Rowdy
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I think CCM approaching the 'cruise companies' may yield an outcome more so than the navy. Maybe not straight away, but 'food for thought' for the P&O's and Co. with their future marketing $$$'s
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Turbulence (then calm sailing, then turbulence) thread.
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I think CCM approaching the 'cruise companies' may yield an outcome more so than the navy. Maybe not straight away, but 'food for thought' for the P&O's and Co. with their future marketing $$$'s
dibo
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I don't agree, but I'm not going to labour the point.
That's largely because they haven't worked out their operations to stop burning out their crew. It's hard to recruit people to do a job that sometimes requires you work 22hr days underwater. I don't know that putting a logo on the Mariners would make a big difference.
Rowdy
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After much 'Nautical' banter in this thread 
, and the overlooked fact that we ARE the Central Coast Mariners , perhaps the title of "Rough or Stormy Seas" would be more, um.. befitting.
Like they say if the hat fits......then we should probably wear it
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"Turbulence" is more akin to the Scummer's, with their 'Suicide Pilot" previous owner & all.
Cue: "Midfielder" ???
, and the overlooked fact that we ARE the Central Coast Mariners , perhaps the title of "Rough or Stormy Seas" would be more, um.. befitting.Like they say if the hat fits......then we should probably wear it
."Turbulence" is more akin to the Scummer's, with their 'Suicide Pilot" previous owner & all.
Cue: "Midfielder" ???
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/mariners-make-pitch-permanent-nye-fixture
The NYE game is also about giving the local community what they want, with the fixture averaging crowds of 13,689 for the past four years before being dropped off the schedule for the first time ever last season.
“It should never have been forgotten,” Mielekamp told FourFourTwo.
The NYE game is also about giving the local community what they want, with the fixture averaging crowds of 13,689 for the past four years before being dropped off the schedule for the first time ever last season.
“It should never have been forgotten,” Mielekamp told FourFourTwo.
JoyfulPenguin
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Interesting, I definitely agree that we should have the New Year's Eve fixture (akin to how Heart (and now City) have always had the Christmas Eve fixture for the Melbourne derby). From a few sources over the years I've heard that all the clubs can make two "suggestions" (which are more than likely to be used by the FFA) towards the fixture every year. Stupid if the club didn't mention this fixture then and are a paying the price for it now...
JoyfulPenguin
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Apparently we may be playing a game in Dubbo next year...
http://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/3211009/has-dubbo-scored-with-mariners-bid/
http://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/3211009/has-dubbo-scored-with-mariners-bid/
MagpieMariner
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Potentially a trial match next year and a fair dinkum game the year after. That could be our community round. Interesting the comment about football being the major participation sport for junior males in the area. Be good if we can help that along in some way.
rbakersmith
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It's great to see some positive press for a change...
Central Coast Mariners firing on and off the pitch as A-League club begins rebuilding
October 30, 2015 8:07pm
Tom Smithies The Daily Telegraph
AT the Mariners, they’re quite used to reading the headlines of this week — club under pressure, poor crowds, speculation over its future. Their only surprise is that for once it wasn’t about them.
The furore over the future of Wellington has been the focus, with more than one commentator questioning why a club like Phoenix is under threat when others “like the Mariners” apparently need sorting first.
Yet on the day Sydney FC visit Gosford, one of the Central Coast’s biggest home games of the season, it’s an interesting time to put the spotlight on the home side.
Quietly, some important things have been underway on the Central Coast for some time. On the field, their almost kamikaze commitment to attack under Tony Walmsley has made them the best side to watch — or strictly speaking, theirs are the best games to watch, so bonkers is the imbalance between defence and attack at times.
The average age of Saturday’s likely starting XI is only 23, and old hands believe such abandon is unsustainable. Yet the club’s vice-chairman Peter Storrie — the former EPL managing director brought in to restructure the Mariners by owner Mike Charlesworth — insists there is absolutely no time limit on it. No matter how many losses, the only thing that matters is the commitment to entertain, to give the people of Gosford a reason to watch the games.
Off the field, in the club’s offices, things are rather more cautious and structured. According to Storrie, the club’s longstanding superannuation debts to players and staff have been cleared. Likewise debts to local businesses, with relationships mended along the way.
To say the club’s finances are strictly controlled would be to understate the case considerably. Storrie says the club budgets for what comes in and therefore what goes out. When a pre-season friendly with Sydney was switched from Gosford to Leichhardt, the first team almost couldn’t travel — as the game was a last-minute switch, there was no budget for a coach. Or rather, the money existed but it hadn’t been signed off.
In the end, a phone call to Storrie in London procured the green light to hire the necessary coach, but the point is that budgets are now set and kept to — all to the extent that Storrie insists the club is on track to break even within a year.
Some things, though, don’t cost much money but are the right thing to do. Appointed in May, CEO Shaun Mielekamp’s brief has been to re-engage the community and he has an old-school feel for what’s important. For the first time today a corporate box will be given over to the club’s former players.
The plan is that there will be plenty for them to watch. Storrie is adamant that there will be no stepping back from the mantra to attack and to entertain. It puts Walmsley in possibly a unique, results-proof position in world football, though there are some who can’t believe it will last.
Among those evidently has been goalkeeper Liam Reddy, in the midst of a club suspension for a variety of alleged offences — including, it’s claimed, disparaging the new philosophy, inside and outside the club. The players union says Reddy has been made a scapegoat for daring to challenge the new orthodoxy.
Certainly he wasn’t the only player dismayed by the facilities at a pre-season camp in Port Stephens, but Reddy was the one to post a photo on Instagram. The club’s view is that he has disrupted attempts to set a new direction; eventually it’s hard to see any outcome other than an agreed settlement for Reddy to leave.
