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Central Coast Mariners - Under APL Management

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over 5 years ago

Can CCM finish above the Victory? That would be the icing on the cake - not to finish last.

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 5 years ago

Lonegunmen wrote:

Can CCM finish above the Victory? That would be the icing on the cake - not to finish last.

No. Victory would some how have to find a way to be deducted 3 points in games with no fans.
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over 5 years ago

Has CCM now set a longer winless record then the Knights?

Supporter of the world's best football teams: Waikato..., Kingz FC, NZ Knights, The Nix, The Argyle & of course the All Whites

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Kaz Patafta & Zac Anderson's equity company interested in buying CCM

And

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A community ownership partnership, focus on youth development and keeping the Mariners on the Coast: these are the main points of an exciting pitch to reinvigorate A-League club Central Coast by a potential new buyer.

Ownership Deal Revealed

https://sg.linkedin.com/in/zac-anderson91

  • Sydney FC

    Jul 2015 – Jun 20161 year

  • Professional Soccer PlayerCentral Coast Mariners

    Jun 2012 – Jun 20153 years 1 month

  • Professional Soccer PlayerGold Coast United

    2009 – 20123 years

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over 5 years ago

RR wrote:

His cartoons are very very good

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harrymc55
over 5 years ago

If Auckland footballers can please buy Lotto tickets they would have enough to buy CCM's licence and a great squad with $43 million.

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 5 years ago

Don't mind those. 

You know we belong together...

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over 5 years ago

Nice kits.

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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over 5 years ago

Think we might have to pretend the navy is black and borrow them every week

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LG
almost 5 years ago
Woah. Manchester United looking to buy the Mariners and move them to north Sydney. That would be good for the club as it would give them stability. But suck for the central coast
I have an amazing ability to find my way out of mazes. I'm pathological. 
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almost 5 years ago
kwlap
Woah. Manchester United looking to buy the Mariners and move them to north Sydney. That would be good for the club as it would give them stability. But suck for the central coast

SFC would definitely vote against it. Large chunk of their supporter base apparently originates from Sydney's northern beaches area.
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almost 5 years ago
could see Western Sydney voting against it too, along with the CCM fanbase who would not be happy. 

Queenslander 3x a year.

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almost 5 years ago
kwlap
Woah. Manchester United looking to buy the Mariners and move them to north Sydney. That would be good for the club as it would give them stability. But suck for the central coast

I wouldn’t say that would be good for the club, maybe the owners but not the club. Mariners fans have gone through so much the last couple seasons and finally do well to hear they might have the club taken away. Its no different to how Phoenix fans would feel if Welnix got an offer from a rich European club who don’t really care, and move to whichever more ‘fashionable’ market was available.

Also surely the Sydney market is close to saturation at the moment, we’ve seen both Melbourne and Sydney’s third teams have small fanbases. Yes, of course, covid is a factor, but Western Utd weren’t doing much before that either. For the Mariners’ and the league’s sake surely they have to make staying in Central Coast non-negotiable, as opposed to having a fourth Sydney team.
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almost 5 years ago
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Who'd be a Mariners fan. Suddenly having a great season after years of losing. Your reward. Endless rumours your club is going to be shipped off either north or south. Might as well throw in east (Auckland) or west (Alice Springs).
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almost 5 years ago
RR

Jordan Gardner is an owner and chairman of Helsingør where of course Eli Just, Callum McCowatt, Dalton Wilkins and Auckland schoolkid but South African international Liam Jordan play. From what I’ve heard from him, he seems to understand football club ownership well, at least in regards to Helsingør, so be interesting to see how he’d go running an A League club. 

Also notice that Brett Johnson is among the various owners of Phoenix Rising, another club with several New Zealanders, so the two own the clubs with the largest New Zealand contingent outside of Wellington. Would be great if that translated to NZ players being signed out of the national league to a non-Phoenix A League club.
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almost 5 years ago
coochiee
Who'd be a Mariners fan. Suddenly having a great season after years of losing. Your reward. Endless rumours your club is going to be shipped off either north or south. Might as well throw in east (Auckland) or west (Alice Springs).
I am NOT becoming a Salties fan and that's final, I don't care if they win the league

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almost 5 years ago
carlind
RR

Jordan Gardner is an owner and chairman of Helsingør where of course Eli Just, Callum McCowatt, Dalton Wilkins and Auckland schoolkid but South African international Liam Jordan play. From what I’ve heard from him, he seems to understand football club ownership well, at least in regards to Helsingør, so be interesting to see how he’d go running an A League club. 

