What a performance against Brisbane last weekend! It’s fair to say the Mariners not only won the match but performed brilliantly to a clever plan devised by Mossy the master coach. Sure, it was a defensive based plan, but with the fast and targeted counter attacking sub-plan at work, we took our opportunities and defended superbly in between them. The effectiveness of the plan was underlined by the shots on target statistic which at one stage saw the Mariner’s leading the by count seven to one. It was great to see young guns Nick Fitzgerald and Anthony Caceres get on the score sheet and to see how Caceres is developing his habit of scoring cracking goals from distance. Eddy Bosnar almost blasted Michael Theo into the net with a cracking free kick and Bernie Ibini tried the same thing later in the game with both attempts going close to scoring. Nick Montgomery’s performance following Besart Berisha around the pitch left the Roar sharpshooter wondering what he could do to get into the game. The nearest he came was when finishing a Liam Reddy rebound from a clearly offside position. This was another team performance by the Central Coast and while [...]