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FFC Mariner
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Roy Law said:
Actually its his Mrs who has all the $$$ - better off asking her
elevated position
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From the stadium drawing that grand stand can almost be doubled by extending over the car park as in any shopping centre. The other end appears to be one of the futsul fields
pjennings
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442 article today
http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/119436,mariners-from-tokyo-to-tuggerah.aspx
Central Coast Mariners are eyeing J-League yen as a valuable income stream from their $40m sporting complex at Tuggerah on the Central Coast.
Announced to much fanfare last week, the Mariners received local council approval for the $40 million sporting complex, hotel and licensed club complex.
The A-League club are now sole owner of the 16ha site which over time will become a state-of-the-art training base.
The complex is set to include…
3000-seat stadium to be the home of the Mariners' NYL and W-League teams and seven full-sized training pitches
120-room hotel and accommodation block
Six-storey, 8000sq m office complex
sports science facility that will include an indoor gym, 25m pool and hydrotherapy facilities
Ten multi-purpose courts
Licensed club that will include a 400-person capacity function centre.
"It will deliver for the community. And we can't think of any professional sporting facility like it in the country," Mariners Trust chairman Peter Turnbull told au.fourfourtwo.com
The consensus from all parties concerned - Wyong Shire Council, the Mariners board and the on-site RSL - has been heartening for the club. There are other obvious benefits in terms of attracting a core of quality youngsters to power future first teams at Bluetongue.
"We'll have the best facilities the best sports science, best coaches, best environment and we're getting tie-ups with the best educational organizations - so our whole emphasis will be on attracting the best young talent," added Turnbull.
More importantly however are the commercial possibilities from the venture. Turnbull, a successful businessman in his own right and a former state league player, said generating revenue from such a prized asset was a key part of the club's plans for its newly acquired asset.
'We believe our centre will be used by many, many professional clubs," he said.
"Obviously [other] A-League clubs will want to use it when they come up to play us from interstate and train, because the pitch will be identical to Bluetongue. In addition, there is the Asian club pre-season training season."
Japanese super-club Urawa Red Diamonds regularly train at the home of Football NSW in the west of Sydney. The J-League can be a lucrative niche market and the Mariners will look to exploit that.
"I think the Red Diamonds would be happy to come to Tuggerah and that goes the same with Korean clubs and Chinese clubs such as Chengdu Blades," said Turnbull of the Saitama-based club.
Turnbull said the key long-term is finding regular users of the facilities. Aside from the Mariners and Asian clubs the Socceroos may well use Tuggerah as a de-facto base. Then of course there is a potential World Cup in Australia and other tournaments.
"We'd also like to stage international youth tournaments like the big ones from Italy and Spain having the best U/13 and U/14 level to play and stay at our facility," he added.
"A tournament environment would be fantastic for the community and that's how the community benefits from this. And the commercial benefits from all of that, is good for the community.
"The DA was approved last week and already we're knocking back users of different facilities. English companies are interested in the five-a-side and a large medical group interested in the sports science facility."
Turnbull added: "We'll have no trouble finding the users. Once you get them, you can get the finance. So, one step at a time."
http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/119436,mariners-from-tokyo-to-tuggerah.aspx
Central Coast Mariners are eyeing J-League yen as a valuable income stream from their $40m sporting complex at Tuggerah on the Central Coast.
Announced to much fanfare last week, the Mariners received local council approval for the $40 million sporting complex, hotel and licensed club complex.
The A-League club are now sole owner of the 16ha site which over time will become a state-of-the-art training base.
The complex is set to include…
3000-seat stadium to be the home of the Mariners' NYL and W-League teams and seven full-sized training pitches
120-room hotel and accommodation block
Six-storey, 8000sq m office complex
sports science facility that will include an indoor gym, 25m pool and hydrotherapy facilities
Ten multi-purpose courts
Licensed club that will include a 400-person capacity function centre.
"It will deliver for the community. And we can't think of any professional sporting facility like it in the country," Mariners Trust chairman Peter Turnbull told au.fourfourtwo.com
The consensus from all parties concerned - Wyong Shire Council, the Mariners board and the on-site RSL - has been heartening for the club. There are other obvious benefits in terms of attracting a core of quality youngsters to power future first teams at Bluetongue.
