Marcus Holmes

Left Forward - Central Coast Mariners
1 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Marcus Holmes

49 Edition

The Central Coast Mariners Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Central Coast Mariners

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Central Coast Mariners is running low.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $530.0K sale of Bailey Brandtman

He is going to Adelaide United, the club has $530.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad

Tempers go at Central Coast Mariners

Christian Cepeda 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Marcus Holmes at Central Coast Mariners

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marcus Holmes is 15, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Bailey Brandtman moves on

Adelaide United pay $530.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Words at Central Coast Mariners training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tyreece Simpson 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.

Market

Newcastle Jets watching Chris Donnell

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Central Coast Mariners have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Boardroom

Central Coast Mariners sign 8 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

Squad

Bradley Tapp gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Central Coast Mariners Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Christian Theoharous runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Christian Cepeda in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Central Coast Mariners this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Marcus Holmes at Central Coast Mariners

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marcus Holmes is 14, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Central Coast Mariners

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Tyreece Simpson falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Central Coast Mariners promote Ethan Fletcher from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ethan Fletcher has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Cooper Byrne steps up from the Central Coast Mariners academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cooper Byrne has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Grant White steps up from the Central Coast Mariners academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Grant White has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Central Coast Mariners promote Archie Doyle from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Archie Doyle has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

4 Edition

The Central Coast Mariners Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Enzo Pelosi out for 105 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Central Coast Mariners will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Noah McCann asks to leave Central Coast Mariners

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Central Coast Mariners

Christian Cepeda 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.

In brief