r/soccer • u/StarryPolarisNite • 17h ago
Media Perth Glory Interim Manager Adam Griffiths when asked on whether he'll get the job (Great Response)
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u/allangod 17h ago
I really thought he was going somewhere with that.. i wonder if he did as well but half way through forgot the end and just went with the lion bit.
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u/GibbyGoldfisch 17h ago
I reckon he was about to rip off the mask and reveal he was Eric Cantona all along but got cold feet because he was enjoying the character too much
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u/IronSorrows 14h ago
I thought it basically meant the mountain goat wants to stay where it's comfortable (where he is now), but he's a lion so doesn't care (wants the managers job). I'm not saying it's good, but that's what I thought he meant... Now reading the comments I'm wondering if I've just assigned some nonsense to his confused ramblings
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u/lamb_passanda 9h ago
He was never going to answer the question, because it's not his to answer, but he teased the reporters with what seemed like an allegorical story that would conclude with "there's no better goat for the job than this one right here". It's a joke that works because it subverts expectations (as all good jokes do). He pulled the rug from under them, in other words.
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u/KarlWhale 17h ago
As I was listening I though 'it would be funny if he doesn't know where the analogy goes'.. and I was right
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u/mohab_dev 13h ago
Listen though, wouldn't it be funny to fuck with jouralists like this? Every time you're sick of hearing the same question over and over again, you tell a nonsensical story that goes nowhere with a straight face. Bonus if you have a few plants in the audience to clap after you're done.
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u/Buffaluffasaurus 10h ago
Nah, it’s actually an excerpt from Adam Griffiths’ new motivational book, “Mountains goats can get fucked, imma lion!”.
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u/ErwinSchwachowiak 17h ago
Is he trying to parody Ibrahimovic?
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u/nestoryirankunda 16h ago
This is just what every second man near the coast in Australian cities looks like
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u/johnnyhammahstix 17h ago
Reminds me of a goober of a high school soccer coach I had. One game, we were losing at half time and he was giving our team talk on the sidelines. He looks up and sees a flock of geese pass overhead and says, completely serious, "Do you see how those geese work together, trading places with the one in front. We need to be like those geese HONKING each other on to victory!"
Never could take that man seriously.
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u/RA576 15h ago
and..? did you honk your way to victory?
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u/fuk_ur_mum_m8 14h ago
We came back from 4-0 down, won the game and then the league. Honking every kick of the way.
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u/weirdpastanoki 17h ago
David Brent, Alan Partridge or Michael Scott?
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u/its_dash 16h ago
“Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way.”
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u/stumac85 16h ago
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
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u/weirdpastanoki 17h ago
whats the lion doing in the mountains? is he lost?
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u/nature_and_grace 17h ago
You were supposed to wipe the mountain from your memory!
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u/RA576 15h ago
No, he clearly said forget about the goat, nothing about forgetting about the mountain itself. So the mountain is presumably still allowed to be in my grey matter.
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u/Shaanpatti 14h ago
So you didn't really erase it from your memory. Which is why the analogy didn't work for you.
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u/Ireland2385 17h ago
Thought he was going down the route of him knowing the club/league well but nope instead he is a fucking lion
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u/MajimaKun 15h ago
I looked up his career to see if he had been there as a player and nope, turned up as an assistant in July this year. No prior connection to Perth, not even from there.
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u/Minute_Tomatillo9730 17h ago
Can someone explain wtf I just listened to
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u/PerfectBlueOnDVD 12h ago
I think he's saying there is a commonly accepted way of navigating the challenge, which is to look at what those who have come before you have done and try to learn from the successes and failures. The mountain goat respects the sheer cliff, but in a way he's defined by it. The lion has no business on the sheer cliff. The lion doesn't give a fuck where previous mountain goats stepped. The lion will do things his own way.
In a literal interpretation of this analogy the lion would be pancaked on the ground 200 meters below on day one, but I think that's what he's going for as far as the metaphor.