It seems evident that other players don’t figure in Walmsley’s plans — and in footballing terms it’s not exactly unprecedented for players to become surplus to requirements. The test for the club is how that process is managed, and the manner which players with contracts are treated.
But that’s not an issue for this afternoon, when Sydney FC come to town, promising a slugfest of attacking football. It’s early days of a new dawn in Gosford, but it’s a lot of fun to watch this experiment unfold.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...588773793?sv=f13e0fa2b96548e6d4672dcdc601d195
Central Coast Mariners firing on and off the pitch as A-League club begins rebuilding
October 30, 2015 8:07pm
Tom Smithies The Daily Telegraph
AT the Mariners, they’re quite used to reading the headlines of this week — club under pressure, poor crowds, speculation over its future. Their only surprise is that for once it wasn’t about them.
The furore over the future of Wellington has been the focus, with more than one commentator questioning why a club like Phoenix is under threat when others “like the Mariners” apparently need sorting first.
Yet on the day Sydney FC visit Gosford, one of the Central Coast’s biggest home games of the season, it’s an interesting time to put the spotlight on the home side.
Quietly, some important things have been underway on the Central Coast for some time. On the field, their almost kamikaze commitment to attack under Tony Walmsley has made them the best side to watch — or strictly speaking, theirs are the best games to watch, so bonkers is the imbalance between defence and attack at times.
The average age of Saturday’s likely starting XI is only 23, and old hands believe such abandon is unsustainable. Yet the club’s vice-chairman Peter Storrie — the former EPL managing director brought in to restructure the Mariners by owner Mike Charlesworth — insists there is absolutely no time limit on it. No matter how many losses, the only thing that matters is the commitment to entertain, to give the people of Gosford a reason to watch the games.
Off the field, in the club’s offices, things are rather more cautious and structured. According to Storrie, the club’s longstanding superannuation debts to players and staff have been cleared. Likewise debts to local businesses, with relationships mended along the way.
To say the club’s finances are strictly controlled would be to understate the case considerably. Storrie says the club budgets for what comes in and therefore what goes out. When a pre-season friendly with Sydney was switched from Gosford to Leichhardt, the first team almost couldn’t travel — as the game was a last-minute switch, there was no budget for a coach. Or rather, the money existed but it hadn’t been signed off.
In the end, a phone call to Storrie in London procured the green light to hire the necessary coach, but the point is that budgets are now set and kept to — all to the extent that Storrie insists the club is on track to break even within a year.
Some things, though, don’t cost much money but are the right thing to do. Appointed in May, CEO Shaun Mielekamp’s brief has been to re-engage the community and he has an old-school feel for what’s important. For the first time today a corporate box will be given over to the club’s former players.
The plan is that there will be plenty for them to watch. Storrie is adamant that there will be no stepping back from the mantra to attack and to entertain. It puts Walmsley in possibly a unique, results-proof position in world football, though there are some who can’t believe it will last.
Among those evidently has been goalkeeper Liam Reddy, in the midst of a club suspension for a variety of alleged offences — including, it’s claimed, disparaging the new philosophy, inside and outside the club. The players union says Reddy has been made a scapegoat for daring to challenge the new orthodoxy.
Certainly he wasn’t the only player dismayed by the facilities at a pre-season camp in Port Stephens, but Reddy was the one to post a photo on Instagram. The club’s view is that he has disrupted attempts to set a new direction; eventually it’s hard to see any outcome other than an agreed settlement for Reddy to leave.
It seems evident that other players don’t figure in Walmsley’s plans — and in footballing terms it’s not exactly unprecedented for players to become surplus to requirements. The test for the club is how that process is managed, and the manner which players with contracts are treated.
But that’s not an issue for this afternoon, when Sydney FC come to town, promising a slugfest of attacking football. It’s early days of a new dawn in Gosford, but it’s a lot of fun to watch this experiment unfold.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...588773793?sv=f13e0fa2b96548e6d4672dcdc601d195
Any article describing our play as bonkers is worth a read.
They make having a budget sound revolutionary.
Paying the bills and the old debts. Go you good things.
Breaking even in a year without an away major sponsor.
Reddy. Mattresses cost extra, they are not in the budget. If you don't like it bring your own, if you don't like that you can go play for Poppa
They make having a budget sound revolutionary.
Paying the bills and the old debts. Go you good things.
Breaking even in a year without an away major sponsor.
Reddy. Mattresses cost extra, they are not in the budget. If you don't like it bring your own, if you don't like that you can go play for Poppa
FFC Mariner
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Running a football club like a proper business? Finally.
Shows how hiring one inept halfwit stoner can almost undo 9 years of work.
Shows how hiring one inept halfwit stoner can almost undo 9 years of work.
Ancient Mariner
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Maybe my memory is going with my old age but I vaguely remember reading much fear and loathing here when Charlesworth brought in Storrie.
Of course I may be mistaken.
Of course I may be mistaken.
MagpieMariner
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There certainly was some of that, but equally there were some who looked beyond Portsmouth and who were happy to have someone with many years EPL management experience. Then there were a number of those like me who'd never heard of Storrie before and therefore didn't have an opinion either way. Whatever the opinions were, very little to complain about so far.Maybe my memory is going with my old age but I vaguely remember reading much fear and loathing here when Charlesworth brought in Storrie.
Of course I may be mistaken.
VicMariner
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I was worried but he has done a good job so far it seems.
FFC Mariner
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No, you are right. Bringing in an alleged tax cheat who destroyed a club did make people nervous
Is this really happening again
http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/ce...er-unpaid-superannuation-20151215-glnt9y.html
http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/ce...er-unpaid-superannuation-20151215-glnt9y.html
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