Mariners Squad - 2019-2020

[Ancient Mariner]

Nisbet and Silvers are the only two on scholarships atm. Moric has only been signed in NPL and Hatch and Miller are on NYL contracts until September as all the remaining NYL players are.

Time to tie them both up for at least a couple more years. Many more showings like last night and other clubs will be out trying to steal them.

 

[Pirate Pete]

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer...own-before-season-begins-20190801-p52ctx.html
Nothing new there but SMH have dropped the Ingham news so I'd imagine we'll see some confirmation from the club today or tomorrow. They might want to follow it up with a signing announcement to keep the positive momentum.

Wow. So was it FFC who said Ingham wouldn't get much game time. He was right.

 

[turbo]

Wow. So was it FFC who said Ingham wouldn't get much game time. He was right.

Think that was based on not liking him not him departing the club. With the troops we had available at the start of the week Ingham would have had a very good shot at getting decent minutes this season. Can't see moving anywhere improving those odds much.

 

[Big Al]

I am getting concerned about the injury toll and niggles we are already racking up.

We know the squad will be thin, therefore in order to be successful this season, we need fuller squads week in week out.

Pretty sure Okon said our boys are so unfit (my words there) that you can’t smash them at once because they will break. Looks like Staj might be breaking them. But with still 3 months till the season might not be that bad just early adjustments coming off low bases and early in the step up in intensity.

Also first 90 mins game for the season so bad lead in could also be to blame. That break in playing 30 mins is pretty handy and how many played 90 in the two warmup games in preparation for the cup?

Staj might be a hard arse which can be great and no doubt our team needs it but sometimes that can lead to stubbornness as well.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

FFS these guys are young and professional sportsmen. Most are full-time and do not have other careers. They should be relatively fit with a few weeks to bring them up to a level where they can cope with 90 minutes.

It is not like the "good old days" of 2 nights a week training, with a session in the pub afterwards and only 2 trial games before the start of the season.

How many of them have been throwing up after the first few sessions?

I remember watching Hutch and I think it was Clarky at half time of a trial match in Season 1 or 2 doing interval runs at half time (neither were playing). Smashed themselves. Good to see.

Soft these days.

Train hard, play easy.

 

[Coastalraider]

FFS these guys are young and professional sportsmen. Most are full-time and do not have other careers. They should be relatively fit with a few weeks to bring them up to a level where they can cope with 90 minutes.

It is not like the "good old days" of 2 nights a week training, with a session in the pub afterwards and only 2 trial games before the start of the season.

How many of them have been throwing up after the first few sessions?

I remember watching Hutch and I think it was Clarky at half time of a trial match in Season 1 or 2 doing interval runs at half time (neither were playing). Smashed themselves. Good to see.

Soft these days.

Train hard, play easy.

That was last season right??

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Reckon Andy Keogh is in our budget?

 

[Wombat]

I actually think the keeper position is our greatest urgency.

Birighitti was at Maitland. Problem is solved.

 

[bikinigirl]

Birighitti was at Maitland. Problem is solved.

. wait ... what!
. Maitland outbid us?

 

[turbo]

Reckon Andy Keogh is in our budget?

Off to the Saudi league apparently. If Perth fit him under the cap last season we might have been able to afford him. Depends what we're paying others.

 

[Josho Howe]

I think that any players who complain about getting smashed in training can leave immediately. That's your job as a footballer to be supremely fit and that work gets done in the pre-season. Fitness is something this team has lacked for years as it was obvious we'd be gassed after 60 every week and in that time, we'd be losing games. Now, swap that around and we're the fittest team on the park, results are different.

Ironic a chubby bloke is critiquing pro footballers fitness but eh. That's how pro sport works.

 

[Coastalraider]

Without tooting my horn - I do triathlons as an age group amateur. Leading onto a big race like an Ironman for about 2 months prior training volume is around 25 hours a week after a 40 hour work week. Add in massage and Chiro, having to do all my own nutrition etc, it absolutely BLOWS MY MIND that anyone that is a paid professional sportsman would have an issue with the amount of training that they have to do at A League. Look at foreign leagues - we are doing half the training load and playing a 3rd of the games.

If this is too hard, they REALLY need to look for another profession.

 

[Josho Howe]

Players who can't do a pre-season for a 27 game season would never be able to play in the Championship. A 46 game season would absolutely smash you.

 

[Blackadder]

Club release for Ingham departing
https://www.ccmariners.com.au/news/player-departure-jai-ingham-granted-brisbane-homecoming

 

[Ozhammer]

https://mobile.twitter.com/ccmariners

Ingham’s departure confirmed

 

[BrisRecky]

Once again an Australian sporting competition prove a contract is less useful than toilet paper BUT if he didn’t want to be here , it’s good they let him F off

 

[Josho Howe]

Ingham made a bigger contribution than Gameiro. Least he made 1 appearance and scored 2 goals.

 

[MagpieMariner]

Ingham made a bigger contribution than Gameiro. Least he made 1 appearance and scored 2 goals.

True, but was he responsible for a pregnancy? Hang on, maybe that's why...

 

[BrisRecky]

WOO and might I add HOO... a keeper who can catch and a keeper coach who can help him if otherwise

 

[Coastalraider]

Very happy this is confirmed. One more piece to the puzzle sorted.