Should Staj be Given a 5 Year Contract? ....and the Keys to Gosford.

[Insertnamehere]

I dont - some people/players bitching about him being hard to work with does not "dodged a bullet make" The man took a completely failed club from last to 3rd. He can be as hard to work with as he wants.

Ultimately when its your head alone on the chopping block for success, you will be particular in how you do things.

 

[turbo]

Do you have any confidence in this club actually doing that?

Ultimately the club hasn’t got enough recent runs on the board to give us confidence or to take control of the narrative. And the recent runs they have made had Staj front and center.

The first thought is going to be classic Mariners regardless of how right or wrong it is.

 

[Old Spice]

damn

 

[Avoca]

The best case scenario is this...

A new owner has been found, the deal is being finalised, although, they don’t see Staj as part of their long-term plan. Optimistic, I know.

Paramount & Channel 10 now have a real financial interest in the A-League. I do wonder if they will influence the next generation of CCM management, including how the club is run.

The rules, standards & the game has changed. The A-League is now going mainstream.

 

[LFCMariners]

My press is telling me that this is not all on MC and in actual fact Staj may have done the club a favour by walking. Provided the club moves swiftly to put the right replacement in place, I for one won’t be losing too much sleep over this.

I can’t say any more at the moment but I believe CCM has dodged a bullet here and we could see a very positive outcome despite all the understandable despondency at this moment.

I hope you're right about this and in a few months time you can sit there with that smug expression Phil Gould always has after Origin and say "I told you".

 

[midfielder]

My press is telling me that this is not all on MC and in actual fact Staj may have done the club a favour by walking. Provided the club moves swiftly to put the right replacement in place, I for one won’t be losing too much sleep over this.

I can’t say any more at the moment but I believe CCM has dodged a bullet here and we could see a very positive outcome despite all the understandable despondency at this moment.

When can you say something or will it come out with other news...

 

[Ozhammer]

Stuff will invariably come out over time just like it has in the past and I am just trying to suggest we allow the dice to land where they will before we throw the baby out with the bath water.

 

[Kalvin]

My press is telling me that this is not all on MC and in actual fact Staj may have done the club a favour by walking. Provided the club moves swiftly to put the right replacement in place, I for one won’t be losing too much sleep over this.

I can’t say any more at the moment but I believe CCM has dodged a bullet here and we could see a very positive outcome despite all the understandable despondency at this moment.

So a hypothetical... had we have won the gf, would he have stayed on/club kept him? would we still have been dodging a bullet?

 

[turbo]

So a hypothetical... had we have won the gf, would he have stayed on/club kept him? would we still have been dodging a bullet?

I don’t know anything that isn’t public knowledge but would you be overly surprised if what OH is alluding to had anything to do with why we saw so little of Casella, Janota or Kuol’s mid season change of interest? Or going back to the year before Fox’s long stint away from the starting lineup?

There’s definitely things that are difficult to explain from an outsiders perspective.

 

[pjennings]

Rudan rumoured to be 10/Paramount's first signing. If true it means we have dodged that bullet. On the flip side it means we won't see Mel there.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

I can’t say any more at the moment but I believe CCM has dodged a bullet here and we could see a very positive outcome despite all the understandable despondency at this moment.

Interesting to hear what the dodged bullet was. My wife has an acquaintance who was playing 1st grade W-League at the time of Staj's sacking from the Matildas. Her opinion at the time was that Staj was not entirely blameless in the whole debacle. I took it all with a grain of salt, everyone has their opinions.
Your post reminds me of her statement.

 

[Wombat]

I cannot stomach this supposed destructive attitude by MC and also cannot fathom this guy's way of thinking. He, MC really exudes masochism, towards the boys and us the supporters. If what I am seeing is true I will walk as well. Having had the privilege of seeing the administration's (all the people at the coalface) plans for the future I was heartened and it was so damn encouraging. Now we'll see, it seems that all the good work all at the Mariners do get underminded by a sinkhole from the UK.

I think you mean Arsehole!

 

[marinermick]

Interesting to hear what the dodged bullet was. My wife has an acquaintance who was playing 1st grade W-League at the time of Staj's sacking from the Matildas. Her opinion at the time was that Staj was not entirely blameless in the whole debacle. I took it all with a grain of salt, everyone has their opinions.
Your post reminds me of her statement.

All this also reminds me of the “if you knew what I knew” statement at that time.

