A phrase from an article on the Mariners revival from a living joke to Grand Finalists that really stuck out to me. So many people say just this about the Nix. Why the Salties, and not us?
I had the success and then I saw the club fail, coaches come in and whinge about the budget. ‘This club can’t compete with the big teams’, numerous coaches said that, but I never believed that because I came from a working class background where if you put your faith in the young people, they’ll give you everything back.”
I had the success and then I saw the club fail, coaches come in and whinge about the budget. ‘This club can’t compete with the big teams’, numerous coaches said that, but I never believed that because I came from a working class background where if you put your faith in the young people, they’ll give you everything back.”
CCM are slightly different to us though. Their win of the championship came in 2013, they've finished #1 in the league twice (07/08 and 11/12). Since then absolutely garbage - they had massive changes, focussed on youth and spent no money and won nothing, this season is the culmination of that decade long journey - and it has resulted in a strong performance this year. We have really only just begun that 10 year journey that CCM started in 2014. Academy is really only 2 years old and from last year we have the infrastructure to help grow skills with youth, so instead of buying quality we can develop it.