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The Central Coast Mariners Post
25 May 2043
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match20 May 2043
The cup run ends for Central Coast Mariners
1‑2 against Macarthur FC, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match25 May 2043
Central Coast Mariners refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 44 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad25 May 2043
Cameron Davis says Central Coast Mariners went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
In brief
- Squad David White shuts the door again
- Squad David White gets it from the manager
- Squad Michael Ward in a row with a teammate
- Player ratings Eli Palmer runs at them all day