Sydney FC vs Western Sydney Wanderers 25/02/2018 6:30PM

17 minutes ago, wendybr said:

OK...so I'm actually feeling just a bit excited...for the first time all season....or is it since Game 1 of last season? 

We will have our Wanderers lucky charm with us. Italian by birth, New York and Miami by upbringing, long time resident of Madrid and now Sydney...for a few years at least.

If we have ever lost a game when he's been present...I don't recall it ( he wasn't here all last season...or earlier this season  until the last  Mariners game).

So...I won't say I'm confident...but I feel a bit optimistic .

COYW!

Like lambs being led to the slaughter lol

No..dont let my negativity get you down...anything possible in a derby.

Hearing Riera is out with a shoulder injury?

...

Hahahaha...I'm fully prepared for my mild optimism to be well and truly squashed during the game.

But it's a pleasant change to feel even a slight tingle of excitement (which has been absent for the past season, and this).

And...silly though my first post there is....I didn't think it would hurt to spread the slight tingle of optimism! 

If I try really hard, I might even rev it up to this...

Damned United should at least appreciate that I'm trying! 

        COYW!!

5 minutes ago, xxBrandonxx said:

Hearing Riera is out with a shoulder injury?

 

...

Uh-oh...

How to kill a slight tingle of optimism.

12 minutes ago, wendybr said:

Hahahaha...I'm fully prepared for my mild optimism to be well and truly squashed during the game.

But it's a pleasant change to feel even a slight tingle of excitement (which has been absent for the past season, and this).

And...silly though my first post there is....I didn't think it would hurt to spread the slight tingle of optimism! 

 

If I try really hard, I might even rev it up to this...

Damned United should at least appreciate that I'm trying! 

 

        COYW!!

Wendy, can't you ******* keep it down a bit...trying to wallow in a cesspit of misery and self loathing here, you will ruin the thread....

Will take a draw, never know, could be one of those nights where we get it right...who knows.....

8 minutes ago, wendybr said:

Uh-oh...

How to kill a slight tingle of optimism.

No confirmation, just heard someone on facebook talking about it. 

It’s a massive blow and he’s our best player. Santalab has to start otherwise we’re ****ed. 

25 minutes ago, xxBrandonxx said:

Hearing Riera is out with a shoulder injury?

 

...

Is that why Lachlan Scott was named in the extended squad?

3 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

Is that why Lachlan Scott was named in the extended squad?

Makes sense 

6 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

Is that why Lachlan Scott was named in the extended squad?

He's often in the extended squad 

we are going to get destroyed.

with riera 5-1

without riera 5-0

I just hope I don't get rained on too badly - long trip home soaking wet nursing another derby humiliation.

4 minutes ago, lloydy136 said:

we are going to get destroyed.

with riera 5-1

without riera 5-0

I just hope I don't get rained on too badly - long trip home soaking wet nursing another derby humiliation.

Thats the spirit, now people know what it is like to support Leeds and the Boro hey mate...we go through this kinda shyte every week.

6 minutes ago, WSWBoro said:

Thats the spirit, now people know what it is like to support Leeds and the Boro hey mate...we go through this kinda shyte every week.

oh I am definitely in my element - must be the little bit of yorkshire blood I have in me. football and whingeing just go together

We've never been destroyed at Fortress Allianz. Even the biggest margin (3-1) was a game where we were pressing for an equaliser and conceded that late penalty.

1 hour ago, wendybr said:

Isn't Risdon suspended for this game?

Hope you're right about the rest though.

You are right he is, hope Gumby puts mini Baccus there. If he goes with Clisby on left and Llorente on the right then we lack width, Clisby crossing his hit and hope and Llorente is far better on left 

3 minutes ago, lloydy136 said:

oh I am definitely in my element - must be the little bit of yorkshire blood I have in me. football and whingeing just go together

“we will win”

3 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

We've never been destroyed at Fortress Allianz. Even the biggest margin (3-1) was a game where we were pressing for an equaliser and conceded that late penalty.

i would say the 3-2 after leading 2-0 was pretty humiliating but yes you are right we have saved our most disgraceful performances for home games.

So how many minutes do you think it will be before Simon hacks one of our players and gets away with it.

9 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

You are right he is, hope Gumby puts mini Baccus there. If he goes with Clisby on left and Llorente on the right then we lack width, Clisby crossing his hit and hope and Llorente is far better on left 

last time we had mini baccus at right back for the last 20 minutes against citeh they made him look like a little kid filling in for his big brother's team.

Prediction?

34 minutes ago, tardotz said:

So how many minutes do you think it will be before Simon hacks one of our players and gets away with it.

During the warm ups?

38 minutes ago, tardotz said:

So how many minutes do you think it will be before Simon hacks one of our players and gets away with it.

I give him 5 mins or less myself.

40 minutes ago, lloydy136 said:

last time we had mini baccus at right back for the last 20 minutes against citeh they made him look like a little kid filling in for his big brother's team.

Probably right, but if rumour is to be belived herd is back in uk

swapping Llorente over and bringing in Clisby makes us too narrow, that said Reira is our now, so crossing is less of a thing 

I’m digging this expecting nothing out of a derby, it’s probably the Evertonian in me. 

1 hour ago, WSWBoro said:

Wendy, can't you ******* keep it down a bit...trying to wallow in a cesspit of misery and self loathing here, you will ruin the thread....

Will take a draw, never know, could be one of those nights where we get it right...who knows.....

Hahahaha! 

Sigh...I remember when these threads were a cesspit of arrogance and supreme confidence!  

                                       COYW!

Matt Simon.

Red card.

100%

35 minutes ago, beatsurrender said:

Matt Simon.

Red card.

100%

Not a chance they are the kopites of the a League he could take carrusca leg off in a two footed challenge and only get a yellow with Arnold then demanding a written apology for carrusca putting his leg  there 

Can't make it to Parra for pre-game drinks, are most punters headed straight to the ground once in town or is there a favoured pub near Central before the game?

Oriel left training early Friday with shoulder injury.

Smurfs line-up

....................Redmayne

Retre....... Buijs..... Wilkinson.... Carney 

..............Brillante....... O'Neill

Adrian............Simon..........Ninokovic

.....................Bobo

Bench: Brosque, Ferriera, Calver, Warland, Cisak

No-one should ever feel obligated to give money to another team, and especially not the FFA/SFC. With the ticket cost, awful scheduling and ongoing FFA bias to SFC both those two should be grateful anyone from WSW turns up at Fortress Shithole.