CCM Fans and the club

[turbo]

sorting out the football part of the Club is the best way to ensure the Mariners don't disappear

If development and work off the pitch makes us sustainable and competitive long term thats a good thing. Creating assets linked to the club (assuming the council makes sure any grants/deals/approvals are structured to benefit the club) helps anchor a team to the coast which is a positive as well. They have to get the on field stuff right and do it soon but that bitterness we feel shouldn't cause them to have blinkers on for their long term planning.

There's a valid amount of mistrust in how MC might try to structure things but those plans if he can get them off the ground are a potentially big win for CCM. Expanding CCLC doesn't do anything to keep the team around.

 

[marinermick]

maybe they'll turn their focus to being a football club first - not being distracted by shit that they have little control over, or much chance of executing

Hit... nail... head

The amount of bullshit, grandiose, unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky stuff that has come out of the club the last few years has been staggering.

If all that effort went into ensuring we have a competitive football team we would have been in much better state.

 

[bikinigirl]

If development and work off the pitch makes us sustainable and competitive long term thats a good thing. Creating assets linked to the club (assuming the council makes sure any grants/deals/approvals are structured to benefit the club) helps anchor a team to the coast which is a positive as well. They have to get the on field stuff right and do it soon but that bitterness we feel shouldn't cause them to have blinkers on for their long term planning.

There's a valid amount of mistrust in how MC might try to structure things but those plans if he can get them off the ground are a potentially big win for CCM. Expanding CCLC doesn't do anything to keep the team around.

. i understand where you are coming from (MC has stated it often enough) but if that is the plan ... get the first development plan sorted first (the CoE plan is still unfulfilled and to date appears less than successful*)

. the CCLC plan is irrelevant in terms of keeping the team on the Coast, firstly the CCLC already have a site

* i am waiting for the recent lack of progress to be blamed on Kathryn Duncan now she has departed

 

[turbo]

the CCLC plan is irrelevant in terms of keeping the team on the Coast

Agree with the rest of your post but I'm not sure the CCLC is irrelevant. If they get in an build a new hotel across the road that has to ask some questions about viability for MC to do the same thing. Sounds a little like they're trying to get in first and hope that shuts down competing interests.

 

[NoDiggity]

Message from Shaun on Facebook

Hi members, I will be attending the pre-match function at the western warm up field this Saturday from 6:20pm. I will be giving a club update and also answering any questions that members will have. I will shout a few beverages to those who come along. See you there.

 

[bikinigirl]

Agree with the rest of your post but I'm not sure the CCLC is irrelevant. If they get in an build a new hotel across the road that has to ask some questions about viability for MC to do the same thing. Sounds a little like they're trying to get in first and hope that shuts down competing interests.

. you're assuming that MC's 'plan' has any viability ... i have no such faith, sorry

 

[Antlion]

Message from Shaun on Facebook

Hi members, I will be attending the pre-match function at the western warm up field this Saturday from 6:20pm. I will be giving a club update and also answering any questions that members will have. I will shout a few beverages to those who come along. See you there.

I'm not sure I can make this - would someone be happy to report back any new or interesting news?

 

[Coastalraider]

I'm not sure I can make this - would someone be happy to report back any new or interesting news?

Well this might drive match attendance into the triple figures!

 

[pjennings]

. i understand where you are coming from (MC has stated it often enough) but if that is the plan ... get the first development plan sorted first (the CoE plan is still unfulfilled and to date appears less than successful*)
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* i am waiting for the recent lack of progress to be blamed on Kathryn Duncan now she has departed.

TBH I think that the MC plan, the Turnbull plan and the Gorman plan before that is the way to go for a regional team. In the long term teams from more populous areas will dominate. The execution of the plan has been poor, probably for a variety of reasons (GFC, GCC, the adminstrator, CCC and CCMFC all have their part to be play here). As for Kathyrn Duncan ( a woman I have only spoken with twice - both times she was eager to show me the changing plans for the COE) , as I posted earlier, MC seemed to be laying the blame there quite a while ago. That in itself is a cop-out - even if he blames her he is the Chairman and ultimately responsible.

