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

Gratis

Gratis

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I'd rather Mulvey make good signings over quick signings.
That said I hope we start hearing about a few soon: we desparately need the squad together as long as possible and we need to rebuild some enthusiasm amongst the poor fan base.

As long as the core is announced by the time pre-season starts then there can't be too many complaints (unless they're no good of course)
 
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localpom

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Offsider said:
Just caught this on a-league :

“The departure of Baro, who played a season at Melbourne Victory before joining the Mariners, will be covered for in central defence by Jonathan Aspropotamitis, who signed from Western Sydney last month.


It comes less than a week after the release of Dutchman Wout Brama and leaves new coach Mike Mulvey with another visa spot as he attempts to revive a club that slumped to last season's wooden spoon. “

Not what I was expecting when I read this report ............ it seems that the min cap spend is going to have a lot of left over cash and visa positions :soapbox:
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To be fair Aspro is a starting A league player. His injury is the concern and when he will be fit to play. If it frees up cash for more quality in other areas then so be it.
 
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Big Al

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localpom said:
To be fair Aspro is a starting A league player. His injury is the concern and when he will be fit to play. If it frees up cash for more quality in other areas then so be it.
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Pre ACL absolutely post not so sure. Especially if he gets a re-accurance. Then what. With Kennedy in goals can’t afford not to have at least one quality CB
 
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Timmah

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Offsider said:
I got the impression from the article that he had some research and his previous articles are not challenged .......... but I get your point.

It was worth posting because:

It fed my pessimism ........ which fed my anxiety ........... which fed my reliance on alcohol ........... as I was out of :popcorn:
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Alcohol is better than popcorn anyway, I think you've come out ahead on that count.
 
Offsider

Offsider

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The only down side I can see to shabow is his lack of game time at jets. He had the chances but didn’t cut the mustard. He has a chance of fitting into mm’s game plan being more attractive than trying to squeeze visa players out of the jet’s starting lineup.
 
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Woollybutt

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I'm really happy with Shabow. He impressed me in his cameos at Wanderers (including against us), and I'd have happily taken him last year. He's ambitious, and asked for a release from the second year of his contract to come to us to try to get more game time. He has a futsal background and seems a bit like Rogic when he first came to us or De Silva when he was starting at Perth, a really skilful attacking midfielder with good passing ability but some doubts around goalscoring and physicality. He's not a big signing, but I'd have been happier with him at ten than Powell or Hoole when De Silva was away last season. I reckon he'll do a good job for us.
 
midfielder

midfielder

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So we have 14 players let's add another 2, from our youth team.

That's 16 players, hhhhhhmm and this to date aside from Dutchie are all the lower level of pay scale.

Let's take a wild very wild guess. Assume 16 players at $100,000 average, plus another $200,000 for Dutchie that's 1.8 million, leaving 1.7 million for 6 to 7 players or say $240,000 each at least.

Also I think the 1.8 million is more than we are paying so my 1.5 is low.

If we only sign say 6 quality players we could be looking at a GF appearance.

I have not seen ever at our club a more brutal approach to player selection.

I am stating to warm to MM lot, he has built a decent squad now he has the funds to recruit hand picked player's of quality supported by a work your arse off squad
 
Wombat

Wombat

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Woollybutt said:
I'm really happy with Shabow. He impressed me in his cameos at Wanderers (including against us), and I'd have happily taken him last year. He's ambitious, and asked for a release from the second year of his contract to come to us to try to get more game time. He has a futsal background and seems a bit like Rogic when he first came to us or De Silva when he was starting at Perth, a really skilful attacking midfielder with good passing ability but some doubts around goalscoring and physicality. He's not a big signing, but I'd have been happier with him at ten than Powell or Hoole when De Silva was away last season. I reckon he'll do a good job for us.
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Looks like a good signing. And finally we have good cover for the boom 10 that we hopefully will annouce next week.

I got memberships today and they were excited about the signing so he must be half decent.
 
FFC Mariner

FFC Mariner

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midfielder said:
So we have 14 players let's add another 2, from our youth team.

That's 16 players, hhhhhhmm and this to date aside from Dutchie are all the lower level of pay scale.

Let's take a wild very wild guess. Assume 16 players at $100,000 average, plus another $200,000 for Dutchie that's 1.8 million, leaving 1.7 million for 6 to 7 players or say $240,000 each at least.

Also I think the 1.8 million is more than we are paying so my 1.5 is low.

If we only sign say 6 quality players we could be looking at a GF appearance.

I have not seen ever at our club a more brutal approach to player selection.

I am stating to warm to MM lot, he has built a decent squad now he has the funds to recruit hand picked player's of quality supported by a work your arse off squad
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Who would you add from our youth team? They might be top of the table but there are no HAL players in that team. Wales struggled at that level and he was arguably our best youth prospect
 
priorpeter

priorpeter

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FFC Mariner said:
Who would you add from our youth team? They might be top of the table but there are no HAL players in that team. Wales struggled at that level and he was arguably our best youth prospect
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Kekeris? Rate him as a better prospect than Wales. Still very, very green though.
But yeah. They might be top of the league but there is a big, big jump from NPL2 to NPL1 and then an even larger chasm between NPL1 and A-League.
 
pjennings

pjennings

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What about Glassock? He and Kye seem to form a pretty good pairing. We need at least 1 more U20 and we are short in defence.

At the moment we have Clisby, Rowles & McGing as our only fit defenders. A LB, CB and RB. The we have Golec who can play LB and CB and Aspro who can play CB and RB who are both injured and I do not expect much from either until well into the season.

I think we need a replacement for Baro at CB, a RB so that McGing is not are only fit choice and a backup CB which could be Glassock.
 
Forum Phoenix

Forum Phoenix

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Big Al said:
To be fair it’s hard for #10’s to get a go in Australia with foreigners always taking those spots.

Newcastle certainly preferred there imports to play there.

Also the kid had a good reputation from WSW youth

The question is he better than the youth we have.

Realistically could take Wales spot
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EXACTLY what I was going to say. What other club consistently gives any youth a chance at all, and as a 10?

Kids only just turned 20. Yes we need proven quality, but we also have a lot of room, and so there will obviously be big, small and mid signings coming.

It's natural that people want to feel secure with some strong signings asap, but I'd hope we would still have the sense and enough generosity of spirit to extend a warm welcome and congrats to any young player that wins a contract with our club and hopefully may one day prove himself a great Marriner.
 
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