The Greatest Little Club on Earth - Mariners doco 2024

[Spacks]

The one positive was getting an a-league sized pitch from $28,000pa down to $1 for 10 years.

 

[montywoodpeg]

Was talking to my dad about this doco the other day, and thought about how I might want to reminisce about the success of those two seasons in the future. I realised I wouldn't really think to load up this doco to experience the emotions once more. I'd bring up replays of the finals on youtube instead.

As has been noted by many, this was a success story for Peil, overall. He can use this for self promotion and to get his foot in the door with bigger clubs (I'm thinking other codes) as a guy who brings success.

Again, I didn't need an extended sequence of him mountain biking, having vaguely relevant calls in his car, or discussing picking up speeding fines because he went to the wrong location for a meeting. That footage at the end of Peil walking away is burned into my mind, as I feel that was most likely recorded specifically for the moment, rather than how it's traditionally done in recontextualising a non-scripted moment.

I wanted to see how Mark Jackson was able to pick up the pieces from such a short turnaround, ingratiate himself with the squad and turn things around from such a poor start to winning it all.

I didn't dislike the whole feature, but I certainly felt it was a missed opportunity and is ultimately mostly forgettable. My expectations were sky high, admittedly, I was hoping for something I could watch in years to come that would cover all the the incredible highs and provide all of the context of the incredible achievement.

 

[turbo]

I didn't dislike the whole feature, but I certainly felt it was a missed opportunity and is ultimately mostly forgettable.

I'm about half hour in and he never felt far off being on screen or at least providing a voice over. A rough watch at least early and certainly no Sunderland til I die or Welcome to Wrexham.