Central Coast Mariners vs Western Sydney Wanderers 16/12/2017 7:50PM

Oh ****

Where improving, Gombau said. Mariners 2 nil.

Anyone want to play team line-up roulette.

21 minutes ago, WHACKO said:

Anyone want to play team line-up roulette.

Surely Gombau has to go back to as "full strength" as he can. Vedran, Llorente, Thwaite, Cornthwaite, Risdon, Baccus, Herd, Roly, Cejudo, Bridge/Jumpei & Santa.

I'm expecting another youth heavy lineup and everybody to lose their ****. Lmao.

Mariners this season aren't the Mariners of old, a win away in Gosford right now would be a miracle.

Come on boys lets start turning these losses into draws !

31 minutes ago, WHACKO said:

Where improving, Gombau said. Mariners 2 nil.

Anyone want to play team line-up roulette.

I put all the squad names in a hat and the names came out in this order.......

Jumpei (GK)

Majok Bridge Roly Scott

Vedran Hamill  Hall Suman

Aspro  Sotirio

17 minutes ago, sonar said:

Aspro  Sotirio

Tall/Fast combination will work for sure 10/10

1 minute ago, mack said:

Tall/Fast combination will work for sure 10/10

It was the luck of the draw...!

442 could work since there’s no number 10 hmmm

We need a formation with no whatever number Jumpei has.

Nobody looks like hitting the back of the net mack this is the worst squad since season 3

1 hour ago, xxBrandonxx said:

I'm expecting another youth heavy lineup and everybody to lose their ****. Lmao.

Mariners this season aren't the Mariners of old, a win away in Gosford right now would be a miracle.

Come on boys lets start turning these losses into draws !

Never thought people would be asking us to draw more games

1 minute ago, Unlimited said:

Never thought people would be asking us to draw more games

Pim verbeek calls it results

1 hour ago, xxBrandonxx said:

I'm expecting another youth heavy lineup and everybody to lose their ****.

Same.

Hopefully common sense prevails and Josef steadies the ship a little by reverting to a team that was atleast competetive. small steps Josep please.

                      Vedran

Risdon Cornthwaite Thwaite Lloriente

                       Herd

           Roly              Baccus

   Cejudo  Riera or Santa  Jumpie or bridge 

Reserves: take your pick from these, Clisby ,Aspro, Sotirio, Bridge Lustica, Majok, Santa

Hamell has to be a liability no more of him at right back , at best a reserve centre back

 A similar team to the above had us undefeated after 6 rounds including draw the CCM and Newcastle who have performed well so far all before them. Our failure was our second half in these 6 games and time I believe would have fixed that. We drew with Smurfs we drew with Melbourne City we drew with CCM we drew with Newcastle  we drew with Melbourne Victory we led in most bar 1 I think being CCM.

So think about, we continue to improve in fitness and team cohesion and we go from there , still could have been a good season !!!!

Can it still be a good season ??

We have a game in hand.

6th place is on 10 points win the game in hand and we are in 6th. 

4th pace is on 14 points win the game in hand and we are on 11 points 1 win away from 4th 

Of course this is only hypothetical as other results need to go our way , all I am saying this season is far from over

All of this in Josef Gombeau's hands , lets hope he is as good as he is supposed to be.

I think if we see a number of senior players on the bench again or not included it’s a pretty clear indicator they’re gone in January. 

(Herd, Thwaite, Llorente)

After last weeks result it’s become the most important game of the season. This one will show us what our team (and supporter) is made of.

Isnt the January transfer window about contracted players agreeing to go , if they dont agree to go we cant make them go hence thay are still part of the salary cap.

Remember Piovacari he spent the season drinking coffee at Norton Street Leichardt 

Riera, Herd and Bridge all promoted.

Scott not selected.

Western Sydney Wanderers FC Squad: 3.Jack CLISBY, 4.Josh RISDON, 5.Brendan HAMILL, 8.Roly BONEVACIA, 9.Oriol RIERA, 10.Álvaro CEJUDO, 11.Brendon SANTALAB, 14.Jumpei KUSUKAMI, 15.Kearyn BACCUS, 18.Robbie CORNTHWAITE, 19.Mark BRIDGE, 20.Vedran JANJETOVIC (gk), 22.Jonathan ASPROPOTAMITIS, 24.Raúl LLORENTE, 25.Chris HERD, 30.John HALL (gk), 33.Michael THWAITE, 42.Keanu BACCUS **two to be omitted**

Ins: 9.Oriol RIERA, 19.Mark BRIDGE, 25.Chris HERD (all promoted)
Outs: 23.Lachlan SCOTT
Unavailable: 1.Jerrad TYSON (gk) (shoulder)

At least we won't be cooking in the afternoon Gosford sun albeit on field The Mariners will scorch us. 

42 minutes ago, DamnedUnited said:

At least we won't be cooking in the afternoon Gosford sun albeit on field The Mariners will scorch us. 

That bloody hill won't be any gentler though..!

In

Will be interesting to see how many rock up. Maybe the sea bogans will turn up as they see this as the first real chance they have had in beating us in quite some time.

2-1 them

crowd less than 10 thousand. we might struggle to take over 1000 - what's the feeling? The club should be promoting this as a chance to come and see what a wanderers home game, actually feels like Lol

Hope we can win... best chance in a while we have of beating you guys...

Its a good away trip if nothing else... get here early go to the beach, have dinner then the match... If not a strong swimmer try Umina & Ettalong Beach... if a strong swimmer try Avoca or Mc Masters or  Soldiers 

26 minutes ago, Midfielder said:

Hope we can win... best chance in a while we have of beating you guys...

 

We were lucky to draw against you guys in our first encounter at SOP. I'm hoping the shame of the defeat we suffered against ESFC will inspire us to a better performance. I'm tipping us 1-0. 

36 minutes ago, Midfielder said:

Hope we can win... best chance in a while we have of beating you guys...

After last weeks performance, my son's U7's would be in with a decent chance of beating us. And they only play 4 a side!

CCMs pacey wingers will have a ball (pardon the pub) getting behind our slow and high-up-the-pitch standing CBs.

After appearing clueless during the derby, this will test Gombau's coaching abilities. If all he has got in his tool kit is a Barca style Plan A then we are stuffed. 

9 minutes ago, FCB said:

CCMs pacey wingers will have a ball (pardon the pub) getting behind our slow and high-up-the-pitch standing CBs.

After appearing clueless during the derby, this will test Gombau's coaching abilities. If all he has got in his tool kit is a Barca style Plan A then we are stuffed. 

We are Barca-Lite

6 minutes ago, beatsurrender said:

We are Barca-Lite

At the moment we aren't Barca anything.

If we play like we did last week we'd be beaten by Barca U12s.

I wonder if the ' player of the month' will be selected for this game.