McCabe joins the Board

[Muppet]

This article has just been released.

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/108694,blades-boss-on-coast-board.aspx

Fantastic news as far as I can see. If we can get the Centre of Excellence up and running and use his experience the only way is up!!

 

[Sacko]

Or maybe the only way forward is to sue other teams to make up for our inadequate performances on the pitch! 

On that note let's get his lawyers to look at Sydney's breaching of the salary cap in V1 again...  verhead:

 

[bulldogmariner]

Great news for the club lets just hope he puts his money behind the club and this opens up more doors for player movement between the 3 clubs.

 

[marinermick]

Or maybe the only way forward is to sue other teams to make up for our inadequate performances on the pitch! 

On that note let's get his lawyers to look at Sydney's breaching of the salary cap in V1 again...  verhead:

wow, that wasn't predictable or anything

 

[Ravana]

why would it be a bad thing?

 

[dibo]

because sacko's a bitter c**t over his club getting to cheat their way out of relegation and then someone actually calling them on it and having a court agree with them, even though his club got to keep the vast majority (i.e. all of it minus the damages) of the ill-gotten TV money that they received for staying up.

i don't quite get how some hammers fans whine because they did the wrong thing and were punished (barely) - it's like someone robbing your house and being pissed off at the injustice of having to give back only some of the DVDs they nicked.

[/rant]

i think it's potentially a bad thing if our development programs and player signings are hijacked in order to turn us into just a feeder club for the blades, rather than a club with its own ambitions and priorities receiving the support of a larger family of clubs.

until or if that happens, it's a bad thing. if we're simply gaining the benefits of the 'blades family' - like help on setting up the academy, tours, junior player exchanges and all - then i think it's fine.

 

[clarence]

Or maybe the only way forward is to sue other teams to make up for our inadequate performances on the pitch! 

On that note let's get his lawyers to look at Sydney's breaching of the salary cap in V1 again...  verhead:

wow, that wasn't predictable or anything

+1. Another candidate for the Grudge vid.

[flash=200,200]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMpg6BdHrkI[/flash]

 

[clarence]

i think it's potentially a bad thing if our development programs and player signings are hijacked in order to turn us into just a feeder club for the blades, rather than a club with its own ambitions and priorities receiving the support of a larger family of clubs.

until or if that happens, it's a bad thing. if we're simply gaining the benefits of the 'blades family' - like help on setting up the academy, tours, junior player exchanges and all - then i think it's fine.

Sao Paolo is also a club involved with this network Dibo, and I doubt that McCabe and Sheffield could greatly influence that club too much. I guess we  (the Mariners) just have to learn how to take the good bits of the association and try and avoid the bad bits.

I'm sure with Lawrie's experience with the Spirit being bled dry by a Scottish club (Rangers?) & folks like Turnbull and Gorman being around Football in those days too, and seeing what happened there, they will be very aware not to become too dependent upon McCabe and Sheffield.

All that aside though, McCabe does have the experience in running a Football Club, he is putting up some serious $$ in this CoE of ours, and I guess on those parameters alone he would demand a spot on the Board. Maybe make the Mariners less of a pushover in dealings with the FFA perhaps?

 

[FFC Mariner]

Central coast Blades it is then

 

[Ravana]

i think its good McCabe is on board.

I think good things will come from it

 

[marinermick]

Mariners have their own page on the Sheffield website:

http://www.sufc.co.uk/page/CentralCoastMarinersIndex/0,,10418,00.html

 

[Arabmariner]

Central coast Blades it is then

Will Sacko hand in his season ticket ?  ;D

 

[Muppet]

I don't think you would be that far of the mark in saying the Central Coast Blades. If history is anything to go buy if McCabe takes a substantial financial stake in the club it could very well be "rebranded" to be called just that.

I think that one unfortunate aspect of it is that due to salary cap restrictions the only thing that we may get out of the player aspect is that Sheffield will farm of some of their younger or reserve players to here to serve an apprenticeship. Could be good, could be bad, who knows. I do hope that we keep some independance when it comes to signing players.

 

[marinermick]

I don't think you would be that far of the mark in saying the Central Coast Blades. If history is anything to go buy if McCabe takes a substantial financial stake in the club it could very well be "rebranded" to be called just that.

I think that one unfortunate aspect of it is that due to salary cap restrictions the only thing that we may get out of the player aspect is that Sheffield will farm of some of their younger or reserve players to here to serve an apprenticeship. Could be good, could be bad, who knows. I do hope that we keep some independance when it comes to signing players.

the real benefit will come player-wise if sheffield make the epl

then there will some real quality in their "off-shoots"

 

[Statue]

I don't think you would be that far of the mark in saying the Central Coast Blades. If history is anything to go buy if McCabe takes a substantial financial stake in the club it could very well be "rebranded" to be called just that.

I think that one unfortunate aspect of it is that due to salary cap restrictions the only thing that we may get out of the player aspect is that Sheffield will farm of some of their younger or reserve players to here to serve an apprenticeship. Could be good, could be bad, who knows. I do hope that we keep some independance when it comes to signing players.

the real benefit will come player-wise if sheffield make the epl

then there will some real quality in their "off-shoots"

And they actually stay up in the EPL for a couple of years, because i dont think 1 year for them in the epl will be enough for them to have many "off shoots" that may be loaned out

 

[Blair]

Now we should get more players over here.

 

[Kareem]

I don't think you would be that far of the mark in saying the Central Coast Blades. If history is anything to go buy if McCabe takes a substantial financial stake in the club it could very well be "rebranded" to be called just that.

I think that one unfortunate aspect of it is that due to salary cap restrictions the only thing that we may get out of the player aspect is that Sheffield will farm of some of their younger or reserve players to here to serve an apprenticeship. Could be good, could be bad, who knows. I do hope that we keep some independance when it comes to signing players.

the real benefit will come player-wise if sheffield make the epl

then there will some real quality in their "off-shoots"

+1
I have been saying this for the past year...
In the championship- who will go up? thread!
It's pretty common sense IMHO- sure there a few other teams I may have previously takena  fancy to....but for the selfish benefit of our club - GO SHEFFIELD UNITED!
The more Travis's we can get the better!

 

[Bear]

"In the UK, we are known as the family club, and as such we were immediately drawn to the club that has those same views and ideals in Australia - the Mariners," said McCabe.

 

[Sacko]

Central coast Blades it is then

Will Sacko hand in his season ticket ?  ;D

No - as I only renewed yesterday!

For the reasons documented else where I don't like the bloke and think he is a sore loser (on that basis perhaps he could be the next captain of the Australian cricket team!), but maybe CCM need somebody like him with a bit of mongral in the boardroom to freashen the place up from the top down.

HOWEVER, having seen how the soul was ripped out of Spirit with the hun came in (1st season a seat on the board - the following season a full take over!) I hope that lessons have been learned...

 

[Sacko]

"In the UK, we are known as the family club, and as such we were immediately drawn to the club that has those same views and ideals in Australia - the Mariners," said McCabe.

I've only seen them referred to a sour northerners!