"We'll have the best facilities the best sports science, best coaches, best environment and we're getting tie-ups with the best educational organizations - so our whole emphasis will be on attracting the best young talent," added Turnbull.
More importantly however are the commercial possibilities from the venture. Turnbull, a successful businessman in his own right and a former state league player, said generating revenue from such a prized asset was a key part of the club's plans for its newly acquired asset.
'We believe our centre will be used by many, many professional clubs," he said.
"Obviously [other] A-League clubs will want to use it when they come up to play us from interstate and train, because the pitch will be identical to Bluetongue. In addition, there is the Asian club pre-season training season."
Japanese super-club Urawa Red Diamonds regularly train at the home of Football NSW in the west of Sydney. The J-League can be a lucrative niche market and the Mariners will look to exploit that.
"I think the Red Diamonds would be happy to come to Tuggerah and that goes the same with Korean clubs and Chinese clubs such as Chengdu Blades," said Turnbull of the Saitama-based club.
Turnbull said the key long-term is finding regular users of the facilities. Aside from the Mariners and Asian clubs the Socceroos may well use Tuggerah as a de-facto base. Then of course there is a potential World Cup in Australia and other tournaments.
"We'd also like to stage international youth tournaments like the big ones from Italy and Spain having the best U/13 and U/14 level to play and stay at our facility," he added.
"A tournament environment would be fantastic for the community and that's how the community benefits from this. And the commercial benefits from all of that, is good for the community.
"The DA was approved last week and already we're knocking back users of different facilities. English companies are interested in the five-a-side and a large medical group interested in the sports science facility."
Turnbull added: "We'll have no trouble finding the users. Once you get them, you can get the finance. So, one step at a time."
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FFC Mariner
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Bit in the press
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/mariners-link-in-jeopardy-after-sister-clubs-implicated-in-matchfixing-20100101-llrd.html
In brighter news for the Mariners, Gorman said the club was creating genuine interest in Britain as they press on with plans to build their new $40m elite training facility. ''I've spent hours with [Sheffield United's chief executive] Trevor Birch and we're sitting down tomorrow for another planning meeting on how we can maximise the partnership,'' he said.
''But we're also getting a lot of interest from clubs who see us as taking football in Australia to a new level of professionalism and are all the more willing to look at partnerships with us.''
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/mariners-link-in-jeopardy-after-sister-clubs-implicated-in-matchfixing-20100101-llrd.html
In brighter news for the Mariners, Gorman said the club was creating genuine interest in Britain as they press on with plans to build their new $40m elite training facility. ''I've spent hours with [Sheffield United's chief executive] Trevor Birch and we're sitting down tomorrow for another planning meeting on how we can maximise the partnership,'' he said.
''But we're also getting a lot of interest from clubs who see us as taking football in Australia to a new level of professionalism and are all the more willing to look at partnerships with us.''
FFC Mariner
Well-Known Member
The other clubs are part of the Sheffield United "family"
FFC Mariner
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Central Coast are linked with the two clubs courtesy of their membership of Sheffield United's global network, which presently boasts relationships in Brazil, Belgium, Hungary and China.
daddy cool
Active Member
For my own peace of mind can someone please confirm again who are the major financial shareholders in this deal , where are we getting the money?
elevated position
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Over to you dibo you had some sort of info before
daddy cool
Active Member
Only reason Im asking is because according to Birch on the SUFC web site the main backer for the club (Mcnabe I think) is talking moving on and the only sister club that benifited financially recently was the Chinese club.
dibo
Well-Known Member
McCabe & Turnbull are the backers financing the deal AFAIK. I'm pretty sure based on articles quoted earlier in this thread that it's a separate trust - Mariners Trust - that is running the COE too so it would appear that the two ventures are separated from one another. If one goes down it doesn't take the other with it.
We need it in a PR sense and a development sense but if we don't make it stick it won't kill the club off.
I'd like to see some sources on the payments stuff before I believed it.
EDIT - The Valad Property Group that was being discussed before had a worth of about $2 billion too. The COE at ~$60 million is small beer.
We need it in a PR sense and a development sense but if we don't make it stick it won't kill the club off.
I'd like to see some sources on the payments stuff before I believed it.
EDIT - The Valad Property Group that was being discussed before had a worth of about $2 billion too. The COE at ~$60 million is small beer.
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