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Central Coast Mariners Squad for 2009/10 HAL Season
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marinermick
Well-Known Member
dru said:
nigel boogaard's old man now coaches at weston
always a strong club and always remember tough games playing against them
Jazzie
Sheer joy at beating the scum :)
dru said:
Thanks, Dru for that.Had a look on Wiki ... there are a few clubs which sprung up around the same time.... I remember watching SBS (yeah, i know) which featured a game (bi-centennial ? ) ... the originals had to go by bullock etc into the wilds to play ... could have been when they were building the first ski fields ... anyway, the history of soccer or associated football in Aus is quite interesting once you start reading about it. Thanks for your input..
midfielder
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Clarence
Your post yesterday .... mate well done.. well said ... and agree 100% ... hope SBS start to realise they are losing support from football folk that once upon a time would have charged out of trenches for them...
Your post yesterday .... mate well done.. well said ... and agree 100% ... hope SBS start to realise they are losing support from football folk that once upon a time would have charged out of trenches for them...
Arabmariner
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+1midfielder said:
When I came out here nearly 20 years ago SBS was the only place I could see any football at all apart from vhs videos sent out by a mate.
No mainstream,no internet,Mondays papers to get the UK results etc etc.
I used to hang out for the World Game at the weekend for my football fix.
But now because of their spoilt brat attitude and the tossers presenting their show I never watch it.Even when watching CL games live I'll turn it down at half time and full time because I can't stand listening to the pricks.
They used to be good for the game here when no one else cared.Now they're almost like the enemy within.
midfielder
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Arabmariner said:
My source is a client of mine I approached him and asked him if I could provide more detail and he has allowed me to provide some limited information...
He essentially wants it that a number of people who knew could have blabbed.
My client was pre Hal at News and a senior executive within News sports management .... part of his job at the time was to work with Fox and develop ways of how to promote the A-League...
Thus they needed to know who was in and what and who they were and their backgrounds...
There where he says a number of bids unofficially submitted bids to JON... One of these bids came from a merger that would take place of.... White Eagles / Sydney United / & Marconi....
JON knocked them back and was looking at the CC bid and had said the CCM bid ticks all the boxes... Les Murry accordingly to my client who was in turn told by a Fox Executive ... Les phoned Frank Lowy to ask JON to relook at the Western Sydney Bid ... his reasons where an area steeped in Football and so on compared to a RL dominated CC..
Frank phoned JON and a new meeting was scheduled ... JON to his huge credit said .. sorry you don't tick all the boxes ... the CC bid did and the merged WS bid was never formally submitted ...
Either my client who is today a very senior manager made it up when he saw me, about 6 weeks, which I doubt or he was told by the Fox guy a bucket of BS ... which again I doubt because there was no reason to at the time for the Fox executive to do so .. they where working towards a common goal... with similar objectives...
pjennings
Well-Known Member
We seem to have got way off topic here but -I also remember the SBS story. I think it was some local (Southern Highlands) miners against a visiting side and the trip to the field was enough to put off the hardiest opponents. From memory SBS were recommending that the cup from the day be used for the FFA cup - when and if it gets off the ground.
This seems to be the offical first game.
Father of Australian Soccer:
John Waiter Fletcher
1847-1918a Biographical Sketch
Philip Mosely
Whitley College
University of Melbourne
The first recorded soccer match in Australia was played on Parramatta
Common in Sydney on the afternoon of Saturday 14 August 1880. Students
from The Rings School First XV rugby squad made up one team. The
other, probably dressed in blue stockings, knickers that billowed beneath
the knee and white jerseys that sported a southern cross over the left
breast, was to become The Wanderers, the first Association Football
club in the land.
It is possible that soccer may have been played before the Parramatta
game but suggestions to introduce the code began with two letters to the
editor of the Sydney Morning Herald in 1877. The first was penned by
Novicrucian; the second, three days later, by CC. Novicrudan was
Arthur Henry Savage, a colonial educated at Rugby who had played for
England against Scotland in 1876. Four years later he was playing at
Parramatta with Rings to help the students. CC was John Walter Fletcher,
who also played on that memorable day but on the opposing team to
Savage and his charges. The two sides came together by virtue of Fletchers
acquaintance with the headmaster of Rings, Rev. George F Macarthur.
