Duke Wins Kogarah Derby!

[MathyouWSW]

3 minutes ago, GlobalWarning said:

that is very kind of you to reach out to one of our ex players who is most likely upset for losing a football match last night

I'm sure his wife, Titties...will cheer him up.



Is that her name? I can't remember...

[Sithslayer1991]

guys watching that goal from Duke seriously if you have kids show them the 2 goals at the derby on how to head the ball. Tate russel great cross bute Duke still had a lot to do not easy scoring that

[Smoggy]

12 minutes ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

guys watching that goal from Duke seriously if you have kids show them the 2 goals at the derby on how to head the ball. Tate russel great cross bute Duke still had a lot to do not easy scoring that

From behind  the goal as soon as that left his head i had a feeling it was going in.

[JustWandering]

I think there is a  case for signing a manager for next season pretty soon, with Macarthur coming in and competing in the player market. We really have to get a move on with resigning the players we want to retain, and having the managerial situation sorted will make the decision clearer for the players. Certainly if we win 2 of our next 3 against Roar, City and the 3rd derby, I'd be signing JP. The foreign coach experiment has failed for us and does not have a good track record across the league. I doubt there will be many better local options than JP. As other's have said, signing JP would give us stability, as he knows the set up and players.

[StringerBellend]

How pretentious was the Cove Tifo They really are a bigger set of tits than ABJs Mrs’

[StringerBellend]

Anyone else now getting banner ads on this thread to buy an investment property in Rockdale 

[echidna]

Corica is deluded if he thinks Syd FC played well. We had greater hunger and intensity, while Sydney broke far too slowly to take advantage of our more aggressive play.

Once more we turned the ball backwards on far fewer occasions than we did under Babbel. This and the nearly continual harassing and effort is the greatest difference so far in how this team is performing. 

Last night was a very enjoyable and well-earnt victory, but significant improvement is still needed:

DG gave the ball away a number of times when under little pressure. If he had been honest with himself, he would have asked the ref to send him off earlier to spare us the frustration.

I am not a fan of the so-called 'professional foul' - we can and should do better.

Nor am I convinced about our backline - its organisation, coverage and play out.

Pele used to say that every player should continually ask themselves the question: "If I got the ball now, what would I do with it?" Continually, you should be scanning the field around making a note of who is where and the pace they are moving, so when that moment comes, you are able to direct the pass or header to the right spot for one of your teammates. Watch Messi off the ball, and you will see him looking left and right and not just at the ball. He is continuously scanning and rescanning the field so that he can deliver that perfect pass that a great technician like him can do so easily.

Very few A-League players do this. If they did, every last-moment play out of our penalty area or defensive header would find a teammate, not an opponent, enabling us to launch a counter-attack.

Still, last night was the fourth good step in what will be a long march to a finals appearance. Let's hope the positive progression and relentless desire to move forward continues. 

 

[rcfinc]

I liked the ref, Alireza Faghani.  He lets the game run after 50/50 balls, when other refs would penalise a Wanderers player after a Sydney player starts rolling on the ground.

He doesn't get conned by the players or crowd. 

[Keithie]

Anybody get a picture of Redmayne as Dukes header hit the back of the net.

he looked like a deer in the headlights or utter disbelief that duke dit it twice

[mack]

12 hours ago, mack said:

It's hilariously biased. Here's an archive link so you don't give them any clicks.

Bossi Alert (the archive doesn't seem to work sometimes):

After five years of being in the shadows of their bitter rivals, Western Sydney Wanderers have turned the tide of the derby after clinching a dramatic 1-0 win over their Sydney FC at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium on Friday night.

Having won just once in 18 games against Sydney FC, the Wanderers have maintained a perfect record in the derby after clinching a second successive win over the Sky Blues this season. An 81st-minute winner from captain Mitchell Duke maintained the dream start to life in the dugout for interim coach Jean-Paul de Marigny, who is set to be rewarded with the job on a permanent basis, according to Wanderers sources. A top six finish is now in sight for the Wanderers but de Marigny isn't putting a target yet on their season.

"There is no set ceiling, there is no particular goal. I don’t want to be boring because I am not a boring guy but it is all about one game at at time and getting the boys to believe in each other," he said.  "It’s great to see players expressing themselves and maximising their ability.

After having the wood on Western Sydney for so long, the Sky Blues were left with the empty feeling so often experienced by the other half of the city after missing several chances and succumbing to a late sucker-punch. More concerning for the hosts, they are appearing to become spellbound by the Wanderers, who are the only team to have beaten the runaway league leaders this season.

