Mariners V MV Rd 9 - NSO match

[localpom]

Bozza had this to say about the pitch:

Good to hear.

 

[dibo]

Can always market like this to people who haven't renewed memberships.
It's easier to get a previous sale/client back than it is to go out hunting new ones.

Given that we've been around 10 years, I reckon there are a lot of old customers. Would be great to see why they left and how they could be brought back. Can't treat them as burnt.

 

[dibo]

Bozza had this to say about the pitch:

Bozza's selling the event. He's hardly going to walk out there and say it's a shit pitch and the game's going to be awful.

 

[sydmariner]

Bozza's selling the event. He's hardly going to walk out there and say it's a shit pitch and the game's going to be awful.

It's NOT @ BLUETOUNGE so it's going to be shit anyway regardless of the pitch

 

[rbakersmith]

Bozza's selling the event. He's hardly going to walk out there and say it's a shit pitch and the game's going to be awful.

Have you looked at the photos he'd posted on his feed? The surface actually looks pretty decent.

 

[Garth]

Given that we've been around 10 years, I reckon there are a lot of old customers. Would be great to see why they left and how they could be brought back. Can't treat them as burnt.

GOSFORD City Mayor Lawrie McKinna walked away from the Central Coast Mariners this week amid fears that more home games will be moved to Sydney.

Mr McKinna was the club’s inaugural coach and has held an official role with the Mariners throughout the past decade, including most recently as club ambassador.

His announcement came ahead of tonight’s home game against Melbourne Victory which is bein held at North Sydney Oval, the first of two Mariners home games being played in Sydney this season.

There is speculation more games will be moved next season.

“It’s been on the cards for a few months,” Mr McKinna said.

“I don’t feel as though I need to be involved at the club. I’ve got my views and they’ve got their views and it’s nobody’s fault but it’s time to be a fan.”

Mr McKinna said he wouldn’t “bag” the club but, in his role as Gosford mayor, he could not support moving any more games away from the coast than one or two a season.

“Playing one or two games away from home, we’ve done it over the years, it’s not an issue,” Mr McKinna said.“But it’s how you portray that. And as the mayor of Gosford I can’t come out and support playing more games away than that. The Mariners as a team are important to the Central Coast.”

With the club citing diminishing crowds as a reason for looking further afield, Mr McKinna said it was crucial for supporters to do their bit.

“It’s really important the public get behind the team because the boys need them and we need to show the support to (Mariners owner) Mike Charlesworth, that the club can sustain itself on the coast,” he said.

When asked why people were not going to the game, Mr McKinna chose his words carefully.

“Fans need to feel like they’re a part of the club, when a home game is coming up, they should be talking to their mates at work about going to the game,” he said.

“But some people don’t feel the same engagement as might have happened in the past. That’s not having a go at anybody, that’s how people feel.” (Page 3 Express Advocate)

For me on a personal note: I tell you what if more home games are designated away from Central Coast Stadium they can kiss my continuing membership goodbye.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Exactly. If they put the same amount of effort into the home games, they wouldn't need to move to North Sydney.

They should do both, the two are not mutually exclusive.

 

[dibo]

I've walked on some pitches that look like absolute carpet and they've been overly hard or soft underfoot, or worst of all uneven, with hard lumps or uneven firmness across the park. The worst pitch I've ever walked on would've looked just like that in a photo, but had lots of lumps in the soil that made it feel like there were cobblestones underfoot...

 

[Garth]

GOSFORD City Mayor Lawrie McKinna walked away from the Central Coast Mariners this week amid fears that more home games will be moved to Sydney.

Mr McKinna was the club’s inaugural coach and has held an official role with the Mariners throughout the past decade, including most recently as club ambassador.

His announcement came ahead of tonight’s home game against Melbourne Victory which is bein held at North Sydney Oval, the first of two Mariners home games being played in Sydney this season.

There is speculation more games will be moved next season.

“It’s been on the cards for a few months,” Mr McKinna said.

“I don’t feel as though I need to be involved at the club. I’ve got my views and they’ve got their views and it’s nobody’s fault but it’s time to be a fan.”

Mr McKinna said he wouldn’t “bag” the club but, in his role as Gosford mayor, he could not support moving any more games away from the coast than one or two a season.

“Playing one or two games away from home, we’ve done it over the years, it’s not an issue,” Mr McKinna said.“But it’s how you portray that. And as the mayor of Gosford I can’t come out and support playing more games away than that. The Mariners as a team are important to the Central Coast.”

With the club citing diminishing crowds as a reason for looking further afield, Mr McKinna said it was crucial for supporters to do their bit.

