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I’ve lost count of the number of games we’ve dominated over the years and found a way to lose. It’s nice seeing that baffled, deflated look on the opponents this time.

Aleague Commemorative Access Bracelet

Start of an amazing undefeated run, which will include the best football in our history…… because I am leaving the ******* country……

"friendship bracelet"

The issue, Policing at the Derby game, has been positioned as 'Policing the Active RBB section'. It isn't this. It's a much bigger issue ... ongoing bad policing, wasting tax-payer (&spectator) at a sporting venue. Bad policing is bad policing. I've been going to games since the 70s. Seen a lot of high-tension games in eras where police were necessary. High presence, antagonistic policing is not necessary at WSW games. And thankfully it never has been. At the last Derby, we had a magical festival of culture and football ruined, by police. It was a wonderful party, snapped away in a moment. Police should make us all feel safer. We just need to call the events of the last Derby for what they are. Totally unacceptable policing.

All bans from Syd derby overturned.......have to say kudos to the club for this......... https://wswanderersfc.com.au/news/further-update-from-ceo-scott-hudson-on-sydney-derby-incident/

If they had any marketing sense they would be pushing this as a positive. "free limited edition commemorative derby wrist band"

SFC must be quaking in their boots about playing us next week.....

Technically if we win our remaining games, the Nix lose all their games, CCM beat the Nix but lose the rest, Victory beat the Nix but lose the rest, Sydney lose against us, and Macarthur beat Sydney and the Nix but lose the rest, then we win the Premiers Plate by being level on points with CCM and the Nix, but having won more games than the Nix and would need a better GD than CCM. Just booking my WSW 2024 Premiers tattoo now.

Its exceptionally easy to dislike Uskok, Germaine, Lewis and Baccus. All 4 have their hands all over opposition players, dragging them around by shirts if theres even a slight confrontation (example Mila giving some lip). Add to that a protected player like Davilla and its always likely to kick off. It was the same with SFC back when they had ninko playing. They're just a particularly unlikeable squad.

I think it was around RD 10 when I said play the youth and build for next season. We do not have the cattle to be a top 6 side. We never replaced Calum, Layouni, Schneiderlin, Amaltifano or Mrcela. 99.9% of Wanderers fans can see that players like Pierias, Clisby and Russell and co are sub-standard. I watched Rudan's presser... hooked Clisby for being **** (20 rounds too late) and then had the nerve to call out Younis for not tracking back for the last goal. Please get of our club, Mr Rudan. Take Antonsson and the other garbage you and Eddie Bosnar brought into the club. Play the NPL squad, and forget about signing VISA players next season. We don't know how to recruit decent ones. We are crap. Have been since the Adelaide Grand Final.

3:30pm on a Saturday arvo when grass roots season has started is completely stupid. Sometimes I wonder if they even want people to attend games?

The club needs to (re)find a functioning identity that filters through all aspects of operations on and off the field. The whole WEST™️ thing is surface level marketing and starting to feel very gimmicky. They put out that cinematic video each year of some kid in a tracksuit walking on train tracks with the same tired monologue and you wonder who they’re actually trying to convince. The concept felt overdone 5 years ago. When I did my uni placement at the club almost 10 years ago, it was very cool to see (over a long period of time) as there was a collective unity around the joint. They had absolutely bugger all facilities and resources (to the point that school athletics carnivals were taking priority over them) but they just made it work through ambition and application - that was from the person working the front desk to the kit man. Everyone had a drive about them which represented what true blue westies are like, they didn’t need to spend every waking minute telling everyone how WEST the club was. I really think the worst thing to happen was building the headquarters and getting a new stadium cause it removed the need to work for or towards anything and ultimately killed a lot of ambition. It’s given this false sense of being a ‘big’ club and we’ve made the mistake of entering that measuring contest. Speaking of, we’ve got an academy with 57 playing fields that spans 40% the length of the m7 yet prioritising youth development within the aleague program doesn’t appear to be the plan. On the flip side we are historically atrocious recruiters of foreign/senior talent and don’t seem to prioritise that either so we have a foot in neither camp and are just stuck somewhere in the grey zone. The club should be looking at CCM and their resurgence cause they are a perfect lesson in re-finding a niche and prospering from it. The Mariners moved away from their history for a while but in recent years decided to accept they’ll always be a selling/development club (and further to that, that the aleague as a whole is in reality) and they used it to their advantage rather than fight it, both financially and performance wise. They also revamped and made careful considerations with recruitment of their foreigners to compliment their youth. Now look at them, they’re flying. Thats the blueprint right there and any club not following it is stupid not to. Until this is resolved I think whoever manages us is purely trivial cause they’re just pushing the same **** uphill with a stick.

Fuuck you WSW! You owe me a TV remote!

