Western Sydney Wanderers vs Perth Glory 19/01/2020 6:30PM

[Whitey]

[THEWANDERERSPOST]

5 hours ago, Dugongs said:

An in-form Castro, Fornaroli and Ikonemidis against our current backline. What a time to be alive.

Mostly right apart from Ikonomidis. I'm pretty sure Popa has dropped him for Chianese over recent weeks.

Edited January 17, 2020 by THEWANDERERSPOST

[Paul01]

Nuance was out last week with a hamstring strain.

Ikonomidis has just been cleared of a short to medium term knee injury.

[Edinburgh]

2 minutes ago, Paul01 said:

Nuance was out last week with a hamstring strain.

Ikonomidis has just been cleared of a short to medium term knee injury.

Nuance?

(Juande?)

[Paul01]

33 minutes ago, Edinburgh said:

Nuance?

(Juande?)

Correct. Damn auto-correct

[Edinburgh]

Pre game press conference. Babbel serms a changed man compared to the past several pre and post match press conferences

https://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/video/press-conference-17-january-markus-babbel

[wendybr]

5 minutes ago, Edinburgh said:

Pre game press conference. Babbel serms a changed man compared to the past several pre and post match press conferences

https://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/video/press-conference-17-january-markus-babbel

How so Ed?

It annoys me too much to listen to him. 

[Edinburgh]

11 minutes ago, wendybr said:

How so Ed?

It annoys me too much to listen to him. 

Watch with the sound off

[tardotz]

He sounds like a big weight has been lifted off his shoulder with Meier gone. 

Possible that maybe he kelp on trying to convince everyone that he had made the right call getting Meier. Now he doesn't have to worry about it. 

I guess this is like when you hire someone at work and works out to be a did. It usually takes a while to accept the mistake and stop trying to save face.

[leslie]

In, first game for a few due to various reasons - none being we are **** though.

You'd take a draw now, but what are the chances.(3.50 according to bet easy)

popa to reign again in Western Sydney.Them 3 or 4 us 1 

 

 

[StringerBellend]

#babelin 

[BoyFromTheWest]

1 hour ago, tardotz said:

He sounds like a big weight has been lifted off his shoulder with Meier gone. 

Possible that maybe he kelp on trying to convince everyone that he had made the right call getting Meier. Now he doesn't have to worry about it. 

I guess this is like when you hire someone at work and works out to be a did. It usually takes a while to accept the mistake and stop trying to save face.

To me sounds a bit like this but more that he brought Meier in (2nd, 3rd...choice) and really likes the guy, knows his quality and professionalism and was as disappointed for Meier as for himself that it didn't work out.

Wendy, I agree that this is a different sounding Babbel from previous weeks.  I thought his defence and protection of Meier's interests and personal issues was very commendable.  I don't hear him being accusative but keeps speaking in positive ways about the players - they can do it.  Seems that he needs a couple of bits to change and go right; needs the team to play together and for everyone to get on the same page for 90+ minutes.  We will see. 

But he did sound relieved - relieved that he has the striker he originally wanted and relieved that Alex has been treated with respect and a good solution was found for everyone.  He also sounded as if he is under no illusions that he is under pressure for the results and it is on his head.  He understands the fans displeasure etc, so we will see...

[wendybr]

1 hour ago, Edinburgh said:

Watch with the sound off

[Burgerman]

8 hours ago, Dugongs said:

An in-form Castro, Fornaroli and Ikonemidis against our current backline. What a time to be alive.

+1

[wendybr]

3 minutes ago, BoyFromTheWest said:

To me sounds a bit like this but more that he brought Meier in (2nd, 3rd...choice) and really likes the guy, knows his quality and professionalism and was as disappointed for Meier as for himself that it didn't work out.

Wendy, I agree that this is a different sounding Babbel from previous weeks.  I thought his defence and protection of Meier's interests and personal issues was very commendable.  I don't hear him being accusative but keeps speaking in positive ways about the players - they can do it.  Seems that he needs a couple of bits to change and go right; needs the team to play together and for everyone to get on the same page for 90+ minutes.  We will see. 

But he did sound relieved - relieved that he has the striker he originally wanted and relieved that Alex has been treated with respect and a good solution was found for everyone.  He also sounded as if he is under no illusions that he is under pressure for the results and it is on his head.  He understands the fans displeasure etc, so we will see...

Thank  you very much for that summary, and for your impressions!  

I don't dislike Babbel as a person, and I haven't voted for him #out.

I just find him very frustrating to listen to when he seems not be self reflective, and when he tends to be, as you said, "accusatory".

It's good that he has struck the right note here!

 

[WanderingToqui]

Was Cox Babbel's 1st or 2ntd choice originally?

[mack]

4 hours ago, THEWANDERERSPOST said:

Mostly right apart from Ikonomidis. I'm pretty sure Popa has dropped him for Chianese over recent weeks.

And he's got 3 goals in 3 games.

[THEWANDERERSPOST]

13 minutes ago, mack said:

And he's got 3 goals in 3 games.

So what you're saying is he is bound to not score against us. 

[THEWANDERERSPOST]

 

LOL if Sydney United can do it we can do it in 2 weeks time. 

 

Sydney United 58 FC

3 hrs · 

We have defeated A-league side Sydney FC 2-1 in a behind the closed doors friendly match today.

Goal Scorers; Matthew Bilic & Devante Clut.

 

Sydney FC lineup - Heward-Belle, Flottmann, Grant, King, Wilkinson, Brattan, Caceres, Ninkovic, Retre, Barbarouses, Le Fondre

Edited January 17, 2020 by THEWANDERERSPOST

[Edinburgh]

3 hours ago, wendybr said:

 Wasn't trying to be funny. Just look at it. He's almost unrecognisable from recent weeks.

[wendybr]

Just now, Edinburgh said:

 Wasn't trying to be funny. Just look at it. He's almost unrecognisable from recent weeks.

Another gentleman has already taken the time to explain it.

[WHACKO]

Schwegler in doubt for Sunday's game after training incident, injury to toe. We can't take a trick.

[SBW]

6 minutes ago, WHACKO said:

Schwegler in doubt for Sunday's game after training incident, injury to toe. We can't take a trick.

hearing it was McGowan again

[Paul01]

1 minute ago, SBW said:

hearing it was McGowan again

Needs to do those to opposition players.

[WanderingToqui]

Now that Tree Trunk has gone, do you think Herr Babbel will go back to a back 3, pushing the wingbacks higher up so we can boss the midfield?

[WHACKO]

16 minutes ago, WanderingToqui said:

Now that Tree Trunk has gone, do you think Herr Babbel will go back to a back 3, pushing the wingbacks higher up so we can boss the midfield?

That's our trouble, we don't have a midfield. 

[mack]

Need to revert to a Brazilian 4-2-2-2 to have any chance of holding the midfield.

Of course, this means Fornaroli & Castro will just go out wide and destroy us there.

[THEWANDERERSPOST]

Not sure if anyone has picked up on this but Babbel mentioned Cox can apparently play at 10. Not sure if that means Müller to the wing but if we got back to the 5 atb no wingers then apart from the wingbacks.

This is the our best possible lineup in my opinion.

5-3-2 formation

                               Cox             Duke

                                       Müller                                  

                    Schwegler               Baccus

 Georgevski                                                Kamau

                     Jurman  Ziegler  Mcgowan

                                    Lopar

 

[TheCoomer]

3-0 loss

[Liv]

Out. Unfortunately the wife and kids want to spend a week holidaying in Byron bay. Not expecting a great result anyway but there’s always hope. We have the bye the week after and then it’s Cox to the rescue. Our season starts in two weeks!