“It’s really important the public get behind the team because the boys need them and we need to show the support to (Mariners owner) Mike Charlesworth, that the club can sustain itself on the coast,” he said.

When asked why people were not going to the game, Mr McKinna chose his words carefully.

“Fans need to feel like they’re a part of the club, when a home game is coming up, they should be talking to their mates at work about going to the game,” he said.

“But some people don’t feel the same engagement as might have happened in the past. That’s not having a go at anybody, that’s how people feel.” (Page 3 Express Advocate)

For me on a personal note: I tell you what if more home games are designated away from Central Coast Stadium they can kiss my continuing membership goodbye.

What have we here another Tinkler!

 

[sydmariner]

have you read some of their latest posts they've even started to steal some of the RBB's chants
North Syd Mariners @NSMariners · 5 hrs5 hours ago
That new chant goes out to our western brothers in the @RBBInventions .Thanks for the tune lads.Get around it for tomorrow night. #NSelite

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North Syd Mariners @NSMariners · 5 hrs5 hours ago
WE'RE FROM THE STREETS OF NORTHERN SYDNEY, CHINOS ROLLED UP TO THE KNEE, WE EAT CAVIAR FOREVER, AND SOME FRESH OYSTERS ON THE SIDE
FFS!!!!!!!!!

They've just posted that they're new to this football thing & that they've only been fans for about a week & a 1/2 I doubt they' actually turn up

 

[Garth]

They've just posted that they're new to this football thing & that they've only been fans for about a week & a 1/2 I doubt they' actually turn up

Tickle the funny bone with that bone I won't be going I damn well can't!

 

[eenfish]

Given that we've been around 10 years, I reckon there are a lot of old customers. Would be great to see why they left and how they could be brought back. Can't treat them as burnt.

I think some have become Wanderers fans - one of my mates was always from West Sydney, I think he supported Mariners because of Aloisi. I've chatted to a few Wanderers fans who used to be yellow. I think a lot were "casual" Mariners supporters who just didn't see anything connection to Sydney FC but still wanted to follow A-League.

I also think there is quite a few "casual" or "Euro" fans who came for a while with Aloisi but didn't stick around. Hate to do the Sydney FC thing, but maybe a big name would help.

 

[Revilo]

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN65152.shtml

Looks like the storms coming! This will kill the crowd. I know quite a few people from down here (Sydney) that were keen on coming but have bailed with the threat of storms. It's looking very grey and ominous from my apartment in Artarmon!

 

[VicMariner]

Hate to do the Sydney FC thing, but maybe a big name would help.

One of the concerns mentioned was a lack of TV viewers, a big name marquee would help in that regard.

 

[dibo]

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN65152.shtml

Looks like the storms coming! This will kill the crowd. I know quite a few people from down here (Sydney) that were keen on coming but have bailed with the threat of storms. It's looking very grey and ominous from my apartment in Artarmon!

It looks ridiculous at the moment from my office in Eastgardens. From my window I've got an arc from Maroubra around to Botany Bay and over to the airport, and there's an enormous sheet of steely blue sky that looks like it will dump hard at any moment.

 

[kevrenor]

It looks ridiculous at the moment from my office in Eastgardens. From my window I've got an arc from Maroubra around to Botany Bay and over to the airport, and there's an enormous sheet of steely blue sky that looks like it will dump hard at any moment.

B O M radar shows a small but intense storm heading from the western suburbs toward northern Sydney.

Issued at 4:36 pm Friday, 5 December 2014.

The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 4:35 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Richmond and Liverpool. These thunderstorms are moving towards the east. They are forecast to affect Parramatta, Sydney City, Sydney Airport, Sydney Olympic Park and the Sydney Harbour Bridge by 5:05 pm and Hornsby, Terrey Hills and waters off Bondi Beach by 5:35 pm.

Large hailstones, heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding and damaging winds are likely.

 

[eenfish]

What sort of loser doesn't go to the football because of a little rain? Remember that 6-2 win in the rain against Victory in the championship year? That game was sick. Even the draw against scum that season in the pissing rain was great fun.

 

[dibo]

What sort of loser doesn't go to the football because of a little rain? Remember that 6-2 win in the rain against Victory in the championship year? That game was sick. Even the draw against scum that season in the pissing rain was great fun.

That was uber fun. The Minister for War and Finance got a lovely shot of me and Tiger in the bay that night.

 

[Revilo]

What sort of loser doesn't go to the football because of a little rain? Remember that 6-2 win in the rain against Victory in the championship year? That game was sick. Even the draw against scum that season in the pissing rain was great fun.

It's not just a little rain, it's a thunder storm with hail expected.

 

[rbakersmith]

It's not just a little rain, it's a thunder storm with hail expected.

It will have gone through well before kickoff.