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	<title>Comments on: Merrick contract extension coincides with record loss</title>
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		<title>By: Gibbo</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-242878</link>
		<dc:creator>Gibbo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i believe its someway north, but it must be equal parts south... kinda in the centre...  definately on the coast though...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i believe its someway north, but it must be equal parts south&#8230; kinda in the centre&#8230;  definately on the coast though&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Gibbo</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-242870</link>
		<dc:creator>Gibbo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey, you got a win, congratulations and fair play to you.  my question was directed to your victim mentality as displayed through this whole &#039;no body rates us&#039; whinging.  No body rates you?  Well cry me river!  if you want respect try playing good football, get results and maybe win the thing a couple times out of four!!  

no body rates your victim mentality!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey, you got a win, congratulations and fair play to you.  my question was directed to your victim mentality as displayed through this whole &#8216;no body rates us&#8217; whinging.  No body rates you?  Well cry me river!  if you want respect try playing good football, get results and maybe win the thing a couple times out of four!!  </p>
<p>no body rates your victim mentality!</p>
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		<title>By: Midfielder</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-242595</link>
		<dc:creator>Midfielder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gibbo &amp; Pip

Sad sad sad.... you where owned by the better side ... 6-0 in two games .... 

Just for you guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ECe6JKMvQ</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gibbo &amp; Pip</p>
<p>Sad sad sad&#8230;. you where owned by the better side &#8230; 6-0 in two games &#8230;. </p>
<p>Just for you guys <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ECe6JKMvQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ECe6JKMvQ</a></p>
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		<title>By: Pippinu</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-242070</link>
		<dc:creator>Pippinu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If we were to pack up our bags - how exactly to you get to the central coast?  Where is it exactly?  Are you sure it&#039;s due North?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If we were to pack up our bags &#8211; how exactly to you get to the central coast?  Where is it exactly?  Are you sure it&#8217;s due North?</p>
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		<title>By: Pippinu</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-242068</link>
		<dc:creator>Pippinu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It was funny towards the end of the game, and they asked Ross Aloisi whether the 4 goal margin flattered CCM.

He said:  No, I don&#039;t think so.

Ah, shadduppa ya face!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was funny towards the end of the game, and they asked Ross Aloisi whether the 4 goal margin flattered CCM.</p>
<p>He said:  No, I don&#8217;t think so.</p>
<p>Ah, shadduppa ya face!!</p>
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		<title>By: Pippinu</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-242066</link>
		<dc:creator>Pippinu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well put Gibbo!!  And &quot;cheapies&quot; is an understatement!!  It was a night when things went from the ridiculous to the sublime.

We have scored the most goals in the league (22) but have conceded the most (22) - pretty much an incredibly situation for a team sitting second.

Clearly, there&#039;s only one option - put Mitch between the sticks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well put Gibbo!!  And &#8220;cheapies&#8221; is an understatement!!  It was a night when things went from the ridiculous to the sublime.</p>
<p>We have scored the most goals in the league (22) but have conceded the most (22) &#8211; pretty much an incredibly situation for a team sitting second.</p>
<p>Clearly, there&#8217;s only one option &#8211; put Mitch between the sticks.</p>
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		<title>By: Gibbo</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-242061</link>
		<dc:creator>Gibbo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>why do CCM have this victim mentality?  No body rates you?  what do you want?  Victory fans to suddenly pack up and head north cos you put a few cheapies passed us?

is glen moss the shortest keeper getting around?  That dude looks tiny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>why do CCM have this victim mentality?  No body rates you?  what do you want?  Victory fans to suddenly pack up and head north cos you put a few cheapies passed us?</p>
<p>is glen moss the shortest keeper getting around?  That dude looks tiny.</p>
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		<title>By: Pippinu</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-242023</link>
		<dc:creator>Pippinu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That 9 goal difference is an amazing number - will count for a lot at the end of the season one way or the other.

I don&#039;t describe teams as to whether they use a long ball or not.

I&#039;ll just say that they were four pretty @rsey goals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That 9 goal difference is an amazing number &#8211; will count for a lot at the end of the season one way or the other.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t describe teams as to whether they use a long ball or not.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll just say that they were four pretty @rsey goals.</p>
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		<title>By: Chop</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-242015</link>
		<dc:creator>Chop</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mid,

It&#039;s great that noone rates us, we&#039;ve got the best for and against +9 (maybe equal now with GCU) and the best defence. Let supporters of every team we beat whinge and wine, it makes beating them all the better....

Anyone who watched the game on Saturday night and thinks the CCM are just a long ball team have got their hands on it....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mid,</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great that noone rates us, we&#8217;ve got the best for and against +9 (maybe equal now with GCU) and the best defence. Let supporters of every team we beat whinge and wine, it makes beating them all the better&#8230;.</p>
<p>Anyone who watched the game on Saturday night and thinks the CCM are just a long ball team have got their hands on it&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: David V.</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-241589</link>
		<dc:creator>David V.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No just more proof the standard of coaching in this country is among the worst of any professional league on the world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No just more proof the standard of coaching in this country is among the worst of any professional league on the world.</p>
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		<title>By: Rob</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-241505</link>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>2 more years of Merrick...is this the first good reason for folks to start supporting Heart perhaps?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2 more years of Merrick&#8230;is this the first good reason for folks to start supporting Heart perhaps?</p>
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		<title>By: Midfielder</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-241455</link>
		<dc:creator>Midfielder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pip

SBS highlights clip watch Travis set up the first goal... 

http://player.sbs.com.au/twg#/twg_08/ALeague/A-LeagueNews/playlist/Melbourne-v-Central-Coast/

