Scum in turmoil

[LFCMariners]

Ha, yes, after playing Adelaide who are dreadful, Sydney who have been playing quite average of late (and hopefully will continue to!) and Gold Coast, who we've established rival the Mariners for being the Wigan of the A-League. 3 games does not a season make. I would be very surprised if the Scum are in the same position come the end of the season.

 

[MagpieMariner]

Legitimate title-contenders 

at least in the eyes of Con Constantine.............

Any company stupid enough to take him at face value without checking wont make enough money to be able to sponsor them.

How are we behind the scum?

Because they're winning matches and we ain't.

 

[mariners4ever]

next few weeks will be vital for the scummers with their "marquee" player out for the season, no sackwacker, no bridges, and this week kanta is suspended

 

[FFC Mariner]

Sackwhack still trying like mad to get out

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/mariners-link-in-jeopardy-after-sister-clubs-implicated-in-matchfixing-20100101-llrd.html

Reluctant Jet Joel Griffiths was last night poised to defy a club directive to return to training today, Josh Leeson reports. Griffiths is in Sydney after returning from his loan stint with Beijing Guoan, with the Chinese club and the Jets still gridlocked over the future of the player, who is contracted to Newcastle for a further two seasons.

Griffiths has previously said he wants to return to the Chinese Super League in order to push his claims for Socceroos World Cup selection.

 

[Arabmariner]

Sackwhack still trying like mad to get out

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/mariners-link-in-jeopardy-after-sister-clubs-implicated-in-matchfixing-20100101-llrd.html

Reluctant Jet Joel Griffiths was last night poised to defy a club directive to return to training today, Josh Leeson reports. Griffiths is in Sydney after returning from his loan stint with Beijing Guoan, with the Chinese club and the Jets still gridlocked over the future of the player, who is contracted to Newcastle for a further two seasons.

Griffiths has previously said he wants to return to the Chinese Super League in order to push his claims for Socceroos World Cup selection.

None of that really matters anyway.

(He's on the death list)................

 

[FFC Mariner]

As is Con........

 

[Arabmariner]

As is Con........

Could be a good year 2010..................

 

[MagpieMariner]

Maybe we should make an offer for him. Can't stand the bugger but at least he knows how to hit the inside of the net. We don't have anybody else who can.

 

[FFC Mariner]

In happier news today..............

(memo to Con. When you have 2 brothers at the club try not to shit on one of them as you upset the other one - tool)

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-league/stayaway-striker-joel-in-limbo-as-beijing-talks-stall-20100103-lnea.html

Culina said he would still welcome Griffiths back at the club but said he no longer believed it would happen. ''He's contracted and obligated to come,'' Culina said. ''The club sent him a letter and we'd like him to come, but he's chosen not to. What more can you do? I really don't know what's going to happen but the chances of him staying at Newcastle now seem pretty remote.''

 

[marinermick]

Griffiths turns to Valium

The Newcastle Jets have been accused of "messing with the mind" of Joel Griffiths, with the disaffected striker turning to anxiety-reducing drug Valium, as his bitter dispute with the club over his planned move to Beijing Guoan escalates.

An FFA-appointed independent arbitration panel will rule on Thursday whether the former Johnny Warren Medallist should be allowed to join the Chinese champions for $350,000 or remain at a club where his position has become increasingly untenable.

The decision, which could come as early as Thursday, is set against the backdrop of revelations from the 30-year-olds agent John Denison that Griffiths is on prescription medication to alleviate his anxiety over the Jets apparent about-face on a written agreement to allow him to cut ties and sign for the club where he spent last season on loan.

No player should be forced into this situation. It should never come to this," Denison told The World Game. "Joel is eaten up at the moment with stress and worry and hes on Valium just to calm him down because the club have effectively been messing with his mind.

You wonder whether they are trying to break him down bit by bit. Hes had problems sleeping and is just struggling with the whole issue.

Denison is hoping that a letter from the Jets to Beijing penned on December 17 agreeing to release him for $350,000 without any conditions will be the determinating factor, with the Jets countering that they never agreed to sell him for that sum and that he must stay until the end of the A-League season. But the agent admits it is touch and go.

Griffiths, who declined to return to training on January 1 as the row escalated, must be registered with Beijing by January 11 to be available for their loommg Asian Champions League campaign.

"There is a deadline with them and they are already looking for other strikers," Denison said. "Joel made a big impression when he was there on loan last season.

"But the way things have evolved they are now ready to pull the pin on the whole thing unless Joel is given a release and Newcastle honour their written pledge to sell him now, rather than later.

"Were excepting a decision quite quickly this needs to be sorted out as quickly as possible for all concerned.

"Joel just wants to go back to China but you wonder what Newcastles motives are when they continually seem to change the goalposts."

With relations between Jets boss Con Constantine and Griffiths at an all-time low, Denison questioned whether he would be "mentally right" to offer anything tangible to the club, even if instructed to return to Energy Australia Stadium and fulfil his contractual obligations by the arbiter.

"You have to ask what use would he be to them," Denison added. "Joel hasnt kicked a ball since late October."

Griffiths has three games left on a seven-match ban from China and wouldnt be available until the last four rounds of the competition.

 

[Sym]

when the comp has Dyron Daal..who gives a flip about this twat !? : )

 

[FFC Mariner]

So he is the new Andrew Johns after all lol

Pack of arseholes deserve each other

 

[dibo]

Hasn't been caught doing lines at Fanny's. Yet.

 

[Sean]

Bridges out with season-ending injury

 

[FFC Mariner]

Likely to be 1 game though Sean lolololol

Although I do hope they beat Fold Coast before getting bent over by the Kiwi's or Perth

 

[Blackadder]

Hasn't been caught doing lines at Fanny's. Yet.

Only a matter of time

 

[midfielder]

Jets fans writes an open letter to Con .. published on the Roar today...

http://www.theroar.com.au/2010/03/09/an-open-letter-to-jets-boss-con-constantine/

 

[FFC Mariner]

Not nearly abusive enough for mine

 

[marinermick]

Jets fans writes an open letter to Con .. published on the Roar today...

http://www.theroar.com.au/2010/03/09/an-open-letter-to-jets-boss-con-constantine/

lol, first reply is "wayne from windale"

surely a pisstake!!

 

[dru]

Jets fans writes an open letter to Con .. published on the Roar today...

http://www.theroar.com.au/2010/03/09/an-open-letter-to-jets-boss-con-constantine/

lol, first reply is "wayne from windale"

surely a pisstake!!

Would like to think so, hopefully someone from the radio station. Also nice to see David V turning up close to the coast again as well