was two years ago? In and out of Brisbane.
1. Luke Devere - okay he's just left but hey he could do it.
2. Matthew Leckie - a lot to learn but could make an impression a la Robbie sometime soon.
3. Iain Ramsay - left field? no left side and we need him. Could he develop further?
4. Mustafa Amini - has time on his side, heaps of it.
5. David Williams - like to see him at a decent club to start to really get success in a winning team.
6. AndIf Robbie can do it, can his mate Mitch Nicholls make the next step. A leap to far? Robbie did it!
oh and Dimi Petratos another bolter with time on his sides
Heaps more around but if Robbie is the marker we could have some decent squad members coming through our young boys.
Small Sided Games - Becoming pap in Canberra?
I'm serious about football, technical skill, education, kid development and abusing clerics in the Catholic Church...but hey that's another story!
When Capital Football the Peak Body in Canberra announce that u12 boys and girls will now play competitively, ie with results and league tables produced each week, I'm wondering on what criteria this could be considered beneficial to the development of players.
Educationally - no
Player development - no
Reducing parent sideline rage - no
Improving player morale and enjoyment - no
All Aussie teams, kids and parents want to win. Every week, no matter how many points are up for grabs.
We've already seen SSG's slipback in the U11s in recent years, and while experts argue Futsal is great for your skills only one club I know has bucked the FFA trend and gone against 7 v7 at u8 and 9 in Canberra - they play 5 v 5, the pressure seems to be on to move back to where we came from.
Think Leckie not Messi, Emerton not Sneider, Insaghi not Cahill - and that's at the top end! God help us in the u12s!
Of course well-meaning folk will say by 12 players want competition, but from my sideline stance, kids and parents are well aware of who has won the most in their non-competitive comp, so do we really need the publishing of tables to lift the spirits and enjoyment of the game.
Hope your team aren't bottom and thumped each week for all to see.
SSG's philosophy slips a little each year.
And when can we see the National Curriculum - no not the broad document they call the National Curriculum - the details. As a former teacher everyone curriculum I saw had meat and bones on the docu, what to teach each week in some detail.
FFA has no such guidance.
When Capital Football the Peak Body in Canberra announce that u12 boys and girls will now play competitively, ie with results and league tables produced each week, I'm wondering on what criteria this could be considered beneficial to the development of players.
Educationally - no
Player development - no
Reducing parent sideline rage - no
Improving player morale and enjoyment - no
All Aussie teams, kids and parents want to win. Every week, no matter how many points are up for grabs.
We've already seen SSG's slipback in the U11s in recent years, and while experts argue Futsal is great for your skills only one club I know has bucked the FFA trend and gone against 7 v7 at u8 and 9 in Canberra - they play 5 v 5, the pressure seems to be on to move back to where we came from.
Think Leckie not Messi, Emerton not Sneider, Insaghi not Cahill - and that's at the top end! God help us in the u12s!
Of course well-meaning folk will say by 12 players want competition, but from my sideline stance, kids and parents are well aware of who has won the most in their non-competitive comp, so do we really need the publishing of tables to lift the spirits and enjoyment of the game.
Hope your team aren't bottom and thumped each week for all to see.
SSG's philosophy slips a little each year.
And when can we see the National Curriculum - no not the broad document they call the National Curriculum - the details. As a former teacher everyone curriculum I saw had meat and bones on the docu, what to teach each week in some detail.
FFA has no such guidance.
Nearpost: Zelic chooses Sydney FC to win Grand Final
Lucy Zelic says Sydney FC to win, Eamonn says De Vanna, and Paddy calls it Sydney in the Grand Final this weekend.
Brickbats to the ABC - Golf over football - pap!
Paddy,Lucy and Eamonn are on the pitch and review the W-League final, the A-League losers - those that didn't make the finals and who of the losers were actually winners - and why. News, Quiz and dedication to Josip.
How many football poddies only cover Aussie football?
We are clearly Australia's number one football poddie, apart from all the others, We discuss all the news from Australian football. What more could you wish for from the Australian media?
Download.
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Brickbats to the ABC - Golf over football - pap!
Paddy,Lucy and Eamonn are on the pitch and review the W-League final, the A-League losers - those that didn't make the finals and who of the losers were actually winners - and why. News, Quiz and dedication to Josip.
How many football poddies only cover Aussie football?
We are clearly Australia's number one football poddie, apart from all the others, We discuss all the news from Australian football. What more could you wish for from the Australian media?
Download.
or play right from your computer....
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