Eli Duncan

Left Wingback - Central Coast Mariners U18
7 Jan 2029
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The Central Coast Mariners Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Michael Sullivan has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Central Coast Mariners can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Trent Sainsbury hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Central Coast Mariners can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Central Coast Mariners

Trent Sainsbury and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Central Coast Mariners training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Panashe Madanha 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.

The dugout

Christian Theoharous knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Christian Theoharous trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Marcus Miller is settling

A few words of the language, a friend at the next peg, and a training ground that has stopped feeling foreign. Nothing measurable, and everything visible on Saturdays.

In brief