Ethan O'Neill

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The Central Coast Mariners Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Panos Armenakas

18 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Christian Theoharous

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Central Coast Mariners

Mario Galeano 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.

Boardroom

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.

Market

Central Coast Mariners promote Ethan O'Neill from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ethan O'Neill 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

Central Coast Mariners promote Alex Price from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alex Price 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

One of our own: Bradley Murray joins the Central Coast Mariners first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bradley Murray is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Matt Hunter joins the Central Coast Mariners first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matt Hunter is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Words at Central Coast Mariners training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo Ruiz 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.

In brief