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    By mack

    The Western Sydney Wanderers have sacked manager Carl Robinson after an awful start to the 2021/22 A-League season that left the club in 11th place with only a solitary win.

    Western Sydney's 3-0 loss to the Brisbane Roar has proven fatal for Robinson, who was poached from the Newcastle Jets & appointed as the club manager in October 2020.

    After being appointed following the internal review that resulted in Jean-Paul de Marigny being sacked just 9 months after he took over from Markus Babbel, Robinson has walked out the door of the Wanderers Centre of Football for the last time. Having been given a full pre-season, a raft of high-profile signings like Jack Rodwell, Tomer Hemed and Rhys Williams and a 3 week opportunity to reset the team direction, the loss to the Roar made it clear he did not have what it takes to bring the club back to where the ownership and supporters expect.

    Performances during Robinson's time at the helm were marked by awful football filled with backward passing, a refusal to take on markers one on one and an inability to defend at set pieces. Another low point of the season was being dumped out of the FFA Cup by NPL team APIA Leichhardt, a competition that the club & Robinson claimed to be taking seriously and yet resulted in a wholesale change to a second 11 that were embarrassed by the part timers of the NPL club. His strategy of signing former players, poaching multiple players from the Newcastle Jets was a clearly failed strategy and will leave the new manager to pick up the pieces of his shattered recruitment.

    Enough was enough for the club leadership who have burned through yet another manager, adding the fast talking Robinson to the scrap heap along with Markus Babbel, Josep Gombau, Jean Paul de Maringy and Hayden Foxe. The cavalcade of failures also puts the jobs of CEO John Tsatsimas and Football Operations Manager Gavin Costello in the firing line.

    No successor has been named at this time although the usual rumours of former a-League coaches are swirling. Graham Arnold has also been whispered, but is unlikely to leave his role as National team coach until at least the end of the 2022 World Cup qualification campaign and only then if Australia fails to make it to Qatar. Alen Stajcic will soon be finishing up with the Philippines Women's team at the end of the Women's Asian Cup 2022 and he will be seen as a favourite to return to the A-League. Applications from overseas managers will flood in as usual.

    The experienced Gary van Egmond is a likely candidate to take over as interim manager.

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    Benched

    Benched

    Posted

    58 minutes ago, marron said:

    Gorman had it easy in my book. Most of us were just happy it existed. HIs job was to listen to us so the club could be sold as this thing with loads of loyal fans willing to hand over money, and he didn't have to worry about investors or owners asking for a return or looking closely at kpis or whatever the **** else.

    But he DID do his job. Allowed Popa to buy what he wanted, listened to us, laid the foundations. I can tell you he was actually a reasonable bloke, without going in to too much detail. We could’ve been far worse off, trust me. The early days of the RBB etc. He let a lot slide. 

    marron

    marron

    Posted

    Yep for sure. 

    I'm just not convinced that under an owner he would have had that leeway.

    Benched

    Benched

    Posted

    22 minutes ago, marron said:

    Yep for sure. 

    I'm just not convinced that under an owner he would have had that leeway.

    Yeah probably not, but he got us. He understood us. 

    StringerBellend

    StringerBellend

    Posted

    4 hours ago, GE942150 said:

    I'm expecting more of this from ex players and staff 😅

     

    If you had spent less time on social media and out some effort in for DJ Bavaria then we wouldn't have the tit in the first place 

    matty

    matty

    Posted

    1 hour ago, ManfredSchaefer said:

    It’s 11.50pm AEDT Sunday 30th January 2022

    john Tsatsimas is still WSW CEO.

     

    As much as I'm not a fan of his, I think the right move is to do it at the end of the season. Lederer can probably find a couple of candidates for replacements in the meantime, I'm sure he knows people. 

    theguyyouwishyouwere

    theguyyouwishyouwere

    Posted

    forget all the fish rots from the head, etc for a second

     

    CR had to go, there was that not one player improved under him. every player got worse. hell, one got so much worse he had to take a job as a model because any football club that would have picked him up were so low he'd need a day job as well.

