Mariners Squad 2024/2025 ALM and ACL Elite

[true believer]

Next Nizz is a huuuuuge call. still a very handy outlet in the middle of the park though and wouldn’t be surprised to see him feature at some point this season.
Brandtman will be a very handy number 10 as well.

brandtman's not ready for 90 yet . would be red carded within 3 games

 

[true believer]

Dylan Peraić-Cullen

Sasha Kuzevski ,Brian Kaltak, Diesel Herrington,Lucas Mauragis,

Mikael Doka ,Brad Tapp, scicluna, Vitor Feijão

kuol
Miguel Di Pizio

 

[Ironbark]

Not panic stations just yet, but in our 3 competitive games so far we seem to be really missing Nizzy and Maxy getting the ball, having a quick turn or shimmy and moving the ball forward quickly, at the moment it just seems a bit slow through the middle.

I reckon Steele will provide the go forward and Tapp/McAlmont to hold

 

[Corsair]

I reckon Steele will provide the go forward and Tapp/McAlmont to hold

I dunno he's more of a defensive mid

 

[Ironbark]

He just needs a nudge, deep down he wants to bust forward

 

[shipwreck]

Have we nailed any of the recruting this season?

Honest question

 

[Tevor]

Have we nailed any of the recruting this season?

Honest question

Too early to properly call it. It’s hard not to have concerns.

 

[Drew]

Have we nailed any of the recruting this season?

Honest question

This is where jacko has to earn his coin, yes he delivered us the treble, but that was also mostly a monty squad he inherited, and the start of this season is leaving a lot of us with these sort of questions. And he has to prove to us that he can recruit well to maintain success,
And so far it hasn’t looked good, but I trust Jacko to deliver and the team to come good.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

If Sains is out for a long time it might be time to shift Storm into a CB role.
The other person who impressed me in one game as a CB fill in was Steely.

 

[shipwreck]

Sains was a completely out of the blue signing, I was not expecting him at all.

Now to think he is out for the season, I'm really struggling to go back to the idea of Kaltak and Paull.

 

[Wombat]

Keep going…

Not the dreaded heartlidge??

 

[Wombat]

brandtman's not ready for 90 yet . would be red carded within 3 games

Saw him at training and i can see why he got started but he goes missing for massive periods in a game...even for the youth team. He is nowhere near a 10 for us....nor is Doka.
We smell like Charlesworth era again tbh.

 

[Corsair]

I keep forgetting about Diesel, I'd be giving him a run next to Kaltak. Paull will likely improve but it's his positioning for me that's the problem and that is very hard to teach. If you can't read the game and anticipate it's a big weakness and hard to overcome.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Keep going…

Hmm, gym injury to a key player before the start of the season.

New strength and conditioning team replacing one that kept the most of the players going through last seasons torrid events.

Not a great start.

 

[shipwreck]

I keep forgetting about Diesel, I'd be giving him a run next to Kaltak. Paull will likely improve but it's his positioning for me that's the problem and that is very hard to teach. If you can't read the game and anticipate it's a big weakness and hard to overcome.

Especially if you're slow af

 

[Stuartmcateer]

Paull will likely improve but it's his positioning for me that's the problem and that is very hard to teach. If you can't read the game and anticipate it's a big weakness and hard to overcome.

For me he looks like the kid who was big early and didn't need to learn to play. He wasn't quick but looked it because 2 of his steps were like 6 of a little striker so he could catch up easily and won everything in the air. Plus Sydney NPL teams play a very structured game with patterns and he seems to still be looking for those sometimes.

Strikers are the same. Big strong quick and score heaps of goals as a youth player running in behind but once everyone catches up they are ineffective (I'm thinking ruhs type player).

 

[marinermick]

For me he looks like the kid who was big early and didn't need to learn to play. He wasn't quick but looked it because 2 of his steps were like 6 of a little striker so he could catch up easily and won everything in the air. Plus Sydney NPL teams play a very structured game with patterns and he seems to still be looking for those sometimes.

Strikers are the same. Big strong quick and score heaps of goals as a youth player running in behind but once everyone catches up they are ineffective (I'm thinking ruhs type player).

Typical Australian youth product who benefitted from all the development opportunities because of his size and power. Has hit his limit because senior football requires more technique and tactical and positioning intelligence.

 

[Ironbark]

Just a reminder that it's very early days yet. It's hard to see how we don't suffer from losing Maxi, Niz and Vuka of course. However, I feel it is much too early to be deciding how we'll go.

Because,
we are still in preseason and have 2 losses to 2 premier teams of Asia. We weren't exactly routed by them either, and in our better playing phases even dominated.
Further, I would argue, in both games we started 3-4 players who will not be starting 11 this season.

As a preseason team, not match fit, not squad settled, and not fully gelled as a unit - we still have a way to go before we know what we really have here.

Last season we lost the first 4 games - 5 if you include our first AFC Cup game.

Keep in mind that at this point last season we had players who seemed like they might not cut it - people were demanding we deport Doka 6 or 7 games into the season, for example.

Concerns should be frankly discussed. I have several. Pessimism is a long way from being warranted though as it is early days and the concerns are not worse than they felt at the same point last season.
We then went on to 2 losses in 35 games and were deserved Treble winners.

Jacko has surely earnt at least some patience after what he has proven.

 

[Tevor]

Just a reminder that it's very early days yet. It's hard to see how we don't suffer from losing Maxi, Niz and Vuka of course. However, I feel it is much too early to be deciding how we'll go.

Because,
we are still in preseason and have 2 losses to 2 premier teams of Asia. We weren't exactly routed by them either, and in our better playing phases even dominated.
Further, I would argue, in both games we started 3-4 players who will not be staring 11 this season.

As a preseason team, not match fit, not squad settled, and not fully gelled as a unit - we still have a way to go before we know what we really have here.

Last season we lost the first 4 games - 5 if you include our first AFC Cup game.

Keep in mind that at this point last season we had players who seemed like they might not cut it - people were demanding we deport Doka 6 or 7 games into the season, for example.

Concerns should be frankly discussed. I have several. Pessimism is a long way from being warranted though as it is early days and the concerns are not worse than they felt last season.
We then went on to 2 losses in 35 games and were deserved Treble winners.

Jacko has surely earnt at least some patience after what he has proven.

I see a lot of A League teams being stronger this season which is interesting given the funding cuts. This is going to be a real test this year. 3,500 at an ACL game was pretty good IMO and we got well and truely done and the catering was absolute rubbish. They will get half that at the next one.

We have only scored one open play goal in the ACL and pretty much at 180 minutes and it was an individual worldy. I think there is plenty to be concerned about this season.

 

[Spacks]

If we don't get to the top 6 by next season I'll be concerned. I got no problem with a rebuild, it's necessary after our success in the last two seasons.