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[midfielder]

Which players from CCMA are now at WSW and SFC? What players have they lost??
Historically the majority of the NYL squads are from Western Sydney etc anyway!Duke, Abini, Amini, Ryan etc
From what I have heard they want to run CCMA but want the CCF to fund it???

13, 14, 15 , 16 year old kids who come to train on the coast because of what the academy is suppose to be ... but leave when they see CCA are running it ... from the floor BTW with local knowledge..

 

[midfielder]

Thanks Middy, I missed this one...

is this serious?

YEP we have a cannon to fire every time we score ... according to PT everyone on the Coast will know when we score...



A CANNON!

 

[true believer]

can we aim the cannon at the away stand for scum and tards games ?
that's my question for the CCL forum

 

[Einstein]

13, 14, 15 , 16 year old kids who come to train on the coast because of what the academy is suppose to be ... but leave when they see CCA are running it ... from the floor BTW with local knowledge..

My nephew plays and his team thinks the year has been great! Training is the best they have ever had! This year they got a new guy in and he has worked at other A-League clubs and a few acadmeies.
Sure results have not been that good, but they have said they have learnt more this year than ever.
In my opinion if the Mariners want to run it they should pay for it, not the clubs. I already fork out enough in rego's for my kids to play! I have always thought that Associations should run representative football. Not big business.

 

[Einstein]

Anyway I think the boys and girls look great in the Mariner gear hope something can be worked out, probably won't be done in a public fans forum though!
Maybe if the cannon is used an outcome may happen!!!

 

[sydmariner]

Thanks Middy, I missed this one...

is this serious?




A CANNON!

lol r u sure he didn't mean a printer

 

[tsd]

I have to admit when I read "cannon" My first thought was why buying a camera was news? When I counted the n's I realised it was a weapon!

Fill it lead and fire it at the squadron!

 

[dibo]

Big Big Big Issue

CCA and the Mariners are not getting on and the club is holding a meeting with all local club heads.. from what I could make out of the discussions seems the CCA wants to run the coaching of its rep side ... the Mariners academy wants to do this and Arnie wants to set it up ... the local clubs want it also ... but there are issues with CCA [not discussed by the panel but are difficult] the academy is losing players to SFC and WSW because of it...

If you want to do things all your own way, you'd better be picking up the tab.

If CCF (and by extension, their member clubs and their players) are expected to pay for this shebang (as I understand they are) then they'd also want to have some degree of say or control.

CCMA might be losing players to other NPL1 clubs, but that's not the same as losing players to SFC or WSW, and it's a bit of a long bow to draw to think that if only CCM ran the CCMA then the players wouldn't be lost.

This isn't the first time that CCM have publicly shitcanned CCF either, if they want more cooperation they might want to tone it down a little. If CCF continue having to pay up for this thing, but their 'partner' keeps bagging them in public, I could understand if they decided that it's their licence to compete in the NPL and CCM can stick it.

 

[midfielder]

Something I forget to mention sorta about Gallop... a question from the floor was about what FFA could do in scheduling pertaining to ACL matches and reports the clubs where at least in part fighting each other…

Peter Turnbel and Mike Charlesworth then answered and what they said was refreshing …. PT said FFA today is totally transparent and open with no secret deals, which is different to before … David Gallop is constantly talking to the clubs and he feels there is a plan going forward… huge praise for Gallop and what he has done to date and structures he has in place…

MC said yep the clubs each had the little things they wanted … Gallop...MC said had created in all the club owners a sense that football needs to go forward together and what is good for one club is actually good for all… he said Gallop has brought them together as a group [i.e. the owners] with the aim to set common goals for all clubs to work towards … he too was very impressed with Gallop and said the clubs still had their differences but as a group they have never been more united…

 

[eenfish]

Damn shame about the rift between CCF and the Mariners. Why can't everyone get along, then we'd all be better off? Easier said than done, but it gets frustrating when theres so much potential and nothing going through like it is suppose to.

 

[sydmariner]

I have to admit when I read "cannon" My first thought was why buying a camera was news? When I counted the n's I realised it was a weapon!

Fill it lead and fire it at the squadron!

What about the rbb

 

[eenfish]

What about the rbb

We'll need seven cannons for that. They've got strength in numbers. Bastards have over 11,000 members signed up already.

