The Central Coast Mariners Post
Market21 May 2035
Only the photograph left for Haine Eames
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Haine Eames will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Central Coast Mariners the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 May 2035
Haine Eames in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Central Coast Mariners this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 May 2035
A row about effort at Central Coast Mariners
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nathan Morgan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 May 2035
Rhys Burns knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Central Coast Mariners, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 May 2035
Tom Edwards gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tom Edwards is on it.
Market21 May 2035
The Rhys Burns question follows Central Coast Mariners around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rhys Burns’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Tim Collins
- Squad Welcome back, Michael Jackson