Aloisi quits Brisbane Roar

get a good state league coach the man from Bentleigh green comes to mind

Waz -Your explanations as to the duties of a coach/manager is good information for those with no actual experience. As one works through your descriptions it becomes more and more obvious to me that a coach in today's HAL needs to be experienced if success is to be achieved in the long term. You mention not agreeing with me re,D. Davies. I in no way was casting aspersions on the lad's ability but rather using his CV to prove that once again the decision makers had forced the lad into a job he could hardly refuse. He may well be the next super coach,I don't know and I doubt if anyone else knows, but tonight's game was hardly a bed of roses for the lad considering what he had to mould a team with. As it was, he did all right, though once again we were faced with Young preventing an avalanche of goals being scored, before Mackay got us back into the game with his 30th goal in his 17 year career, hardly a classic strike but nevertheless an important goal. What does the future hold for the football operation of Brisbane Roar?. That is something I would like to read your views on. Cheers jb.

Jb To add to your fine comment. 1. The Head Coach reports to the Chairman who has sole responsibility for hiring/firing (not unusual, I think Victory, Adelaide and at least one other club do that). But in Roars case the Chairman sits in Jakarta - so where does the coach go when he needs help? 2. JA fulfilled two roles - Head Coach and (reporting into himself) Technical Director responsible for everything within the Football Department from academy to women’s to youth to medical etc. this alone is a big job. So Aloisi, as a very inexperienced coach, had a huge task on his plate and didn’t have the necessary skills and experience for it; which brings us to one of your key points - who he surrounded himself with! Most people in his team were also very inexperienced, not least his brother, and operating in a club with little or no operational systems and processes in place after years of upheaval and management changes. I actually disagree with you on is Darren Davies - he probably has the perfect career path to arrive at an A League gig: professional footballing background, NPL Head coach, youth coaching existence taking Victory to the NYL title as well as with the young Socceroos, assistant coach at Victory plus a short time as assistant at Roar (he’s probably a bit young though). In a normal environment that should be enough to put him in the running; but Roar are little different today than what they were 4 years ago when JA was appointed so will need more experience to avoid similar mistakes. That experience might come in the TD role, Head Coach or the Assistant. Possibly all three although budget often restricts that option. The Head Coach also needs to report locally. In other areas (marketing, game day operations and commercial) Roar have made tremendous strides forward, led by David Pourre and some excellent back office hiring. That progress now needs to be mirrored in the Football Department.

In hindsight it looked like things were getting a bit muddled towards the end.

LH - one thing we do apparently agree on. There are many, many more questions than answers, when one starts to examine the Brisbane Roar and its apparent fall from grace. Cheers jb.

JB we're in agreement, but on different points I think. Many of those older issues have different causes - like Ange was poached to go home, MM was sacked by an over zealous football director, Franz was never supposed to be coach, JA was not sacked and the young lad is probably better than the hot head beside him, at such short notice. They should never have let Thomas go like they did, and the movement of players has largely been of late. Recall when the contracts were voided because of unpaid wages - only one player walked (Brattan). Players have wanted to be at Roar, until very recently.

My theory is that they signed Ricky to satisfy the fans. The fans love him for what he was, Roar need him for what he is. In my view, he's not a starting A League striker. Even in his hey day his best games were off the bench. I would have preferred Akbahri, who's getting game time at Victory but not good enough for Roar.

Lionheart- this latest offering has me slightly confused. You pick out something I have said,basically agree with the observation, and then tell me I am wrong. You have to appreciate the fact that Roar have been "under the pump" for more years than you apparently care to remember. Have you ever asked yourself the question as to why their best ever coach chose to leave the club when the team was at it's peak.? Have you never questioned the hiring of a coach from Holland who ,before coming to OZ, hadn't coached a team for nine years and apparently hasn't coached a team since leaving the Roar.? To come up to date, have you never questioned the almost constant "coming and going " of players in recent times?. Have you never questioned the status and performance of "marquee" players procured by the club.? That's why I keep referring back to the backroom "goings on" for it is is there that decisions are made that directly affect the decision making processes that may affect a coach or manager. You mention such a case with JA and DP having to "front the board", my question is simply-why did they have to "front' the board.?. Take this latest occurrence. The "powers" in the club must have known for weeks that things weren't going well and yet tonight the Roar are playing the champions of Australia with a coach in charge whose CV shows he has little or no experience in managing a professional team. Yes ,we all hope in our hearts that the lad will achieve success but do you really see him getting there with the squad that he has in his charge? We can but hope. You mention Muscat as a "same story" which is a bit tongue in cheek for he, Muscat, has been coaching at the best and wealthiest club in the HAL during it's 13 year lifespan, beginning to serve as an assistant coach under 4 managers, like Merrick and Postecoglu before taking the top job in 2013 so he has had a reasonable time in and around the job to be described as experienced and well prepared. Agree? Cheers jb.

