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    By mack

    Two disallowed goals for the Wanderers and two handball calls saw the Wanderers robbed of all three points a cellar dweller battle in the Hunter.

     

    The Wanderers were coming into this bottom of the table clash on the back of their first win, while their opponents Newcastle had lost to Brisbane 2-1. Tony Popovic elected for Yojiro Takahagi as his creative midfielder, while Matthew Spiranovic once again took position at holding midfield. Ex-Wanderers Daniel Mullen turned out for the Jets while the man who left Newcastle to come to Western Sydney, Sam Gallaway, did not make the match day squad.

     

    The first big call of the afternoon came just after the half-hour. Nikita Rukavytsya cut inside onto his favoured left boot, launched a cross for Tomi Juric to flick on for Haliti who had made his run far too early and was a mile offside, his smart finish correctly ruled out for offside.

     

    Right before the break Nikolai Topor-Stanley put Tomi Juric through on goal, the central defending striding into the attacking half before slotting a ball to the Asian Cup hero, who turned his marker and strode in on goal. After taking perhaps one touch too many his powerful blast from a narrow angle couldn't beat Jets custodian Ben Kennedy.

     

    Nikita Rukavytsya scored his first goal for the club in Penrith and had a glorious chance to double his account on the hour. Takahagi played an impressive outside of the foot through ball that enticed Kennedy out of his goal, only for the pace of Rukavytsya to beat him all ends up. On the run and from a very tight angle his shot on the open goal was poor and didn't even hit the side netting.

     

    The Wanderers were robbed of the opener by referee Lucien Lavadure with only 8 minutes of regulation time to play. After winning a corner, Shannon Cole swung in a superb corner and one that Kennedy completely misjudged, being put off balance by two of his own defenders, the ball deflected off the flapping hand of Kennedy, into Daniel Mullen (one of the Jets defenders who had blocked his keeper), and fell to the feet of Topor-Stanley who couldn't miss. Yet somehow Lavadure decided that Nick Kalmar had impeded someone in the Jets defence and chalked out the legitimate goal.

     

    Moments the Wanderers finally took a deserved lead. Daniel Mullen getting his body tangled in the penalty area and handling the ball. Brendon Santalab made no mistake with his paneka penalty. His inventive goal celebration saw him borrow a camera from the assembled media throng before taking a few pictures of the travelling support.

     

    Unfortunately for his side they were once again left ruing a defence lapse, this time as Lavadure decided that Antony Golec had deliberately handled the ball as a result of a shot which was smashed into his arms from a meter away. The atrocious call was yet another awful decision from an A-League referee, the quality of the referees in this league is a sorry state of affairs which shows no indication of improving with the likes of Lavadure, Ben Williams and co being allowed to make mistake after mistake with no punishment from the FFA. There are calls for full time referees, but handing these jokers in the middle highly paid full time contracts for such disastrous performances is throwing good money after bad.

     

    Ki-Je Lee stepped up to take the ill-awarded penalty and made no mistake, sending the Jets fans home happy with their 1-1 draw, and the Wanderers supporters a long drive back to Sydney lamenting another brace of dropped points. Western Sydney dominated the match with more possession and shots but their poor finishing and naive decision to attack in the final minutes instead of going to the corner to close out the game cost them dearly.

     

    The Wanderers next match is against Adelaide United, in Adelaide, on Saturday the 21st of February, kick-off 7:30PM Sydney time.

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    pushiepedlar

    Away support for the game was 2314

     

    Not bad when you consider our position on the table. 

     

    Also depending on how they get the numbers i think this is a under estimation. There were plenty who didn't buy "Away Supporter" tickets. I know we didn't as we like to sit on the hill and catch up with friends from Newcastle and let the kids run around. There where also a reasonable contingent who bought tickets in the bays near the rbb (7-9) closer to halfway to get a better view of the game. Not sure if these were included either as the away supporter non active were tucked away in bay 50 on the north western corner. 

