Central Coast Mariners Squad for 2008/09 Season

[jaypee]

This is the part I like

"Ahmad is just one of a number of exciting player recruitments and retentions we have planned for the coming weeks and months and the coaching staff, Peter Turnbull and myself are extremely contented with the direction in which we are heading," said Gorman.

 

[finally retired]

yep...same here....Lyall certainly doesn't seem panicked into buying...and with comments like that it gives you teh "warm and fuzzies" about season 4 (not version 4)

 

[skilbeck]

yep...same here....Lyall certainly doesn't seem panicked into buying...and with comments like that it gives you teh "warm and fuzzies" about season 4 (not version 4)

I reckon Lyall and the club wouldve been in these negotiations months ago. its just they are pretty good at keeping it under wraps. If you remember correctly Ahmad was linked to us before he signed for Wellington so IMO some kind of pre-contract may have been signed

 

[jaypee]

Also remember that people like Yorke were also linked with us mid season 3.

I also think Tarek may be here next year. I expect about 3 announcements in the next few weeks...

 

[skilbeck]

well assuming the only releases we are yet to do are Gumps and Brown, we need 3 players for a full squad with 1 under 20 being compulsory, as I think Porter is now overage

 

[kevrenor]

well assuming the only releases we are yet to do are Gumps and Brown, we need 3 players for a full squad with 1 under 20 being compulsory, as I think Porter is now overage

Lawrie said on Saturday that we would have 3 x U20 and already had them!
Redmayne, and the Hobbit -so not sure who will be the other, perhaps he will bring someone up from Academy.

 

[brett]

Lawrie said Porter will still be underage at the Marinators night

 

[kevrenor]

Lawrie said Porter will still be underage at the Marinators night

He was born in 1987 and has just had his 21st (Feb 19, 1987)? - unless the FFA will count back to 1/1/2008 for HAL 4 as per the Youth Development Players.

 

[brett]

Lawrie said Porter will still be underage at the Marinators night

He was born in 1987 and has just had his 21st (Feb 19, 1987)? - unless the FFA will count back to 1/1/2008 for HAL 4 as per the Youth Development Players.

I didn't look into it personally, but I was pretty sure that's what the gaffer said.

 

[Kareem]

Our wingers Ahmed and Caceres will be the quickest in the league.
For example on FIFA08 Hefferans speed is 63. Caceres is 69.
and Elrich's is 75 we are going to have very skilled pacy wingers

i thought cacares wasnt that fast (forgive me if I am wrong...i dont watch much a-league apart from mariners)???

 

[skilbeck]

he is faster than the bulk, if not all the 2007-08 squad

 

[Kareem]

my mistake!

 

[mariners4ever]

what happened to those 2 signings that were supposed to happen today. only elrich signed


WTF

 

[skilbeck]

Lawrie said 2 this week

 

[Kareem]

wat foot is wilkinson?thanx

 

[skilbeck]

right. The lefties are Hutch, Caceres, Brown, Mrdja and Heff. forgive me if I missed anyone

 

[Andy]

Our wingers Ahmed and Caceres will be the quickest in the league.
For example on FIFA08 Hefferans speed is 63. Caceres is 69.
and Elrich's is 75 we are going to have very skilled pacy wingers

i thought cacares wasnt that fast (forgive me if I am wrong...i dont watch much a-league apart from mariners)???

He is pretty fast and creative. The only problem is he tends to drift in and out of games a lot.

 

[Kareem]

i thought he was right...but i was reading on some website that wilkinson was left footed...which i got confused as I have lvied the last 3 years of my life thinking he was right footed lol
same site that sed cacaeres isnt that fast (just watched some youtube footage...he got some speed!)
lol just lookin at it now...its puts viddy, hutcho and mrdja as right footers?
ROFL!
you could forgive them for hutcho (coz he is practically both) but not the others!
btw...how are osman and porter in terms of speed?
I only saw osman of bench in v1 and v2 usually and then I couldnt go to games early on in V3 due to year 12 so i dunno about him.

 

[mariners4ever]

viddy is retired

 

[offtheball]

Bit of trivia McCalister's mum was principal of a Central Coast Primary School.

was it St Pats 11 years ago?

Yes it was!