Bleiberg unloads after eventful 1-1 draw with Mariners

50 years of driving doesn't necessarily make anyone a good driver. You should see my father in action. Others know a thing or two about the game too. Let's not start slinging CVs at each other. That would be undigniified. Relax, it's all just banter amongst committed fans. Wouldn't it be dire if we didn't care?

A good relationship with the fans? Really? Have you looked at the freefall in Mariners' attendances this season? Sorry, that one does not stand uip at all.

Jimbo Thanks... but mid season we where being praised for playing the best football in the league ... we lost a few players with injury and the bench is not that strong so we find ourselves out of the six... LM is not without fault BTW . Also not sure which A-League team wins this but I can say that 3 Mariner player in Beech's, Jedi, Heff (going back to Europe soon), have gone to Europe under LM training... add to this weeMac off to Motherwell and Travis I think back to the UK.. now LM can not take the credit for weeMac & Travis training but he did all that was necessary to rebuild their careers...

Real I pride myself on never trying to get personal and start name calling on this site ... I will stand by my observation of the game which I will back with almost 50 years of playing ... coaching for many years at Division 1 U 18 to U 21 level... I saw some tackles that when lost the Fold fell over and screamed murder... the ref kept giving fouls to anyone who fell over... I have already said twice now that tackles late in the game where a tad hard and over done... But if you honestly think that the Fold Coast where not playing to a script to get the ref on side and get as many frees close to the box as possible then we see things totally differently... Just for your information I am not a total fan of LM but he is no where near the demon he is being made out to be.. further if you care to read many of my posts you will see there are few that argue more for improved technical standards to be set installed ASAP than me..... But the special one ... went down faster than a hooker at the cross if he lost the ball ...

Even if the Mariners don't make the six, I don't think McKinna will be sacked - he seems to have a very good relationship with the club, the fans and the local community. But if the blood and guts approach isn't working, Laurie will work it out and come back better next season.

Midfielder To say you are lacking coherence would be an understatement. The medical profession knows this as "Marinertitus", and it is a condition by which one's Mariner becomes inflamed after having been exposed to too many Mariner's games coached by Lawrie McKinna. Fortunately it is not terminal and you will recover once the McKinna is surgically removed.

HMMMMMMmmm My comments are being edited now on a football thread .. WOW read any of my post have I attacked any blogger in a personal sense ... No ... have other bloggers done this to me ... well very close to it some... have I screamed back ... nooooooo.. I see I have a different opinion to some on a football match I was at... Must be upsetting some to actually the special one is not so special... and that side show bob is part of the reason... another cross I will bear... cong's to the blogger or blogger's that did this shows how fair and broad minded you are ...

ARRHHHHHHHhhhhhhh Where do I begin… as my old mate Truthful Jones said what is worst ..to be blinded by following the mob then stoop even lower and attack others … or to see the truth and defend your position and in doing so incur the wrath and scorn of the of the pack of hounds who are blinded by the electronic Gods ….. If I through you where right I would say so… so now some say it’s five years of whatever the electronic Gods tells you … well sorry guys I was there and I have already conceded that the last few tackles were a tad hard… but to infer that the Fold Coast are faultless is plainly foolish the constant tactics of screaming foul to a ref every time they lost the ball … lead by fall over boy … reached its logical conclusion …

Midfielder, the commentators, RealFootball, and myself saw with our own eyes----what are you on about? Hutch and Boogard should have been red carded with two leg breaking tackles on Caravella and only got one yellow, never mind about Culina, he is always a target by your thugs, we have come to accept that you can't handle a player with superior ball skills..

Simply shows how many believe what media to scared to question the great one are caught in a spell and how others just listen to the media... It's not my fault that we are painted as the working class boy'os IMO the ref had a poor game every time two players went for the ball if one fell over they got a free... One particular tackle just made me spit chips two players went for a header the CC player was up first the Fold coast player jumped second ... Fold Coast raised his arm elbow and hit the CC player but was off balance and fell over ... throws his arms in the air and screams elbow ...Out come the Yellow we all think for the Fold and maybe a red for the dive... nooooooooo we get the yellow for a Fold foul and Side Show Bob on the side line screaming blue murder ... You wait to it's your turn ...

So in your eyes this current CCM Ver 5 mob of thugs is a better team then either Ver 1 or Ver 2 CCM that tried to play some decent football.. ? You use to be an advocate of good football----so what happen Midfielder...?

Its ok, Midfielder - any blog in the country will show you that outside of one eyed Mariners supporters there is NO respect for the current Mariners team. At the moment your "Centre For Excellence" looks a lot more like a centre for mediocrity. Your team and your coach are unwelcome relics from the past. Most of your supporters obviously think so too - they are staying away, literally, in their thousands. Where are they, Midfielder? Why have they stopped coming? Go on, tell me black is white. That seems to be your specialty.

