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I don't give a f**k how much money MC is losing, he obviously just doesn't want it here on the coast enough like those that have gone before him.
Think Everton's owner. He bleeds the club. He is the reason they work. Just like Lawrie & the owners of his tenure was for us.
MC doesn't understand the coast. He doesn't understand the club. He doesn't understand the family.
You mean those who financially f**ked the club to the point where if MC hadn't intervened we either would have collapsed by the end of last season, been taken over by the FFA or relocated to South Melbourne? Those who left our players without pay and started the fracture in the relationship with CCF and Council?
Don't get me wrong - I think Gorman and (to a lesser extent) Turnbull did some good things, and at the same time MC has made plenty of mistakes. But I'm sick and f**king tired of them being held on a pedestal and all of the club's troubles being pinned on MC. The rot in the club had well and truly set in by the time he came in.
It's no longer our club, it's his.
They wanted a Coast club, tried his plan of attack & it failed to the point that crowds have never recovered.
I don't think any reasonable fan would object to tapping into the North Sydney market as long as it is 2 games max a year. I was a Spirit fan back in the day before moving up the Coast (for the better!) so understand the connection to some degree. I can appreciate MC for the money he has put into the club but i think he has failed in uniting the club and the community over the last couple of years. There seems to be alot of angst with local football associations, council and a lack of presence in local schools. Surely we are better off getting the Central Coast community right first? I'm also concerned that he seems to have damaged relationships with key people (Lawrie, Singo, the council managers,Stadium management), possibly not been from the area he doesn't see this or just wants to do things his way? So yes, lets go after fans and sponsorship in North Sydney but not at the expense of our own neck of the woods.MC's plan of attack was/is to expand into Northern Sydney. As the successor club to the Spirit (don't forget the final Spirit backers were behind the Mariners being set up, and they're still shareholders) it's a not entirely unreasonable thing to do, particularly since we've always had links to the local FAs in the area.
I don't think you could compare that in any way to Gorman/Turnbull's idea of playing games in Canberra, a place where we have no historical ties at all and where their own NSL club failed due to poor crowds.
this is my key thinking in all of this...Surely we are better off getting the Central Coast community right first? ...So yes, lets go after fans and sponsorship in North Sydney but not at the expense of our own neck of the woods.
You mean those who financially f**ked the club to the point where if MC hadn't intervened we either would have collapsed by the end of last season, been taken over by the FFA or relocated to South Melbourne? Those who left our players without pay and started the fracture in the relationship with CCF and Council?
Don't get me wrong - I think Gorman and (to a lesser extent) Turnbull did some good things, and at the same time MC has made plenty of mistakes. But I'm sick and f**king tired of them being held on a pedestal and all of the club's troubles being pinned on MC. The rot in the club had well and truly set in by the time he came in.
MC's plan of attack was/is to expand into Northern Sydney. As the successor club to the Spirit (don't forget the final Spirit backers were behind the Mariners being set up, and they're still shareholders) it's a not entirely unreasonable thing to do, particularly since we've always had links to the local FAs in the area.
I don't think you could compare that in any way to Gorman/Turnbull's idea of playing games in Canberra, a place where we have no historical ties at all and where their own NSL club failed due to poor crowds.
She also noted that there is a definite push to call the club the 'Mariners' and not the 'Central Coast Mariners'.
Just out of curiosity, from which side? The Mariners or Northbridge?
From the Mariners. She said that the North Shore folk wouldn't support a team called CENTRAL COAST Mariners.