[quote user="Wander on"]Hi guys, just popping in from Oz to say hi. Just thought I’d share some info with you on Poppa. He was the man behind getting Mile Jedinak to Crystal Palace when he was the assistant there. He left Crystal Palace to take the job as the inaugural head coach of the new start up club, the Western Sydney Wanderers in May 2012. The Wanderers had no players on the books and the competition was due to start in October. Poppa took the team he put together, which consisted of A-league cast offs along with some handy imports, to the top of the competition and they were premiers in their first season before they were beaten in the Grand Final (only in Australia). In the second season they finished second and again were beaten in the grand final. They also won their group in the Asian Champions League and tonight play their second leg in a round of 16 game chasing a 3-1 deficit against the J-League champions of the last two years. In Australia the squads are built under a salary cap to protect the finances of the clubs so to compete against some of the best teams in Japan, Korea and China, and win the group in the Asian Champions League, was a monumental effort from Poppa and the team he built. In reality, you won’t get him because we’ve got him locked up for another two years and the club recently released his assistant to take up a similar role with the Socceroos, so they won’t let Poppa go anywhere. And BTW Barossa, Gombau over Poppa? Please…..Adelaide finished third in 2012-13, under Gombau they finished sixth. They might have looked pretty, but they weren’t as effective as they should have been. Good luck in your search and hope to see you back in the Premier League next year.. If you want to learn a bit about our club, which is arguably the greatest sporting success story in Australia – read this - http://www.westsydneyfootball.com/sitefiles/fch/football_comes_home.pdf Or watch this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJS6l7treI Here’s our version of your forum - http://www.westsydneyfootball.com/index[/quote]plus the wanderers made the top 8 in Asia, maybe the A-league is not good enough but how about the top 8 in Asia on pretty much zero money?(compared to most of the Asian teams)
