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Match: Central Coast Mariners fc v Newcastle United Jets fc

Date: 12/1/2008- saturday the 12th of january 2008

Kick off time: 7:00pm

Stadium: Bluetongue stadium central coast nsw

Referee: Matthew Breeze

Assistant Referees: Ben Wilson & Gavin Martin

Fourth Official: Strebre Delovski

TV: Live & Exclusive Fox Sports1 (www.foxsports.com.au) - Match broadcast commences 7:00pm AEDT (6:30pm ACDT, 6:00pm AEST, 5:00pm AWDT). Sky Sport 2 (www.skysport.co.nz) - Match broadcast commences 9:00NZDT.

Radio: Coast FM 96.3FM (Central Coast) - www.coastfm.org.au; ABC 1233 Newcastle (1233AM) – www.abc.net.au/Newcastle

Tickets: Ticketek - available via internet or phone and at the venue. Visit www.ticketek.com.au or call 132 849

Central Coast Mariners Squad: 1.Matthew TROTT (gk), 2.Matt SIMON, 3.Paul O’GRADY, 6.Andre GUMPRECHT, 7.John HUTCHINSON, 10.Tom PONDELJAK, 12.Greg OWENS, 13.Tony VIDMAR, 15.Andrew CLARK, 16.Nigel BOOGAARD, 18.Alex WILKINSON (Captain), 19.Adam KWASNIK, 20.Danny VUKOVIC (gk), 22.Sasho PETROVSKI, 23.Mile JEDINAK, 25.John ALOISI, 26.Alvin CECCOLI. *two to be omitted

In: Tony Vidmar (Returns from Suspension), Andrew Clark (Returns from Suspension)
Out: Nil

Others Unavailable: Nik Mrdja (Knee – Season), Matthew Osman (Knee – Season), Dean Heffernan (Broken Leg – Season)

Newcastle Jets Squad: 1.Ante COVIC (GK), 3.Jade NORTH (Captain), 5.Stuart MUSIALIK, 6.Andrew DURANTE, 8.Matt THOMPSON, 9.Joel GRIFFITHS, 10.Denni, 11.Tarek ELRICH, 13.Adam D’APUZZO, 14.Jobe WHEELHOUSE, 15.Scott TUNBRIDGE, 17.Troy HEARFIELD, 18.Noel SPENCER, 19.Mark BRIDGE, 20.Ben KENNEDY, 23.Jason HOFFMAN, 25.James HOLLAND. *two to be omitted

In: Troy Hearfield (promoted), Denni (promoted), Jobe Wheelhouse (promoted)
Out: Adam Griffiths (suspended – 2 weeks)

Others Unavailable: Steve Eagleton (Knee injury – possibly season), Steve Laybutt (illness – indefinite)

Impending stats, facts and trivia - With 4 wins and 3 losses in their 8 home games to date, the Central Coast Mariners are the only team to have won more matches than lost in the Hyundai A-League 2007/08 season so far. With more home wins than home losses, the Mariners have buckled a bizarre trend of away teams having won more matches than home teams in the Hyundai A-League this season; after Round 19, away teams have won 28 times compared to just 22 wins for home teams (i.e. away teams have won 56% of non-drawn matches).
- To give an indication of the unique nature of away teams winning more than home teams, it is worth noting that in 108 seasons of professional football in England - with up to four divisions per season - the number of away wins has never come close to matching the number of home wins in a complete league season. The closest that away teams came to matching the number of home team wins in a complete English league season was in Division Three 1993-94, when away teams won 42.9% of non-drawn games (144 away wins compared to 192 home wins).

i think this will be a very tight game.
i think will be a 1-1 draw
griffths scoring for newcastl and aloisi scoring for ccm

CCM 2-0

final score
central coast 1-2 Newcastle jets
fairly even match here
joel griffiths scored the match winner. Creating enough of an opening to get it past vukovic
holland opened the scoring for the jets in the 6th minute
kwasnik scored 3 minutes later. This was a classic, kwasnik got past 2 people and then snapped a shot past a third and the keeper covic

i think covic won the battle of the two keepers here, making some crucial saves towards the end, especially the one handed save onto the crossbar to deny aloisi

wheres nufc? thought he would've posted by now. As a matter of fact im doing most of the posting, bar a prediction from pommie

this was a pretty good game in hindsight. The game was atleast entertaining to watch and the two teams were competitive. Much better than the sydney game