Dutch Coach for Canberra A-League team?

Gary van Egmond has already had to take a Public Service funded job and he's only been in Canberra a week.

The FFA has seemingly backed down on their Under 17 AIS/FFA Funded job....so now it's just an AIS position. A Public Servant!

And that means he must be a target for the Canberra A-League team.

He'll be in Canberra, and ready to guide the team forward and Canberra won't be paying comp either.

What about that Con? and more importantly come on Gazza we luv yer.

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Forget your qualification, change your name

Just in case you thought things might be changing at the FFA yesterday showed we are still very Dutch focused.

Dutchie Van Egmond took a job with the FFA.

Who will the next Aussie Dutchman be to get a job in the FFA, John Van Kossie?

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Two great Aussie Coaches?

Gary Van Egmond is still the best, but Aurelio Vidmar is on the move...and quick.

Van Egmond's side were a goal down to Adelaide and having used their three subs and when Jason Hoffman got injured they were down to ten.

But Van Egmond did what few coaches ever do even when they have a full complement.

He pushed men forward going for the equaliser.

Ricky Herbert can't you get Fox in New Zealand:)

In Tarek Elrich he has a potent weapon. Elrich sped into the box, beat a couple and brought a wonderful save from Adelaide United's starman Eugen Galagovic. Great football.

And later Elrich produced some more magic.

Adelaide scored another late on, but Ante Covic was to blame not the coaches aggressive attacking policy.

Pity they couldn't show such energy and verve when they had eleven mind you.

As for Adelaide Vidmar is an astute coach, as his Asian record shows.

He still has a bit to go to get the same versatility from his team as Van Egmond but he's moving his pieces in games, very very effectively and no doubt Asia is teaching him a lot.

He's young, and even after losing Bruce Djite and Nathan Burns he has created a new team which can only get better.

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Jason Hoffman and the Jets.

Under 20's Aussie Coach Jan Versliejen recently hailed Jason Hoffman as one of the best players in his squad. Although I think it's fair to say he hasn't translated any of this form or confidence to his Jets performances yet.

Versleijen's next squad is due to be announced Monday for the upcoming ASEAN tournament.

But Hoffman won't be in it for he many other Jets player got severely injured on the weekend!


First Hoffman.

He is out injured, with a terrible tackle, his own tackle. Interesting to me was the way he tackled, with the wrong leg, stretching, asking for trouble.

Technique or a lack of it caused his injury. Poor bugger, but the tackling technique made me wince.

And Hoffman like Joel Griffith is a forward. Both are now injured, with Eduardo Zura the new Jets dud, there is not a forward of note left in the club, and there was only Griffiths proved before this weekends game.

The Jets are in crises of sors.

No forward who can score, no forwards real forwards full-stop.

They lost Mark Bridge, (ahem) Mario Jardel and have not replaced. Zura is not a replacement.

And what's to be done.

Jason Naidovski to be given a go? Too young?

Will Tarek Elrich be pushed forward. He's pacey and got skill and agression. Song will play pretty, Matt Thompson can push forward but where will the goal, and more than one come from.

Very hard to see.

Interesting to see what Gary Uber Coach does now. Surely he needs two strikers, at least, to replace Joel Griffiths, who it has to be said had been struggling to get any support.

Troy Hearfield should have stayed, but that's football I guess.

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Jets Kruse past Farina's men

Joel Griffiths who else, tucked a scrappy goal away to earn the Newcastle Jets their first win of the season, and an away win in Fortress Suncorp:)

Uber Coach Gary Van Egmond is making the best of a bad bunch and quickly.

A side looking a shadow of their former Champion selves stuttered early in the season and got flogged 5-0 in Melbourne.

Two weeks later against a team fresh from a 3-0 away win in Perth, the Jets kept a second top team scoreless and pinched one at the end.

Not pretty, but Frank Farina's tactics play into everyone's plans when they play at home.

How many goals do Matt Mackay and Massimo Murdocha ever score or perhaps more importantly create. Nil, certainly not at home.

Everyone talks about the pace of these guys, but you need more than pace.

And you need Robbie Kruse. Last year he was the star for the Roar. Not Michael Zullo.

It was Kruse who can play that special ball, score a goal and create something every game.

Time to play him, and often.

Kruse could change this Roar side. A side with too much experience and not enough guile.

But Farina sends the same pattern out week after week at home, and it doesn't work.

And if it does it's more by luck than a plan. And it's pretty easy to overcome for the following weeks coach.

Defend, let the Roar huff and puff which they do so well but rarely create real chances, or not many of them, and then when the Roar goes out of them you start to attack.

And even if like Newcastle you have few forwards, one is all you need to come alive around the 80th minute.

This defeat is blamed fairly and squarely on Frank Farina. He has the squad.

A squad that can hit teams away from home but our former National Coach has done little or nothing to improve on all-attack home style of former Coach Miron Bleiberg.

Time for a rethink Queensland.

Bring in Robbie Kruse get rid of Massimo Murdocha, or move him into full-back to replace Seo and give the ageing team more pace out wide, and see what difference that makes.

As for the Jets they have sorted their defence but will they ever score more than one?

Unlikely, but Gary Van Egmond will be sorting something, don't worry about that.

At this stage expect the Jets to soar above the Roar in the League table and stay there.

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