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Peter Storrie Podcast Interview.

Yellow Army Podcast

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Hey guys and gals.

We will be interviewing Peter Storrie on the Yellow Army Podcast on the 5th of April.
If you have any questions you'd like us to ask him, just paste them here and we will put them on our list.

The Charlesworth interview was quite a success so hopefully this one will be as well.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Regards
Podcast Team.
 

Wombat

Well-Known Member
Dear Peter,
Are we going to have a better balanced squad next year and have we learnt from the mistakes of this year?
Cheers
Wombat
 

FFC Mariner

Well-Known Member
Dear Peter

Perth and Newcastle (to a lesser extent Adelaide) have shown improvement over the season. Our squads performance has gone backwards.

Ignoring relative ability of players you would expect a side to be more cohesive and show improvement from where they started. Ours hasnt.

Will you be looking to appoint a coaching team capable of organising a side and making them better?
 

pjennings

Well-Known Member
At various times in the last couple of weeks we have been told:-

• that we will once again be operating at the salary cap floor
• that we are open to marquees
• that we have three times the amount to spend as last season
• that we are cashed up and are looking at experienced players for the youngsters to learn off.

While these comments may all be true, on the face of it they are contradictory and confusing.

Can you clear it up:-

1. Will we be operating at the salary cap floor again?
2. What sort of squad budget are we looking at?
3. How does that compare with this season?
4. What is involved in moving towards a model that makes the Mariners a sustainable club 'IN the Coast'?
5. What about marquees?
 

Atomic

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Please ask him to elaborate on what benefits have come from the Everton link; what have either party got from it to date and what tangible benefits are anticipated from it in the future?
Also, is there any relationship between us and Sheffield Utd any more? Same questions as above...

Ask him his opinion on community engagement particularly his thoughts on Lawrie and his recent Facebook rebuttal to TW's comments. Does he accept that TW's comments were disrespectful to the Lawrie era?
 

pjennings

Well-Known Member
On a similar note and in the words of Q and As Tony Jones "I'll think I will take that as a comment"

At the recent opening of the new building at Tuggerah the COE was talked about as Michael Charlesworth's vision. It was Lyall Gorman's et al vision, and one that Peter Turnbull bought into on his arrival. All kudos should go to Michael for not only getting on board with the vision, but also sinking money into it and starting to deliver on the vision. I think the club needs to acknowledge the great foundation put in by Lyall and Lawrie in what was always said to be a 15 year plan while also showing where we are along the journey and how we deliver on the plan.

I would like to think that as a club we can celebrate previous managers, chairmen and players without erasing their contribution, even if that does not sit with the current management. That does not mean not making the point that we were living beyond what was sustainable when Arnie was manager. It means calling him out on that but also saying we got a Championship and a Premiership under him and that the selling in his watch that ensured that we got sell-on clauses in Maty and Trent's contracts. (Given that Michael Charlesworth was around at that time he may want to say where he thinks the kudos should go there - with the football manager or higher up the tree). It also means acknowledging that this is not the first time we have run extremely lean while also delivering on the pitch.

This is our history - players, managers, chairmen have all come and gone - the club remains. We need to build on our history - not tear it down - and ensure than we continue to have a club.
 

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