Mariners Squad - 2019-2020

[priorpeter]

Fox has been announced

 

[turbo]

Nice. If he’s fit you’d think he’s in with a shot to play FFA cup next week. Anyone seen him training/trialling?

 

[Ozhammer]

Nice. If he’s fit you’d think he’s in with a shot to play FFA cup next week. Anyone seen him training/trialling?

THIS

I think the situation with GG and Tongyik has forced this signing in truth. The backline is young and WILL make mistakes but it Staj backs them AND educates them properly, they could become a solid, cohesive unit.

I am hoping that the next signing is a visa CF, as we really do need a reliable goal scorer and that’s coming from a fully paid-up member of the defender’s union.

 

[pjennings]

He has a post on twitter in the middle of June saying he was building up to match fitness so he has been training for at least 2 months since being injured.

 

[Rowdy]

Does Fox take up a Visa spot ??
(Northern Ireland born Kiwi)

 

[localpom]

Fox has been announced

Good age. What i like is that we have a nice core of very good young to youngish players that could serve us well for 3 or 4 seasons. The trick is to bring in the right experienced players to mentor and help develop them.

 

[scoober]

Does Fox take up a Visa spot ??
(Northern Ireland born Kiwi)

He was only in new zealand two years with the phoenix, before that NSW PL

 

[Corsair]

Wikipedia has him as Northern Ireland born Australian.

Maybe Mark Markovitz the Marvelous Marksman is still on the cards!!

 

[Rowdy]

FOX IN THE BOX TO MARINERS:


Central Coast Mariners have signed former Wellington Phoenix defender Dylan Fox on a one year deal, the club confirmed today.

Having played 39 games with Phoenix, Fox’s football journey most recently took him to South Korea where he joined FC Anyang.

A defender or defensive midfielder, Fox was a standout at the ‘Nix where he earned Players’ Player honours in the 2017/18 season and was runner-up to Roy Krishna for the club’s Player of the Year award.

After meeting his new Mariners teammates at training for the first time, Fox today said he was excited to get going under coach Alen Stajcic.

“The Mariners are a team I’ve watched from afar, a club I really want to play a major role in their success,” Fox said.

“After speaking with Alen and hearing his vision for the club, it was very inspiring and could see immediately that it was something I wanted to be involved with.

“Alen’s vision for the club going forward, I could tell he really cares about the club, and my first impressions are that he is a coach that the players will give 110% for – in every session – every game.”

Stajcic welcomed Fox to the Mariners and added: “We’re delighted to sign Dylan who is a great addition to our squad, adding depth to our backline and flexibility in our holding midfield roles.

“With four A-League seasons to his name and one where he was voted by his peers as the Players’ Player, we have a defender who has proven success.

“The signing of Dylan continues to build good competition for places across our squad and we look forward to seeing him in action for the Mariners.”

 

[Rowdy]

Personally think we needed to sign a more experienced CB.

In spite of & due to Fox's signing

...... there surely HAS TO BE more $$$'s still available for a quality CF.

 

[midfielder]

Is he a visa signing ...

 

[sydmariner]

Does Fox take up a Visa spot ??
(Northern Ireland born Kiwi)

No he’s actually Australian
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dylan-fox/profil/spieler/401855

 

[midfielder]

Guess we are one player away from our squad ...

Lets assume a striker of some quality and if so we should have a reasonable season...

 

[Ironbark]

I guess the deciding factor for me is based around our midfield recruiting.

We have an excellent creative DM in Kim. Add in Oar, DDS and Duric towards the front. For me thats easily the most complete midfield we have had for years. Good control of the midfield should reduce the oppositions effectiveness compared to last year. Birraz will also save more than Kennedy.

It will be a terrible waste of talent and cap space if that midfield group is feeding Matty.

A decent midfield takes pressure off the defence thankfully

 

[midfielder]

A decent midfield takes pressure off the defence thankfully

very very very true

 

[Michael]

I spoke to McBreen a while back who told me that in the first 3 months under Arnie they ONLY worked on defence and defensive structures and duties. During that time he basically said the attackers had free reign to explore in play and try things. The effect was the attackers got to play to their strengths and we're creative not having too many limitations. Except in their defensive duties. He said Arnie was unrelenting on that and made it clear players would not be in the first 11 if they did not do their job defensively.
After that Arnie moved into the attacking side of the work. Macca and PatrickZ have both been forthright in conversation that Arnie was hands down the best coach they'd worked under.

Yep
Played under brad porter and kwas for 4 years and the knowledge they took from Arnie and fed through to us at grass root senior level was mind blowing for all of us. We also spent 95% of our first season with them working on defensive structure.

 

[Ironbark]

 

[Michael]

Fox has been announced

Happy to take the wait and see approach with him. Never took much notice of him at the nix, but I never take much notice of that club in general to be fair. Would’ve preferred a quality visa CB, but Staj is taking the cup seriously and perhaps the CB injuries did influence this signing...
Wouldn’t mind seeing Stensness signed as Ziggys back up and I think hatch will play back up to Clisby this season which I like a lot.
Will probably be a CB duo of Fox/Miller or Ziggy for the cup next week.

 

[BrisRecky]

Fair enough, as long as his compos mentis and intact

 

[midfielder]

Run on squad is looking quite strong with players for specific positions not a team of DM's ..

Add a quality striker and we will be very competitive...