Please check your jacket at the door and make sure you wear your Oranje safety jacket at all times.

In the spirit of reconnection with my Dutch ancestry (this connection seems to become strongest every four years and lasts about a month) I am hoping that the Central Coast Mariners change of personnel might just lead to an adoption of ‘Total Football'. After all, the Mariners have signed a new (all be it somewhat used) Dutch centreback and the new manager spent enough time in the Eredivisie to learn the advantages of the ‘Total Football' style. Maybe the Mariners in the next few months will become the Australian reincarnation of the Oranje.

Wait, hang on, I don't mean the current Oranje (well, the team that turned up for the final anyway). The Netherlands side that took the field on Monday morning seemed to be channelling the ‘perceived' defensive style of Central Coast Mariners, although I have to say I have never seen any of the Blue and Gold men use the flying high kick in the middle of an A-League match.

So what I am hoping is Graham Arnold and Patrick Zwaanswijk are both able to remember and teach the Oranje style of the 70s and early 80s. I am pretty sure GA would have seen these older games even if Patrick may not be old enough to have seen these games (Patrick is the same age as me and although my Opa always used to tell me about the Cruyff lead teams, I never got to experience them myself) I am sure he was brought up on ‘Total Football'. Add to this the possible creative flair and attacking creativity of an Argie midfielder and the Mariners could be the attacking revelation of the 10-11 A-League season.

Could Perez be Central Coast's version of Wesley Sneijder? Maybe Kwasi can transform his scratchy form and dodgy goal shooting to become the poor man's Arjen Robben.

If all went well, maybe, just maybe, Craig Foster could be waxing lyrical about Central Coast Mariners the same way he does Barcelona or Spain.

But probably not.