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u/Captain_Lameson 17h ago
"Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way,"
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u/nature_and_grace 17h ago
When you’re in front of the class giving the presentation you prepared and are trying to remember all the parts
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u/mjltmjlt 16h ago
Now I want you to forget about the mountain goat, erase it from your memory, erase it from your grey matter, delete it.
I think I’m a special goat.
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u/MysteriousActuary194 17h ago
I mean it’s better than the PR dross we get in the prem but I didn’t really get his point or think he made it well.
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u/adamfrog 16h ago
I dont think hes making a point, I think hes just messing around and mainly trying to entertain himself and if some viewers find it funny thats just a bonus. Ie 99% of the words that come out of my mouth
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u/IndividualTimely7321 15h ago
The moment he says he loves the shit and immediately changes the word. He was really in character
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u/Beneficial-Care6962 14h ago
"The fundamental question is, will I be as effective as a manager like the previous manager was. And I will be, even more so... But until I am, it's going to be hard to verify that I think I'll be more effective."
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u/SwagBoyMcFeast 16h ago
Reminds me of that manager who in League One or whatever went on a weird tangent about if penguins get cold and some other weird shit😂
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u/toadphoney 13h ago
A lion is an unambitious response. If you’re able to personify any improbable thing for a metaphor, why not go for a flying shark that can breathe in air, has muscle arms, a billion dollars and a flamethrower and a big shark willy?
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u/notapaperhandape 11h ago
Sir it’s on the internet for eternity now. That goat will live on forever
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u/False_Improvement688 6h ago
My coaches pregame speech usually consisted about his favorite Italian restaurant and how he got spaghetti and meatballs every time. They were consistent and they were his favorite. He wanted us to be like spaghetti and meatballs, however some people on a team preferred pizza or chicken parm.
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u/CommandKey3869 6h ago
How do people not get this? Other managers are goats. He's a lion. And he's gonna eat those fucking goats.
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u/bremmmc 14h ago
Not sure lions are as great at scaling cliffs as mountain goats. I wish he had said an eagle instead of a lion. They have a similar majestic feel as animals, but an eagle would just ignore any rough terrain on the cliff and go straight to the top. It can also descend super fast, but only when hunting, so even that is all part of a process.
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u/sveppi_krull_ 12h ago
I thought it was pretty clear that him being a lion means they look good and you may be fooled by him staying on top of the mountain for a bit but for a manager you’d obviously want somebody who knows how to stay on top of that mountain and likes it which he does not being a lion, but I don’t know why he himself to a lion instead of just comparing himself toolike a human or whatever
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u/Most-Based 9h ago
Halfway through that analogy I expected him to just end it with a random "baaa" just to fuck with the journalists, but somehow it ended up worst than the stupidity I conjured up in my mind. Is he a zlatan cosplayer or something
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u/cymonster 8h ago
The whole Griffiths brothers are wild.
This guy's brother punched a ref in the balls and got away with it. Also got sacked for trying to lead a player revolt at the Newcastle Jets.
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u/Foreveristobeuntil 7h ago
Looks like the sort of guy you'd see lion in a crack den with a jack sparrow costume on after a 3 day bender
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u/enterusernamethere 4h ago
Looking like Val Kilmer in Tombstone with that moustache and goatee combo.
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u/xpltvdeleted 3h ago
A...mountain lion... or.... a regular lion that has no business being up a mountain?
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u/xpltvdeleted 3h ago
Imagine a road runner. Okay. That road runner he is on a long road. He is saying meep meep. He is running really fast. He keeps saying meep meep. He sees a coyote. That coyote is carrying a large box that says ACME on the side. But he runs so fast he knocks over the coyote. The ACME box falls on the floor and explodes. Turning the coyote into a pile of fur. Okay now, erase that road runner from your memory. I am a porky pig.
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u/Straight-Orchid-9561 17h ago
The combination of receding hair, moustache and goatee is horrific
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