JB I know you've continually raised questions about how Roar is run, and suggested that there are deeper problems causing the club to run down. I can't accept that for a couple of reasons but primarily because they are leading both the W League and Youth leagues. It's only the A League team that's failed. Your suggestion that absentee ownership is a problem is close to the mark I think, but we have to accept as fact that John Aloisi and MD David Pourre confronted the absentee owners front-on and insisted on proper financing and control here in Brisbane. So I think that this is not so much an issue as it might have once been. I think we could all list a number of player related issues, players we've released and players we've signed, players we haven't nurtured for a future here. They all come back to the head coach. In any case, despite shortcomings of the interim coach, we can only hope that it's upward from here. To infinity and beyond, as they say in Toy Story. Remember, Muscat has pretty much no experience other than his current job.

"When one examines his CV, he has little or no experience in coaching a team at a professional level" Mark Rudan has not but his Wellington Phoenix is in the course of turning around. José Mourinho was an interpreter.

It has happened,what everyone expected, but not in the manner that everyone expected, JA voluntarily walked away from the job,the club, and the HAL as a whole and no one can say it came as a complete surprise. And now the pundits will have a field day as they speculate as to what really happened to cause this action in a man who appears to be well liked by everyone he comes in contact with. Managing a football team is not an easy task and it has been obvious to shrewd onlookers for some time now that JA was having trouble in the task not only for his recruitment policy as some are suggesting but for a continuing downward spiral as to how the team was performing, where it matters most, on the field. Week by week fans were expecting a huge turnaround ,based no doubt on after match interviews and media outlets, but sadly, the improvements promised never came to pass,so that the clock was ticking on just how long JA would last in the job. There is another angle that has to be examined and that is in the staff he surrounded himself with. His brother was brought in as back up,a safe choice no doubt, but a choice fraught with danger if things start to go wrong. He also had ex-Socceroos acting as advisers, former team-mates,with plenty of playing experience but very little ,if any , experience in the hard world of business. This leads us to another department altogether the back room individuals responsible for the overall management of a multi million dollar business and to be honest the obvious frailties in that set-up start to tell a different story from that of the simple "poor coach" syndrome. For some years now as Roar slipped from one "crisis" to another there has always been a big question mark as to who,and how, the club /franchise was actually being run, was it from their head office in Brisbane, or the one far afield ?. We still don't know, and yet even the departure of JA has seen the continuation of a "strange" decision making process that sees a third level coach,brought to the club by JA, put in charge of the team for the next game, which coincidently is against the reigning Australian champions, all with only 48 hours notice. One has to feel for the lad involved,not only is he being "thrown in at the deep end" but when one examines his CV he has little or no experience in coaching a team at a professional level, and yet no one in power seems to have noticed this fact. Whereto for Brisbane Roar.? That is the question now on everyone's lips. With a disfunctioning team on the field it is hard to see any great improvement in the coming weeks. There are some very hard decisions to make concerning playing staff and as I have said, a very poor decision making department to do that deed.. I'll leave this article with a simple question. If Brisbane Roar is to regain it's position at the top of the HAL then that simple question has to be put when acquiring new players. ----- The question? Is this player good enough to be picked by the Socceroos. if not, he is not good enough for our team. Simple but very effective guide. Cheers jb.

“Luke Devere is injured” ... no he’s not. He’s been playing 90 minutes in the Youth team every week and not one of our so-called “journalists” have bothered to ask why.

"John Aloisi paid the ultimate price for assembling a disjointed squad at Brisbane Roar" "Aloisi’s “bravery” in calling it quits", Bleiberg "leaking goals" “Avraam Papadopoulos is a good defender but (at 34) isn’t getting any better with the years. Luke Devere is injured, Daniel Bowles is half centre-back and half full-back and Jacob Pepper is a converted midfielder. “If you compare that to other top teams like Perth Glory, Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory, they have an abundance of good defenders. " Why good players have left? Why potential players have not join BR? “In midfield you have Alex Lopez, Thomas Kristensen and Matt McKay. All three are very good but none are super physical and none of them are a natural number 10. They are all what could be called 50-50 midfielders." “None are goalscorers either and they are too similar. There’s something missing in midfield.” "Jose Mourinho and the third season syndrome...in Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid" Third season syndrome "I would advise any young coach not to get into a comfort zone anywhere and try and embrace fresh challenges when they arise, especially after two seasons or more at the same club." Comfort zone "Third season syndrome" and "comfort zone" explain how and why Ange Postecoglou has been behaving? How has he been in Japan? https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/flawed-recruitment-cost-aloisi-says-ex-roar-boss-bleiberg

You should do the same Redondo. Maybe you could just have a try on a word document and if you think it's rubbish, then don't send it to them.

Not true Waz - your comments are high quality. Write an article.

Ahhh. Has the passion but not the skill to express opinion. Thanks for the admiration.

Henrique sums it up for me - when they should have signed him they didn’t, when the shouldn’t have signed him - they did. But Ricky can do a job, so it’s not catastrophic. The squad he’s assembled is pretty good. The question is why can’t he get them to perform? and has he recruited to the game plan he wanted to deploy? The biggest recruitment mistake was re-signing an injured Holman imo.

Jordan I’m in permanent admiration for people that write articles for this site, yourself included. I don’t think I have the writing skills for it personally

May be a good bloke, but his knowledge is wanting, as is shown by his record.

I know, because there 4 points ahead of the mariners who havent won a game, the players have no structure or discipline, and almost no wins, this was meant to be the year after the rebuild. If he wasnt pushed he would have been after the next game.