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Post by brett on Jun 15, 2005 16:47:42 GMT 10
Just had another cracking marinator experience. Went down to Wyoming's Alan Davidson oval for a kick to see if my old boots still fit, decided to wear the original Marinators tshirt just to fly the flag.
Met up with a few U14's who were having a kick before training and had some shots with them.
They all recognised the shirt and one of them was in the front of Bay 16 for the games. He started singing Celery ;D
Talked some soccer with them and told them about the upcoming charity shield, they love the idea of us getting stuck into the Sydney boys! If we can get the proper word out we can get so many people there!
Oh and while my shooting is rather rusty, my boots fit!
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Post by Ned on Jun 15, 2005 16:49:46 GMT 10
See you guys have the luxury of being in a small country town, so every1 knows about you...its fukin impossible to spread the word in sydney
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Post by brett on Jun 15, 2005 17:06:44 GMT 10
It's more to do with having the three games here Ned. We turned on the support and did it well. People recognise that. As seen by this extract from a Beauchamp interview at the clubs official site
"q. One of the great mysteries of the old NSL was how Parramatta Power were unable to draw crowds to Parramatta Stadium, now, at the Mariners, the support has been fantastic early on, how do you compare the support on the coast against what you experienced at Parramatta?
MB: To be honest, it doesn’t really compare. Even in our Grand Final at Parramatta Power, it was up there, but nothing compared to the crowd behind the goals – the Marinators – it was a buzz when you got out there, you could actually here them screaming and cheering for you and every good tackle or good pass the crowd went up. It’s definitely a change for the good, it’s just a buzz to be out there, the crowd definitely makes a difference."
After you have a few games and the Cove puts on a good show it'll be easier. If you build it they will come. You have 10 times the potential fanbase as us remember, so if we fill the stadium it means 10% of our population is in it. Give it time.
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Post by marinermick on Jun 15, 2005 17:29:19 GMT 10
See you guys have the luxury of being in a small country town, so every1 knows about you...its fukin impossible to spread the word in sydney oh whinge whinge whinge if you can't spread the word to many out of the 4 million people you have problems |
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Post by Fish on Jun 15, 2005 19:42:50 GMT 10
Hey this aint no country town.We are were we are because of the work of a group of blokes who want this to work and for that matter so does our CITY.I dont know a great deal about the goings on at SFC but ease up on the small town barbs.
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Post by MrCelery on Jun 15, 2005 20:19:42 GMT 10
Hey this aint no country town.We are were we are because of the work of a group of blokes who want this to work and for that matter so does our CITY.I dont know a great deal about the goings on at SFC but ease up on the small town barbs. Get real Fish! ;D Goulburn has more activity on a Saturday night than downtown Gosford. But that's it's charm. Don't get sucked into a pissing contest with Bling City - you'll lose - much to their delight. |
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Post by brett on Jun 16, 2005 0:31:00 GMT 10
OK Celery. Gosford: train station with some banks near it. But the central coast is big. It's big enough for an A-League team isn't it  |
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Post by Ursus on Jun 16, 2005 8:02:50 GMT 10
See you guys have the luxury of being in a small country town, so every1 knows about you...its fukin impossible to spread the word in sydney Amazing statement Nedstaaa, some of us Marinators are from Sydney and if you don't watch out we will pinch the entire North Shore Burn the brdge, Burn the........ |
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Post by Jeff (LouMacari) on Jun 16, 2005 10:29:23 GMT 10
So Nedstaaa, using that theory, what do you think Newcastles excuse is?
you guys have the biggest population out of all the A-League teams and your whinging about it?....f*** me!