 

[Roy Law]

Foot in mouth? Handbags? What about 'nice summer type tops for the girls. i.e. singlet tops, boob tubes & bikini tops in Mariners colours'.
You can forgive Arnie...he is the only male at home (unless Trent pops round for dinner).
Is Marvin going to play for CCMA?
A canon? Does this mean the club is now so financially stable it can afford a new printer? Does it print in colour? Is it wireless?
I am happy for the problems with CCMA and CCF and the Mariners to be discussed, it is the only way to find the solution.
A 33% jump in Membership - that is impressive (and as someone kindly pointed out to me recently there is still a long way to go to the start of the season)
And very smart to already dampen expectations of our new Dutch recruit being as good as Patrick
Like Arnie saying no individual is bigger than the team

 

[Roy Law]

Foot in mouth? Handbags? What about 'nice summer type tops for the girls. i.e. singlet tops, boob tubes & bikini tops in Mariners colours'.
You can forgive Arnie...he is the only male at home (unless Trent pops round for dinner).
Is Marvin going to play for CCMA?
A canon? Does this mean the club is now so financially stable it can afford a new printer? Does it print in colour? Is it wireless?
I am happy for the problems with CCMA and CCF and the Mariners to be discussed, it is the only way to find the solution.
A 33% jump in Membership - that is impressive (and as someone kindly pointed out to me recently there is still a long way to go to the start of the season)
And very smart to already dampen expectations of our new Dutch recruit being as good as Patrick
Like Arnie saying no individual is bigger than the team

 

[Roy Law]

Apologies, double post, no idea how or why.

 

[true believer]

What about the rbb

considering the amount of people they have , their a credit to football .
when I walked to our car after the GF. a young kid from the RBB .told me "we played well"
he's a credit to his club and parents .
RBB nothing but respect from me.

 

[true believer]

Apologies, double post, no idea how or why.

printer rage. I've seen it before.

 

[FFC Mariner]

So the rumours that relationships with the academy/CCF are toxic are possibly true.

 

[dibo]

They're not rumours - Charlesworth (figuratively) shat on CCF in quotes to the SMH in April [my emphasis added to the worst sentence]:

Conflict with local association spoils the party for 'angry' Mariners' owner
Date: April 17, 2013
It should be the biggest week of his football life, but Mariners owner Mike Charlesworth says he "can't enjoy it" as hoped, since a fallout with Central Coast Football has left him "angry" and bewildered.

After taking a majority stake in the club less than a month ago, the English-born businessman wanted to not only alleviate the club's financial concerns but also to get the region firmly behind a side that will be competing in its fourth grand final in eight years against Western Sydney on Sunday.

But speaking from Hong Kong, where he is on business until Saturday, Charlesworth said he had been left despondent at how the local association was at odds with the Mariners, for reasons he was yet to understand.

"We are seen as a community club, probably because we do more than any other club on the community front, but we're having extreme difficulties breaking the problems with Central Coast Football right now," he said. "They're very poorly run, very poorly managed and have told me they've got no interest in the Mariners . . . They don't believe the Mariners can help them at a grassroots level."

"I think we've got the support of the local people, just not the support of Central Coast Football. When the head of their organisation says, 'I don't give a damn about the Mariners', I was deeply upset," he said. "I'm the one who is putting millions of dollars into football on the Central Coast and trying to unite everyone behind the club, but this is my single biggest challenge."

Charlesworth has already aired his grievances with Football Federation Australia and believes the future of football in the region will live or die on the local community pulling in the same direction.

Just three years ago, the club and the association had a deal whereby 8000 junior footballers in the area had access to free Mariners' memberships.

Charlesworth says he will do all he can to appease Central Coast Football but his limits shouldn't be tested. "They can have a place on our board, they can use our training facilities, they can use our world-class five-and-seven-a-side complex. It's up to them," he said.

"They haven't articulated their concern, except that it's something historical. I sat down with them a week ago, I said what's happened in the past is in the past and that I planned to keep the club on Central Coast. Their reaction was basically, 'We don't give a damn and don't believe you can help us'."

There might be a small beacon of hope, however, with Central Coast Football postponing all its matches on Sunday to allow local players and fans to make the journey south to Allianz Stadium.

Central Coast Football chairman Darren Sprod could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

If I were Darren Sprod, I wouldn't be bending over backwards for them after that.

Whether CCM has managed to make amends since I'm not sure, but if they're still talking up the issues with CCMA and trying to sidestep CCF and talk to clubs instead I seriously doubt it.

 

[sydmariner]

We'll need seven cannons for that. They've got strength in numbers. Bastards have over 11,000 members signed up already.

aren't you forgetting something WE ARE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! & they aren't lol