Sapsford , Younis , Priestman and SImmons needs to be the core of rebuild next season

Can’t wait for games filmed on iPhones and Simon Hill on commentary saying “Thanks for the Super Chats everyone. This one is from SMFCMike and he asks why we aren’t showing South Melbourne games instead of the APL cartel”.

I hate to sound like a bitter arse-hole, but that whole fanfare around Ninković's last home game does not sit well with me. He is an A-League legend of our biggest rival. Nice bloke, great ambassador for the game... but does he deserve the attention he is receiving from thr club? Here is a list of some more deserving club legends that were shown the door, with zero fanfare... Ante Čović, Brendan Santalab, NTS, Mateo Poljak, La Rocca, Michael Beauchamp etc... Ninko has scored more goals for Sydney FC than appearances for WSW. Zero A-League goals for us. Sure, he has set up a few goals with his silkly skills, but when it came to the biggest game in the semi final last season, he shat the bed along with the rest of them. Spent more time off the field than on it this season. I vividly remember his first interview after signing for the club... "I come here to win". Signing a 39 year old from FC was always a risk... eventually it freed up a VISA spot for us, and that is about all the positives. When he was fit enough to be on the bench, he just took the place of a more deserving youth player, like Younis, who would've benefited from the experience, rather than just sitting in the stands. Recruitment, again the major reason we'll miss finals footy this season.

Don’t care about the result hopefully not making finals will be the back of Rudan. What is Younis’ contract situation? Not just the talent but he plays like he bleeds WSW which is unusual in this squad.

I wanted further punishment, so watched the replay Paramount. Only the Coves chants could be heard for 90% of the game. The flops turned the RBB audio off. Younis needs to hold his head up high and ignore Rudan. He has more talent than most of the first grade squad.

Hope that ****wit is identified and handed a life ban

maybe. or maybe everyone is tired and dont give a **** anymore. when the season finishes and we don't make the finals, we'll here he's keeping his job and we'll have another large group of players let go - and we'll have yet another season of rebuilding. it's exhausting.

No point discussing his sacking if the derby loss and getting rolled 8-0 by City didn't do it. I'd make a joke about him outlasting the league, but given the length of his contract and what's coming out of the APL it might not be a joke.

Don’t expect this to be reported by the media

Faghani is by far the best ref in the A-League. It isn't even close. That was close to the worst 45 mins of the season (and we've had a lot of bad 45 mins efforts this season), followed by close to the best 45 mins of the season. This team, man.

Happened after noon so may be genuine.

Apparently we won 3-1 away ... Is this an April Fool's joke?

I liked that the club did something to respect a real legend of A League. Yes it should have been done previously to some of the local club legends! The club did a decent thing, here and it should continue. As for the game. I'm not really agreeing with the majority of you. Yes, absolutely disappointing to lose and the season has turned to dust. Considering City absolutely destroyed us a few weeks ago and then destroyed Perth last week, I was looking for a response. I never thought we'd win and I never thought we'd get close. We did. They dominated us for a fair bit of the first half, as they do. No kids in their side and 5 decent/good imports all on the field. They are probably the best team - on paper - but haven't really clicked much of the time. McLaren continues to struggle. Simmons, except for one moment, did really well against Natel. Arslan was kept under control and Marcelo really controlled the backline for most of the game. Perias is quick but no vision. Did some good things and wasted much. Antonsson looks really down on confidence and has to go. Rudan right to hook him. Brilliante (not a favourite on here!) was very strong and did take us forward a lot of the time (despite other forumite comments). We tried to go round and play through/over their much stronger midfield and it worked a lot of the time but we don't have a solid finisher. The second half was much more of us and Younis a large part of that. Sapsford, Blair, Younis, Priestman, Simmons, Bonetig, Barrie and Scicluna are worth keeping. But that shows the difference - 11 experienced players v young blokes learning and a few experienced players. Kittel shows there's a player in there but not enough of the player showed up for us. Ninkovic is 2 metres shower than he used to be but was one of the few on the park who controls and keeps the ball. I hope we can keep him as a coach. The stories we heard from people around us about what he does with kids and families to encourage and help were brilliant. So a disappointing result, with some really promising performances. We don't look like a team that is gelling and knows each other's game. That, for me, along with some poor ball control from players that should be much better, is a major problem. The reality is we were just beaten by a much better team (at least with experience and on paper) and we aren't improving. The 'tactics' we seem to employ are limited and have been shown up in the second half of the season. That is on the coaching staff. I'll say no more as there is enough said elsewhere in the forum.

Tahmid was a wonderful young bloke. Passionate about the Wanderers and about the West. He was doing the photography for the RBB until recently when his chronic health condition took a sudden turn for the worse. He was a good mate of my son's and will be deeply missed.