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Post by omni on Jun 16, 2005 10:58:12 GMT 10
See you guys have the luxury of being in a small country town, so every1 knows about you...its fukin impossible to spread the word in sydney Oh bitch, bitch, bitch. FOUR MILLION PEOPLE!! At least one of them knows about you, I know plenty of Sydney FC fans, why don't you tell them! Everyone knows we exist because we know what we are doing, as opposed to Sydney that has shit fights with eachother (while being the best of the rest). Your team won, they should have the most support  And as a member of the council - Gosford is a CITY |
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Post by Ned on Jun 16, 2005 11:06:32 GMT 10
Bait taken!! lol |
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Post by marinermick on Jun 16, 2005 11:10:30 GMT 10
Bait taken!! lol there is no way you were baiting us that second post was serious |
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Post by omni on Jun 16, 2005 11:16:08 GMT 10
Just gives us more incentive to take you out on July 16 |
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Post by Ned on Jun 16, 2005 12:08:50 GMT 10
Bait taken!! lol there is no way you were baiting us that second post was serious No I was fishing at the start of the post...but then realised it is kind of true. Seriously, how easy has it been for you guys to get the news around the coast? Im not saying you havent been brilliant, i admire what you've done, im just saying its been easy for you guys to spread the word...hopefully we'll have the same when we start getting home games |
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Post by marinermick on Jun 16, 2005 12:18:18 GMT 10
there is no way you were baiting us that second post was serious No I was fishing at the start of the post...but then realised it is kind of true. Seriously, how easy has it been for you guys to get the news around the coast? Im not saying you havent been brilliant, i admire what you've done, im just saying its been easy for you guys to spread the word...hopefully we'll have the same when we start getting home games not as easy as you think in a rugby league city i'm not big noting myself but i had to use a vast array of media contacts that i have to get the publicity the marinators have got if we were a disorganised rabble we would have got bugger all exposure |
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Post by omni on Jun 16, 2005 12:35:03 GMT 10
The town still wants NRL and any RL carrot that is dangled will distract them what you saw at the CWQs was just the tip.
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Post by Jeff (LouMacari) on Jun 16, 2005 12:37:21 GMT 10
things like getting in the local papers (sydney has how many 'local' papers?) we only have 2!
getting a small group of marinators to go to the local ice hockey game, and mick and funky getting the gig on the local community radio stn, and god knows how many phone calls mick has made to various media outlets and ph interviews WT has donefor gods sake!....
yeh Ned, piece of cake easy mate! no effort at all.
and good idea to wait till the season starts son, its not like your team had say...
won the Australian leg of the CWC against all the other A-league teams or ...
Defeated the entire Oceania group of nations, or....
perhaps representing Australia in Japan against the likes of Liverpool etc.or...
have players in the socceroos vs one of the biggest football teams of all time,
nah, nothing to report there.
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Post by omni on Jun 16, 2005 12:40:09 GMT 10
Well done Lou!
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Post by brett on Jun 16, 2005 13:39:55 GMT 10
You also have to look at what is easy and what is hard.
The HARD part has been all the individual efforts and sacrifices that Lou touched on. Sydney haven't come near the hard part.
The EASY part of spreading the word to the people of the coast was, say, having a name!
So I'm not totally disagreeing when he says it was easy, some of it was. You couldn't even get past that hurdle though.
Now that you have finally done the EASY part(although I'd think about upgrading to Cove-inators just to add some interest) you can think about doing the HARD part.
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Post by Ursus on Jun 16, 2005 14:37:09 GMT 10
Ned, sorry you are right it will never be easy for you. 1) Sydney will be expected to win, it will be no big deal if they do. Look at the interest in the winners so far (ho hum.) If they don't win, shit will be trumps. 2) The established football fans following the Mariners are refugees from Spirit and The Breakers. They have no team to follow any more and will be rusted on from the word go. Sydney still has to deal with fans whose first loyalty is to Marconi, Olympic, the Cro's etc. The passion will not be there. 3) Sydney has money but not the heart that the Mariners will have. Ask anyone who watched the last 2 years of Spirit with Lawrie and Fergie managing (even with no money). We will have an exciting and passionate team. 4) Last but not least Sydney does not have Mick, Kevrenor, Lou, Tiger or Froggy (plus others) who have done the work to make it easy. If you want some good advice: Buy some yellow gear. Join the Central Coast Leagues club. Change your name. Make the trip up the expressway. It's easier than going to the football stadium. And have some fun |
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