The Central Coast Mariners Post
Market13 Sep 2027
Oliver Lavale hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Central Coast Mariners can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
Ryan White turns down Central Coast Mariners
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Central Coast Mariners
Hosine Bility and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market13 Sep 2027
One of our own: Damien Riley joins the Central Coast Mariners first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Damien Riley is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market13 Sep 2027
Oscar Harrison steps up from the Central Coast Mariners academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oscar Harrison 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
One of our own: Jack Green joins the Central Coast Mariners first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jack Green is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
Haine Eames counts the days
“I watch every Central Coast Mariners game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Brisbane Roar runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad13 Sep 2027
No place for Jarrod Carluccio in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Central Coast Mariners are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
When it matters, Ali Auglah plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- The dugout Arthur De Lima knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Competition arrives for Kaito Taniguchi
- Squad Noah McCann: “I am not a substitute”