kevrenor
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From Advocate:
THE Central Coast Mariners started on their long road to redemption on Tuesday 4 May, 2010.
With the disappointment of a horror last campaign fresh in their minds, the club kicked off pre-season training at Terrigal Beach. And there was a positive feel among the players.
The Mariners started the pre-season with a relatively relaxed beach session under assistant coach Tony Walmsley and strength and conditioning coach Andrew Clark.
The session heralds a new era for the Mariners.
New coach Graham Arnold will be joined by several new players.
The long-term objective is to get the club back to the top of the A-League.
Last season was a disaster, with the club battling to avoid the wooden-spoon after a horror run of results.
Those failures have the players focused and raring to go.
We needed a break after last year and now were all ready to get into it, skipper Alex Wilkinson said.
Its an exciting time for the club. With a new coach and some new players it is a new era. Theres been some big changes, its probably the biggest turnover in players since the club started, Wilkinson said.
Midfielder John Hutchinson is keen to get back into action. He missed the final matches of last season with a foot injury.
Weve got to move on from last year and get the club back to the top and challenge for trophies again, Hutchinson said.
Things fell away badly last year so we need to work harder and give the coast a team to be proud of.
Walmsley said the first weeks of the pre-season were about giving the players a fitness base before upping the tempo in June.
Arnold, a Socceroos assistant coach, will get to training when he can depending on his national team commitments ahead of the World Cup in South Africa. As soon as the World Cup is over Arnold will focus on the Mariners.
Im in touch with Arnie regularly, Walmsley said.
THE Central Coast Mariners started on their long road to redemption on Tuesday 4 May, 2010.
With the disappointment of a horror last campaign fresh in their minds, the club kicked off pre-season training at Terrigal Beach. And there was a positive feel among the players.
The Mariners started the pre-season with a relatively relaxed beach session under assistant coach Tony Walmsley and strength and conditioning coach Andrew Clark.
The session heralds a new era for the Mariners.
New coach Graham Arnold will be joined by several new players.
The long-term objective is to get the club back to the top of the A-League.
Last season was a disaster, with the club battling to avoid the wooden-spoon after a horror run of results.
Those failures have the players focused and raring to go.
We needed a break after last year and now were all ready to get into it, skipper Alex Wilkinson said.
Its an exciting time for the club. With a new coach and some new players it is a new era. Theres been some big changes, its probably the biggest turnover in players since the club started, Wilkinson said.
Midfielder John Hutchinson is keen to get back into action. He missed the final matches of last season with a foot injury.
Weve got to move on from last year and get the club back to the top and challenge for trophies again, Hutchinson said.
Things fell away badly last year so we need to work harder and give the coast a team to be proud of.
Walmsley said the first weeks of the pre-season were about giving the players a fitness base before upping the tempo in June.
Arnold, a Socceroos assistant coach, will get to training when he can depending on his national team commitments ahead of the World Cup in South Africa. As soon as the World Cup is over Arnold will focus on the Mariners.
Im in touch with Arnie regularly, Walmsley said.
