Mariners Squad 2024/2025 ALM and ACL Elite

[pjennings]

Has pre-season started?

 

[Holy]

Has pre-season started?

I spoke to one of the players last week. He told me they were all back this coming Monday 8 th July

 

[sydmariner]

Dan Hall reveals why the time was right to leave the Mariners: 'That's what excites me'

Dan Hall explains why he felt the time had come for a move away fromthe club he's called home since he was a teenager.

aleagues.com.au

 

[FFC Mariner]

Dan Hall reveals why the time was right to leave the Mariners: 'That's what excites me'

Dan Hall explains why he felt the time had come for a move away fromthe club he's called home since he was a teenager.

aleagues.com.au

He gets to play with a failed rapper too - how exciting.

 

[sydmariner]

He gets to play with a failed rapper too - how exciting.

And b-grade scummer to.

 

[Coastalraider]

Jing and the Vuk.

 

[Corsair]

Melbourne Victory sign treble-winning striker with 'power, speed and finishing prowess'

Melbourne Victory have added firepower to their squad ahead of the new campaign, signing former Mariners striker Jing Reec on a three-year deal

aleagues.com.au

Finishing prowess...only if it's not one on one!

 

[Hello Sailor]

Any announcements for us soon? The tension is killing me

 

[Michael]

Club needs to announce 1 or 2 signings asap to offset these big losses.
We know they knew it was coming and we heard they’d started planning for it.

Doom and gloom has already started from the fair weather fan base 😂

 

[pjennings]

Club needs to announce 1 or 2 signings asap to offset these big losses.
We know they knew it was coming and we heard they’d started planning for it.

Doom and gloom has already started from the fair weather fan base 😂

Current team to play Heidelberg with the 'current' big losses

-----------Warshawsky
Roux----Kaltak----Farrell----Mauragis
Doka----Tapp------Nisbet----Theoharous
----------Kuol------Edmondson

Peraic-Cullen, Smith, Paull, Kuzevski, Di Pizio, Steele, Wenzell-Halls, Brandtman.

Nizz and Farrell potentially going but really still a pretty strong side.

 

[Ironbark]

Look, with the confirmation of the APL money cut so heavily I wouldn't be surprised if we struggle to make any new signings really ($500k absolutely won't fund the wages of a whole squad).
As long as we don't lose too many players we're probably close to as strong as we're going to be.

The reality is we'll likely still lose a few and then we probably need to pick up the best Aussie up and coming youth to fill the gaps. Maybe one or two ok-ish signings looking for a redemption or leg up via Jacko's contacts. I wouldn't be hoping for much more than that to be honest.

If we had the same income as last year I'd be looking for some decent signings to strengthen. At least it's a shared problem with all clubs across the league.

 

[midfielder]

The degree of the funding cuts is huge.

Interesting decision time and getting out the guessing bowl.... Do we go for a better side to increase crowds and crowd revenue or do we bunker down get an affordable side that will not be as successful....

Playing with some figures say the difference is 3K per match across 13 matches thats 39K @ net after GST say $ 22.00 per ticket... thats 858K or 286K per 1K.

 

[Tevor]

Club needs to announce 1 or 2 signings asap to offset these big losses.
We know they knew it was coming and we heard they’d started planning for it.

Doom and gloom has already started from the fair weather fan base 😂

Read the membership thread, it’s not just doom and gloom from our fair weather friends.

 

[FFC Mariner]

The thing that amuses me is that do people really think that the club have been caught out by the departure?
That they had a series of "oh f**k" moments and have no plans. arent having any conversations with replacements?
Chill

 

[Meerkat]

The thing that amuses me is that do people really think that the club have been caught out by the departure?
That they had a series of "oh f**k" moments and have no plans. arent having any conversations with replacements?
Chill

All well and good but part of managing fan expectation and keeping positive momentum going is balancing outgoings with incomings, publicly. It’s part of this crazy thing called Marketing and keeping fans happy and excited for the new season.

Minimal investment in fan engagement is worrying. Even if things are all apples behind the scenes.

 

[Tevor]

The thing that amuses me is that do people really think that the club have been caught out by the departure?
That they had a series of "oh f**k" moments and have no plans. arent having any conversations with replacements?
Chill

Yep it’s like a snow ball building momentum. I’ll make judgement when I see our squad for our first ACL game. Aust Cup is still too early.

 

[Tevor]

All well and good but part of managing fan expectation and keeping positive momentum going is balancing outgoings with incomings, publicly. It’s part of this crazy thing called Marketing and keeping fans happy and excited for the new season.

Minimal investment in fan engagement is worrying. Even if things are all apples behind the scenes.

It was worst last off season in my opinion. We are only 4 days past 30 June and you can’t make announcements unless it is finalised. I’m sure the Club would like to but it’s not totally within their control. Assume they are also trialing so not jumping to decisions on players to appease fans.

 

[pjennings]

Look, with the confirmation of the APL money cut so heavily I wouldn't be surprised if we struggle to make any new signings really ($500k absolutely won't fund the wages of a whole squad).
As long as we don't lose too many players we're probably close to as strong as we're going to be.

The reality is we'll likely still lose a few and then we probably need to pick up the best Aussie up and coming youth to fill the gaps. Maybe one or two ok-ish signings looking for a redemption or leg up via Jacko's contacts. I wouldn't be hoping for much more than that to be honest.

If we had the same income as last year I'd be looking for some decent signings to strengthen. At least it's a shared problem with all clubs across the league.

Tatu, the other Scicluna, MacNichol, Younis & Waddingham are all players I'd like us to look at.

Older players I wouldn't mind picking up are Birraz, Windust and Tyrese - none of which would be overly expensive.

 

[Big Al]

You look at who Victory have signed then you take a breath and say at least we didn’t sign Hamill and Jing had energy but couldn’t finish his good work.

We have a coach. That’s a big start.
A pretty strong base.
I think we can wait a bit before freaking out but then that’s the life of a fan. You freak out in the offseason because you are bored. Then when your club signs someone you go why him when only Messi would keep you happy and you could probably find a fault with that too.

As long as we have a kit and 11 players it will be ok

 

[pjennings]

You look at who Victory have signed then you take a breath and say at least we didn’t sign Hamill and Jing had energy but couldn’t finish his good work.

We have a coach. That’s a big start.
A pretty strong base.
I think we can wait a bit before freaking out but then that’s the life of a fan. You freak out in the offseason because you are bored. Then when your club signs someone you go why him when only Messi would keep you happy and you could probably find a fault with that too.

As long as we have a kit and 11 players it will be ok

Can we please have some reserves as well?