National Youth League Fixtures and Mariners youth team discussion

[FFC Mariner]

Wonder when the club will bother to acknowledge the title win?
Making up a celebratory sudoku no doubt.

 

[Rising Sun]

Wonder when the club will bother to acknowledge the title win?
Making up a celebratory sudoku no doubt.

To be accurate your post should refer to titles (plural not singular) since we swept the board in the league one men's regular season - premiers in both grades (1st and 20s) and club championship winners.

At least it was mentioned on the match update tweets that we were premiers in 1st grade. Still a bit of a secret that the 20s wrapped up top spot last Tuesday

 

[FFC Mariner]

Last time the club were in the top flight it cost to get in - wonder if that applies next season?

 

[Rising Sun]

Wonder when the club will bother to acknowledge the title win?
Making up a celebratory sudoku no doubt.

They listened and delivered....

 

[FFC Mariner]

They listened and delivered....

So nearly 24 hours after the event - pathetic

 

[marinermick]

Goodbye Andrew Christensen and thank you for everything you have done at the academy.

Punted yesterday because a certain player was deservedly hooked from a 20s game.

 

[Meerkat]

Goodbye Andrew Christensen and thank you for everything you have done at the academy.

Punted yesterday because a certain player was deservedly hooked from a 20s game.

What???

 

[Rising Sun]

Goodbye Andrew Christensen and thank you for everything you have done at the academy.

Punted yesterday because a certain player was deservedly hooked from a 20s game.

Christensen doesn't even coach the 20s, why would he be punted?

Regardless of this, and jumping to conclusions about who it might be (that was hooked) that's a big red flag for me if its the full and accurate reason

 

[Big Dog]

Interesting reasoning. It is odd to me though that both the Coach and Assistant coach are cut from the squad and not invited to participate in the finals. Surely that wouldn't be conducive to a healthy squad?

 

[Wombat]

I presume it would be so that Luke Wilkshire can take over the helm? Seams pretty harsh on Christensen who didn't put a foot wrong results wise.

 

[FFC Mariner]

I presume it would be so that Luke Wilkshire can take over the helm? Seams pretty harsh on Christensen who didn't put a foot wrong results wise.

Good guess. That's my tip. Has coached at this level before and by all accounts is highly respected

 

[Ironbark]

This makes more sense than being fired for a substitution

 

[Ozhammer]

It still seems odd to me not to let the coach who has got the team to the finals to then not lead them through to the end.

 

[Rising Sun]

This makes more sense than being fired for a substitution

I don't think it does. Christenson was presumably on a season-to-season arrangement so you would just replace him at the end of the season, not punt him on the eve of the finals.

At the end of the day, the Academy's primary objective is to produce players for the AL; winning games or comps is secondary to this. So the coach should be ready to take direction at times from the football brains trust - Ken, Monty, Serge and Luke - who may be looking at the bigger picture rather than winning the next game.

However, I was at the 20s game on Sunday and have seen most of their home games this season, and if it is the player that I am assuming it is (and there is a clear and obvious candidate), then there is no way that it was a pure footballing decision that he started the game (ahead of a better player on the bench).

Still, Sunday's game was a dead rubber, so if the instruction to pick him was on the basis of just giving the player a bit more experience at that level in a dead rubber game, before reverting to merit based selection for the finals, then maybe Christenson should have just sucked it up. But if the same player is picked to start next week in the finals then that would be a concern for a variety reasons, including whether Monty would then be similarly instructed to pick the same player in the A-League in a year or two, regardless of whether it was merited.

 

[Ozhammer]

There will obviously be two sides to this issue, so it is probably best to see what information comes out over the coming weeks but the truth is that were always likely to be a number of changes to come out of the new owner’s plans for the club, so this may not be the last of those.

 

[style_cafe]

I don't think it does. Christenson was presumably on a season-to-season arrangement so you would just replace him at the end of the season, not punt him on the eve of the finals.

At the end of the day, the Academy's primary objective is to produce players for the AL; winning games or comps is secondary to this. So the coach should be ready to take direction at times from the football brains trust - Ken, Monty, Serge and Luke - who may be looking at the bigger picture rather than winning the next game.

However, I was at the 20s game on Sunday and have seen most of their home games this season, and if it is the player that I am assuming it is (and there is a clear and obvious candidate), then there is no way that it was a pure footballing decision that he started the game (ahead of a better player on the bench).

Still, Sunday's game was a dead rubber, so if the instruction to pick him was on the basis of just giving the player a bit more experience at that level in a dead rubber game, before reverting to merit based selection for the finals, then maybe Christenson should have just sucked it up. But if the same player is picked to start next week in the finals then that would be a concern for a variety reasons, including whether Monty would then be similarly instructed to pick the same player in the A-League in a year or two, regardless of whether it was merited.

Is that nepotism i can smell?...

 

[FFC Mariner]

If Christenson had another job lined up, walking him is fairly normal

 

[marinermick]

If Christenson had another job lined up, walking him is fairly normal

Going to WSW

 

[priorpeter]

If Christenson had another job lined up, walking him is fairly normal

Walking him on the eve of finals is not.
New gig had been lined up for a couple of months, since he was told his services would not be required next season. For a club that prides itself on promoting and developing young talent, punting the Academy coach - himself a young coach on the rise, who has just won you a premiership - is a pretty shit call tbh.

 

[AuzDutchy]

im assuming we're talking about Peil Junior, why are we not saying his name?