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Central Coast Mariners squad - 2010/2011 HAL season
- Thread starter dibo
- Start date
pjennings
Well-Known Member
After what so far has to be called an underwhelming season we really need to start focussing on next year. We can still make the finals - but the rebuilding has to start now.
Danny has had a fine year and Redders seems an able standby.
Our defence this year has been - on the whole - one of the bright spots. However, we have lost both of our first choice fullbacks.
Our midfield - on occasions has shown some creativity, though Travis and Wee-Mac are both young and a tad inconsistent.
Our strikers have been - for the most part out of touch. The return to some form of Mrdja shows just what we have been missing.
So where do we go to build on the 12 below.
Wilko
Hutch
Danny
Porter
Doig
Kwasnik
Redders
Simon
Lewis
WeeMac
Bojic
McBreen
The first step is two-fold. Lawrie's position must be decided unequivocally. Background talks with Graham Arnold and possibly others have only served to muddy the waters. What is needed is the full coaching structure to be organised, including Lawrie's role, the COE, the youth team and how they all interact.
Once that is done we need to look at a marquee attacking midfielder.
A marquee is important for many reasons.
1) Proves to the punters we are serious
2) Adds to the gate
3) Attracts other players
4) Helps retain those we want to keep.
5) Can be used to attract people to the COE.
The announcement of the structure, together with a sufficiently recognisable attacking midfielder should be the completion of the first step.
My next steps would be to target players that we need to overcome shortcomings and to retain the ones coming off contract that we need to keep.
This would include an offers to Van Dyk -a striker that can operate both alone and with others and Jamieson as a replacement for Heff. LB is always a problematic area and one where a lot of teams struggle. I woud also like an offer to bring Bozanic back from Reading.
Of those coming off contract the two I would target would be Travis and Mrdja and Panni.
Finally some youngsters. Nathan Sherlock I think should get a go. I believe we have been trialling Peter Cvetanovski. As a 17 yr old he was very impressive. If he has come along in the last three years OS since then he may be a good answer at RB.
Finally I would probably retain Huke as a squaddie as he can cover DM and CB.
So that would leave us with
GK: Danny, Redders
LB: Jamieson, Bojic
CB: Doig, Wilko, Huke, Sherlock
RB: Cvetanovski, Porter
HM: Hutch, Panni
LM: Bozanic, Lewis
AM: Marquee, Wee-Mac
RM: Travis, Kwassie
S: Van Dyk, Mrdja, Simon, McBreen
All except the Marquee are really not out of our price range. But the marquee is the key. We need a consistent creator. If we don't have that it doesn't matter who you have up front.
Danny has had a fine year and Redders seems an able standby.
Our defence this year has been - on the whole - one of the bright spots. However, we have lost both of our first choice fullbacks.
Our midfield - on occasions has shown some creativity, though Travis and Wee-Mac are both young and a tad inconsistent.
Our strikers have been - for the most part out of touch. The return to some form of Mrdja shows just what we have been missing.
So where do we go to build on the 12 below.
Wilko
Hutch
Danny
Porter
Doig
Kwasnik
Redders
Simon
Lewis
WeeMac
Bojic
McBreen
The first step is two-fold. Lawrie's position must be decided unequivocally. Background talks with Graham Arnold and possibly others have only served to muddy the waters. What is needed is the full coaching structure to be organised, including Lawrie's role, the COE, the youth team and how they all interact.
Once that is done we need to look at a marquee attacking midfielder.
A marquee is important for many reasons.
1) Proves to the punters we are serious
2) Adds to the gate
3) Attracts other players
4) Helps retain those we want to keep.
5) Can be used to attract people to the COE.
The announcement of the structure, together with a sufficiently recognisable attacking midfielder should be the completion of the first step.
My next steps would be to target players that we need to overcome shortcomings and to retain the ones coming off contract that we need to keep.
This would include an offers to Van Dyk -a striker that can operate both alone and with others and Jamieson as a replacement for Heff. LB is always a problematic area and one where a lot of teams struggle. I woud also like an offer to bring Bozanic back from Reading.
Of those coming off contract the two I would target would be Travis and Mrdja and Panni.
