Mariners V Sydney / Pre season round 2

[Arabmariner]

Where does razorback get his angry pills? 8)

Been angry for a couple of days now.

Cheer up...we get to drink beers and go to the football on Sunday.....

 

[Bear]

Cheer up...we get to drink beers and go to the football on Sunday.....

And watch bozza............ ;D

 

[swarey]

Cheer up...we get to drink beers and go to the football on Sunday.....

And watch bozza............ ;D

 

 

[Deej]

Bosnich 'ready' to make debut
By John Taylor
July 24, 2008 JOHN Crawley will recommend Mark Bosnich makes his debut for Central Coast against Sydney FC in Gosford on Sunday but warned he's a long way off being the goalkeeper once regarded as one of the best in the world.

Bosnich, 36, hasn't played seriously for six years since his personal life fell apart after a broken marriage and football world came tumbling down after he tested positive to drugs while at Chelsea.

But one man who thinks Bozza has the capacity to make it back - given a little more time - is Mariners goalkeeping coach Crawley.

"It will be a good indicator (playing him) as we've nothing to lose," Crawley said. "I know the boss (Lawrie McKinna) likes to win everything but this is a pre-season competition and it's a chance to see Mark in a game situation. He's been a long time out of the game."

But Crawley, who has been working closely with the former Australia, Aston Villa, Manchester United and Chelsea keeper since he arrived on the Central Coast last week for a two-week trial and hopefully reignite his career, said the last thing people should expect from Bosnich was miracles.

"He has a lot to do on his condition and Mark would be the first to admit that," Crawley said. "As for his weight, he can lose a few kilos but he knows that.

"He is full of beans and you can't knock his enthusiasm. He's there early warming up but will there be a big difference in two weeks? No.

"He has a lot to do but if he keeps working at the same intensity, we'll see a difference. Right now he's doing OK. We've had five sessions with him and he's certainly a lot better than when he first stepped off a plane.

"Today we did a few different things - high balls, basic handling and moves across goal.

"Mark is 36 - two months older than me - and it's a lot to expect that he could return to the form of his glory days.

"In saying that, he's doing all the right things.

"He is just so motivated at training. Give him his dues - you can see he wants to have a successful comeback.

"I remember when Bozza was at his best. He did things easily. He's still got that.

"But what's different now is whether he can recover to a second ball. His lifting (off the ground) is not as sharp.

"His handling is OK but that's something that can be improved quickly."

Any boxes Crawley can tick?

"Experience to a side like ours and to the other goalkeepers (Danny Vukovic and Andrew Redmayne)," he said. "He's also a great communicator and organiser. Then there's the confidence factor."

Meanwhile, Manly United coach Phil Moss says he is not standing in the way of defender Beau Busch joining A-League champions the Newcastle Jets.

"As far as I know they (Jets) have made him an offer but we have two season-defining games coming up and the board is not prepared to release him until we have finished our commitments," Moss said

 

[bulldogmariner]

Really do hope that Bozza plays it will make for a great occassion for the club.
Who will be the next ex socceroo we sign??????

 

[goingtoadisco]

mile sterjofski

 

[bulldogmariner]

He is currently at Derby and they are going nowhere especially after signing the RUBE for Bling!
Great wide player and he scores goals would be a good signing but we may struggle to bring him back right now as he is still under contract!

 

[loyalist]

mile sterjovski

He is currently at Derby and they are going nowhere especially after signing the RUBE for Bling!
Great wide player and he scores goals would be a good signing but we may struggle to bring him back right now as he is still under contract!

+ he is a much better player then we could attract imo

 

[bulldogmariner]

i would not say that because he is heading towards 30 and not playing regular first team football with Derby.
A chance to come home might interest him in the next few yrs

 

[mariners4ever]

Put aside everyones obvious ill feeling towards Aloi$i and answer this question. With our current squad who would be a better aquisition to the team, Bozza or Aloi$i?

The people who answered bozza are clearly a lamb chop short of a mixed grill. Clearly Aloi$i has a dodgy knee but we have kept Mrdja for 3 years with a shit house knee. Everyone's rambling reaks of hypocricy and I bet when he signed last year you couldn't wipe the smile off your faces. I still would rather aloi$i in our team than fat so bozza. Wake up and get real marinators.

i would still said bosnich because what he has done for the socceroos. all aloi$i has done is kick a bloody ball in the back of the net to get us to the world cup.

All Bozza had to do was stop one of two rather soft goals against Iran and we would have been to the cup years ago. He couldn't. So what has he done for the Socceroos? Wasn't Schwarzer our number one the following cup campaign?

the ball has to get past 10 other players before it gets to the goalkeeper, anyway most goals AREN'T the goalkeepers fault.
all aloi$i did is score 2 very vital goals for the socceroos, one was THE penalty and the other was in the game against japan i think

 

[loyalist]

i would not say that because he is heading towards 30 and not playing regular first team football with Derby.
A chance to come home might interest him in the next few yrs

He appeared 12 times for them out of a possible 16 games not bad for a new signing

 

[Mini In Bay 6]

Any crowd >$6k will be positive IMHO due to local comps being played and hte fact that Sunday afternoons suck for games

If memory serves a typical pre-season crowd is 3k, so anything above that is good.  6K would be ecstatic.