The thrilling match rewarded effort more than affluence. The Wanderers were the more dogged, Sydney were best in possession. When they could muster spells of possession, they looked dangerous and a defence-splitting pass from Luke Brattan in the 20th minute put the Wanderers on notice. However, his target, Adam Le Fondre, let the visitors off the hook with his finish.

If there was a blemish to the first half it was the behaviour of the travelling fans. Two days after posting immature and homophobic jibes at their rivals, Wanderers' supporters showed old habits die hard by igniting four flares on the half-hour. Covered by an orange mist, they may have missed their side's best chance of the half when Nikolai Muller rattled the cross bar with a wicked shot from distance.

The Wanderers had no hesitation to fire from long range and fullback Daniel Georgievski almost got lucky from more than 30 metres when he tried to chip Andrew Redmayne in Sydney's goal.

On the stroke of half-time, it was Sydney who should have snatched the lead. Le Fondre's cross found Kosta Barbarouses unmarked inside the box but the New Zealander's volley shaved the outside of the post.

The aggressive system and relentless press that worked for the Wanderers remained after the break while the Sky Blues sought to pry open space with probing, considered passes. As the game wore on, the latter worked better. Western Sydney's over-eagerness got the better of them and it wasn't long before they began to tire.

By contrast, Sydney had plenty in reserve and showed that with a well-worked counter attack on the hour. Le Fondre picked the run of Milos Ninkovic at the far post with a perfectly weighted cross, only for the Serbian playmaker to skew his header wide from point-blank range.

However weary, the Wanderers still had plenty of life. After coming close twice earlier, they summoned enough strength to shatter their rivals. A superb cross from Tate Russell landed upon Duke and from close range, the Wanderers captain made no mistake, shattering the hosts and sending the few thousand travelling fans into pure delirium.

The away bay celebrated wildly, however a few hundred Wanderers supporters missed the moment to cherish, leaving early to ignite more flares on Jubilee Avenue behind the stand before being marched off by mounted police.

 

Neither their behaviour nor a red card for Daniel Georgievski for lashing out at Sydney's Marco Tilio could sour Wanderers' mood as Western Sydney left believing this could be the start of their own reign of derby dominance

[Prydzopolis]

15 hours ago, Paul01 said:

Violent Conduct is 2 matches unless your a Smurf like the Mullet.

DG misses both Brisbane and Heartle$$ and returns for the next Sydney Derby.

Surely we can put in a review to the MRP, Gerogeski has been a model individual & has no red cards whilst playing in the competition. They’ve set a precedent. You can’t blame his reaction at a leg breaking tackle.

[sonar]

4 minutes ago, Prydzopolis said:

Surely we can put in a review to the MRP, Gerogeski has been a model individual & has no red cards whilst playing in the competition. They’ve set a precedent. You can’t blame his reaction at a leg breaking tackle.

Pryzds, I hope that win cheered you up...........

[DomJ]

4 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

I think this is JPs “tweak” we actually go forward now, and get balls into the box 

 

If you said we got balls into Cox while in the box it would have been much more appropriate.

It happened once but he was too slow on the release and Cox was blocked.

[btron3000]

2 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

How pretentious was the Cove Tifo They really are a bigger set of tits than ABJs Mrs’

What did it say? I got in just at kick off and didn’t take any notice of them.

[THEWANDERERSPOST]

3 minutes ago, btron3000 said:

What did it say? I got in just at kick off and didn’t take any notice of them.

"Our club unites" "Your club divides" something like that from memory.

[GunnerWanderer]

Was on the hill last night it was great experience. Okay so the queues for drinks, food and toilets were not great but the atmosphere was great. 
when we scored OMG - Two words amazing scenes - a celebration of the highest order! So great if only we didn’t waste those Years at soulless and took some games to the burbs anyway 

some great performances - been calling for sullivan on this forum all season hopefully he gets some more games. Last night confirmed he is a viable option 

overall as others have mentioned this team now appears to have 11 Mitch dukes out there now all wanting to get to the ball and win for their fans 

it’s the second time this season we have won 3 and drawn 1 - that’s how we started season - let’s hope the results don’t follow the pattern of last time. 

what a night EAD ESFC

Edited February 29, 2020 by GunnerWanderer

[lloydy136]

53 minutes ago, Prydzopolis said:

Surely we can put in a review to the MRP, Gerogeski has been a model individual & has no red cards whilst playing in the competition. They’ve set a precedent. You can’t blame his reaction at a leg breaking tackle.

Did you view the original tackle as a straight red? It looked to me like a clear example of serious foul play - lunge, unecessary force and fair chance to injure opponent.

Thoughts from you prydz & other refs paul? Unlimited?

