Perth Glory vs Western Sydney Wanderers 21/10/2018 4:00PM

Popa to bottle an easy win

We all know this is gonna end with a Santa winner.

Fmd, Perth are stacked.. 

Diego Castro 

Andy Keogh 

Ikonomidis 

Spiranovich 

Jason Davidson 

Ivan Franjic

Mrcela

Santa

Fahhhh

33 minutes ago, wanderersfanatic said:

Fmd, Perth are stacked.. 

Diego Castro 

Andy Keogh 

Ikonomidis 

Spiranovich 

Jason Davidson 

Ivan Franjic

Mrcela

Santa

 

Fahhhh

I heard Castro has a hamstring injury and could be out. They could play 3 at the back like this

.......................Reddy

........Mrcela.....Spiranovic.....Lowry

Franjic.......................................Davidson

...............Kilkenny.......Juande

Harold.............Keogh.......ikonomedis 

For me, Perth are the team to beat this year.....Perth in Perth and Smurfs in Smurfland are 2 tough opening games🙄🙄

In 

hopefully the weather is better in Perth than here 

Very difficult start.

The really disappointing thing about the Cup Semi was we didn't even look like a team.

It was as if the half time instruction, was 'lads take it easy it's only a trial game'.

With everyone trying to get a place in the squad.

There's an apparent lack of unity. No team-ness. No little groups or links.

We desperantly need some links - Poljak-LaRocca, Polenz-Hersi. And Ono-Mooy seem like years ago.

It's the little groups that knit together to form the fine-embroidery of a good team.

We just don't seem to have it.

With others, [Mariners/Jets] getting better around us, I fear for the season.

But at least it's the last one, parking at Lidcombe.

6 hours ago, octa9ona11 said:

For me, Perth are the team to beat this year.....Perth in Perth and Smurfs in Smurfland are 2 tough opening games🙄🙄

Yes..fear the worst for this game...hope I'm proved wrong

Popa never got us off to a winning start in all the seasons he was in charge, so Perth are specials

15 minutes ago, matty said:

Popa never got us off to a winning start in all the seasons he was in charge, so Perth are specials

And the 1 season he did (13/14 we were 1st after Round 6) we very rapidly fell back as far as 3rd, then kept dropping points while Brisbane extended their lead.

On 14/10/2018 at 4:55 AM, luisenrique said:

We all know this is gonna end with a Santa winner.

but for who? 

We get popa first game. Guarantee this is a draw knowing both our histories in the A-league

Riera hattrick. Runs to Popa "You didn't want US!"

We will win.

Somebody has to be positive 

Either a 1-0 win or a 4-0 loss...

Would take a draw if given now.

Fear another hammering. ******* Popa never won his first games of season with us but you watch him turn that around..

Nailed on Santa goal also.

i feel popa will be our new arnie. all but unbeatable.

Nearly half the league was our Arnie last year. I don't think we won a game against Newcastle, Sydney FC, Melbourne Victory or Adelaide and we didn't sweep anyone 3-0 either. We got close with the Mariners & Wellington where our record against them both was 2 wins and 1 draw.

Last year was absolutely dire. The playing style, SOP, no purpose, little commitment, Riot Squad travails, SOP, losing in just about every game to the teams above us, SOP, running out of steam every game after 60 mins. Oh and did I mention Sydney Bleedin' Olympic Park.

Has to be better, has to.

27 games plus finals before the new stadium. The countdown starts here

4 hours ago, beatsurrender said:

Last year was absolutely dire. The playing style, SOP, no purpose, little commitment, Riot Squad travails, SOP, losing in just about every game to the teams above us, SOP, running uoluout of steam every game after 60 mins. Oh and did I mention Sydney Bleedin' Olympic Park.

Has to be better, has to.

 Ffs you didn’t even mention SOP 

4 hours ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

27 games plus finals before the new stadium. The countdown starts here

So... 27 games then? 😆

Just read that Spira and Castro are highly doubtful

popa said Spira is looking great on his pod yday 

might be mind games from popa 

If they are out I wonder how many rounds before they're PopaFit TM and back in the squad.

Since when has Popa publicly announced his squad days before a match? We'll be lucky to know his Starting XI by 6:45pm Sunday

Whilst Popa has a great squad on paper, some of them are not coming off strong seasons. Spira hasn't been performing at his best (not even A League best) for a couple of years.  I wonder how far he is from being the Spira we remember?  Likewise a few others? - Franjic has generally turned up only to score a worldy against us; Ferriera has never grabbed me - solid but not a name I'd look at.  Not sure about the rest of his pick ups but assume that they are coming to Perth, they need to get things back on the road of their careers.  Perth is not the centre of the footballing universe and they are under the salary cap, so???

Ikon should be up for it as he had a good run last season.  If they get it together, they will be very tough this season but I am hoping that getting them early will give us the best opportunity (despite we are very much underdone as well).  We shall see.  As someone else said probably 1-0 win or 0-4 loss.

Western Sydney Wanderers FC: 1.Danijel NIZIC, 4.Josh RISDON, 5.Brendan HAMILL, 7.Nick FITZGERALD, 8.Jordan O’DOHERTY, 9.Oriol RIERA, 10.Alexander BAUMJOHANN, 11.Bruce KAMAU, 12.Ruon TONGYIK, 16.Jaushua SOTIRIO, 17.Keanu BACCUS, 20.Vedran JANJETOVIC, 21.Tarek ELRICH, 22.Rashid MAHAZI, 23.Lachlan SCOTT 24.Raul LLORENTE, 28.Roly BONEVACIA, 49.Abraham MAJOK. 

Unavailable: 6.Kosta GROZOS (international duty), 13.Tass MOURDOUKOUTAS (international duty), 18. Marc TOKICH (international duty), 19.Mark BRIDGE (injury – six weeks), 32.John ROBERTS (international duty), 33.Tate RUSSELL (international duty), 34.Patrick ZIEGLER (injury – two weeks), 40.Nicholas SUMAN (not selected)

Western Sydney Wanderers FC: 1.Danijel NIZIC, 4.Josh RISDON, 5.Brendan HAMILL, 7.Nick FITZGERALD, 8.Jordan O’DOHERTY, 9.Oriol RIERA, 10.Alexander BAUMJOHANN, 11.Bruce KAMAU, 12.Ruon TONGYIK, 16.Jaushua SOTIRIO, 17.Keanu BACCUS, 20.Vedran JANJETOVIC, 21.Tarek ELRICH, 22.Rashid MAHAZI, 23.Lachlan SCOTT 24.Raul LLORENTE, 28.Roly BONEVACIA, 49.Abraham MAJOK.

Unavailable: 6.Kosta GROZOS (international duty), 13.Tass MOURDOUKOUTAS (international duty), 18. Marc TOKICH (international duty), 19.Mark BRIDGE (injury – six weeks), 32.John ROBERTS (international duty), 33.Tate RUSSELL (international duty), 34.Patrick ZIEGLER (injury – two weeks), 40.Nicholas SUMAN (not selected)