The Central Coast Mariners Post
Squad23 Apr 2029
The knee: Gabriel Cléùr out for 77 days
77 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Central Coast Mariners lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match23 Apr 2029
Central Coast Mariners are in real trouble now
Position 10, 27 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
Harry Steele frozen out at Central Coast Mariners
This is not rotation. Harry Steele has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Central Coast Mariners is pretending otherwise.
Squad23 Apr 2029
Tempers go at Central Coast Mariners
Nahuel da Silva 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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
A row about effort at Central Coast Mariners
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Harry Steele was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
Gabriel Cléùr has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Central Coast Mariners will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
Harrison Devenish-Meares knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Harrison Devenish-Meares trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market23 Apr 2029
Noah McCann placed on the list
Central Coast Mariners have made Noah McCann available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout23 Apr 2029
Lucas Mauragis keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Lucas Mauragis plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
In brief
- Market Arthur De Lima has been watched
- Squad Chris Wallace is fit again
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Zane Schreiber