Well, it's been nice to have some shore leave from the good ship S.S. Glory in the past 10 days or so. Watching the abysmal display of refereeing that has sadly become ingrained in the neglected child that is the A-League left Glory without a deserved three points against North Queensland. You must remember though that North Queensland are the only team in the league that is worse than us on and off the pitch. We, the sad pathetic mess that is a Glory fan, have been able to take in some sun, spew forth hatred towards anything to do with Qatar or FIFA and watch some decent football whilst Glory have been on a break.

Something that was stated by Perth Glory during our week off from the on pitch mediocrity fest was the announcement that there is to be a complete review of the club from top to tail. Tony Sage has once again proved he can talk anyone in to anything by recruiting the ultimate sports brain, Ric Charlsworth, to head the review with the support of founding Fremantle Dockers CEO David Hatt.

Charlsworth is one of the brains in Australian Sport. He's been a Labor MP, represented WA at cricket, coached Women's Australian Hockey teams to Olympic Gold, won a world title as coach of the Men's hockey team, and to a lesser extent sat on the coaching staff with the Dockers where he managed to upset most with his criticism. The Dockers failure perhaps shows he has experience with dealing with losers who wear purple, who knows. The respect the man has from all sports communities is a feather in the cap for Sage who is bringing in a couple of outsiders to see what kind of a mess the Perth Glory Football Club is in.

This review will be quite damning you would expect but is Sage going to take it like a man and yell ‘Shoot straight ya bastard!' to both Charlsworth and Hatt when the report is done? Is he going to say thanks for the feedback and then leave the report in his desk and head to the Brisbane Hotel for a pint? Let's be honest, most of us are hoping he says what is glaringly obvious and that is, among other things, that the coaching situation is deplorable. Something along the lines of:

"Well, Tony, I've done the review and I have to admit that the homeless guy that sleeps on Lord Street next to the stadium could do a better job motivating these players. The administration is ran like an op shop in Merredin and David Mitchell couldn't grow a beard if his life depended on it."

Yes, Charlsworth is not a football purist which will have some looking down their nose at a non-believer and question why he should be listened to. However his record in getting in to the heads of participants in all kinds of sports and turning them in to peak performers speak volumes for what his review could do for the club.

Away from the hopeful gutting and rebuilding of this club, the season from hell for Glory is back on again on Sunday when they welcome one of the most despised football teams to Peth; the Central Coast Mariners. It was looking good for Glory for a while there in the lead up to this match with the Mariners slipping in form, but a thrashing of the champions Sydney FC last weekend put them back on the right course. We all know what happened last time we played the Mariners in late October too, the only good thing to come from the game was that Naum Sekulovski's pathetic own goal will make it on to the DVD for ‘World's Wackiest Football Bloopers Volume 13'.

It's a good bet that Glory won't make the 6, actually, it's looking as likely as multicultural gay pride parade during the opening ceremony of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but still we'll trudge on with hope being for the hopeless. Whilst teams that string 3 passes together will be going for the toilet bowl trophy and a golden ticket to Asia in February/March, us Glory fans will be living off memories and being hopeless romantics of the old NSL days yet again. I sure hope the Glory players have learned off Ferguson the tactic of spiting us fans expecting more crap football this weekend.