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    The Western Sydney Wanderers have appointed Mark Rudan as coach for the remainder of the 2021/22 A-League season.

    After Carl Robinson was fired following the 3-0 loss to Brisbane Roar, the Wanderers ownership moved swiftly to secure Rudan, a former Australian youth international and one who began his playing career with Sydney United before ending it with Adelaide United.

    He moved into coaching with Rockdale and Sydney United before a stint as a national team assistant coach, from there he took his first A-League coaching job at the Wellington Phoenix, winning 11 games from 29 in his only season there before being poached to build Western United for their inaugural season in the A-League. That job lasted two seasons, his team's poor showing in 2021/22, finishing 10th (two places below the Wanderers), included a 5-0 thrashing at the hands of his new employers, saw his services terminated by the new A-League club at the end of the season.

    Rudan takes over a Wanderers team in crisis. They are in 11th place, having just one, controversial, win over Wellington Phoenix so far this season. Rudan has only been given a brief, 6 month contact, without vast improvement Rudan could end up on the chopping block himself when the season ends.

    The Wanderers face Perth Glory this Wednesday night in Parramatta.


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    StringerBellend

    Posted

    55 minutes ago, btron3000 said:

    LOL I made a comment further up that no-one in the football community has supported him. I nearly added a throwaway "until Slater writes a column saying he should be judged on results until the end of the season".

    Did he even touch on bad reputation but say he should be judged on results, or was it all just about Wanderers and that he should give him full backing?

    Slater would see that the RWNJ that he is..  he probably think Grace Tame should have smiled too

    Zelinsky

    Posted

    4 hours ago, WHACKO said:

    It just keeps getting worse...in today's Telegraph he gets the backing of Slater

    The silver lining I can see hopefully...I all turns to s.hit he goes and JT goes with him.

    Sky Blue Empire - super Smurfs sticking together

    WHACKO

    Posted

    2 hours ago, btron3000 said:

    LOL I made a comment further up that no-one in the football community has supported him. I nearly added a throwaway "until Slater writes a column saying he should be judged on results until the end of the season".

    Did he even touch on bad reputation but say he should be judged on results, or was it all just about Wanderers and that he should give him full backing?

    https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/football/mark-rudan-right-man-to-lift-western-sydney-wanderers-out-of-aleague-doldrums-says-slater/news-story/42837ba35696d5b63ac014d24b5d080d

    ManfredSchaefer

    Posted

    2 hours ago, FCB said:

    Having Kurto in goal and Krishna, fit and injury free, banging them in sure helped his cause. Just about anyone will be tactically smart compared with CR. We'll know soon enough.

    A fence post on the road between Port Augusta and Maree that has been hit repeatedly by road trains filled with drought affected cattle and driven by truckers half-asleep as they wait for the next kick from the handful of Benzedrine pills they popped back in Mount Gambier is more tactically smart than Robbo.

    Jowel

    Posted

    On 31/1/2022 at 12:56 PM, Jowel said:

    I’m not across this issue at all. Can you please tell us what you are talking about?

    Has Rudan been convicted of stalking, abuse etc? Is this just allegations? 

    Just dropping in here to say congrats to Marko. You are everything this club needs. Pushing on through each hurdle and making a massive impact. Keep smiling bro 

    Paul01

    Posted

    His press conference tonight was very revealing 

    Club now has a Head of High Performance for the first time to keep players fit andd injury free.

    Club will be starting what Rudan called an NPL institute. This is to reduce the use of recycled A-League players and bring more youth to the first team.

    Rudan indicated that Nieuwenhof wasn't offered a contract by the Smurfs, we all know the public part of the Ninkovic switch and Zac Sappsford was not allowed to train the Sydney FC first team despite being the top scorer in NSW NPL1. Wasn't geting disgruntled players a strategy once before?

    GE942150

    Posted

    49 minutes ago, Paul01 said:

    His press conference tonight was very revealing 

    Club now has a Head of High Performance for the first time to keep players fit andd injury free.

    Club will be starting what Rudan called an NPL institute. This is to reduce the use of recycled A-League players and bring more youth to the first team.

    Rudan indicated that Nieuwenhof wasn't offered a contract by the Smurfs, we all know the public part of the Ninkovic switch and Zac Sappsford was not allowed to train the Sydney FC first team despite being the top scorer in NSW NPL1. Wasn't geting disgruntled players a strategy once before?

    I really want to see Sapsford get more game time. Maybe he will with Krpic not looking like scoring at all.




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