 

[Bear]

Who will be the next ex socceroo we sign??????

Rumours are about that Heff will be off to the Greek league at years end. So I say Chipperfield to cover.

 

[loyalist]

Only way chippers will be coming home is for the wollongong side imo

 

[Razorback]

Only way chippers will be coming home is for the wollongong side imo

No doubt about it, I read somewhere he wanted to start the franchise next season.

 

[mariners4ever]

here's the squad

Central Coast Mariners Squad: 2. Andre GUMPRECHT, 5. Bradley PORTER, 7. John HUTCHINSON, 10. Adrian CACERES, 11. Dylan MACALLISTER, 15. Andrew CLARK, 17. Matthew OSMAN, 18. Alex WILKINSON, 20. Danny VUKOVIC (gk), 21. Ahmed ELRICH, 22. Sasho PETROVSKI, 24. David D'APUZZO, 25. Nik MRDJA, 30. Andrew REDMAYNE (gk), Mark BOSNICH

anyone know what's up with heff's knee ???

haha bozza's an outfield player

maybe a lineup of:

                  bozza

osman  wilko  clarky d'apuzzo

elrich  hutch  porter/gumps  caceres
         
              sasho  macca

bench: vuko, redders, porter/gumps, mjdra

maybe bosnich to come off for either redders or vuko at either half time or halfway through the 2nd half

 

[marinermick]

press release says heff's ankle but it is just bruising from where he was kicked in his broken leg

just a precaution

as for heff going to greece - he will have to be fit and play regulalry first

 

[RADINHO]

Still his job is to stop them regardless!!! They were hardly convincing strikes. Aloi$i was still our top goal scorer and he only played half the season. And without his goals last year do you think we would have got the plate... Me thinks not, especially when we only got it by goal difference.

You have no idea. It was because of Bosnich that we were still in it come the second leg. You really need to get over your Bosnich hating.

Very true. He was unbelievable in the first leg in Tehran and if it wasn't for him, the tie would have been all over before that night at the MCG.

but Abedzadeh was even better along with Azizi

 

[marinermick]

here's the squad

Central Coast Mariners Squad: 2. Andre GUMPRECHT, 5. Bradley PORTER, 7. John HUTCHINSON, 10. Adrian CACERES, 11. Dylan MACALLISTER, 15. Andrew CLARK, 17. Matthew OSMAN, 18. Alex WILKINSON, 20. Danny VUKOVIC (gk), 21. Ahmed ELRICH, 22. Sasho PETROVSKI, 24. David D'APUZZO, 25. Nik MRDJA, 30. Andrew REDMAYNE (gk), Mark BOSNICH

anyone know what's up with heff's knee ???

haha bozza's an outfield player

maybe a lineup of:

                   bozza

osman  wilko  clarky d'apuzzo

elrich  hutch  porter/gumps  caceres
          
               sasho  macca

bench: vuko, redders, porter/gumps, mjdra

maybe bosnich to come off for either redders or vuko at either half time or halfway through the 2nd half

if there was ever a time for a 3-4-3 this would be it

bozza
porter - wilkinson - clark
elrich - hutch - gumps - carceras
mrdja - macallister - sash

would never happen in a million years but how attacking is that lineup!!!!!

 

[Arabmariner]

here's the squad

Central Coast Mariners Squad: 2. Andre GUMPRECHT, 5. Bradley PORTER, 7. John HUTCHINSON, 10. Adrian CACERES, 11. Dylan MACALLISTER, 15. Andrew CLARK, 17. Matthew OSMAN, 18. Alex WILKINSON, 20. Danny VUKOVIC (gk), 21. Ahmed ELRICH, 22. Sasho PETROVSKI, 24. David D'APUZZO, 25. Nik MRDJA, 30. Andrew REDMAYNE (gk), Mark BOSNICH

anyone know what's up with heff's knee ???

haha bozza's an outfield player

maybe a lineup of:

                  bozza

osman  wilko  clarky d'apuzzo

elrich  hutch  porter/gumps  caceres
         
              sasho  macca

bench: vuko, redders, porter/gumps, mjdra

maybe bosnich to come off for either redders or vuko at either half time or halfway through the 2nd half

if there was ever a time for a 3-4-3 this would be it

bozza
porter - wilkinson - clark
elrich - hutch - gumps - carceras
mrdja - macallister - sash

would never happen in a million years but how attacking is that lineup!!!!!

Don't swear at Lawrie!!