http://goal.com/en/news/1277/west-asia/2009/04/21/1221508/reports-mohammed-mayeli-kohan-resigns-as-iran-coach-after-just-tw

Not bad mate your voice at times a little to soft … you have a soft rock or gentle country voice … I have attached a song sung in the 80′s by J D Souther, who left the Eagles (you hear him on a number of Eagle tracks) BTW he went back to the Eagles but he has a similar style and voice … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1po5MES23qo ..

The song is called ..” Your Only Lonely”… JD style and use of AHhhhh & OUOUOU is similar to yours…as I said his voice is also similar to yours … maybe next Christmas or just after but well before University is back go to Tamworth busk a bit on the streets .. Actually after new year go to Byron for a couple of weeks and do some busking practice then head off to Tamworth .

Hope you enjoy but took some time to remember the guys name and the song title … but have a listen see what you think..

Jes … very sorry …. but have a listen to Das’s youtube and then JD as well see if you agree.. also posted a comment on your youtube.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1277/west-asia/2009/04/21/1220550/mayeli-kohan-already-in-hot-water-in-iran#comments

Jeez, get a life.

Will listen latter today and get back latter today .. have lots of work to do.

On the Nicky thing … ei has been a disappointment according to himself.

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/101048,carle-im-a-2-million-flop.aspx

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Thanks for telling me about Playlist.com and the various football radio station. I just listen to a bit of 442 radio and it’s pretty good. I probably listen to TWG radio on the way home from placement this monday. Although I can see how useful playlist can be, I feel I have already a large playlist on my computer (90 gb) already but if there’s a song I want to check out from a band I haven’t heard for before I think that will be useful website to know.

Did you post up your playlist on that website?

I also uploaded another song I’ve written where I just finished recording my vocals today on youtube called “Looking back” and I would like you to have a listen to it and tell me what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxUd_McQfSk

This time, for once, you have hit the nail squarely on the head, my furry associate. This blog is all about entertainment, as, in fact the entire game of football, and all it’s peripheral bits and pieces is. In fact all sport is essentially show business. What’s more, I know you agree with me. I know for sure that you don’t want to see dull boring defensive football, do you? You want attacking, skillful football played with great skill and derring-do, preferably with eye candy like Nick Carle twirling around on the pitch while you lean back in your plastic spring loaded seat and chow down on that half time pie and sauce, all the while writhing in voyeuristic tittilation.

Like me, you surely don’t kid yourself that you are reading these opinion pieces to be informed do you?

It’s interesting you mention juvenile content on 442 – personally I have never posted a single comment on their blogs due to agreeing with your alleged opinion – I’m sure you would never bother with it either, would you “the bear” – or should I call you “Oh Yeah”?

As for your telling me to grow some balls, all I have to say to that is, I bet you love fishsticks, don’t you

sorry that link is .. http://marinators.net/forum/index.php?topic=3480.0

Good to hear from you … Jes & others just bear (no relation to the poster) with me a little I will get to the topic… Das & others I have posted in the Mariner’s fans forum a list of Australia radio shows broadcast on the net that may be of interest to you ..http://marinators.net/forum/index.php?topic=3480.0

Also Das have you used playlist you need to add the .com after but it an awesome site I have over 500 songs on it now and my youngest son who is an IT genius somehow copied my playlist on to media player so I don’t even use up streaming limit at home..

Jes, (thanks for letting me chat to Das)and back to topic . SJ .. maybe not the coach himself but the politics of a major football competitor, remember 1997, .. well it’s good to see someone actually giving us this info … we need to play some ACL & Socceroo matches against these guys and the better we understand them as far as I am concerned.

You may not know, nor care, as to who Sheik Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah is however it would shake our collective comfortable Australian existence if he (currently OCA President) managed to work his way to some level of power in the AFC. Yet despite his ability to wreak havoc he is surprisingly neither from Europe nor Australia, he is Kuwaiti. Topics that challenge what we think we know are important and add vibrancy and texture to the broader debate as to the state of the game in Australia. It is the World Game and if we want to progress then we have to analyse that world, not just the bits that we like to talk about down at the pub. Ignorance isn’t always bliss.

Fair enough re: Nepal and Cambodia, though if a story did come up you could always not read it.

As for the Iranian league being ranked below Australia’s domestic competition…. so does Indonesia and Kuwait.

In relation to Ghotbi I think that Dasilva and Pippinu have the better points. The question needs to be why we do or do not do things rather than accepting the world as it is.

Yes he was assistant under Hiddink. Then so was Graham Arnold.

The only thing he has proven is that he is a better coach then Arnie by having some success at club level.

Also the Iran League is rank below Australia in the AFC. So how is his achievement any more meritocratic then Ernie Merrick winning the A-league twice.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t get Ghotbi and perhaps he is one of those young coaches that could eventually become a great manager in the future. After all the club Persepolis were impressed in how professional he was at his job but his CV doesn’t say he is a “must have” coach that an A-league club has to be mad to pass over.

