Mariners Squad - 2019-2020

[Forum Phoenix]

I’ve long been pissed with what’s seemed to be Australian fixation on athlete vs technical creative and intelligent players. That said, I don’t think a fast 20 year old from the NT setup is the same as a mega star sprint champion who wants to play football.

Staj has proven he’s not stupid. If he can continue to develop Majok, who has some great attributes and get him over his flaws, he could in time prove a good signing.

But for now all I’m focused on is visa players, spine and having a true starting 11. Not development or squad players like Majok.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

I can not see the reasoning behind this decision.... ...Only explanations is we are already starting to panic based on the interest we have had in the club.

I don’t think this is the only explanation.

Staj and others may rate him and or as you say believe they can adequately develop him - which is the most Occam like answer.

I heard plenty of people put shit on Mabil too. And Krishna for that matter.

With our needs I don’t think we should be excited by anyone who’s not bonafied awesome. But he’s still a perfectly reasonable development player signing imo. And as a general rule, I think every young signing deserves a decent amount of positivity from their new fans.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

I watched him a bit on Saturday because of our supposed interest (still just rumours - especially since Rallis is the basis of most Covert Agent articles). He is big and reasonably quick and gets into good positions. However, his touch on the ball is very patchy, good at times, terrible at other times. He snatched at a huge chance that could have made us very nervous if he hit the target. Squaddie at best - but we need to do better.

Agree for the most part PJ, however we watch strikers snatch at and miss chances every week in the top leagues.

Personally I think there’s an important difference between squaddie signings and development signings. I think he’s the latter and we should view him as such.

We’re talking about potential, and so much of ‘potential’ for young players is decided by mentality imo.

So I’m wondering what’s his mentality like...

If he’s mentally tough and driven he could be a fantastic player in 3-4 years. Whereas how many talented kids do you see plateau and never go anywhere close to their mooted potential, all because of their mentality.

I don’t want another Appiah, but I’m very interested to see how Staj can take a young player like this and develop him because I quietly suspect this may be one of Staj’s real skills given his background.

A lot of elitist ex Roos seem to be very poor at nurturing young talent and seem more comfortable looking down their noses at it. I think someone like Staj will be very different.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

I watched him a bit on Saturday because of our supposed interest (still just rumours - especially since Rallis is the basis of most Covert Agent articles). He is big and reasonably quick and gets into good positions. However, his touch on the ball is very patchy, good at times, terrible at other times. He snatched at a huge chance that could have made us very nervous if he hit the target. Squaddie at best - but we need to do better.

If we judged Kwassie on one game, and saw him on a bad day, none of us would have wanted him.

Yet he is now a club legend.

 

[midfielder]

Pondejak
Perez
Amini
Rogic
Plus you could argue Bozanic

Once we had the best 10's in Hal... we need something in this class again with Tommy & Gem playing behind them...

 

[BrisRecky]

Wonder if his stats will improve next year

 

[pjennings]

Twins next year?

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Wonder if his stats will improve next year

Who's this? New signing for next year?

 

[Michael]

Ronny Vargas has been told yeah nah by the jets.
Time to rip open that couch pillow mike and throw them £££ at him.

They can have 5 Millars if we could get Vargas.

 

[turbo]

Twins next year?

I’d give you a funny react if the prospect of going from 1 to 3 kids in 2 years wasn’t so scary. 1 at a time is plenty of work. I respect Broxham so much more knowing he’s maintained a professional career after triplets.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

I’ve long been pissed with what’s seemed to be Australian fixation on athlete vs technical creative and intelligent players. That said, I don’t think a fast 20 year old from the NT setup is the same as a mega star sprint champion who wants to play football.

Staj has proven he’s not stupid. If he can continue to develop Majok, who has some great attributes and get him over his flaws, he could in time prove a good signing.

But for now all I’m focused on is visa players, spine and having a true starting 11. Not development or squad players like Majok.

On the top of athletic players....I always found it amazing just how often, even at local Premier League, all attackers do to get past the defender most of the time is kick it 20 yards upfield to themselves then try to outrun the defender. Pretty sure that's just the main Australian attack....

 

[BrisRecky]

Someone just pointed out on FB that he must of scored in the pre season...FAIR ENOUGH

 

[pjennings]

I guess we are a week away from some hard decisions... assuming we have our coach, then come next Monday, he will need to let a lot of players go, as will the three other teams not in the finals and within four weeks all sides will have to let go of those they don't want.
...
Let the signing begin...

I'm already looking forward to this - the season is over. I need something to be excited about. We used to go into seasons expecting top 4 as a minimum - recently it has been bottom 4 and hope to avoid the spoon. It's past time that we need to at least be able to go into a season knowing we have a team that can compete week in - week out.

 

[greenlig]

We used to go into seasons expecting top 4 as a minimum - recently it has been bottom 4 and hope to avoid the spoon.

Imagine contesting for a bottom 4 spot though. What a dream.

 

[Big Al]

Not sure who this bloke is but he might be alright

 

[MagpieMariner]

Not sure who this bloke is but he might be alright

If this guy is not re-signed, someone should be shot.

 

[BrisRecky]

Wonder if his stats will improve next year

Speaking of which, how has he managed to stay employed , by my reckoning his not done minute one of game time ...so testically his a bigger wage thief than fkn Hooley Dooley

 

[MagpieMariner]

Even Disco played a few games for us. This guy even leaves Nik behind.

 

[sydmariner]

https://www.change.org/p/central-coast-mariners-announce-hiariej-8b059776-82c9-49b3-b552-554306343f0d?recruiter=954643691&recruited_by_id=441718c0-675b-11e9-b7d9-65dc69da4795&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=triggered&share_bandit_exp=initial-15155944-en-AU&share_bandit_var=v1 sign it & share it

 

[pjennings]

Assuming that Alen gets the job and Phelan is no longer here then recruitment is up to him. Mulvey seemed to take immediate dislike to Tom. He has gone. I think we have to give him the the chance to pick his own squad. Hopefully that includes Tom