One in a million
4K
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9.5K
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almost 17 years

Heading our way?!

RR
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Bossi Insider
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33K
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over 15 years
RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years
Phoenix Academy
980
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430
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over 16 years

RR wrote:

For comparison we have won 36 games over the same period, but hey #nixout. 

Marquee
2.7K
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7.2K
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almost 17 years

Wow 18 wins in 115 games? That's grim!

Marquee
3.7K
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5.4K
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over 11 years

Why not fully invest - no chance to turn a profit as a club without fans or sponsors... and constantly losing won't help. 

Marquee
300
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5K
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almost 17 years

Maaaaaaatt wrote:

RR wrote:

For comparison we have won 36 games over the same period, but hey #nixout. 

Sooo how many against us?

First Team Squad
1.2K
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1.6K
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over 14 years

Sanday wrote:

Maaaaaaatt wrote:

RR wrote:

For comparison we have won 36 games over the same period, but hey #nixout. 

Sooo how many against us?

During that period, four.

Starting XI
1.4K
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4.5K
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over 16 years

Sanday wrote:

Maaaaaaatt wrote:

RR wrote:

For comparison we have won 36 games over the same period, but hey #nixout. 

Sooo how many against us?

Looks like 4, of which 2 were last season.

RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years

Sanday wrote:

Maaaaaaatt wrote:

RR wrote:

For comparison we have won 36 games over the same period, but hey #nixout. 

Sooo how many against us?

Glory x 4

Phoenix x 4

Adelaide x 3

Jets x 2

City x 2

WSW x 2

Sydney x 1

Legend
6.8K
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14K
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over 16 years

the other thing is in football someone has to win and someone has to lose. There has to be 9 and 10 on the table.

Marquee
4.5K
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6.6K
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over 11 years

John Kosmina suggested the other night that CCM has become a graveyard for has-beens and second-raters. Which resonates a bit too close to home if I'm honest. 

Not saying the issue is that simplistic but there is no doubt that clubs need to spend some serious cash to attract real talent to be able to compete with the glamour clubs.

Legend
8K
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14K
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over 16 years

Outpost wrote:

John Kosmina suggested the other night that CCM has become a graveyard for has-beens and second-raters. Which resonates a bit too close to home if I'm honest. 

Not saying the issue is that simplistic but there is no doubt that clubs need to spend some serious cash to attract real talent to be able to compete with the glamour clubs.

Even with a salary cap its not really an even playing field. The glamour clubs you speck of get more support from the FFA when it comes to the marquee players they attract, and of course they have more money to through at a marquee player anyway, along with guest contracts etc. There will always be the haves and have nots in football. CCM have done well in the past just to exist in the league and continue to do so - even if they are sharkhouse.

RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years

CCM to give up and just play their kids for the rest of the season?

RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years
One in a million
4K
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9.5K
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almost 17 years

Usain Bolt to ManU?

RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years

Maybe he isn't gonna make it back to CCM for Xmas after all ...

Appiah without the pace
6.4K
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19K
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over 16 years

Midfielder has been awfully quiet in here

Legend
8K
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14K
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over 16 years

gee I wonder why? perhaps worried we might suggest that his team are keeping  Canberra out of the comp?

Opinion Privileges revoked
4.5K
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9.7K
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over 14 years

Good to see some on sokkah Twitter beginning to question why CCM aren't subject to the same threats about #metrics as the Nix

Legend
8K
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14K
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over 16 years

but in all seriousness, look at some of the "name" players the mariners have, Matt Simon, Tommy Oar, McGlinchy, Connor Pain, Jacob Melling, Golec, Hoole. These are players that have made their names in the A-League, some have played off shore an come back. But you'd expect they'd be doing a fudge load better than 2 points. They are about to have the worst year in Aussie football since the late 90's in the NPL.

Appiah without the pace
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19K
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over 16 years

I take your point about 2 points, but Simon, Pain, Melling and Golec are all very average player. Hoole slightly better. McGlinchey hasn't done anything for 3 seasons. Oar is the only player int he squad that any other team would look at. CCM's imports are been mostly trash for the last few years too. 

RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years

2ndBest wrote:

I take your point about 2 points, but Simon, Pain, Melling and Golec are all very average player. Hoole slightly better. McGlinchey hasn't done anything for 3 seasons. Oar is the only player int he squad that any other team would look at. CCM's imports are been mostly trash for the last few years too. 

Matt Millar wouldn't go too badly at RWB for us.
LG
Legend
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23K
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over 16 years

New Manager tomorrow??

Appiah without the pace
6.4K
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19K
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over 16 years

Thought I saw the other day that they don't have a strength and conditioning person which would explain the number of injuries they have.

RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years

2ndBest wrote:

Thought I saw the other day that they don't have a strength and conditioning person which would explain the number of injuries they have.