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saw a bloke fall over all night often on the smallest of touches... and get up and scream he was hacked... I will agree a couple of tackles were a bit hard ... however they came after every tackle was challenged ... as being a hack... IMO FFFold Coast did a lot of gamesmanship the Brazilians .. more dives than at a swim meet.... Can see the Mariner loving Fozzie defending us today... he says laughing ... talk about the center of excellence Fozzie and the 60 million dollar investment ... sorry I cannot hear the Fozzie sing... I was there and very close to a lot of the action... every time fall over boy lost the ball he fell over and throws his arms in the air ... hack hack ... pure BS and if the media are too scared to question the great one... will I don't care because I saw what I saw... What I saw was a team that every time they lost the ball they screamed foul... lost all respect for the Fold cost and for fall over boy... Clive Palmer's team they are for sure ... a bunch of up themselves ...

That is where our comments are coming from, with our own eyes. You must have been still wearing your dark sunglasses from your recent holidays. That stuff that McKinna dish up was well below par from the first two CCM teams in Ver 1 and 2 where they were an exciting new franchise. But now, a team dominated by thugs, everyone saw their behind the back and from the side brutal tackles----they disgraced themselves with such tactics, because they could not match GCU at football. ~~~~~~ AF

Believe the media not your own eyes if you want...

And of course Gold Coast will finish in the top 3 and CCM won't even make the finals. The last laugh is certainly not with you, McKinna, or the bunch of cavemen currently called Central Coast.

Midfielder If I were you I would be embarrassed on two counts: 1. The way CCM currently play. 2. Your childish reposts. I hadn't pegged you for an 11 year old until now.

Midfielder, for a mere donation of a gold coin from McKinna this may set the CCM on the right path.. CRAIG FOSTER January 24, 2010 Reign in Spain ... Barcelona's Lionel Messi has helped his side dominate world club football. Photo: AP As you read this, I will be midway through a session with a superb educator from FC Barcelona, Ruben Della Morte, as part of a four-day coaching seminar in Lismore, northern NSW. Actually, there are two excellent educators in Lismore this weekend. The other is national assistant technical director Alistair Edwards, who is spending two intense 10-hour days teaching the principles of the new national curriculum to about 70 coaches from the North Coast region. And the standards Edwards has brought directly to the grassroots fills me with hope. Hope for the game, that after decades of groping in the dark a light has been switched, we now have someone who has trained with Louis van Gaal, spent the last year shoulder to shoulder with Han Berger, and has a deep understanding of space, football mathematics and geometry, and how to teach these core concepts to youngsters. The value of the 4-3-3 system for young players - and this is what it is being used for - is that it teaches the concept of space, and spacing, and, for the first time, offers an integrated approach with a vision of the game, a system to express this vision, and an entire methodology behind this to teach every principle of play. Playing out from the back? Sure. Here are the sessions, start with the simple, build the complexity, add some resistance and there you go. Movement in attack? No sweat. Here you go, come back next week. This is what we have been crying out for, football detail, not nebulous concepts that leave the youth coach to find his or her own practical material, but the whole shebang. A system of play with every compartment organised, teachable and available, and the results are magnificent. In the space of three hours, Edwards improved the passing of a group of healthy, willing and strong young boys by 25 per cent, and had them organised zonally, and starting to recognise the proper use of space and angles. And there was not a single ball kicked from the back to the front of the team. Everything short, every pass on an angle, players passing and moving in a systematic way. This is what can be achieved, Australia! Don't let anyone, ever, tell you that an Australian child cannot play outstanding football - our youngsters simply need to be shown how. If the football is poor and vertical, the educator, or coach, is always to blame. The difference with this course, aside from Della Morte and Edwards, and Berger making a whirlwind visit yesterday afternoon, is that it is free. Four days, 10 hours a day, at a beautiful venue, with methodology never before seen in this country, for nothing. Thanks to the support of the Lismore City Council, no coach has paid a cent, although participants were asked for a gold coin donation for the tea and biscuits. A single gold coin to learn concepts that took some 30 years of work by other countries; methodology worth, literally, hundreds of millions of dollars. Why, then, if a country area can provide free education for their coaches, does our national body still charge for the privilege? When there are few paid jobs available! And when a country council is only too happy to support the game, how can our largest states not organise themselves to provide free education? It's a national disgrace. We should be paying coaches to attend, such is the importance of getting this new material out into the football world. A prohibitive fee only strangles the growth of understanding. A gentleman from Spain, who has agreed to travel to Australia for a second time to help us understand football is, as you read this, showing a group of impressionable and hungry Australian coaches how to develop a child player from the age of six through the critical first few years, when technique is built that will determine the player's ultimate level, in order to later play the football of Barcelona. The chance to see Australian kids play beautiful football is really worth much, much more than a single gold coin.

Everybody sing... To the tune of That's Amore or when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s Amore.... When your can't clear the wall and your shorts are too small you're Culina . When you do a big twirl and fall like a girl you're Culina. You're so dear a million dollars a year poor Clive Palmer. Clive Palmer ate your fans and showed then Bleiberg When you think you're the best with shaved legs you're Culina. When you think your tough but really are soft.. as marsh mallow. When your best mate is Fozzie and we say poo ha ha, you're Culina.