Unfortunately, we have to look overseas. But, in saying that, a change in coach won't solve the problems long term. We need good coaches, not one good coach. Our player development is a mess. We've had national curriculum after national curriculum, but none of them are stuck to. The states do their own thing, local clubs do their own, the a-league clubs do their own thing. There's no unified, progressive, vision towards the future. There's no plan. Just a hit and hope approach. It doesn't work.

Outline a pathways program, a style of play, a code of conduct, coordinated academies, proper coaching programs, updated training for coaches and club staff, and all agree on one fucking direction. Sack the dinosaurs and stubborn old pricks who'd rather get their own way than succeed. Until all this changes, a new coach is simply a band-aid solution. Otherwise the new coach will just be coaching a disjointed group of confused footballers who are 5 years behind their overseas counterparts by the time they reach 18 years old.

It'll take time, but it has to happen. It should've happened with the original national curriculum that we saw after 2006. The one the stubborn old cronies white-anted for a few years until it fell apart.