The Central Coast Mariners Post
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lucas
77 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Christian Theoharous runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Oliver Lavale at 21 — 7.76
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oliver Lavale did not need any: 7.76, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Alfie McCalmont signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alfie McCalmont and Central Coast Mariners agree another 3 years.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Trent Sainsbury 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.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Central Coast Mariners
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad26 Oct 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.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Oliver Lavale
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market26 Oct 2026
Central Coast Mariners promote Tim Powell from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tim Powell 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
- Market One of our own: Lachlan Hunter joins the Central Coast Mariners first team
- Market Central Coast Mariners promote Caleb Scott from within
- Market Central Coast Mariners promote Rory Moore from within