Finally some youngsters. Nathan Sherlock I think should get a go. I believe we have been trialling Peter Cvetanovski. As a 17 yr old he was very impressive. If he has come along in the last three years OS since then he may be a good answer at RB.
Finally I would probably retain Huke as a squaddie as he can cover DM and CB.
So that would leave us with
GK: Danny, Redders
LB: Jamieson, Bojic
CB: Doig, Wilko, Huke, Sherlock
RB: Cvetanovski, Porter
HM: Hutch, Panni
LM: Bozanic, Lewis
AM: Marquee, Wee-Mac
RM: Travis, Kwassie
S: Van Dyk, Mrdja, Simon, McBreen
All except the Marquee are really not out of our price range. But the marquee is the key. We need a consistent creator. If we don't have that it doesn't matter who you have up front.
MagpieMariner
Well-Known Member
With the problems some teams have had with their marquee strikers (excluding Fowler of course), would it be worth offering van Dijk?
For those not devotees of football, blokes putting the ball in the net are always attractive. Consider how many of those kind of people have heard of Culina (a marquee mid), but I'll bet a lot have heard of Smeltz.
Remember we had some good crowds when we had Aloisi, and although there were other factors, I'd reckon a number of bums on seats were there because of him.
For those not devotees of football, blokes putting the ball in the net are always attractive. Consider how many of those kind of people have heard of Culina (a marquee mid), but I'll bet a lot have heard of Smeltz.
Remember we had some good crowds when we had Aloisi, and although there were other factors, I'd reckon a number of bums on seats were there because of him.
dibo
Well-Known Member
Stolen from the latest and greatest iteration of the SFCU Contracts Thread[sup]TM[/sup] for the purposes of sharpening the focus a little:
[quote author=Harsulas]Each team required to have at least three u21s and no more than five foreigners in a maximum squad size of 23.
For now, here is the list of players for whom next years whereabouts are not confirmed.
Adelaide United
Alemao (Fgn), Pantelis, Cristiano (Fgn), Reid, Jamieson, Barbiero, Rudan
Brisbane Roar
McCloughlan, Dodd, van Dijk (Fgn), Malcolm (Fgn), Tiatto, Cernak (u21), McMaster (gk), Smits
Central Coast Mariners
Crowell (Fgn), Huke, D'Appuzo (u21), Mrdja, McAllister, Clark, Elrich, Travis (Fgn)
Gold Coast United
Jefferson (Fgn), Milson (Fgn), Barisic, Greer (u21), Fitzsimmons, Anderson (Fgn)
Melbourne Victory
Pace, Brebner (Fgn), Elasi (U21), Theodore (U21),
Newcastle Jets
Costanzo, Milicevic, Song (Fgn), de Groot (Fgn), D'Appuzo, Ontong, Hoffman (u21), Vignaroli (Fgn), Naidovski (u21), Young (gk)
North Queensland Fury
Busch, Grossman, Agius, Kohler, Dodd, Griffiths, Henderson (gk)
Perth Glory
J. Coyne, Todd (Fgn), Harnwell, Sikora (Fgn), Bulloch, Dadi (Fgn), Downey, Srhoj
Sydney FC
Bolton (gk), Colosimo, Prentice, Kisel (Fgn), Aloi$i (marquee), Corica, Payne (u21), Necevski (gk)
Wellington Phoenix
Paston (gk), McKain, Ferrante, Chen (Fgn), Hearfield, Caceres, Mulligan, Crowther (gk), Barbarouses (u21)
********************************************************************
[size=18pt]Central Coast Mariners[/size]
*The following 12 players are signed
- 2 u21
- 2 Foreign
- 0 Marquee
[size=12pt]CONTRACT EXPIRES END OF SEASON 2010/11:[/size]
#1) Andrew Redmayne (gk)(u21)
#4) Pedj Bojic
#12) Matthew Lewis (u21)
#14) Michael McGlinchey (Fgn)
#17) Chris Doig (Fgn)
#18) Alex Wilkinson (c)
#23) Adam Kwasnik
[size=12pt]CONTRACT EXPIRES END OF SEASON 2011/12:[/size]
#5) Brad Porter
#19) Matt Simon
#20) Danny Vukovic (gk)
#??) Daniel Mcbreen
[size=12pt]CONTRACT EXPIRES END OF SEASON 2012/13:[/size]
#7) John Hutchinson [/quote]
There are a lot of players out there, and that's before we get to the fact that there's going to be a number of quality players graduating from NYL setups next season who will be after entry-level senior contracts.
