Mariners Squad - 2019-2020

[nebakke]

Leaves me wondering as usual, wth Nisbet has to do to get a real contract...

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Scholarship signing.

https://www.ccmariners.com.au/news/john-roberts-signs-central-coast-mariners

 

[shipwreck]

I'm still confused about the whole deadline thing...

 

[turbo]

f**k me.... Surely this is a wind up.

What CEO drives TO Sydney to meet a player at the airport who played for the North Shore Mariners...

I don’t think Shaun ever said airport. That was someone replying. But yeah this didn’t need to be last minute business so wind up makes sense except, you know..... mariners.

 

[sydmariner]

The f**k is John Roberts?

ex wsw

 

[Ironbark]

I'm thinking wind up still

 

[Ironbark]

I'm thinking wind up still

By 'thinking' I mean hoping

 

[Pirate Pete]

I don’t think Shaun ever said airport. That was someone replying. But yeah this didn’t need to be last minute business so wind up makes sense except, you know..... mariners.

Yes people started replying saying airport & Brisbane.

By 'thinking' I mean hoping

I hope you're right.

Come on Shaun....

Blackwood wouldn't look a bad signing really when we all think we're getting Roberts.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

"Move along, nothing to see here"

 

[turbo]

https://www.adelaideunited.com.au/n...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

There’s a quote there about being happy to finalise their squad, Blackwood might not be going anywhere.

 

[Ozhammer]

Come on Shaun....

Blackwood wouldn't look a bad signing really when we all think we're getting Roberts.

Perhaps that was Shaun’s intention all along? .....

 

[Forum Phoenix]

You don't usually play a player in your opening round if he's heading off to join a rival side in 3 days.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

They obviously can't find a striker at this time, that they can afford, who they think is worth signing.

We should separate that disappointment from the announcement of a new young talent being picked up. Let's hope he's a player that in 5 years time we'll all be proudly saying he was a Mariner.

Welcome to the Mariners John.

Disappointed we don't have the striker we all think we need, but love the amount of young talent around the club at the moment.

 

[Wombat]

Are you having a laugh Shaun. Text him the bus timetable.

 

[pjennings]

They obviously can't find a striker at this time, that they can afford, who they think is worth signing.

We should separate that disappointment from the announcement of a new young talent being picked up. Let's hope he's a player that in 5 years time we'll all be proudly saying he was a Mariner.

Welcome to the Mariners John.

Disappointed we don't have the striker we all think we need, but love the amount of young talent around the club at the moment.

I'm not as disappointed as some. There were no whispers beforehand of anyone of note and Shaun certainly didn't hype it. Good to see another young player around the club. That takes us to 23 players but importantly 3 of those are scholarship players and allows us to look for a higher level striker in January.

 

[pinklady]

They obviously can't find a striker at this time, that they can afford, who they think is worth signing.

We should separate that disappointment from the announcement of a new young talent being picked up. Let's hope he's a player that in 5 years time we'll all be proudly saying he was a Mariner.

Welcome to the Mariners John.

Disappointed we don't have the striker we all think we need, but love the amount of young talent around the club at the moment.

You set the bar very low FP - 3 clubs in 6 months, the 45th top scorer in NPL1 last season and already cut after less than a year at both of the A League clubs he has been at is not an example of young talent that we want or need around the club. He is another example of players being dropped or cut by WSW that we have picked up because they used to be coached by Arrarte.

 

[turbo]

and Shaun certainly didn't hype it.

He posted to his own twitter account about a sudden trip to Sydney on deadline night and the club shared and posted about it too. I wouldn’t say that’s not hyping it. Certainly more build up than any other scholarship player was given and IMO knowing we have a visa spot still to recruit he knew what he was doing.

Got nothing against having the player but the social media activity doesn’t match the end result.

 

[shipwreck]

I agree, I feel stitched up by this stunt.

Reeks of desperation in trying to give the fans something to be happy about, he would have known we wouldn't give a shit about an 18 year old that nobody has heard of.

Thanks for nothing.

 

[Shaun Mielekamp]

Just for reference guys we still have an option to bring in a visa player that we have been working on for a while now. No guarrantees that we will sign him but I don't want anyone to think that just because the window closed last night we have stopped recruiting. The motivation behind the tweet that I was working late is to start building awareness about deadline day. It is a big day in other leagues and by this time next year it will be a talked about event especially if A-League to A-League transfers are in. Please know that the hype was caused by others, I was actually seeing a sponsor in Sydney and used the opportunity to also meet with John, not sure who mentioned airports etc.. Glad I didn't just use the tweet to announce a new sponsor coming on board. But what else was there to talk about on a Tuesday night i suppose?

 

[garlo]

Just for reference guys we still have an option to bring in a visa player that we have been working on for a while now. No guarrantees that we will sign him but I don't want anyone to think that just because the window closed last night we have stopped recruiting. The motivation behind the tweet that I was working late is to start building awareness about deadline day. It is a big day in other leagues and by this time next year it will be a talked about event especially if A-League to A-League transfers are in. Please know that the hype was caused by others, I was actually seeing a sponsor in Sydney and used the opportunity to also meet with John, not sure who mentioned airports etc.. Glad I didn't just use the tweet to announce a new sponsor coming on board. But what else was there to talk about on a Tuesday night i suppose?

We have confirmation it’s a him!