     

    StillAtMeurantsLane

    StillAtMeurantsLane

    Posted

    15 hours ago, SNS100 said:

    Anyone know which coach Mark Bosnich is endorsing to replace CR, in a recent tweet?

    I for one am very happy I don't have to listen to that whingeing idiot on football coverage anymore. 

    sonar

    sonar

    Posted

    There was something on the RBB YouTube about Lederer supposedly sighted at a meeting with Rudan.

    SNS100

    SNS100

    Posted

    Mark Bosnich thinks Dwight Yorke should coach WSW.

    "Dwight Yorke... why? Because anything he puts his mind to he will do, and his mind is fully focused on Management/Coaching... he understands the area, coming here since the mid-90s and his history here... he galvanised the league when he played here, and he will do it again as a Manager... at the moment as well it would give the League a much needed boost and create Worldwide headlines"

     

     

    StringerBellend

    StringerBellend

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, sonar said:

    There was something on the RBB YouTube about Lederer supposedly sighted at a meeting with Rudan.

    Yes they where seen at the mcdonalds on the M4 

    Rudan had a bacon and egg McMuffin and a filter coffee

    Ledderer went with something fancy from the McCafe as he's loaded 

    He did however expense both meals 

    sonar

    sonar

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

    Yes they where seen at the mcdonalds on the M4 

    Rudan had a bacon and egg McMuffin and a filter coffee

    Ledderer went with something fancy from the McCafe as he's loaded 

    He did however expense both meals 

    :rofl:

    Rudan is the new manager......

    :rofl:

    MartinTyler

    MartinTyler

    Posted

    Interesting that he's only been appointed until the end of the season

    GE942150

    GE942150

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

    Interesting that he's only been appointed until the end of the season

    Plenty of time to auditon for an extension. Or maybe we already have someone else lined up. 

    Zakman

    Zakman

    Posted

    Don't understand the negativity to this appointment. Showed enough at Phoenix and WU as a decent coach. Western Sydney raised and knows what is expected. Seems to have a good brain for the game and doesn't put up with **** and will make sure the player knows it.

    VedranRozic

    VedranRozic

    Posted

    Rudan. Oh dear.

    Clueless Carl to Ruderless Rudan.

    Probably wasn’t another option. I wonder if GVE was part of the Staj plan and then Staj became unavailable/had second thoughts.

    Rudes as plan R.

    EmMac

    EmMac

    Posted

    :unknw:

    Carns

    Carns

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, Zakman said:

    Don't understand the negativity to this appointment. Showed enough at Phoenix and WU as a decent coach. Western Sydney raised and knows what is expected. Seems to have a good brain for the game and doesn't put up with **** and will make sure the player knows it.

    I think it's mainly that he seems to be a ****.

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

    Posted

    Yeah we can have CR back

    As a #TeamMel person I really do not support this announcement at all 

    I would literally rather have a clueless hack as a coach than someone who… well I can’t post it because then Mack gets mad because the site might get sued :ninja:

    Zakman

    Zakman

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Carns said:

    I think it's mainly that he seems to be a ****.

    Well we tried with a nice bloke and look where that got us! Maybe a **** is what's needed!

    beatsurrender

    beatsurrender

    Posted

    So I've obviously been living under a rock and not keeping up with the tittle-tattle but what did Rudan do that appears so egregious?

     

    WHACKO

    WHACKO

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Zakman said:

    Don't understand the negativity to this appointment. Showed enough at Phoenix and WU as a decent coach. Western Sydney raised and knows what is expected. Seems to have a good brain for the game and doesn't put up with **** and will make sure the player knows it.

    Decent coach...maybe.

    Decent human...maybe not.

    Sithslayer1991

    Sithslayer1991

    Posted (edited)

    So all jokes aside Rudan is a terrible appointment not because of his credentials. Subjectively speaking he is a decent coach, however the club has been accused of having a poor culture and poor dressing room environment.

    Rudan is a terrible appointment because everywhere he has been, he has left with lets say unprofessional behaviour. Western United it was infighting, at the Nix he was sending online abuse with fake accounts.... and then Foxtel.... well the track record is pretty bad and will just add to the increasing toxic environment of the club.

    Edited by Sithslayer1991


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