This squad's going to be a work in progress for a while I think, but I don't think we need be pessimistic that there's nothing left on the tree and that we should focus only on the low hanging fruit.
I don't particularly care about this season's results if we start showing we've got an eye for the future. Missing the finals comes at no long term cost if we treat it as an opportunity to blood youth and build. The attitude of the club has to be to focus beyond this season and build a squad that will take us on into 2011, 2012, 2013...
[quote author=Harsulas]Each team required to have at least three u21s and no more than five foreigners in a maximum squad size of 23.
For now, here is the list of players for whom next years whereabouts are not confirmed.
Adelaide United
Alemao (Fgn), Pantelis, Cristiano (Fgn), Reid, Jamieson, Barbiero, Rudan
Brisbane Roar
McCloughlan, Dodd, van Dijk (Fgn), Malcolm (Fgn), Tiatto, Cernak (u21), McMaster (gk), Smits
Central Coast Mariners
Crowell (Fgn), Huke, D'Appuzo (u21), Mrdja, McAllister, Clark, Elrich, Travis (Fgn)
Gold Coast United
Jefferson (Fgn), Milson (Fgn), Barisic, Greer (u21), Fitzsimmons, Anderson (Fgn)
Melbourne Victory
Pace, Brebner (Fgn), Elasi (U21), Theodore (U21),
Newcastle Jets
Costanzo, Milicevic, Song (Fgn), de Groot (Fgn), D'Appuzo, Ontong, Hoffman (u21), Vignaroli (Fgn), Naidovski (u21), Young (gk)
North Queensland Fury
Busch, Grossman, Agius, Kohler, Dodd, Griffiths, Henderson (gk)
Perth Glory
J. Coyne, Todd (Fgn), Harnwell, Sikora (Fgn), Bulloch, Dadi (Fgn), Downey, Srhoj
Sydney FC
Bolton (gk), Colosimo, Prentice, Kisel (Fgn), Aloi$i (marquee), Corica, Payne (u21), Necevski (gk)
Wellington Phoenix
Paston (gk), McKain, Ferrante, Chen (Fgn), Hearfield, Caceres, Mulligan, Crowther (gk), Barbarouses (u21)
********************************************************************
[size=18pt]Central Coast Mariners[/size]
*The following 12 players are signed
- 2 u21
- 2 Foreign
- 0 Marquee
[size=12pt]CONTRACT EXPIRES END OF SEASON 2010/11:[/size]
#1) Andrew Redmayne (gk)(u21)
#4) Pedj Bojic
#12) Matthew Lewis (u21)
#14) Michael McGlinchey (Fgn)
#17) Chris Doig (Fgn)
#18) Alex Wilkinson (c)
#23) Adam Kwasnik
[size=12pt]CONTRACT EXPIRES END OF SEASON 2011/12:[/size]
#5) Brad Porter
#19) Matt Simon
#20) Danny Vukovic (gk)
#??) Daniel Mcbreen
[size=12pt]CONTRACT EXPIRES END OF SEASON 2012/13:[/size]
#7) John Hutchinson [/quote]
There are a lot of players out there, and that's before we get to the fact that there's going to be a number of quality players graduating from NYL setups next season who will be after entry-level senior contracts.
This squad's going to be a work in progress for a while I think, but I don't think we need be pessimistic that there's nothing left on the tree and that we should focus only on the low hanging fruit.
I don't particularly care about this season's results if we start showing we've got an eye for the future. Missing the finals comes at no long term cost if we treat it as an opportunity to blood youth and build. The attitude of the club has to be to focus beyond this season and build a squad that will take us on into 2011, 2012, 2013...
BaysideMariner
Well-Known Member
FFC Mariner
Well-Known Member
Going back to the tards apparently
FFC Mariner
Well-Known Member
I think Trifiro was a loss (in hindsight) from last season. Rovers will be stiff competition when they get in too
scottmac
Suspended
bulldogmariner
Well-Known Member
What about if they got John Aloisi back.
mickeverton
Well-Known Member
Injury prone....not worth the money it would cost.
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