Mariners Squad 2024/2025 ALM and ACL Elite

[Ironbark]

I'd want to stay if I was Hall.

It's a choice between another season in:
1. a decent squad under an excellent coaching staff at a club that supports transitioning overseas
vs
2. a new and unknown squad, under Corica, with no idea if they'll support your career trajectory

The difference is probably wage considerations, but thinking ahead for career options you'd have to think we'd be more attractive, especially adding in the feelgood factor they must have going at the moment

 

[turbo]

Hearing he's having second thoughts. Not sure how that works.

Can't speak to any of that but it's a risk signing for a new club like Auckland. Aspro signed early for WU after getting established with us (13 games ~1200 minutes. A regular fixture after he broke into the 11) and presumably got to watch in real time as we did as they announced players likely to slot in above him. He ended up getting about 430 mins across 9 games for them and only lasted 1 season.

Dan is a solid player but an unlikely signing or unexpected bargain comes in and all of a sudden he's on the pine. That's less likely in an established team where there's chemistry and other considerations.

 

[Big Al]

Hearing he's having second thoughts. Not sure how that works.

How could he not

 

[Big Al]

Can't speak to any of that but it's a risk signing for a new club like Auckland. Aspro signed early for WU after getting established with us (13 games ~1200 minutes. A regular fixture after he broke into the 11) and presumably got to watch in real time as we did as they announced players likely to slot in above him. He ended up getting about 430 mins across 9 games for them and only lasted 1 season.

Dan is a solid player but an unlikely signing or unexpected bargain comes in and all of a sudden he's on the pine. That's less likely in an established team where there's chemistry and other considerations.

No way they wouldn’t have him penciled in as starting CB but i get what you’re saying and depends on when he signed but has been enormous and best CB pairing in the league

 

[Huddo]

No way they wouldn’t have him penciled in as starting CB but i get what you’re saying and depends on when he signed but has been enormous and best CB pairing in the league

On show in the ACL would be a huge carrot aswell

 

[turbo]

No way they wouldn’t have him penciled in as starting CB but i get what you’re saying and depends on when he signed but has been enormous and best CB pairing in the league

I'm sure they have picked him up with the intention he could start but they're flush with cash and if having him in their pocket allows them to make some long shot approaches without stressing if they come off he could find himself left out.

 

[Big Al]

I'm sure they have picked him up with the intention he could start but they're flush with cash and if having him in their pocket allows them to make some long shot approaches without stressing if they come off he could find himself left out.

Yeah definitely possible in that sense.

 

[Hello Sailor]

Any more goss on Christian Brauzman?

 

[Corsair]

I'd want to stay if I was Hall.

It's a choice between another season in:
1. a decent squad under an excellent coaching staff at a club that supports transitioning overseas
vs
2. a new and unknown squad, under Corica, with no idea if they'll support your career trajectory

The difference is probably wage considerations, but thinking ahead for career options you'd have to think we'd be more attractive, especially adding in the feelgood factor they must have going at the moment

No guarantee you'll play either, they might sign a stronger starting player with new club money and Hall is backup.

 

[priorpeter]

As Hally said to me during preseason for 23/24 - “can’t go out when you’re on a heater!”

 

[priorpeter]

Any more goss on Christian Brauzman?

There was no goss per se - just some random guy on Facebook who said he’d been in touch with his agent and asked someone to put him in touch with the club.
Any intermediary worth their salt would prooobably be able to get in contact with the club without issuing pleas on Facebook for contact details.

 

[Michael]

Pre contract doesn't really mean shit

It definitely does. It’s still a contract. If he’s actually having second thoughts (can’t blame him) there’s going to have to be big discussions and probably sort out a mutual termination or something along those lines.

Only similar example that comes to mind is Lewis Miller, signed the pre contract with MacArthur and the only way he got out of it was Hibs paying a transfer fee to them and not us.


I’d love for hally to find a way out of it and stay here, would also mean we can focus on our recruitment in other areas.

 

[Michael]

On show in the ACL would be a huge carrot aswell

Said it a few times, ACL footy absolutely changes everything about our club dynamic in regards to selling our best for profit and developing youth. We need to try keep our best and add some real quality whilst developing youth. Atleast for one season. We need to hold our own and try make a mark in Asia, it’ll benefit the club in so many ways.

 

[Spacks]

Said it a few times, ACL footy absolutely changes everything about our club dynamic in regards to selling our best for profit and developing youth. We need to try keep our best and add some real quality whilst developing youth. Atleast for one season. We need to hold our own and try make a mark in Asia, it’ll benefit the club in so many ways.

Have to do well so our club gains reputation as being good and by extension australian football

 

[Stuartmcateer]

There was no goss per se - just some random guy on Facebook who said he’d been in touch with his agent and asked someone to put him in touch with the club.
Any intermediary worth their salt would prooobably be able to get in contact with the club without issuing pleas on Facebook for contact details.

I heard that he had updated his MySpace page to try and get the Mariners interested.

 

[dlanod]

I heard that he had updated his MySpace page to try and get the Mariners interested.

I'll put it in the topic of my IRC channel.

 

[Yorkshire Mariners FC]

A bit of an anomaly in French to English interpretation, but the plural for cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac, to anglisize it as cul-de-sacs would to literally say deads-end instead of dead-ends.

Excuse my French!

 

[Blackadder]

I'll put it in the topic of my IRC channel.

Hopefully he included his ICQ number.

 

[Meerkat]

I'm not so sure about that, was pretty good for us but went down the toilet at Dundee. Can he get back up to speed and how quickly?

Danny was riding the pine for a good while before he came back here. Didn’t start great for us either.. but look how he turned out.

 

[Ozhammer]

Excuse my French!

Well, surely more pardonez moi francais? 👨🏻‍🎨