 

[Kel50z]

I have my own conspiracy theory’s. I reckon missing out on acl has something to do with it as crazy as that sounds

 

[Big Al]

The thing that Staj bought most to our team was a top 3 defense as far as goals conceded.

Against Macathur at Macathur they said on the telecast we hadn’t conceded from a corner all season and I don’t remember one after that either. Birraz had a couple of goal line clearances from corners but we never conceded.

Not so long ago we had the worst defense in league history.

He did it with Rowles who is talented but probably suffered from those around him while he was learning but he made a lot of mistakes while young. He is now a standout player.

Roun had similar talent but for whatever reason was changing teams every season and let’s face it we were probably his last chance. Then Ziggy dogs us and he becomes a Socceroo. Amazing

Nigro is plucked from obscurity and defensively was a very handy player

Clisby was well probably our most disliked or person who invoked fan anger the most.

Staj made this group the 3rd best defense and 1 a Socceroo and we didn’t conceed 1 corner.

That is exceptional coaching in my mind. Sure some luck comes into it but some say you make your own luck.

With our budget attracting a coaching staff who can carry on that defense is must.

That alone made us competitive and gave us a shot every game.

Staj had other issues we disagreed with but that’s going to happen with our budget.

I think he did a phenomenal job with our defense and it’s critical we keep that standard

 

[finally retired]

My press is telling me that this is not all on MC and in actual fact Staj may have done the club a favour by walking. Provided the club moves swiftly to put the right replacement in place, I for one won’t be losing too much sleep over this.

I can’t say any more at the moment but I believe CCM has dodged a bullet here and we could see a very positive outcome despite all the understandable despondency at this moment.

did the players complete a questionnaire, complaining he wouldn't let them sleep together?

 

[Ads]

As fans I think we need a community meeting with management to explain what the hell happened and what lies in the future.
I don`t want any bullshit spin,just honest and open answers to the many questions we all have.
At this point in time,i`m a bit down on Staj leaving the group like he has,
He should have had the decency to front the fans with an explanation.
Its obvious this has been a while in the planning with Rudan being appointed.

I`m not even sure whats most disappointing Staj leaving or Rudan taking over...

EDIT:Not sure what to believe at the moment,Rudan may now just be a rumour

Everything is non-disclosure and Staj wouldn’t be able to publicly say that Charlesworth is being cheap or that he is banking any money made from Staj, Kuol and hopefully no more to come.

On the other hand it is hard to believe that Charlesworth would let this happen as the value of the club and entities would be significantly higher after the strong season, would it not be worth quickly investing 200/300k securing players to possibly stabilise a sale or even have an increased sale value!

 

[Big Al]

Everything is non-disclosure and Staj wouldn’t be able to publicly say that Charlesworth is being cheap or that he is banking any money made from Staj, Kuol and hopefully no more to come.

On the other hand it is hard to believe that Charlesworth would let this happen as the value of the club and entities would be significantly higher after the strong season, would it not be worth quickly investing 200/300k securing players to possibly stabilise a sale or even have an increased sale value!

One thing we do know is Staj won’t talk. He has done very well at keeping quite when it would be easy to throw out some comments.

I except the same here.

Of course we will hear things through the media but we will never really know

 

[pjennings]

Everything is non-disclosure and Staj wouldn’t be able to publicly say that Charlesworth is being cheap or that he is banking any money made from Staj, Kuol and hopefully no more to come.

On the other hand it is hard to believe that Charlesworth would let this happen as the value of the club and entities would be significantly higher after the strong season, would it not be worth quickly investing 200/300k securing players to possibly stabilise a sale or even have an increased sale value!

OR....

1) There is a buyer
2) The buyer has his own vision
3) That is different to Staj
4) The buyer is dependent on Stadium deal (29/6)
5) The buyer is dependent on APL capital fund raising (date ???)
6) Staj wants to move on the squad now.

We don't know and we probably will only get snippets over time. Money from the capital funding putting value in the license, the right buyer, the right decision over the stadium and the right manager going forward can set us up on the Coast for the next 20 years, The wrong decisions, buyers, managers make for much starker outcomes.

 

[yorkshireman]

“The focus is now to ensure the club continues to move forward and build upon the success of this season, and we are well progressed in setting up the structures for next season and once things are finalised we will make announcements accordingly.”

More hopeful than the usual stuff we get