The Greatest Little Club on Earth - Mariners doco 2024

[Michael]

f**k, the part when Shaun left was emotional to watch. That man is a monumental part of our footy clubs history.

 

[Wee-mac]

Great watch. Plenty of emotions, good and bad. I’m glad this period of our club is captured on film forever.

On a side note, if Harry Steele can push on and develop I can see him being a solid a-league player and future captain. You can see how proud of the club he is.

 

[Corsair]

Spine tingling, emotional, there may have been some tears.

 

[Robbiemariner]

2 hours 8 minutes of pure enjoyment (not to mention the emotional journey)
Thank you OnionTV

 

[Tevor]

Thoroughly enjoyed re living the last two seasons. Well put together and I’m sure even neutrals would enjoy it.

 

[ETw]

I was expecting, though not sure why, an A Leagues All Access style production.

Instead, I got:

• a beautiful advertisement for the Coast (just stunning and so many places shown)
• an insightful view into the Mariners organisation, from youth development, business operations, model, work ethic, challenges they have before and now, and successes all through the lens of club and football management
• a visual record / journey over the last two years of memories. Thanks
• a powerful reminder of my enjoyment of this community club

As long as this club is on the Coast (let's hope forever), I will support.

Just brilliant work I thought and will be talking it up for a while to friends and foes!

Do yourself a favour, watch it now. And if you don't have P+, subscribe for a month at least.

 

[ETw]

Huzzah! Went digging and found this...

The Greatest Little Club on Earth​

Tipping my Mariners hat to you in gratitude for starting this thread. Easily could have easily missed it.

 

[Wedgie]

Just finished watching it, absolutely loved it. I cried, I cheered, so many emotions!
Even though me and my son are the only born and bred South Australians that are Mariners fans I'll be pushing for any of my mates that love sports to watch that.
So stoked I got to Parra last year and the Coast this year for both Grand Finals, 2 of the best days of my life.
I've always hated Adelaide United but was a passionate Adelaide City fan from the late 70s through to the mid 90s. I got to see Adelaide City win 2 Gfs in Melbourne in the early 90s which was awesome, but I can honestly say that even if Adelaide City did make it to the A League I'd still remain a passionate Mariners fan.
A very special club in our nation which I will forever love.

PS Great to see the pod cast guys in it briefly! Love the pods and they always are up for a chat when they come down here.

 

[Huddo]

I'm in the UK, anyone know how I can watch it?

 

[Ads]

The Rich Peil mountain bike shots. lol
And lots of shots of the Anytime fitness T-shirt.

But otherwise awesome, awesome, awesome.
Great to re-live and great for the club.

 

[BrisRecky]

great GREAT doco ... great to see the poddy boys get their heads on the show and JImmy and eggy getting a cameo as well, hell, was even nice to see Charlesworth fleetingly.....told the story of the trophy wins very nicely and ...yeh, great doco .... dont know why Piel was in every second scene though, in the scheme of things he was only a blip on the radar

 

[Tevor]

If I could wish for a little extra it would be the AFC Cup, if a neutral watched it I don’t think they would appreciate how hard it was to win that tournament as well as the Prem and Champs. Just had to be few minutes showing how many countries and times they flew around the world. The footage of the final in Oman was hard to see anything. The rest was done very well and a great advertisement for the club and region. Let’s hope someone with deep pockets watches it and wants to be a share holder.

 

[bikinigirl]

If I could wish for a little extra it would be the AFC Cup, if a neutral watched it I don’t think they would appreciate how hard it was to win that tournament as well as the Prem and Champs. Just had to be few minutes showing how many countries and times they flew around the world. The footage of the final in Oman was hard to see anything.

. agreed - but obviously a cost/time issue ... difficult for onion to resource and the AFC probably owns all the on-field footage

 

[bikinigirl]

. question for the next pod ... who can carry more flags: Brian or Brian?

 

[ETw]

The Rich Peil mountain bike shots. lol
And lots of shots of the Anytime fitness T-shirt.

But otherwise awesome, awesome, awesome.
Great to re-live and great for the club.

It was curious. I was half wondering if that might be a prelude/early promo to a new venture in the making (or bubbling away): "Anytime Biking Bouddi"™️

Maybe I missed it, and appreciate it was not the show's overall theme, but was winning a Treble ever explained?

 

[Archie]

Maybe I missed it, and appreciate it was not the show's overall theme, but was winning a Treble ever explained?

It was mentioned a few times

 

[Spacks]

It was good it but it kinda felt like a bunch of trailers put together and I was waiting for something similar to the til I die series about sunderland to start. We still don't know shit about the total revenue we made from those transfers in the past two seasons. I'm fairly underwhelmed if I'm being completely honest.

 

[Tevor]

. agreed - but obviously a cost/time issue ... difficult for onion to resource and the AFC probably owns all the on-field footage

That clearly is the case with the footage of the final in Oman. All I’m suggesting is showing a map of the countries we played, how many mid week games we endured etc. puts a whole new perspective on the double.

We all know what it took but a neutral watching the doco may not even realise we played in an intercontinental cup.

Like I said I wish it showed more and I’m not being critical of it as it was great.

 

[Tevor]

It was good it but it kinda felt like a bunch of trailers put together and I was waiting for something similar to the til I die series about sunderland to start. We still don't know shit about the total revenue we made from those transfers in the past two seasons. I'm fairly underwhelmed if I'm being completely honest.

I’m getting the feeling you have an unhealthy obsession with transfer fees and the clubs revenue. I think they actually divulged more than I thought they would. They mentioned Silvera’s transfer of $900k, Tulio getting 40% of his transfer, there was the part when we needed $8m of revenue to run the club but were only at $6.2m. Not sure an accounting doco would be all that interesting.

I hope a lot of non members watch it, they may then appreciate how important every filled seat at a game is to this club and don’t just turn up to the big show and whinge how hard it was to get tickets. Didn’t hold back on the Coast population being fickle supporters which I liked. I don’t live on the coast and support the club more than most people that do.

 

[Spacks]

I’m getting the feeling you have an unhealthy obsession with transfer fees and the clubs revenue. I think they actually divulged more than I thought they would. They mentioned Silvera’s transfer of $900k, Tulio getting 40% of his transfer, there was the part when we needed $8m of revenue to run the club but were only at $6.2m. Not sure an accounting doco would be all that interesting.

Nah it's not unhealthy I'm on the spectrum so I just see things differently to you.