Tony Walmsley is an Australian professional

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who worked as Technical Director and Head Coach for

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Career

Tony Walmsley started his coaching career in 1989 when he served as player/coach for

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. Walmsley has previously served as Academy Director for the

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Youth Development Programme in

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. He was then appointed the manager of

youth team for three seasons, where his team never finished outside the top two and won the

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in the 2011–12 season. In September 2012 he became the Head of Academy Recruitment for English

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. Walmsley was appointed as Technical Director of the Mariners on 19 February 2015 and caretaker head coach of the Mariners from 6 March 2015. On 15 April 2015 Walmsley was announced as Mariners permanent Technical Director/Head Coach for the 2015–16 season. Under Walmsley, the Mariners had their worst A-League performance to date in the 2015–16 season. The Mariners' 13 points, the fewest in club history, resulted in a last-place finish, and they set a league record by losing 20 games while winning only 3, a record low for the Mariners. Central Coast allowed 70 goals, the most in league history, and had a goal difference of −37, the worst by an A-League team. The Mariners' totals of goals conceded at home and away (32 and 38 respectively) were also A-League records, and they went the entire season without a clean sheet. In the

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, the Mariners suffered a 2–1 loss to

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at Green Gully Reserve, becoming just the second A-League team to be eliminated by a state league team in the FFA Cup. As a result of the last placed finish in the 2015–16 season, and the Mariners' elimination from the

, Walmsley was sacked by the Mariners on 8 August 2016, with coaching duties in the leadup to the 2016–17 season taken up by assistant coach John Hutchinson in a caretaker role. Walmsley was eventually succeeded by

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manager

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walmsley, Tony 1966 births Living people English men's footballers English football managers Sheffield United F.C. non-playing staff Central Coast Mariners FC non-playing staff A-League Men managers Player-coaches Men's association football players not categorized by position Central Coast Mariners FC managers