Gavin Simpson

Goalkeeper - Central Coast Mariners U18
3 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Gavin Simpson

65 Edition

The Central Coast Mariners Post

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Robert Mizo settles it late for Central Coast Mariners

The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Robert Mizo decided nobody was going anywhere. Adelaide United had no time left to answer.

Market

Only the photograph left for Diesel Herrington

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Diesel Herrington will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Central Coast Mariners the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Jai Ajanović: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Central Coast Mariners have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

Shane Davis signs on for the long haul

Central Coast Mariners moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Shane Davis, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Central Coast Mariners

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at Central Coast Mariners

Joan Gaona 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

Graduation day at Central Coast Mariners

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Words at Central Coast Mariners training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Mizo 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.

Market

Central Coast Mariners promote Gavin Simpson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gavin Simpson 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