The Central Coast Mariners Post
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 17 in, 1 out at Central Coast Mariners
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Central Coast Mariners
Jacob Farrell and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Central Coast Mariners training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Theoharous is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market7 Sep 2026
Eyes on Trent Sainsbury again
The phone has started ringing about Trent Sainsbury again, and this time the name on the line is Brisbane Roar. Central Coast Mariners are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Deadline beats Central Coast Mariners to Dean Bosnjak
The clock did what Macarthur FC would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Daniel Rogers signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Rogers and Central Coast Mariners agree another 3 years.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Christian Theoharous knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Central Coast Mariners, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jacob Farrell moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Central Coast Mariners than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Market7 Sep 2026
Still no ink between Central Coast Mariners and Ben van Dorssen
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Central Coast Mariners, another week without a signature from Ben van Dorssen.
In brief
- Market The window shut and Christian Theoharous is still in the building
- Market The shop window has Dylan Peraić-Cullen in it