Can't recall if it was them or Brisbane that outsource their fitness work. On the CCMFans.net forums they list this as the current coaching staff


Head Coach: Mike Mulvey
Assistant Coach: Nick Montgomery
Assistant Coach: Ray Junna
Goalkeeping Coach: Matt Nash
Head of Football Performance: Andy Thomson
Physiotherapist: David McGinness
Central Coast Mariners Academy Director: Ken Schembri
Team Manager: Jesse Canning
Kit Manager: Melissa Woods

Legend
8K
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14K
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over 16 years

2ndBest wrote:

I take your point about 2 points, but Simon, Pain, Melling and Golec are all very average player. Hoole slightly better. McGlinchey hasn't done anything for 3 seasons. Oar is the only player int he squad that any other team would look at. CCM's imports are been mostly trash for the last few years too. 

they may be average now, but they have been in the league for a ling time so you'd think there would be some quality there. Simon for one has always scored against us, how he's managed to be captain is beyomd me - such a grub of a player.

RR
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Bossi Insider
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33K
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over 15 years

One of the keys to CCM's business plan was to develop and sell a player pretty much every season, they just haven't produced anyone since Ryan/Sainsbury/Rogic and it's crippled them financially with Charlesworth wanting to balance the books. Their best recent projects were Buhagiar & Wales, both left for nothing.

Atm their squad is filled with failed youth projects, guys on their last deals and NPL guys trying to make the step up.

RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years

RR wrote:

2ndBest wrote:

Thought I saw the other day that they don't have a strength and conditioning person which would explain the number of injuries they have.

Can't recall if it was them or Brisbane that outsource their fitness work. On the CCMFans.net forums they list this as the current coaching staff


Head Coach: Mike Mulvey
Assistant Coach: Nick Montgomery
Assistant Coach: Ray Junna
Goalkeeping Coach: Matt Nash
Head of Football Performance: Andy Thomson
Physiotherapist: David McGinness
Central Coast Mariners Academy Director: Ken Schembri
Team Manager: Jesse Canning
Kit Manager: Melissa Woods

Guessing it must be this guy judging by the press release https://www.ccmariners.com.au/news/mariners-welcome-andy-thomson-head-football-performance

"Thomson boasts 15 years of football coaching experience and specialises in periodisation and physical preparation. Thomson arrives on the Central Coast with an impressive track record of developing top fit teams with fewer injuries through integrating: sports medicine; sports science and strength and conditioning."

Isn't that what DK's guy tried to bring in and it wasn't very good?

Bevan
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First Team Squad
210
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1.7K
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over 16 years

They should have got a better goalkeeper.

It makes no sense that Birighitti is on the bench at City, and Velaphi on the bench at Perth.

RR
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Bossi Insider
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33K
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over 15 years
First Team Squad
820
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1.2K
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over 8 years

They did it! Against City as well. This is excellent for us on the ladder. I'm really glad CCM won this, they've been hard done by with their results multiple times throughout the season so far. This should be a real confidence raiser for them. 2 more points and they beat the NZ Knights

Starting XI
2K
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4.7K
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almost 17 years

Lachyloolaa wrote:

They did it! Against City as well. This is excellent for us on the ladder. I'm really glad CCM won this, they've been hard done by with their results multiple times throughout the season so far. This should be a real confidence raiser for them. 2 more points and they beat the NZ Knights

Am gutted personally, as Knights fan I really wanted another team to take the worst A-League team ever stat off us and NZ football in general.

Legend
8K
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14K
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over 16 years

bolt gone from football - it was "fun while it lasted"

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/a-league/110097683/usain-bolt-retires-from-football-says-it-was-fun-while-it-lasted

he should have taken that Malta contract if he was really serious.

RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years

Mulvey didn't even last until the morning, we claim our second manager's job this season

Marquee
300
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5K
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almost 17 years

"Better than the Knights?" 

Not sure about that.

Marquee
1.1K
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7.6K
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over 12 years

Mariners sack Mulvey after 8-2 drubbing


https://www.ftbl.com.au/news/mariners-sack-mulvey-after-8-2-drubbing-520337

The "Mulvey Out" chant worked this week

LG
Legend
5.5K
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23K
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over 16 years

I like and feel for Mariners fans but really, the club are in complete dis-a-ray

RR
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Bossi Insider
9.2K
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33K
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over 15 years

Lonegunmen wrote:

I like and feel for Mariners fans but really, the club are in complete dis-a-ray

Sacking Mulvey is putting a bandage on a broken leg. The problems the club has had with recruitment and retention have existed for a number of seasons now, regardless of who is the manager. You could hire a world class one but he couldn't do anything with the quality of players they sign and when they do find a diamond in the rough, they lose them straight away because they don't lock them into a longer term deal.
Marquee
1.1K
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7.6K
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over 12 years

Lonegunmen wrote:

I like and feel for Mariners fans but really, the club are in complete dis-a-ray

Need to relocate to Canberra 

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