The Central Coast Mariners Post
Squad8 Mar 2027
Trent Sainsbury signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Trent Sainsbury commits to Central Coast Mariners for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Christian Theoharous
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
A masterclass from Kaito Taniguchi
Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A month that belonged to Oliver Lavale
The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Central Coast Mariners who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Central Coast Mariners count the cost of losing Sam Baker
38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Central Coast Mariners and Brisbane Roar
- Market Talks stall between Central Coast Mariners and Marc Tokich
- Market The Ali Auglah story refuses to die