Really his CV is no better then Vítězslav Lavička.

This from the Guardian on Ali Daei’s recent sacking.
“The match was witnessed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president, who is said to have been instrumental in ousting him.
Ahmadinejad had hoped a victory would bring him political capital before the presidential poll in June. The desire to score a propaganda coup even prompted the president’s fans to credit him when Iran took a 1-0 lead. But the euphoria evaporated in the last 12 minutes and Daei’s fate was sealed as a mass mobile phone text to Ahmadinejad’s supporters went out, reading: “Due to the importance of national public opinion to Dr Ahmadinejad, Ali Daei has been forced out.”

Who cares about the state of the Iranian economy, the mullahs know where there bread is buttered.

Good grief, Jesse. I did not realise your posts had become humour free zones. Ouch! : )

We drank beer out of cheap plastic bags with straws. It certainly makes you realise why they call in the World Game.

I suppose I have fallen for the old underestimation of Asia syndrome, you (and Jesse) are right that Australians should be paying more attention to AFC related matters. I will have to put away the fruit loops and pull out the all-bran (metaphorically speaking).

As for A-League coaching, I personally think (unless a club is focussing on the AFC Champions League and nothing else) that we should be looking (if no Australian coaches are available, as I feel the A-League should be a breeding ground for Aussie coaching talent) to countries that are superior to us rather then at or below our level for quality coaches.

But going over the last two season, which club would have been best positioned to take advantage of this wandering minstrel?

Before the start of this season, GVE was being hailed as the next NT manager.

The two great Scots who have been there since day one were doing well enough.

The Roar had nabbed a former NT manager (not to be sneezed at).

Vidmar took AU far into the ACL.

The Nix don’t really count.

That leaves the Glory and SFC.

SFC only truly imploded this season (they made the finals the previous three seasons, although they have managed their own version of musical chairs in a short space of time, and opted with a bloke who had achieved a degree of success in the first two years of the comp), while Glory have had recent coaching changes due to 4 reasonably ordinary seasons, and were perhaps best positioned to take advantage of someone like Ghotbi.

But then we have to consider the resources available to Perth (presumably, it’s not a hell of a lot), and how keen Ghotbi would be to take on such a basket case in the first place (in the end Perth gambled with an ex-Socceroo, which isn’t the worst scenario imaginable).

So I’m not really sure if the timing was truly right for Ghotbi to waltz into a club and weave his magic – but is it necessarily too late?

I suppose what Jesse is trying to do here is generate debate on the wider engagement of Australia in the Asian football fraternity, coaching being one aspect of this. I read this morning that Fury are looking to tour Singapore and Malaysia for the pre-season and gold Coast’s links with China are well publicised; these are links that reflect our growing relationship.

I must confess that I do have an interest in Australia’s engagement with Asia as I can see this as a wonderful development tool for our domestic football scene. As such we need to identify those opportunities that Asia offers so that we can obtain the maximum return from this relationship. Coaching is one aspect that Jesse has identified, particularly in relation to Ghotbi, and hence discussion as to why the opportunity was not taken needs to occur.

The magic show is indeed fun and without the willing participants the game would not be where it is today though I do appreciate that discussions on the machinations that make the magic show what it is can be droll at times. Mind you the Cambodia v Nepal game I watched at the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh could certainly be described as rough bread and butter fare, though you would have starved if you were sensation hungry.

I am simply not at all interested personally in the gent, it seems more a subject to savour for a national football connoisseur such as yourself rather than those bred on more rough bread and butter fare, or more to the point; shallow and sensation-hungry folk like myself.

I am just another willing participant in the magic show I guess

The IFF once again find themselves in a mess due to their own decision making and have made another interesting (for the rest of us) decision in plumping for Mayeli Kohan instead of Ghotbi. Team Melli for me is a wonderful example as to how an association’s dithering can have a direct impact on the field.

In relation to the A-League, it is a matter of a very qualified coach being available and A-League clubs not going for it. I am undecided on this particular issue as whilst I am in favour of getting the best coaches available I am also wary of the English approach of dropping coaches on a whim. I think though that some of the coaches have had a couple of years with squads and have yet to produce results with the players on hand and Ghotbi could easily have replaced them. That said I do not know how much he is demanding on the wage front, nor the existing contractual obligations of the A-League clubs to their coaching staff.

You can have Ghotbi as manager and Carle playing in midfield as your Marquee.

Problem solved.

Here’s the latest Nick Carle update.
“Carle: I’m A $2 Million Flop”
http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/101048,carle-im-a-2-million-flop.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayeli_Kohan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afshin_Ghotbi

Cheers
md