Central Coast Mariners created an identity for the Coast?

[MarinerJess08]

Have the Central Coast Mariners created a new identity for the Central Coast?

Also, have they been influential in your own identity?


A discussion of your opinion would be helpful/interesting.

(I'm doing this topic for a major HSC assessment task, any help will be greatly appreciated!)

Thanks,
Jess

 

[dibo]

I think the Mariners have certainly created a name or even a brand around which the Central Coast as a region rallies. It's a funny quirk of Australian culture that a place doesn't really have its own distinct identity until it has its own sporting team, and in the past we only had the proposed move by the Bears and later the Beagles. This gave those unfamiliar with the region a false impression that we're just a few suburbs of Sydney.

With the Mariners, and in particular with their success, it's given the region a distinct identity. People know that we've got an 'idyllic bayside home' (complete with palm trees) for our stadium, a football team that draws pretty good crowds and while we don't have a massive supporter base we're loyal and devoted.

The big thing I think is not even so much that people from the outside now know more about the Central Coast, it's that people from the Central Coast now have a different first discussion topic to what was the case in the past. Where once people might say 'oh, we used to have a holiday house at Killcare...' or 'My nan lives in a village at Toukley...' etc., now they will talk about the Mariners.

This is important - people think of the Coast as having something that is youthful, growing and most of all permanent. It's not somewhere you go to either have a holiday or grow old, it's somewhere to go and make a niche for yourself.

 

[loyalist]

hey jess
i will tell you all the details you need to know if you give me your facebook and mobile number. 
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il duce

 

[dibo]

being from tamworth he's an expert.

 

[loyalist]

why you gotta salt my game man

 

[Gibbsy]

you go there first Il Duce and ill follow as per standard protocol

 

[Part_Timer]

doesnt paolo test the waters first ??

 

[~Floss~]

Have the Central Coast Mariners created a new identity for the Central Coast?

Also, have they been influential in your own identity?


A discussion of your opinion would be helpful/interesting.

(I'm doing this topic for a major HSC assessment task, any help will [if Dibo could write the essay for me, that would] be greatly appreciated!)

Thanks,
Jess

 

[Bladesman]

To back up Dibo, I would say so.  I have worn my Mariners shirt on many occasions when traveling both in Australia and abroad and it is certainly something which identifies where I come from and has started numerous conversaions with complete strangers in the US, UK, Asia as they ask about the mariners.  Usually the conversation leaves them with a clear understanding of where the coast is and the fact it is not Sydney. 

Also my mates in Sheffiled certainly have an awareness of the coast now, before the Mariners I just lived in Australia or Sydney.  Now they know about the coast, have all seen pictures of Bluetounge and have developed and affilitation with the Mariners - we always end up chatting about how they are going and they follow the results.

 

[p-diddy]

As a Newcastle fan who was pretty unfamiliar with the Central Coast region ( and still am to an extent, basically have only been to Gosford and the Entrance) the Mariners have definately made me more aware of the CC region. TBH I pretty much thought that the Central Coast was a part of the Hunter...

 

[Paolo]

hi jess....it is hard for me to express my answer through text. Due to your location i think it would be much easier for us to meet up.... pm me to sort something out

 

[bjw]

(I'm doing this topic for a major HSC assessment task, any help will be greatly appreciated!)

Just curious what topic is it for? My guess would be Society & Culture..
also, what school do you go too?

 

[Paolo]

(I'm doing this topic for a major HSC assessment task, any help will be greatly appreciated!)

Just curious what topic is it for? My guess would be Society & Culture..
also, what school do you go too?

get in line mate....

 

[MarinerJess08]

(I'm doing this topic for a major HSC assessment task, any help will be greatly appreciated!)

Just curious what topic is it for? My guess would be Society & Culture..
also, what school do you go too?

Yeah, its Society and Culture (I'm doing the Mariners for my PIP).
I go to NVHS.





Thanks for everyone who responded seriously. *raises eyebrow at Paolo, Il Druce and gibbsy*

 

[Part_Timer]

. *raises eyebrow at Paolo, Il Druce and gibbsy*

all attractive blokes take your pick...

 

[loyalist]

. *raises eyebrow at Paolo, Il Druce and gibbsy*

+1

can pm you our pics if you would like
all attractive blokes take your pick...

 

[serious14]

Denied.

Jess, I was in Tokyo recently at a football merchandise store seeing what they had and such, and the clerk guy started talking to me (I was wearing my Mariners jersey), asking who the team was and all that.  I said Mariners, and rather humourously, he thought they were a subclub of Yokohama F. Marinos.  He then asks "where is this Central Coast" and I said "Australia, near Sydney".  Of course, the mention of Sydney straight away gave him something to go on.  Much to my surprise, he then asks what I thought of Adelaide's run to the ACL Final (a few of his mates went to the home leg in Osaka) and I also got to tell him about the A-League and where exactly the Central Coast is and a bit about the team.

Not quite sure if that's what you're after, but because of the team and the jersey and all that, one Japanese sports store clerk now knows about the Mariners. 

 

[Paolo]

Yeah, its Society and Culture (I'm doing the Mariners for my PIP).
I go to NVHS.


Thanks for everyone who responded seriously. *raises eyebrow at Paolo, Il Druce and gibbsy*

i was just trying to help as im a fellow narara resident and not long out of school at nvhs

 

[scottmac]

Jess,

In my case it has helped re-associate myself with the Central Coast. I had left the coast almost 10 years ago now and had hardly returned in those 10 yrs except to see family. The mariners have given me a reason to visit constantly, and also meet up with people i had not even thought about since school days. (over 15 yrs ago now). I had never been tied into where i had come from and considered myself a resident of Sydney.    now i advertise the fact i am from the Centeral coast through rather competitive interwork rivalries come A-League season, and this off season it will hopefully be all about the Mariners going further through the ACL than Sydney.

Also has helped me change my lifestyle because once a team which i really felt i belonged to came about i wanted to play.

As for the Coasts identity, the area is now known for more than just a high teen pregnacy and youth suicide rate. In fact because of Aus's sport mad culture, faults tend to get overlooked if the team is doing well.

 

[Jorome Alexander Bennett]

*raises eyebrow at Paolo, Il Druce and gibbsy*

You should be careful. It seems you're raising more than just eyebrows. Nevermind the lecherous ribaldry. I am more than willing to stick up for you. And if you're any good, I might even call you the next day.

    Jess comes on to the forum for research assistance and gets sexual innuendos. I guess she's just lucky.