The Central Coast Mariners Post
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Central Coast Mariners
Rodrigo Cabrera was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match5 Dec 2026
Central Coast Mariners come up short against Perth Glory
Perth Glory left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Oliver Lavale is the division's best young player this month
At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Central Coast Mariners will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Harry Steele
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Christian Theoharous
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Christian Theoharous has come out of that comparison in the side, and Central Coast Mariners have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Central Coast Mariners pick somebody else ahead of Rodrigo Cabrera
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Player ratings Christian Theoharous ran the game
- Player ratings Alfie McCalmont spends the afternoon fouling