Mariners Squad - HAL 14 - 2018- 2019 - The challenge for Mike Mulvey is over

[Big Al]

Surely this is something the FFA can step in and stamp out. You can't allow agents and their agendas to run the game.

What for. We didn’t sign him up for longer. That’s our fault.

He is an Australian junior. What sort of risk is that to sign him for 3 or 4 years.

But Grella certainly seems a difficult agent

 

[Insertnamehere]

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What for. We didn’t sign him up for longer. That’s our fault.

He is an Australian junior. What sort of risk is that to sign him for 3 or 4 years.

But Grella certainly seems a difficult agent

An agent saying were gonna take your player because we don't like you

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Surely this is something the FFA can step in and stamp out. You can't allow agents and their agendas to run the game.

There is nothing to stamp out.
Rowles contract with CCM expires in June next year when he will be able to sign for whoever he chooses.
Even if there were transfer fees in the A-League we would not get a penny. He will be a free agent.

 

[Scotty]

If things can't get any worse, I fear the Jan transfer window could really screw us over.

 

[Insertnamehere]

There is nothing to stamp out.
Rowles contract with CCM expires in June next year when he will be able to sign for whoever he chooses.
Even if there were transfer fees in the A-League we would not get a penny. He will be a free agent.

An agent or management company can't be known publicly to be making statements of intent like that. It totally distorts the league worse than any marquee fund does.
Grella is trying to position himself as the Mendes or Boras of the HAL. Neither of them are highly thought of.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

I am pretty sure a contracted player can be approached in the final 6 or 12 months of an expiring contract.

I need someone who knows the regs better than I to confirm or deny.

 

[Insertnamehere]

I am pretty sure a contracted player can be approached in the final 6 or 12 months of an expiring contract.

I need someone who knows the regs better than I to confirm or deny.

6 months

 

[Ancient Mariner]

FFS we signed DDS to 5 years last season, we signed Matty Ryan to a multi year contract and picked up a transfer fee. We even got some dosh for Tom Rogic.

This was the way the club was going to make money, develop youth and sell them on. That an The COE was the management model for developing a successful club.

Now we are signing all our promising youngsters for a year and they leave as free agents with the Club getting SFA.

Just plain brilliance in club management.

Maybe the new plan is to become a retirement village club and old players can pay us to play. It seems to be as smart as what is happening now.

What the F*** is going on?

 

[Insertnamehere]

FFS we signed DDS to 5 years last season, we signed Matty Ryan to a multi year contract and picked up a transfer fee. We even got some dosh for Tom Rogic.

This was the way the club was going to make money, develop youth and sell them on. That an The COE was the management model for developing a successful club.

Now we are signing all our promising youngsters for a year and they leave as free agents with the Club getting SFA.

Just plain brilliance in club management.

Maybe the new plan is to become a retirement village club and old players can pay us to play. It seems to be as smart as what is happening now.

What the F*** is going on?

Risk averse... Strangely for minimum wage players

 

[Wombat]

Sort of sums up the recruitment and negotiating powers of current management and how we ended up with the team we have. I thought phelan would have overseen that area but apparently he specialises in setting up acadamies. His input into the team was just a ruse to flavour favours.

So the player you didnt rate....Rowles.....is now a world beater even though he was responsible for poor defending on one of the Scummers goals last week.....and Phelan should have locked him into a long term contract....FFS some of the drivel on here!!

I only remember me and Pat Jennings rating the kid last season and he is still a rough diamond.

Kye would be silly to go anywhere else atm............sounds like a weak story to me and now is the time to sign him to a 2yr contract.

But Ii they want to swap him for Atkinson, then thats fair enough.....lets do the deal now.

From what i've seen of Kye at training he is a lovely lad, completely devoid of any ego.

He is one of only 6 or 7 players that i would be retaining for next year.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Jesus, punishing us? That agent is way overstepping the mark there. What a total piece of shit.

 

[Wombat]

An agent or management company can't be known publicly to be making statements of intent like that. It totally distorts the league worse than any marquee fund does.
Grella is trying to position himself as the Mendes or Boras of the HAL. Neither of them are highly thought of.

Grella was a shitty player. Dirty and without class.

He takes his gutter standards into player management.............to be honest he would have been better off as a pimp....shipping girls off to the middle east.
He is a germ.

 

[Insertnamehere]

Grella was a shitty player. Dirty and without class.

He takes his gutter standards into player management.............to be honest he would have been better off as a pimp....shipping girls off to the middle east.
He is a germ.

He's a Germ that's been watching entourage or ballers. Thinks his cock is bigger than it probably is.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

So the player you didnt rate....Rowles.....is now a world beater even though he was responsible for poor defending on one of the Scummers goals last week.....and Phelan should have locked him into a long term contract....FFS some of the drivel on here!!

I only remember me and Pat Jennings rating the kid last season and he is still a rough diamond.

Kye would be silly to go anywhere else atm............sounds like a weak story to me and now is the time to sign him to a 2yr contract.

But Ii they want to swap him for Atkinson, then thats fair enough.....lets do the deal now.

From what i've seen of Kye at training he is a lovely lad, completely devoid of any ego.

He is one of only 6 or 7 players that i would be retaining for next year.

Who are your seven Wombat?

I posted multiple times that I rated Rowles also.
Agree on Atkinson, he’s a gun.
Never liked Grella.

Not easy holding onto our talented youngsters when we’re poor on field and risk. But we really need to get this right. Can’t afford to give a year or two of game time that brings young players up to speed and then lose them right when they start to hit a standard that will make them a genuine asset.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Who are your seven Wombat?

New competition. See how close you can get to Wombat's seven.
I'll have first crack.
Rowles
Millar
Murray
Paine
O'Neil
Hirajei
Aspro

 

[BrisRecky]

New competition. See how close you can get to Wombat's seven.
I'll have first crack.
Rowles
Millar
Murray
Paine
O'Neil
Hirajei
Aspro

Gumprecht
Kwasnik
Vuckovic
Brown
jedinak....oh wait...my bad

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Gumprecht
Kwasnik
Vuckovic
Brown
jedinak....oh wait...my bad

What would it take to pull some of the old guard out of retirement?

Joking....


....or am I?

 

[Ozhammer]

What would it take to pull some of the old guard out of retirement?

Joking....


....or am I?

We could do worse tbh.....

 

[Big Al]

New competition. See how close you can get to Wombat's seven.
I'll have first crack.
Rowles
Millar
Murray
Paine
O'Neil
Hirajei
Aspro

Mumford for Aspro

 

[Wombat]

Gumprecht
Kwasnik
Vuckovic
Brown
jedinak....oh wait...my bad

Not Brown.