The Central Coast Mariners Post
Boardroom6 May 2030
Pressure builds in the Central Coast Mariners boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Boardroom6 May 2030
Central Coast Mariners spell it out for Interim Coach
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market6 May 2030
Alex Robinson 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.
Squad6 May 2030
Will Hill says Central Coast Mariners went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market6 May 2030
Jai Ajanović 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.
Squad6 May 2030
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.
Squad6 May 2030
A move Ginanjar Wahyu would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ginanjar Wahyu is living that version at Central Coast Mariners, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom6 May 2030
Nicholas Pennington will join Central Coast Mariners for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Nicholas Pennington has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Central Coast Mariners have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad6 May 2030
Ginanjar Wahyu signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ginanjar Wahyu and Central Coast Mariners agree another 2 years.
In brief
- Boardroom Central Coast Mariners pull $1.2M back off the table
- Market Central Coast Mariners shop where it costs nothing
- Market Stefan Evans leaves for nothing