Also notice that Brett Johnson is among the various owners of Phoenix Rising, another club with several New Zealanders, so the two own the clubs with the largest New Zealand contingent outside of Wellington. Would be great if that translated to NZ players being signed out of the national league to a non-Phoenix A League club.

Someone put them in touch with ACFC regarding an A-league bid ...
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LG
almost 5 years ago · edited almost 5 years ago · History
It would never happen, but relocating a team to the biggest market without an A League side, is not totally crazy, even if it is another country.

Gold Coast has hardly been a road paved with success for sporting teams. At least 2 failed NRL teams prior the Titans (who have also needed financial help also from ARL), the Suns an AFL team only kept alive because the game's powerbrokers in Melbourne have oodles of surplus cash slushing around (aka mega TV deal), and then Palmer's GC United fiasco.

But really I would hope the Nix, support leaving the Mariners on the Central Coast. 
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LG
almost 5 years ago
Wow, this is out of the blue
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There's rumors around their stadium deal and that the team and a bit of uncertainty with their future. I wonder if this is the first sign that it might not be good news.
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almost 5 years ago
Reinforces that Nix are so lucky to have the owners they do, and the stability that brings.
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aitkenmikeLGMainland FCmartinb+2
almost 5 years ago
It also confirms that their best signing, like ever, is Ufuk Talay.


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almost 5 years ago
I have a lot of time for Stajcic after he was jerked around by the FFA board

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The new bloke in charge isn't very articulate. He vows to go back to the Golden Days when Aussie teams were producing athletes rather than footballers.


Already stamping his mark by bringing in Wilkshire.

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almost 4 years ago
Well the new owner is a 'gym guru'. Co-owner of the Anytime Fitness chain in Australia.
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Wonder if the Nix ever considered taking a game to Fiji when Krishna was a player.

A game(s) in Suva against their National team would actually be useful, over this WC break. Handy acclimatisation with some sweltering Australian kickoffs, no doubt soon to come.

https://www.oceaniafootball.com/brian-kaltak-homecoming-is-a-chance-to-inspire-as-central-coast-mariners-head-to-vanuatu/

The tournament gives the Mariners, who have three players in Qatar as part of Graham Arnold’s Australia squad, a chance to keep sharp over the break period with 21 players, including some youngsters who are looking to impress, making the journey.

But it is also a chance to bring Kaltak back to his homeland and perhaps inspire the next generation.

“With Brian at the Mariners it was an opportunity to bring the team here, bring Brian back and the fans can obviously celebrate Brian,” said Montgomery.

“Brian’s journey is a special one. I find it hard to believe that nobody picked him up from his time in New Zealand as he is an unbelievable athlete, and he learns so quickly. I think everyone has seen in the early rounds of the A-League that he is a big talent.

“I am just humbled that I have been the one to give him his opportunity in professional football. He is a real pioneer for football in Vanuatu.”

As a footballer from the Pacific playing in the A-League Kaltak is a rarity, with former Wellington Phoenix striker Roy Krishna the other high-profile example. The A-League’s transfer system is set up to protect the development of domestic players, with only five foreign ‘visa players’ allowed to be registered to a club at any one time. It means players from the nearby Pacific Islands have a tough task in getting opportunities to break through into the competition.

Montgomery is pleased Kaltak has managed to make that leap but thinks there is an opportunity for more talented players from the region to play professional football in Australia.

“It would be an amazing thing to have a plus one quota player from Oceania. I know there is talk about Asia as well, but I don’t see why there can’t be one from Oceania when you have places like Fiji and players like Roy Krishna and obviously Brian now from Vanuatu.

“That’s a pathway that would be welcomed. At the moment it is very hard, you only have five Visa spots at every A-League club so to try and give up Visa spots is not easy, but I think Brian can be an inspiration for that as was Roy Krishna.

“Look there are good players out here they just need the platform and opportunity to perform at the highest level and that’s always the challenge.”

But while those opportunities are currently limited, it won’t stop Montgomery and the Mariners staff from keeping their eyes peeled for the next Brian Kaltak during this tour.

“We have got three games which give us an opportunity to look at players,” said Montgormery.

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