The Central Coast Mariners Post
Squad25 Oct 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Trent Sainsbury
90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Central Coast Mariners lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Medin Memeti scores twice — 9.53
Two goals and a mark of 9.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
A brace, and Kaito Taniguchi takes the afternoon — 8.77
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kaito Taniguchi provided it, and the 8.77 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market25 Oct 2027
Aaron Russell is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Central Coast Mariners is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Central Coast Mariners
Trent Sainsbury 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.
Match23 Oct 2027
Central Coast Mariners are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match23 Oct 2027
Central Coast Mariners get the job done against Adelaide United
A 4‑3 win over Adelaide United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match23 Oct 2027
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Central Coast Mariners and Adelaide United in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
Graduation day at Central Coast Mariners
5 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.
In brief
- The terraces Central Coast Mariners supporters have found a favourite in Medin Memeti
- Market Central Coast Mariners promote Paul Murray from within
- Market One of our own: Nathan Holmes joins the Central Coast Mariners first team