Graham Arnold and Ange Postecoglou are proven Aussie Coaches.
We are now confident that any team they put out will have a plan, a football nous to take on any team at any level.
Can they change tactics mid-game? Arnie over Ange at this stage but Ange is probably superior in his vision, just.

1. For all lovers of great Australian football.
2. Ange is a better National Curriculum than any document the FFA have ever handed out to Community Coaches.
3. Ange plays the Aussie Youth, more often, more forward.
4. If you like movement, skill and tactics in football the Roar must win.

All the Grand Final beat-up, Asia, A-League, and more. We're all over it.
Berisha v Smeltz, Ange v Fergie - stop laughing now!
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Melbourne Victory need an Aussie Coach.
Someone who understands Australia, our football history and our football present. Ernie Merrick was a guy who understood Melbourne and Melbourne Victory he was an Aussie Coach in my book having lived here for 20 years.
Just like I'm an Aussie Blogger.

Group 1 - it isn't the players
Sydney, Victory, and Adelaide have not kept up with this year's step up in the A-League arms race. Sorry Robbie, Craig Foster got to it right. It isn't the Victory players - they have by far the best squad on paper. Sydney and Melbourne's coaches and tactics have not been good enough.

It looks like Jim down South, sounds like Jim and according to those in the know it will be Jim.
And while Australia Coaching stocks are at an all time high the Victory are unable to set a new course or claim to be an innovative club if they take on honest, but still unproven Jim.
He dropped Broxham and Brebner from the midfield and that for me gives him a huge tick, a huge insight.

To build a football brand in Brisbane, the Roar had to win last night. While the crowd had already halved from 20,000 to 10,000, Roy Morgan found this week that Brisbane is the most watched (TV) soccer team in the A-League. A shock for Melbourne Victory perhaps.
That was one disappointment from last night.

Kevin Muscat wants to be coach of Melbourne Victory.
Just what he is prepared to do to ensure he gets there is unclear. It is also unclear who his powerful backers are. But they are there and as ABC Offsiders sports commentators noted last week, they or Muscat directly are influencing the Melbourne Victory Board.

Early in the first half Brisbane had crazy misses. Besart found himself clear twice. The first time he fell over. The second he took too long. Then Issey failed to take his chance.
Then Newcastle settled into their 3-4-3 formation with Ruben Zadkovich outpacing Erik Paaratlu, Broich having his quietest half of football ever with a few well timed elbows in the head from Kasey Wehrman, and Newcastle playmaker Ryan Griffiths occasionally looking dangerous.

Roy Keane, Ozzie Ardiles were great players and both are supposed to be after the Melbourne Victory job.
Surely they would cost a bomb - and surely we've learnt that Ange Postecoglou and Graham Arnold can play great football, much cheaper and they're Aussie.
So give another Aussie a go - how do they learn if they don't get a gig.