Both men were members of Sydneys Union Club.
Fletcher had been elected Honorary Secretary of the committee set
up to form an Association Rules football club on 3 August 1880. On
behalf of the committee he had then arranged the first match and on 19
August he presented the committees proposals to a meeting of faithful
for the official establishment of The Wanderers Football Club. Thereafter
Fletcher continued as Secretary, enrolling the new club with the (English)
Football Association, organising more games and opponents, and in 1881
forming a team at his own Coreen College. In 1882 he then established the
[NSW] English Football Association, which with the Natal FA was the
4 ASSH Bulletin Dec. 1995
first Football Association to form outside the United Kingdom. Prepared
to take the lead, Fletcher was the English FAs first Secretary. Although
others had been involved in the foundation years of soccer in Australia,
Fletcher stands central to the key developments. It can be claimed with
justification that he, and only he, was the Father of Australian Soccer.
http://users.skynet.be/pluto/Fletcher.pdf
Also see
http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/worldcup/timeline.shtml
This seems to be the offical first game.
Father of Australian Soccer:
John Waiter Fletcher
1847-1918a Biographical Sketch
Philip Mosely
Whitley College
University of Melbourne
The first recorded soccer match in Australia was played on Parramatta
Common in Sydney on the afternoon of Saturday 14 August 1880. Students
from The Rings School First XV rugby squad made up one team. The
other, probably dressed in blue stockings, knickers that billowed beneath
the knee and white jerseys that sported a southern cross over the left
breast, was to become The Wanderers, the first Association Football
club in the land.
It is possible that soccer may have been played before the Parramatta
game but suggestions to introduce the code began with two letters to the
editor of the Sydney Morning Herald in 1877. The first was penned by
Novicrucian; the second, three days later, by CC. Novicrudan was
Arthur Henry Savage, a colonial educated at Rugby who had played for
England against Scotland in 1876. Four years later he was playing at
Parramatta with Rings to help the students. CC was John Walter Fletcher,
who also played on that memorable day but on the opposing team to
Savage and his charges. The two sides came together by virtue of Fletchers
acquaintance with the headmaster of Rings, Rev. George F Macarthur.
Both men were members of Sydneys Union Club.
Fletcher had been elected Honorary Secretary of the committee set
up to form an Association Rules football club on 3 August 1880. On
behalf of the committee he had then arranged the first match and on 19
August he presented the committees proposals to a meeting of faithful
for the official establishment of The Wanderers Football Club. Thereafter
Fletcher continued as Secretary, enrolling the new club with the (English)
Football Association, organising more games and opponents, and in 1881
forming a team at his own Coreen College. In 1882 he then established the
[NSW] English Football Association, which with the Natal FA was the
4 ASSH Bulletin Dec. 1995
first Football Association to form outside the United Kingdom. Prepared
to take the lead, Fletcher was the English FAs first Secretary. Although
others had been involved in the foundation years of soccer in Australia,
Fletcher stands central to the key developments. It can be claimed with
justification that he, and only he, was the Father of Australian Soccer.
http://users.skynet.be/pluto/Fletcher.pdf
Also see
http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/worldcup/timeline.shtml
Forum Phoenix
Well-Known Member
Last week I was told he was on track for the beginning of the season...
Can't be match fit you would think. But if there was anyone in the squad who I would be least worried about in this regard it'd probably be Matty.
Can't be match fit you would think. But if there was anyone in the squad who I would be least worried about in this regard it'd probably be Matty.
Atomic
Well-Known Member
clarence said:Jazzie said:clarence said:
clarence, how can you be so cynical? lol
How can I be? Simple. Look at the way things have transpired in the last FOUR seasons with Nik. Not rocket science, but maybe a bit of second guessing human behaviour.
I'd say clarence is being optimistic, not cynical
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