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Sack Ante Jurić

I must admit... Hanna Lowry leaving the Glory for Sydney because "She wanted to play finals football" has given me quite a bit of shadenfreude these last 2 seasons.
 
petszk said:
I must admit... Hanna Lowry leaving the Glory for Sydney because "She wanted to play finals football" has given me quite a bit of shadenfreude these last 2 seasons.
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Maybe she cursed us.
 
How the fuck is this man still our coach? If he isn't sacked in the morning I will not be attending any more women's matches this season.
 
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Kitwally said:
Finances? They don’t want to pay out the rest of his contract?
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Wouldn't hurt, probably isn't on much of a contract anyway given he spent half his time coaching Sydney United to a disaster in the Championship.
 
Kitwally said:
Finances? They don’t want to pay out the rest of his contract?
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I don’t think many club owners want the financial burden of operating a women’s team so maybe it’s time to scrap the ALW and look at running a league on its own, as per the PFA’s model.
I don’t want to get into the financial side of it at this stage but if run properly it would be feasible and definitely a winner with the thousands of fans that want to follow that side of the game.
 
libelous said:
I don’t think many club owners want the financial burden of operating a women’s team so maybe it’s time to scrap the ALW and look at running a league on its own, as per the PFA’s model.
I don’t want to get into the financial side of it at this stage but if run properly it would be feasible and definitely a winner with the thousands of fans that want to follow that side of the game.
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Similar to the NWSL in the States?
 
libelous said:
I don’t think many club owners want the financial burden of operating a women’s team so maybe it’s time to scrap the ALW and look at running a league on its own, as per the PFA’s model.
I don’t want to get into the financial side of it at this stage but if run properly it would be feasible and definitely a winner with the thousands of fans that want to follow that side of the game.
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I'm not sure it would work in Australia though. Fans are attached to the clubs. Most women's football fans watch men's and women's football so I feel like splitting could hurt the crowd totals.

As for Sydney, we still managed to buy good players. We still heavily market the women's team in a positive light. It's absolutely a coaching and tactics problem.

Sharkman84 said:
Similar to the NWSL in the States?
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I would assume so. But what made it work there (and in Canada) is the fact that it was always like that. Back when the W-League (as it was then called) started it was clubs fielding women's teams. We opted to follow Europe's model of "one club, two teams" with North America's model of a closed league (for now) with finals (like the playoffs in the NSL and NWSL).
 
libelous said:
Probably more like the USL Super League which is a 12 team league with games played at ( mostly) smaller, more suitable grounds. It’s has no connection to the NWSL but it is affiliated with the men’s USL.
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Correction: It is currently a 9 team league.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
I'm not sure it would work in Australia though. Fans are attached to the clubs. Most women's football fans watch men's and women's football so I feel like splitting could hurt the crowd totals.

As for Sydney, we still managed to buy good players. We still heavily market the women's team in a positive light. It's absolutely a coaching and tactics problem.


I would assume so. But what made it work there (and in Canada) is the fact that it was always like that. Back when the W-League (as it was then called) started it was clubs fielding women's teams. We opted to follow Europe's model of "one club, two teams" with North America's model of a closed league (for now) with finals (like the playoffs in the NSL and NWSL).
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I don’t think there is a large percentage of fans who follow both leagues. The growth in a totally separate league will come from a largely untapped female market.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
I'm not sure it would work in Australia though. Fans are attached to the clubs. Most women's football fans watch men's and women's football so I feel like splitting could hurt the crowd totals.

As for Sydney, we still managed to buy good players. We still heavily market the women's team in a positive light. It's absolutely a coaching and tactics problem.


I would assume so. But what made it work there (and in Canada) is the fact that it was always like that. Back when the W-League (as it was then called) started it was clubs fielding women's teams. We opted to follow Europe's model of "one club, two teams" with North America's model of a closed league (for now) with finals (like the playoffs in the NSL and NWSL).
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Kory Babington at CCM is from Sutherland - drives up several times a week to coach the Mariners. He has also coached a few of the girls at Sydney FC. He would be a good option.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
How the fuck is this man still our coach? If he isn't sacked in the morning I will not be attending any more women's matches this season.
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I'd say the higher-ups at Sydney FC still think Ante Juric can turn things around with the women's team and make the top six but sadly that isn't the case and they're headed for the spoon. I won't be surprised if he ends up getting the sack come season's end especially since many of the players he's brought in haven't performed as well as initially thought and replacing most of the experience with youth is clearly not working.
 
libelous said:
I don’t think there is a large percentage of fans who follow both leagues. The growth in a totally separate league will come from a largely untapped female market.
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There would be. Most women's fans also follow the men's, a large amount of men's fens also follow the women's and most care at least a little bit about the women's team.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
I'd say the higher-ups at Sydney FC still think Ante Juric can turn things around with the women's team and make the top six but sadly that isn't the case and they're headed for the spoon. I won't be surprised if he ends up getting the sack come season's end especially since many of the players he's brought in haven't performed as well as initially thought and replacing most of the experience with youth is clearly not working.
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Not sure if we're exactly headed for the spoon yet. Wanderers are still struggling to get points. But we cannot get the spoon. We must do everything possible to avoid it, even if it means getting lousy 0–0 draws.

As I said before we need players like Danella Butrus, Annalise Rasmussen, Sienna Saveska, etc. Any chance we get them?
 
HonestSpursFan said:
There would be. Most women's fans also follow the men's, a large amount of men's fens also follow the women's and most care at least a little bit about the women's team.
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Caring about a particular club’s women’s team doesn’t necessarily translate to ‘bums on seats or eyeballs on screens’.
The ALW isn’t financially viable as it stands so I believe that a total revamp of womens professional football is vital for providing players for future Matildas teams.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Is he good? I want a good coach.
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I think Kory Babington is doing alright at Central Coast Mariners with the club currently third on the ladder and Annalise Rasmussen a joint leader in the race for the Golden Boot, and he already has experience as part of the Matildas farm system which would no doubt make him a good fit for the role.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
As I said before we need players like Danella Butrus, Annalise Rasmussen, Sienna Saveska, etc. Any chance we get them?
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I'd say there's a chance for Sydney FC to get Annalise Rasmussen and Sienna Saveska going into the April transfer window or next season as both of them fall out of contract at season's end, but Danella Butrus is out of contract at the end of next season and there is a possibility of Rasmussen in particular extending at Central Coast Mariners.
 
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