hasbeen
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Great pic Mr. Celery ... that's exactly what the women are like up there
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And all our goals scored at the southern end.call time. 14k if the weather holds. 3 zot .hutch to score the last
First half of a double blockbuster on Saturday, this one a matter of two clubs on the up, the other one is of two clubs heading down the toilet.
The Jets have 4 points out of 12 in the last month. Could easily have been 2 out of 12 or worse if the penalty against NTS was given. Hardly the stuff of a club ob the way up.
Fair point. But given their improved crowds and the fact that Adelaide Utd and Melbourne Victory are in worse shape, I'd argue that compared to last season definitely an upturn in fortunes.
And we've only seen a taste of what the Mariners will offer this season. Which is itself scary for opposing goalies!
I'm just over everyone getting excited about GVE. The year the Jets won everyone talked about their possession play. What they did was simply play it around at the back for a dozen passes, back to Covic or Milligan for a long ball to Sackwacker. He would either get the ball and score a route one goal or whinge and dive and get a penalty.
GVE was a lightweight, is a lightweight and will always be a lightweight.
Playing with ire: Mariner on course for derby abuse
Sebastian Hassett
December 9, 2011
Squadron target … John Hutchinson. Photo: Getty Images
HOW'S this for an even rivalry. Central Coast have played Newcastle 24 times, and the all-time head-to-head reads: Mariners 8, Jets 8, Drawn 8. You couldn't split them if you tried.
Such parity has ensured that the F3 derby - which proudly holds the title of being the A-League's original derby - remains one of the spiciest fixtures in the land. On Saturday night at Bluetongue Stadium, one side will edge ahead in the fight for local pride.
John Hutchinson knows a thing or two about what these matches mean. He's been there since the first clash, on September 4, 2005, a match that finished 1-1. Newcastle won the next game 1-0, before the Mariners, inspired by a brace from Hutchinson, won the last regular-season contest 4-1. They met again in the finals, where the Mariners scraped through by a single goal over a two-legged play-off. In the five years since, matters have remained on a knife edge.
''It's a special rivalry, it's got a lot of history and I love playing in these games,'' Hutchinson said yesterday. ''You try to prepare as you would for any other game, whether it be Wellington, Adelaide or Newcastle. But these matches are just massive because there's bragging rights on the line. That means a bit around here.
''You just want to win so much, not just for yourself and the team, but for the fans as much as anyone. They're the ones who walk around the streets and have to deal with Newcastle fans, so we want to win it for them.''
There's been more than a share of heroes and villains over the journey. Mariners fans still wonder how Joel Griffiths didn't get set off after punching a linesman's thigh; likewise how Danny Vukovic spent a small eternity on the sidelines for more innocuous touch of the referee's hand in the grand final. James Holland and Chris Payne are Gosford locals who've represented the wrong side; Stuart Musialik is now on the Mariners' books. Sash Petrovski has top-scored for both clubs.
But Hutchinson's relationship with Newcastle's fans goes beyond anything else. It's personal. They hate him. He loves being hated. And as far as theatre goes, it doesn't get any better when the two get up close. ''It's always fun and I think we need it in the A-League. Not many liked Kevin Muscat when he played and I reckon that was great,'' he said.
It's so heated that, at times, the Mariners have feared for Hutchinson's safety when he gets outside the white lines. ''A couple of times I've had some Newcastle fans come up to me in the car park and say some things, but I guess in that environment you can't really bite back, you just have to cop it,'' he said.
As a left-sided player, it always means Hutchinson spends at least 45 minutes on the Squadron's side. His stare-downs of the Jets' fans when taking a throw-in or free kick - and the abuse that gets returned - have developed legendary status.
A match with Brisbane Roar looms next week but the players clearly haven't given it half as much thought as the media, with Hutchinson conceeding he ''didn't even know we were playing them'', saying he was thinking only of the Jets' game this year.
''Hutchinson has this mentality of what I call the 'Mariners spirit'. When the other players see him doing what he's does, it urges the others on. He lifts the whole team,'' coach Graham Arnold said. ''I'm pleased he's back from China, he adds a lot of experience.''
That experience in China has served Hutchinson well. He played under ex-Mariners boss Lawrie McKinna at Chengdu Blades and played his way into form, despite finding the cultural experience a bit challenging at times. ''We had a cook at the club who wasn't too bad, but there'd be times when you'd have no choice but to go for rice with soy sauce,'' he said. ''I was getting more adventurous by the end, but for my last meal - look, I don't know what it was, but I couldn't touch it. It's unlike anything else, because China is China. It's like nowhere else.
''Well, except maybe Newcastle.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-league/playing-with-ire-mariner-on-course-for-derby-abuse-20111208-1ola1.html#ixzz1fyQsESE1
Been trolling the bogans on related fb pages all week. Typical Scum fan post goes something like this:
'Lol Marines are chokkrs, at lest we 1 the Grand Final so f**k off gypos! Costies r all gay wit der inbred sisters neway! FORZA NEWIE OLE OLE OLE!'
Hitting back with some basic facts is way too easy. And too much fun. Kind of like picking on a mentally retarded person who thinks they're smarter than you. I also find it somewhat amusing that their fans can spell words like 'Squadron Novocastria' yet struggle even at 2nd grade English.