BTW we still have weeMac, Doig, Corwell to come back in ... Huke is injury free now, Elrich is injury free and is starting to look hungry again .... all we need now is another striker to support Matty. AHHHHhhh Matty Lewis (another Matty we will have to find a new name for him)  had him in the youth league for over three years now (the Mariners had a youth league in Hal 2) super. composed debut; what a volley to force the save from Moss.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pip</p>
<p>SBS highlights clip watch Travis set up the first goal&#8230; </p>
<p><a href="http://player.sbs.com.au/twg#/twg_08/ALeague/A-LeagueNews/playlist/Melbourne-v-Central-Coast/" rel="nofollow">http://player.sbs.com.au/twg#/twg_08/ALeague/A-LeagueNews/playlist/Melbourne-v-Central-Coast/</a></p>
<p>BTW we still have weeMac, Doig, Corwell to come back in &#8230; Huke is injury free now, Elrich is injury free and is starting to look hungry again &#8230;. all we need now is another striker to support Matty. AHHHHhhh Matty Lewis (another Matty we will have to find a new name for him)  had him in the youth league for over three years now (the Mariners had a youth league in Hal 2) super. composed debut; what a volley to force the save from Moss.</p>
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		<title>By: Midfielder</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-241452</link>
		<dc:creator>Midfielder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pip

What more can I say as our banner says ... nobody rates us, we don&#039;t care...

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/MrCelery/NoOne.jpg</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pip</p>
<p>What more can I say as our banner says &#8230; nobody rates us, we don&#8217;t care&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/MrCelery/NoOne.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/MrCelery/NoOne.jpg</a></p>
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		<title>By: Pippinu</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-241443</link>
		<dc:creator>Pippinu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mid

if you keep on relying on goal face scraps and deflections - I ain&#039;t every going to rate you!!!!

I think the time has now come for us to put Mitch between the sticks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mid</p>
<p>if you keep on relying on goal face scraps and deflections &#8211; I ain&#8217;t every going to rate you!!!!</p>
<p>I think the time has now come for us to put Mitch between the sticks.</p>
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		<title>By: Midfielder</title>
		<link>http://www.theroar.com.au/2009/11/08/merrick-contract-extension-coincides-with-record-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-241427</link>
		<dc:creator>Midfielder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A problem is no body rates the Mariners.... the value system people use to judge sides is ignored and many only see the long balls that are played when in fact we are coming Sydney only to SFC on completed passes..

Meaning when people loss to us its a bad loss. We are used to it by now and each year people say we come last or not make the finals. 

I wrote a thread just before the season started that we would go close to winning the league and had the best midfield in the league only to be lampooned by everyone ... still today I think if weeMac &amp; Travis played for other clubs they would be scene as how good they are ... Young Matthew Lewis had his first game and how well we have hid him ... lighting fast a leftie ... will also one day be a household word..

But back to my point we are not rated and when people loose to us they feel worst ... all can say is Mrs Football we are not going to go away no matter how many hounds you set on us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A problem is no body rates the Mariners&#8230;. the value system people use to judge sides is ignored and many only see the long balls that are played when in fact we are coming Sydney only to SFC on completed passes..</p>
<p>Meaning when people loss to us its a bad loss. We are used to it by now and each year people say we come last or not make the finals. </p>
<p>I wrote a thread just before the season started that we would go close to winning the league and had the best midfield in the league only to be lampooned by everyone &#8230; still today I think if weeMac &amp; Travis played for other clubs they would be scene as how good they are &#8230; Young Matthew Lewis had his first game and how well we have hid him &#8230; lighting fast a leftie &#8230; will also one day be a household word..</p>
<p>But back to my point we are not rated and when people loose to us they feel worst &#8230; all can say is Mrs Football we are not going to go away no matter how many hounds you set on us.</p>
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		<title>By: NUFCMVFC</title>
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		<dc:creator>NUFCMVFC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congratulations to Merrick. I personally came to the point where I had my doubts in season 3 given the inflexibility of tactics etc, but he has bounced back well.

I think MVFC admin like Merrick because he fits into the structure so well. There doesen&#039;t appear to be any clash with Gary Cole, which may have been the case with a Manager with a more prominent personality in the game. He isn&#039;t controversial in his comments etc. And one has to say the structure works well for MVFC, we are able to be progressive in first Trio from Rio, then central america and now SE Asia, and more often than not get players who fit in well. Added to that, the football has slowly improved quite well over the years, and we have developed some good squad strength, and having won the treble last year, we are following up respectably at this time being in second place and we are reaping the rewards of what is a generally well focused stability (of the good kind).

Tonights loss makes it awkward, but CCM are a bit of a bogey side at TD/Etihad, and it wasn&#039;t until late that it ballooned out slightly, due in part to some GK errors. Other than that we had some very good chances at times etc that would have been goals on other nights. So well done Ernie</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations to Merrick. I personally came to the point where I had my doubts in season 3 given the inflexibility of tactics etc, but he has bounced back well.</p>
<p>I think MVFC admin like Merrick because he fits into the structure so well. There doesen&#8217;t appear to be any clash with Gary Cole, which may have been the case with a Manager with a more prominent personality in the game. He isn&#8217;t controversial in his comments etc. And one has to say the structure works well for MVFC, we are able to be progressive in first Trio from Rio, then central america and now SE Asia, and more often than not get players who fit in well. Added to that, the football has slowly improved quite well over the years, and we have developed some good squad strength, and having won the treble last year, we are following up respectably at this time being in second place and we are reaping the rewards of what is a generally well focused stability (of the good kind).</p>
<p>Tonights loss makes it awkward, but CCM are a bit of a bogey side at TD/Etihad, and it wasn&#8217;t until late that it ballooned out slightly, due in part to some GK errors. Other than that we had some very good chances at times etc that would have been goals on other nights. So well done Ernie</p>
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