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

[Forum Phoenix]

If your completely dedicated to the club and don't want to miss anything get Facebook. Those without it missed a pure gold exchange between the club and a naysayer yesterday. The naysayer was then destroyed by a lot of long term members of this forum and the club.

Details?

 

[pjennings]

Yes I was rolling with the catholic angle.
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Given PJ’s spending guesstimate, Interested to hear how and where people think it should be spent?

I think it really comes down to who the English striker is, how much they cost and how that is funded. MC has said we will be at the minimum spend so my guess was that we has $890,000. A big enough name will take all of that and we will still need another player to make the minimum squad size.

If the player is high profile enough a third party may fund that player and the quality of the rest can be higher.

If we actually get 5 players my priority would be CS, RB, RM, HM, back up RM.

------------------------------------------------------Kennedy/Pearce/Gauci-------------------------------------------------
?????/McGing-------------Aspro/NYL------------------------------------Cisse/Golec-----------------------Clisby/Rowles
-------------------------------------------Hiariej/Melling/-------------.HM/Berry-----------------------------------------------------
-----------RM/Backup RM-------------------------------McGlinchey/Hoole-------------------------Pain/Shabow------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------CS--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I would have Glassock training with the main squad (maybe on a scholarship like Gauci) so that his position is outside the squad size.

 

[BrisRecky]

I reckon the club, for TripleMs first home game, should book Alestorm for a gig at Bluetongue...admittedly there not to everyone’s taste, but they do pirate themed tunes very LOUDLY

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

I reckon the club, for TripleMs first home game, should book Alestorm for a gig at Bluetongue...admittedly there not to everyone’s taste, but they do pirate themed tunes very LOUDLY

Alestorm have been my new favourite thing. That would be amazing .
"f*** you with a f****** anchor" needs to be our new walkout song

 

[adz]

Alestorm have been my new favourite thing. That would be amazing .
"f*** you with a f****** anchor" needs to be our new walkout song

I'm guessing one of those words is not "family"

 

[Woollybutt]

I see the gaps in the squad fairly similarly. I think a striker from overseas is where we need to be willing to spend that hypothetical $890,000. Le Fondre would be a brilliant pick up, Bent slightly less so, and I'm sure there are other good options out there. I'd be happy with the Import, Simon, and Gameiro as the striker options, with Smylie or one of the other youth guys training with the first team as cover.

Right back is a big gap, but I'm not too confident on filling it. Can anyone suggest any Australian right backs that would be a first choice for us? Nigro would probably be the best available. I have a feeling we may end up with a fairly unspectacular signing as cover, maybe one of the spate of recent NPL trialists, with McGing as first choice. I don't think another centre back is necessary. We have Aspro and Golec as proven A-League standard options (albeit with possible fitness issues for the start of the season), Rowles is promising, and Cisse should be good.

Midfield is a problem, as we have no depth other than Berry. I still think we'll play 4-3-3 without a ten, in which case our current best midfield would be Melling behind Tom and McGlinchey. Cisse, McGing, and Tom can cover the holding role, and Cisse may move there permanently if Aspro and Golec both prove their fitness, so the priority would have to be an alternative to McGlinchey as the most progressive of the midfield three. Oli would have been perfect, but that would be the other position an import might be needed. Provided De Silva leaves, I'd like to see that money spent on another Tom rather than a classic ten. If De Silva doesn't leave, then I guess it's back to the dreaded 4-2-3-1.

I'd like to see the fourth spot go to either another wide player or another midfielder as cover, but I'm not too fussed. Hoole, McGlinchey, Pain, and Shabow can cover the wide positions, so maybe another decent midfielder would be best. For the hypothetical fifth spot, maybe one of the youth guys like Kekeris or Glassock, or the best of the NPL trialists. Or even take a punt on Kwame Yeboah, since he was a Mulvey product at Roar and stagnated in Germany. Given our record of January signings, I don't buy into the idea that you should keep a spot open for the January window.

 

[pjennings]

Dylan McGowan was not getting any time at Paços de Ferreira, they have loaned him to the K League where he is averaging less than every other game. Maybe he is worth a shot at taking over the loan. As you said Kwame Yeboah could be a very good option looking to resurrect his career. Rostyn Griffiths has parted ways with his Uzbek team as he wants to return to Australia because his wife is expecting.

If you sign those three plus Bent or Le Fondre the cost will be more than $890,000. Hence my point about a third party funding the bulk of the strikers wage in exchange for some commercial opportunities. Le Fondre probably doesn't have the name for that but maybe Bent would be recognised as much as Heskey was by the mainstream public.

 

[BrisRecky]

Alestorm have been my new favourite thing. That would be amazing .
"f*** you with a f****** anchor" needs to be our new walkout song

Indeed Capn its a deadset ripper

 

[BrisRecky]

Apologies if any sensibilities are warped by these mad pirates

 

[VicMariner]

Apologies if any sensibilities are warped by these mad pirates

Should be CCM's official band.
That song is what I think anytime anyone from another club criticizes the Mariners.

 

[midfielder]

Apologies if any sensibilities are warped by these mad pirates

Brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

 

[style_cafe]

I got the email.
Have you called Mr Charlesworth "Pikey" or something?
That could have got you excommunicated.

No Mate, I`m one of those rare people that actually appreciate what MC has done in keeping us afloat....

 

[style_cafe]

I getting excited about these new half time actives.

Keelhauling
Walking the plank off the top deck mezzanine
The club burns you at the stake
Burn them alive

I assume at some stage would need permission, but if they insult Tommy then I am sure it would be granted, saying slagging off Hutch.

We would need a Judge I nominate Bikini Girl for the role of Judge,
FP to write the rules of what punishment is required for what crime
Wombat to be the prosecutor
Pat J to be the head of the jury and call on forum members to determine if a crime [OK a tad over the top but writers licence]
SydneyMariner to carry out the verdicts.

Middies role to inform the press so people will come if not for the game but to see the half time punishments.

Ahh ..the off -season is really getting to you too Middy...

 

[Wombat]

Apologies if any sensibilities are warped by these mad pirates

Oh.
I wondered what Roy Chubby Brown was doing these days

 

[BrisRecky]

Oh.
I wondered what Roy Chubby Brown was doing these days

His their grandad

 

[tony walmsley]

Will be interesting to see how we go in the ffa cup this year and if we sign anymore players which Will play in the game

 

[scottmac]

So 1 month till the first game and we barely have an 11 to start let alone a starting 11. Will be an interesting month

 

[centre mid]

Looks like our team will be a smash and grab team this year. No weapons as of yet..

 

[nebakke]

Nope- that's just not acceptable... there has to be a swathe of awesome signings coming. I've committed for another year now even though I said I was gonna wait and see what signings came in - club better bloody earn that commitment!

 

[Forum Phoenix]

We do have a fieldable 11. Hopefully we will have a better one soonish, however most likely:

KENNEDY

McGing — Cisse — Rowles — Clisby

Hiariej — Melling

Hoole — weemac — Pain

Simon