MELBOURNE : Ten years after suspension cost Nick Montgomery his place in the A-League championship match as a Central Coast player, the Yorkshireman will look to win one as coach of the Mariners in Saturday's title-deciding 'Grand Final' against Melbourne City.Having been sent off in the 2013 semi-finals,
MELBOURNE : Ten years after suspension cost Nick Montgomery his place in the A-League championship match as a Central Coast player, the Yorkshireman will look to win one as coach of the Mariners in Saturday's title-deciding 'Grand Final' against Melbourne City.
"Ten years ago, we won the final during my first season here as a player. I saw what it meant to the community. Then I’ve also seen the really tough times," he told reporters this week. Based in Gosford, a sleepy coastal town an hour north of Sydney, the Mariners are the archetypal underdogs, renowned for wafer-thin budgets and struggling to secure sponsors.
His faith in players with a chequered past has also paid dividends, with once-wayward Scottish-born striker Jason Cummings netting 17 goals in the current campaign. City, the 2021 champions, will be hard to beat, hungry as they are a year on from losing the Grand Final to local rivals Western United. Maclaren will be desperate to make his mark after missing the 2021 Grand Final due to international duties.
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