The Central Coast Mariners Post
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. Oliver Lavale 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Clayton Taylor
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Keanu Simpson joins the Central Coast Mariners first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Keanu Simpson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Oct 2026
Lucas Campbell steps up from the Central Coast Mariners academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lucas Campbell has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market26 Oct 2026
Central Coast Mariners promote Andrew Patterson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrew Patterson 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Aaron Webb joins the Central Coast Mariners first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aaron Webb is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Central Coast Mariners
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Central Coast Mariners pick somebody else ahead of Matthew Acton
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Arthur De Lima
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Central Coast Mariners
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Trent Sainsbury