Anger, emptiness, disappointment.
That is what John Aloisi says Mike Mulvey can expect to endure in the wake of his extraordinary sacking as Brisbane Roar coach.
Aloisi knows exactly what Mulvey is going through after he too was given his marching orders at Melbourne Heart last year after a 17-game winless run.
His departure was made even tougher by his hero status at the club.
The former Socceroo was a favourite son at the Heart after ending his playing career at AAMI Park and the club had hoped he would be a long-term coach.
“He’ll be feeling very disappointed,” Aloisi said.
“It really sinks in after a week, two weeks, a month, two months, because then you’re not doing something you really love doing. You feel quite empty.
“Probably at the moment it will be anger: `why has it happened?'”
Aloisi said he was sure Mulvey can bounce back and listed the key tenets behind maintaining a job as an A-League boss.
“Your relationship with the players, results, your relationship with the board and media, and the supporters,” he said.
“If a few of them break down, there’s no coming back and something must have broken down.”
Fox Sports commentator Andy Harper said Mulvey’s axing was brutal.
“The disappointing thing is that Mike Mulvey as far as I know had no inclination as to what was going down,” he told Melbourne radio station SEN.
“It’s been handled very very poorly, I can’t fathom it … it can’t be results based.”
“You don’t punt a bloke who is the defending champion.”
Mulvey inherited a lowly ranked Brisbane mid-season and took them to the semi-finals in 2012/13.
Last season, he upset more fancied rivals to claim the premiership by 10 points and win the grand final.
Roar announced former Dutch international Frans Thijssen as interim coach on Monday.
Aloisi said the position wasn’t one he eyed off but he is keen to continue an A-League coaching career “at the right time”.
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