Post by midfielder on Sept 21, 2007 20:58:34 GMT 10
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By Jesse Fink
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 12:53pm
Is it just me or has Central Coast Mariners not put a foot wrong this season? We could talk about the champagne football, the off-season backroom development, the club’s marvellous engagement with the local community. But what has impressed Half-Time Orange the most is their recruiting. While Sydney FC, their rivals down the F3, slavishly follow the Chelsea paradigm of buying the best they can get with so-far spectacularly underwhelming success, Mariners have adopted an altogether different philosophy: almost Portsmouth like.
Like Harry Redknapp’s Pompey, Lawrie McKinna has scraped up the leftovers from the butcher’s floor in the off-season and fashioned his team of offcuts into a formidable force. What on earth was Sydney thinking letting go of Sasho Petrovski, their top scorer for two seasons running? The man is combustible, a hot head as we saw with his falling out with Terry Butcher, but he scores goals. McKinna was smart enough to see that and snapped him up.
Now comes the remarkable news that the Scotsman has stitched up a six-week deal with Damian Mori, the A-League’s Walter Matthau to Petrovski’s George Burns, ostensibly as cover for the crocked Nik Mrdja and recovering Petrovski, but officially as a fill-in for defender Paul O’Grady. Mori, 36, has made something of a career in hit-and-run striking jobs, and he did it last season with great aplomb first with the Mariners (six goals from eight games) and Queensland Roar (eight goals from 16). Quite a return for an old fart.
McKinna, again, has come up trumps.
Meanwhile, Sydney FC, which appears to have been sold a dud in Brazilian Patrick de Silva and has playmaker Juninho on ice, has just had its second tilt at the signature of Socceroo John Aloisi, this time on a short-term deal, fall through.
Aloisi, we hear, was not prepared to uproot his family from Spain for the cameo, which strikes this writer as particularly odd given the player is clubless and his international future seemingly imperiled. I would have thought Aloisi would jump at the opportunity, but there you go.
It’s been a joke going around for weeks that Sydney should be signing Mori, but McKinna clearly wasn’t in on the gag.
Now, once again, the laughs really are coming at Sydney’s expense up Gosford way.
By Jesse Fink
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 12:53pm
Is it just me or has Central Coast Mariners not put a foot wrong this season? We could talk about the champagne football, the off-season backroom development, the club’s marvellous engagement with the local community. But what has impressed Half-Time Orange the most is their recruiting. While Sydney FC, their rivals down the F3, slavishly follow the Chelsea paradigm of buying the best they can get with so-far spectacularly underwhelming success, Mariners have adopted an altogether different philosophy: almost Portsmouth like.
Like Harry Redknapp’s Pompey, Lawrie McKinna has scraped up the leftovers from the butcher’s floor in the off-season and fashioned his team of offcuts into a formidable force. What on earth was Sydney thinking letting go of Sasho Petrovski, their top scorer for two seasons running? The man is combustible, a hot head as we saw with his falling out with Terry Butcher, but he scores goals. McKinna was smart enough to see that and snapped him up.
Now comes the remarkable news that the Scotsman has stitched up a six-week deal with Damian Mori, the A-League’s Walter Matthau to Petrovski’s George Burns, ostensibly as cover for the crocked Nik Mrdja and recovering Petrovski, but officially as a fill-in for defender Paul O’Grady. Mori, 36, has made something of a career in hit-and-run striking jobs, and he did it last season with great aplomb first with the Mariners (six goals from eight games) and Queensland Roar (eight goals from 16). Quite a return for an old fart.
McKinna, again, has come up trumps.
Meanwhile, Sydney FC, which appears to have been sold a dud in Brazilian Patrick de Silva and has playmaker Juninho on ice, has just had its second tilt at the signature of Socceroo John Aloisi, this time on a short-term deal, fall through.
Aloisi, we hear, was not prepared to uproot his family from Spain for the cameo, which strikes this writer as particularly odd given the player is clubless and his international future seemingly imperiled. I would have thought Aloisi would jump at the opportunity, but there you go.
It’s been a joke going around for weeks that Sydney should be signing Mori, but McKinna clearly wasn’t in on the gag.
Now, once again, the laughs really are coming at Sydney’s expense up Gosford way.
clearly Slater had nuthin to do with it.
;D