[btron3000]

1 hour ago, mack said:

Bossi Alert...

If there was a blemish to the first half it was the behaviour of the travelling fans. Two days after posting immature and homophobic jibes at their rivals, Wanderers' supporters showed old habits die hard by igniting four flares on the half-hour. Covered by an orange mist, they may have missed their side's best chance of the half when Nikolai Muller rattled the cross bar with a wicked shot from distance.

 

...

 

 

The away bay celebrated wildly, however a few hundred Wanderers supporters missed the moment to cherish, leaving early to ignite more flares on Jubilee Avenue behind the stand before being marched off by mounted police.

What a complete and utter flog.

The smurf bias I can take at this point, so it’s not unexpected that he calls out the flares but not that every second chant of the cove is “**** off westie scum” or “**** off west Sydney”, but the comment about Wanderers fans leaving to rip flares in the street is straight up irresponsible.
 

He didn’t look into what happened, just made it seem like they intentionally left to run amok in the street. This is the kind of rubbish that the daily telegraph peddled at the height of Rebecca Wilson’s attack on football. No wonder football struggles when wankers like him - who claim to be football journalists - write stuff like this. What his he trying to do - get a back page story? 
 

Twat.

[Unlimited]

2 hours ago, mack said:

Bossi Alert (the archive doesn't seem to work sometimes):

After five years of being in the shadows of their bitter rivals, Western Sydney Wanderers have turned the tide of the derby after clinching a dramatic 1-0 win over their Sydney FC at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium on Friday night.

Having won just once in 18 games against Sydney FC, the Wanderers have maintained a perfect record in the derby after clinching a second successive win over the Sky Blues this season. An 81st-minute winner from captain Mitchell Duke maintained the dream start to life in the dugout for interim coach Jean-Paul de Marigny, who is set to be rewarded with the job on a permanent basis, according to Wanderers sources. A top six finish is now in sight for the Wanderers but de Marigny isn't putting a target yet on their season.

"There is no set ceiling, there is no particular goal. I don’t want to be boring because I am not a boring guy but it is all about one game at at time and getting the boys to believe in each other," he said.  "It’s great to see players expressing themselves and maximising their ability.

After having the wood on Western Sydney for so long, the Sky Blues were left with the empty feeling so often experienced by the other half of the city after missing several chances and succumbing to a late sucker-punch. More concerning for the hosts, they are appearing to become spellbound by the Wanderers, who are the only team to have beaten the runaway league leaders this season.

The thrilling match rewarded effort more than affluence. The Wanderers were the more dogged, Sydney were best in possession. When they could muster spells of possession, they looked dangerous and a defence-splitting pass from Luke Brattan in the 20th minute put the Wanderers on notice. However, his target, Adam Le Fondre, let the visitors off the hook with his finish.

If there was a blemish to the first half it was the behaviour of the travelling fans. Two days after posting immature and homophobic jibes at their rivals, Wanderers' supporters showed old habits die hard by igniting four flares on the half-hour. Covered by an orange mist, they may have missed their side's best chance of the half when Nikolai Muller rattled the cross bar with a wicked shot from distance.

The Wanderers had no hesitation to fire from long range and fullback Daniel Georgievski almost got lucky from more than 30 metres when he tried to chip Andrew Redmayne in Sydney's goal.

On the stroke of half-time, it was Sydney who should have snatched the lead. Le Fondre's cross found Kosta Barbarouses unmarked inside the box but the New Zealander's volley shaved the outside of the post.

The aggressive system and relentless press that worked for the Wanderers remained after the break while the Sky Blues sought to pry open space with probing, considered passes. As the game wore on, the latter worked better. Western Sydney's over-eagerness got the better of them and it wasn't long before they began to tire.

By contrast, Sydney had plenty in reserve and showed that with a well-worked counter attack on the hour. Le Fondre picked the run of Milos Ninkovic at the far post with a perfectly weighted cross, only for the Serbian playmaker to skew his header wide from point-blank range.

However weary, the Wanderers still had plenty of life. After coming close twice earlier, they summoned enough strength to shatter their rivals. A superb cross from Tate Russell landed upon Duke and from close range, the Wanderers captain made no mistake, shattering the hosts and sending the few thousand travelling fans into pure delirium.

The away bay celebrated wildly, however a few hundred Wanderers supporters missed the moment to cherish, leaving early to ignite more flares on Jubilee Avenue behind the stand before being marched off by mounted police.