If the 'pie in the sky' plans had been implemented then I would be a lot happier that our future remains in the HAL. As it is, unless some plans are implemented that increase the revenue of the club then I fear at best our club will be the first relegated to a second division, at worst it will disappear

 

[Big Al]

I'm not sure I can make this - would someone be happy to report back any new or interesting news?

We are shit and hope to be better next season while making no changes

 

[Coastalraider]

We are shit and hope to be better next season while making no changes

We aim to be a revolutionary club, and think outside the box, and become the first team in ALeague history to do the same thing over and over and actually achieve a different result.

 

[turbo]

We aim to be a revolutionary club, and think outside the box, and become the first team in ALeague history to do the same thing over and over and actually achieve a different result.

Much like a pun the objective is to become so terrible it’s somehow good.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

It will be...

We know you’re hurting.
We’re hurting too.
We’re trying.
We know it’s not good enough.
Don’t give up on us. We’re working to turn it around. Here’s some things we’re doing.

The last is the only real variable I reckon.

Hopefully it’s...

We’re deeply sorry. Mike has realised we can no longer addord to flounder, and we’ll be pulling out all the stops to bring on field performances to where it needs to be. We’ll be looking to recruit powerfully and early, that will lead in to having the most serious pre season build up in years, then aiming to win the FFA cup, and hit the new Season at full stride.

That would be a start at least. Lot of areas of concern fans currently have.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Message from Shaun on Facebook

Hi members, I will be attending the pre-match function at the western warm up field this Saturday from 6:20pm. I will be giving a club update and also answering any questions that members will have. I will shout a few beverages to those who come along. See you there.

I doubt that I will be able to make it in time but will try.

If I do, I guess, like all the other believers, I will accept his Kool Aid, but if the message is more of the same positivity without any serious announcement of change, I doubt I will swallow.

 

[true believer]

I doubt that I will be able to make it in time but will try.

If I do, I guess, like all the other believers, I will accept his Kool Aid, but if the message is more of the same positivity without any serious announcement of change, I doubt I will swallow.

i think he needs to bring a few gorilla's with him . i think this will be very ugly !

 

[Cricko_086]

What would you ask?
Will we have a club next year? Will God be signed? Will we add to our list of failed coaches? Spending, players, board members ect?

I’m assuming most of the questions we ponder on here will not and prob cannot be answered as yet. So I would assume it to be very much the same line as all other years. We will improve, stay with us we will make the hard choices and move forward.

 

[Josho Howe]

There's so much wrong with that way of thinking it's not even funny. In the time since I finished school they've killed a nightclub that was known even within Sydney, destroyed the vibe of the place and turned it in to a soulless hole that revolves around pokies. What used to be the default spot to go out or somewhere you could be sure to bump in to someone you knew on a night out is now somewhere I have no interest in outside of game day or visiting the chinese upstairs.

All the stories l have heard about the good old days of Club Troppo makes me wish l was older. The only option to go out in Gosford is Pulse and that place is dodgy as. Your shoes come off your feet from the sticky wooden floor.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

All the stories l have heard about the good old days of Club Troppo makes me wish l was older. The only option to go out in Gosford is Pulse and that place is dodgy as. Your shoes come off your feet from the sticky wooden floor.

Golden beer glasses on. Was massively over rated. But almost anything is a hundred times better than pulse.

 

[turbo]

All the stories l have heard about the good old days of Club Troppo makes me wish l was older.

I only caught towards the end of its glory days. When I was 18 there were options with largo mid week, beachy at toukley, woodport, troppo/leaguesy as well as some smaller venues. Terrigal pub might have been in the mix too. I’ve got no idea where the go to spots are anymore. I drove past woodport on Friday night and it had nowhere near the traffic it used to. It’s kind of sad.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

i think he needs to bring a few gorilla's with him . i think this will be very ugly !

Will pitchforks and torches be available at the ground or do we need to bring our own?