Before the Central Coast Mariners even had a chance to compute that they had just won the treble, they were swarmed by a pitch invasion.
Before the Central Coast Mariners even had a chance to compute that they had just completed the greatest season in Australian soccer history, they were swarmed. More than 21,000 fans - an all-time ground record - had packed into Gosford’s Industree Group Stadium, specifically for this exact moment, and some of them just couldn’t help themselves.Mariners fans invade the pitch after the grand final.“Like, I wouldn’t recommend running on the field,” said Mariners star Josh Nisbet.
It was a grand final for the ages. The Mariners were strangely toothless for 90 minutes; Victory were the better side in regulation time and took the lead through Jason Geria’s 50th-minute stunner but couldn’t hold out the hosts’ inevitable late surge. Edmondson once worked with Mariners coach Mark Jackson when they were both at Leeds United a few years ago. Released six months ago by Carlisle United in England’s second tier, he did not know where Gosford was when he received the call to follow Jackson, but does not regret it. He has fallen in love with the club and is telling his mates back home that the A-League is better than they think.
The facts of the Mariners’ 2023-24 campaign bear repeating. After the team that won last year’s grand final was gutted in the off-season, including the departure of their previous coach Nick Montgomery, the Mariners were knocked out of the Australia Cup on penalties in their first competitive fixture in August, then lost their opening match in the AFC Cup group stage in September, then their first four A-League matches in a row.
“You can always argue who’s the best team ever in the A-League,” Nisbet said. “But we can say we’ve had the most successful campaign by any team. That’s factual, that’s something that will be legacy.”
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