 

Neither their behaviour nor a red card for Daniel Georgievski for lashing out at Sydney's Marco Tilio could sour Wanderers' mood as Western Sydney left believing this could be the start of their own reign of derby dominance

Lol wtf

" The Wanderers had no hesitation to fire from long range and fullback Daniel Georgievski almost got lucky from more than 30 metres when he tried to chip Andrew Redmayne in Sydney's goal. "

Nothing about how it may have gone over the line?

Nothing about the chance that Cox had about three minutes before we scored when we basically tore them wide open twice in the space of five minutes?

[Wanderboy]

Quality journalism in this country is almost dead.

That is the most saltiest of salt / sea salt / Himalayan Pink salt /Lake Eyre salt articles I have ever read.

Bossi, you are a complete flog.

[Smoggy]

5 minutes ago, Wanderboy said:

Quality journalism in this country is almost dead.

That is the most saltiest of salt / sea salt / Himalayan Pink salt /Lake Eyre salt articles I have ever read.

Bossi, you are a complete flog.

 

[StringerBellend]

2 hours ago, btron3000 said:

What did it say? I got in just at kick off and didn’t take any notice of them.

Something about not walking alone

no it was post said

 

[THEWANDERERSPOST]

27 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

Something about not walking alone

no it was post said

 

Wasn't even a good tifo. In the RBB I didn't even realised they did one until afterwards.

Just read somewhere before that the club are investigating the issues with the members and the police. 

[Carns]

Great, hard fought win last night. Feels great to beat them again, let's go for the clean sweep in a few weeks time.

On the JP thing, I am not completely sold yet, but if he gets the boys performing over the next month I'd be happy to sign him for the top job. BUT, I'd only want him signed for a season with the proviso that he either wins us trophies or we finish top 4 before he gets a longer extension.

At the end of the day he has never had the top job, and we've been shackled by long term contracts before. Give him one year with performance based options for extension.

[jockman]

1 hour ago, btron3000 said:

What a complete and utter flog.

The smurf bias I can take at this point, so it’s not unexpected that he calls out the flares but not that every second chant of the cove is “**** off westie scum” or “**** off west Sydney”, but the comment about Wanderers fans leaving to rip flares in the street is straight up irresponsible.
 

He didn’t look into what happened, just made it seem like they intentionally left to run amok in the street. This is the kind of rubbish that the daily telegraph peddled at the height of Rebecca Wilson’s attack on football. No wonder football struggles when wankers like him - who claim to be football journalists - write stuff like this. What his he trying to do - get a back page story? 
 

Twat.

What chance does football have in this country !! Bad enough when the usual AFL, NRL and just general football hating media show their bias and ignorance..But when a supposedly knowlegable football reporter vomits bile like this..he will have another sydney team next season to share his love with..

He really is a chunt...

[1988banana]

Didnt see the goal , was outside , but the scenes outside when we scored oooooooft reminded me of the old days

 

JP FREEING THE RED AND BLACK 

 

JTOUT

[Taurus]

1 hour ago, btron3000 said:

What a complete and utter flog.

The smurf bias I can take at this point, so it’s not unexpected that he calls out the flares but not that every second chant of the cove is “**** off westie scum” or “**** off west Sydney”, but the comment about Wanderers fans leaving to rip flares in the street is straight up irresponsible.
 

He didn’t look into what happened, just made it seem like they intentionally left to run amok in the street. This is the kind of rubbish that the daily telegraph peddled at the height of Rebecca Wilson’s attack on football. No wonder football struggles when wankers like him - who claim to be football journalists - write stuff like this. What his he trying to do - get a back page story? 
 

Twat.

FU @ CoveBoyXXXX 

I shirt fronted Bossi one day after a WSW pre-derby press conference one day (Cejudo's initial media outing) & he ran away like a frightened squirrel.

It was the one occasion I can recall him having a neutral derby article published the next day.

[Taurus]

3 hours ago, lloydy136 said:

Did you view the original tackle as a straight red? It looked to me like a clear example of serious foul play - lunge, unecessary force and fair chance to injure opponent.

Thoughts from you prydz & other refs paul? Unlimited?

DG deserves to get off & only receive a suspended sentence, for his work in the community 

[Couscous]

18 hours ago, MajorMelons said:

Bossi article in SMH is worth a read, it is the most biased ever, almost comical

Wow. I'm a Jets supporter with a special dislike of Sydney. It's not biased, mate.

[hawks2767]

4 hours ago, THEWANDERERSPOST said:

"Our club unites" "Your club divides" something like that from memory.

Thanks to WSW people now hold up their postcodes at matches.

WSW have united the West like never before.

All ESFC have done since 2012 is given their members another outlet to look down on the West, like they do in their daily lives.

Tifo fail once again.