Pep Guardiola: "I'm going to defend you until the last day of our lives in the press". Rudan: Runs onto the field at full-time to berate an attacker for a goal coughed up by the two fullbacks being lazy, then slates him in a post-game interview and the press conference. Sure, he apologised for "singling him out", did he apologise for singling out the wrong player to start with? The Mariners & Nix finished 5th & 6th in 21/22 when Rudan took over. Rudan's second year we finished 4th then lost to the smurfs in Round 1 while the Mariners won the Grand Final. 3rd year, CCM are the favourites for the Premiership, the Nix have a chance if CCM drop points, and we're back in 6th with a game tomorrow against a team who beat us 7-0 earlier in the season that if we lose we're out of the finals spots, and even if we made it, we're probably just going to lose to Victory in Week 1. I'm so over this ****. Rudan has had three years and done **** all to improve things, he's not done well enough to add all this pointless drama and bullshit.

Vintage WSW, scoring a late equaliser and not being able to hold on to it. I cannot see the club doing anything under the existing stewardship. We played our best football in S4. Since then we’ve been the football version of trains, planes and automobiles. John Candy’s smelly socks everywhere, but no happy ending. Rudan out, Merrick in. At least he knows how to put a fit, physical and structured team on the pitch. Which is what is required in the AL.

We sucked, anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded

Football Australia look to acknowledged that Alireza Faghani is the best referee in Australia. He is the referee for this game.

I think Lederer has been unlucky rather than clueless. Everyone wanted Gombau, he got Gombau. WSW Gombau was a very different version of the original Gombau . Everyone was impressed with Robbo so he got Robbo. Robbo was a used car salesman. You can’t really blame him for how those two turned out cause very few would’ve picked those poor outcomes based on their previous gigs. The one that I blame him/the club for is Babel’s sacking cause I think he was punted way too prematurely and that for me was the start of the out of control spiral we’ve been in since. Hiring Babel in the first place was a decent shout as an outside the square option, with decent OS pedigree. I think it’s harsh to say that Lederer has been useless cause he’s listened to the fans wishes and/or done his homework. Sometimes you just have no luck

OK I get the criticism on Antonsson for the penalty because it was a big moment but are we really going to say he was a failure? By that logic we should also say Borello has had a poor season because he barely gets the ball. Antonsson 5 goal and 3 assists from 22 appearances, Borello 1 goal and 4 assists and 14 appearances. Doesn't matter who you put up there the result is the same. The issue isn't the striker its getting the ball to them. Majority of the time they get the ball is at halfway, not the 18 yard box. That is a stat I would be interested in seeing. That's the problem we can't get the ball in the front 3rd for them enough. My question to the forum is, is it the striker's fault he gets the ball in less threatening areas or is it the team and the system they play that isn't optimising the player's strengths.

"I believe you need electric fences to keep cattle at bay." Ooo controversial one there....

Watched the replay last night after getting home First half we were poor, amazing how we did not concede. Antonsson did nothing, same as Ninkovic, Milanovic was the spark we needed, that goal after he came on was a banger, Sonny finally came to life when he scored that goal and that was beautiful football in the leadup to Hendrix goal. MacArthur, they couldn't get things go their way because Alireza didn't allow them, and that frustrated them a lot.

After our previous match against the Bulls, during the press conference Sterjovski repeatedly said all the refereeing decisions were correct in response to the journalists' questions. He wouldn't say anything else despite being asked to. I thought fair enough at the time. But not now. When asked about today's match at today's press conference he said he was unhappy about some decisions and including that he thought Borrello's challenge should have been a red. That seems very hypocritical to me after his silence last time.

Sir we thank you for your sacrifice

Why weren't the riot police there to enforce the family friendly atmosphere?

Doing stuff the wife wants to do…. Afternoon tea at some fancy gaff…..tea where you have to pass it through a ******* silver strainer thing on the cup….a stand thing with bite sized shyte on it….flowers on ******* tea cups…..soft piano music……people pretending to be posh chunts…. I mean….really…I’m a 6’4” fella who can devour a my own curry takeaway and someone else’s with room to spare…… But I sat there and did it…because she does shyte I want to do….. I held a fart for that the whole time too, and let it go and soon as outside….that is me really trying for the wife that is.

Perfect. Rudan will play him at centre back.

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The queues should be short

Younis gets 20+ minutes., lots of emotion in a derby, played well. Rudan- throws him under the bus and calls out an 18 year old who played 20 odd minutes No doubt Younis will be named to play NPL today. I wonder what kind of emotional state he will be in

WSW club doing a good thing

Should have scheduled it for tonight there will be loads of them there

This - he was very consistent - there were several shouts from us for fouls in the second half that he just waved away but you don't care because he was consistent. Seriously, we need to clone the bloke and have him do every A league game!

to WSW FC. They have successfully achieved another season of completely doing my head in.

Add Jurman to that list

Packing for first trip to Europe since before covid is exciting stuff. Looking forward to getting to the airport and then a few tiger beers in Singapore by the pool