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OH THE SCENES!!! When Simeon Wilson decided to write his name into the annals of football history as he clinched a famous victory for the Mariners.

CENTRAL COAST MARINERS ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!!

(in shaky Norweigan accent) Alex Ferguson, Cristiano Ronaldo, George Best, Duncan Edwards, Dennis Law, Eric Cantona, Dwight Yorke, Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, David Beckham.........your boys took one HELL of a beating!!!

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Another huge month in the history of the Mariners as we lifted the FIFA World Club Cup, beating Manchester United in the final. The league was also pretty tough this month. We started with a crunch game against Sydney, which we came through with flying colours and then made it even better as we came through what is always tough game against Melbourne Victory. The month ended with two wins that I would expect to get against the Phoenix and the Roar.

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Despite a congested month of fixtures, we are unaffected as we open up a 6 point lead on Melbourne City.

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We let another first teamer go in Francisco Padilla to Saudi side Al-Ettifaq. He had got into the Australian national side, but he is now 30 years old and we are continuing our policy especially considering the tight cap rules to promote inexpensive youth where possible. In the end the activated his release clause, probably because they were tired of me negotiation for a few extra shekels!

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January is in the books and we started with a very bad loss to Perth Glory which worried me for a bit, but it seems it had the necessary impact on any complacency in the ranks as we started to humiliate the rest of the division with a 2-0 win over closest challengers Melbourne City, a destruction of WSW by 9-0, which got their manager sacked. A destruction of Newcastle in the derby and then another destruction of the other Melbourne club, 6-1. We look very dominant at the moment.

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We are now 8 points clear of Melbourne City.

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Another great month as we win all but one game in the league and get our Champions League campaign defence off to a great start with a 3-1 home win over Gamba.

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Nine point now the lead and the league looks like its coming back to Gosford.

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Early days in the Champions League group, but we are leading after one game.

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Another great month in the books for us. The only blip was an away loss to Melbourne City, however we had some great results this month too, destroying Shanghai, winning the derby against Newcastle away and smashing Melbourne Victory.

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There are 4 fixtures left for us and we are six points ahead of Melbourne City, whom have also had a great season. Wellington are still an abberation at the bottom of the league, still search for a win with four games left.

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We are well in control of our Champions League group, one more win will qualify us for the next round.

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A mid season slump in form was fixed by the end of the month as we won another A-League regular season.

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We take the title by 5 points in the end as Melbourne City ran me pretty close, we are way ahead of the chasing pack. Wellington did manage to pick up a solitary win this season, they keep sacking managers, not sure it's the manager that is the problem, but rather the standard of their players.

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We have already won our group with one game to play, another 5-0 and 6-0 win, have inflated our goal difference to silly proportions as we assert our dominance in Asia and attempt to go back to back in the Champions League.

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The big one came along and we proved the better side as we took down Melbourne City by 3-1 in a game where we were much the better. It was nervy for the last 15 minutes with the game poised at 2-1, but a last gasp goal made it safe. A great achievement for the club to win the Regular Season and Grand Final two years in a row.

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We just had to make sure we kept things tight, and we did that. In the second half Simeon Wilson took a chance and that effectively ended any resistance from Urawa Red Diamonds. We win 1-0 on the night and 4-0 on aggregate as we move to the next round. This is the last game of the season as we will now break up for the season. So next up we will be looking at our air miles.

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Air Miles calculation time.

We won an incredible 42 games this season.

The equation is as follows:-

3 x 5.23 x 2 x 1 = 31.38 miles per win = 1,286.63 miles won this season. Added to the 2,328.12 that we already had in the kitty, gives us a new total of 3,614.75 miles range.

The map now looks like this.

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As you can see that is quite a range now. A shame there are no team in Antarctica eh? Certainly there is far more of the team in Indonesia available. Half the Philippines are now in play as well as Brunei and Malaysia.

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A closer look for your to see where we now have covered. 

I think in terms of league additions we will add Malaysia and the Philippines. Brunei would seem to much of a step backwards for us to bother I think.

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The DoF has created a rather large problem for us this year, through his contract negotiations with players for us to be under the wage cap. McEvoy was an unknown when I arrived and has since picked up 13 caps for Australia, but last season he was mostly on the bench and he has a pretty decent salary so we sell him to league rivals Melbourne City.

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I didn't want to have to do this, but we absolutely need to get rid of wages and I feel we have sufficient back ups at striker. He is the wrong side of 30 where as Wilson is the right side of 30, so he leaves the club. He will have a swansong in Europe, which is probably good for all parties concerned.

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Youth intake is in and I think there is plenty of potential. We are not averse to getting these guys into the team quick. Parsons looks the standout guy, followed by Reis and Harris. Hanna potentially could also play a squad role. I think the rest are unlikely to make it.

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A tight affair in the Quarter final first leg between Melbourne City and ourselves, where neither team really risked much and neither side could find the net during the 90 mins. Hopefully it's not a sign that we are now missing Kavanagh's goals.

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Superb signing from the DoF for once, this guy is still on a youth contract so I don't need to register him and he looks a real player. Brisbane Roar let him go, and I can only think it because they put him on a professional contract at some point and needed to cut him.

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