Mariners Squad 2024/2025 ALM and ACL Elite

[Ancient Mariner]

I agree, this season will be a rebuilding year. A lot of players will fall by the wayside and hopefully we will uncover some hidden gems.
I am not expecting wonderful results but look forward to being pleasantly surprised.
The following season (25/26) should be the one we are looking to be seriously competitive, with becoming a force in 26/27.
I am sure there will be frustrations but if you can ride them it could be an interesting experience.

A lot in the future will depend on the how the ownership gets sorted at the end of RP's 3 year trial.

 

[Stuartmcateer]

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.

The main difference is that we still had vuka, kaltak, storm, max, niz and tulio from the starting 11 that beat city. Plus faz, hall, Steele and Theo were on the bench.

We still had our spine of GK, back 4, 3 mids and a forward (for half a season). That gives the new players a chance to bed in over time with some cover in case they don't hit the ground running.

We have lost that continuity this time around. The players we kept were bench or used in a job share role - kuol, edmo, paull, di pizzio, Theo even - with only tapp, kaltak, doka and storm as regular first choice.

Steele needs to shake the injury prone reputation he is starting to gather.

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

I don't think he's in any danger (and I haven't seen anyone calling for his head either).

 

[Corsair]

the catering was absolute rubbish. They will get half that at the next one.

I'd encourage you to complain about this formally via an email or it'll keep happening.

 

[Michael]

If Sainsbury has done his Pec, as has been insinuated, then he’s either ruptured something or torn it off the bone to be out for as long as some are insinuating.
I tore my pec in January and it was only 4-5weeks before I could play golf comfortably again.

 

[Corsair]

If Sainsbury has done his Pec, as has been insinuated, then he’s either ruptured something or torn it off the bone to be out for as long as some are insinuating.
I tore my pec in January and it was only 4-5weeks before I could play golf comfortably again.

Someone said they saw him in a sling at Erina yesterday

 

[Spacks]

Sainsbury snapped his shoulder will be out for the season.

 

[Ironbark]

Fkin great

 

[shipwreck]

Welllll f**k. What an epic fail, a professional athlete puts himself out for the season by doing weights at the gym.

How?

 

[turbo]

Welllll f**k. What an epic fail, a professional athlete puts himself out for the season by doing weights at the gym.

How?

I understand the need for strength work but wouldn’t have thought the boys would be doing the level of upper body work that would risk a significant injury. Unless he was going off the program / showing off / etc

 

[Meerkat]

Welllll f**k. What an epic fail, a professional athlete puts himself out for the season by doing weights at the gym.

How?

Either he wasn’t in good shape to start with or received zero qualified instruction.. That said, most people don’t have instruction at the gym and don’t break shoulders.
So what’s Plan B? Is this guy seriously on our only highly paid wage to sit in the stands?
I think it was @Wombat who said “this smells like the Chsrlesworth era”…. PTSD incoming 😩😫😫

 

[Stuartmcateer]

I understand the need for strength work but wouldn’t have thought the boys would be doing the level of upper body work that would risk a significant injury. Unless he was going off the program / showing off / etc

In the gym anything could happen. It could have been a pre existing weakness that doesn't show up on a regular screening or he could have been doing a different exercise and over balanced , the falling weight pulled his shoulder out.

Unless someone actually knows it's probably unhelpful to speculate.

 

[Wombat]

Would this have happened under Brice's watch?

 

[Spacks]

In the gym anything could happen. It could have been a pre existing weakness that doesn't show up on a regular screening or he could have been doing a different exercise and over balanced , the falling weight pulled his shoulder out.

Unless someone actually knows it's probably unhelpful to speculate.

All I know is that sainsbury sister plays football with my friends sister in Perth and I asked her what the story was, snapped it in the gym doing weights.

 

[shipwreck]

If this happened under the guidance and instruction of our new S and C coach, I'll be kinda pissed.

 

[pjennings]

Would this have happened under Bruce's watch?

Probably - but certainly not under Brice

 

[Corsair]

Would this have happened under Brice's watch?

Surely that would be a wrist injury?

 

[Wombat]

Surely that would be a wrist injury?

Ohh....very clever Mr Corsair.

 

[priorpeter]

My understanding is it’s not a season ender but looking like a few months. Pec, not shoulder.

 

[Ironbark]

Imagine how long he'd be out if he was a professional pecball player

 

[Ironbark]

I hope we have some kind of injury replacement cover. Jacko brought in Sains after trying a couple of our other CBs and found that we couldn't afford the vulnerability there with our inexperienced keeper/s needing protection behind them.
A fit and firing Sains and Kaltak would be a formidable defensive unit to give a young keeper time to develop.
There's a straight hole from midfield to goal if we have say Paull and Pav on at the same time, at least one of those positions needs quality experience in place.