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    Prydzopolis

     

    Away support for the game was 2314

     

    Not bad when you consider our position on the table. 

     

    Also depending on how they get the numbers i think this is a under estimation. There were plenty who didn't buy "Away Supporter" tickets. I know we didn't as we like to sit on the hill and catch up with friends from Newcastle and let the kids run around. There where also a reasonable contingent who bought tickets in the bays near the rbb (7-9) closer to halfway to get a better view of the game. Not sure if these were included either as the away supporter non active were tucked away in bay 50 on the north western corner.

    Yep the numbers weren't a true reflection, the only numbers that would have been included was those that bought in the designated active and non active bays. The 2.5 bays next to the rbb had many WSW fabs sitting in them, they weren't full but maybe another 1.5 fans you guys think?

     

    The non active away bay they gave us was bullshit which is why nobody bought tickets in that bay. Only a handful of supporters bothered sitting there! Also I think the last match Newcastle had 6-6.5 and the final attendance was close to 11.5. Not saying we brought 5k fans but don't think its a coincidence we pretty much doubled the crowd.

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    Flytox

    I thought Haiku was the third of the Japanese guys we were getting from the J-League...used to play as a CDM for Vegalta Sendai I am led to believe....

    Hmmm.  I heard the third player we were after was Doggerel from England.

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    wsw2154

    Away support for the game was 2314

    Thats just for away category tickets....if you include cat 2 bays across the east stand and hills add another 2000 fans. I recon we had around 4-5k there.

     

     

    Away support for the game was 2314

     

    Not bad when you consider our position on the table.

     

    Also depending on how they get the numbers i think this is a under estimation. There were plenty who didn't buy "Away Supporter" tickets. I know we didn't as we like to sit on the hill and catch up with friends from Newcastle and let the kids run around. There where also a reasonable contingent who bought tickets in the bays near the rbb (7-9) closer to halfway to get a better view of the game. Not sure if these were included either as the away supporter non active were tucked away in bay 50 on the north western corner.

    Yep the numbers weren't a true reflection, the only numbers that would have been included was those that bought in the designated active and non active bays. The 2.5 bays next to the rbb had many WSW fabs sitting in them, they weren't full but maybe another 1.5 fans you guys think?

     

    The non active away bay they gave us was bullshit which is why nobody bought tickets in that bay. Only a handful of supporters bothered sitting there! Also I think the last match Newcastle had 6-6.5 and the final attendance was close to 11.5. Not saying we brought 5k fans but don't think its a coincidence we pretty much doubled the crowd.

    4-5k away fans....there were red and black jerseys all over the place. Worst case scenario 3-4k but still a good turnout and compares with an fa cup away allocation overseas.

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    lloydy136

    a newy mate of mine reckons the crowd was close to a 50/50 split so i would say 4-5K would be right.

     

    I actually enjoyed the trip as much as I have any away day despite the rubbish standard of football on display and a disappointing  result.

     

    as predicted our poor results have stripped away many of the event-goers and it just seemed to me that those on this trip were majority rusted on proper fans who get it. i didn't see any 'hey you're in my seat' or much 'arms folded mouth closed in the active bay' or 'flares!!! won't someone please think of the children' type attitudes which is great.

     

    I know for me the away trips are more about catching up with the wanderers family and enjoying a top day out - success on the field is a bonus.

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    Smoggy

    a newy mate of mine reckons the crowd was close to a 50/50 split so i would say 4-5K would be right.

     

    I actually enjoyed the trip as much as I have any away day despite the rubbish standard of football on display and a disappointing  result.

     

    as predicted our poor results have stripped away many of the event-goers and it just seemed to me that those on this trip were majority rusted on proper fans who get it. i didn't see any 'hey you're in my seat' or much 'arms folded mouth closed in the active bay' or 'flares!!! won't someone please think of the children' type attitudes which is great.

     

    I know for me the away trips are more about catching up with the wanderers family and enjoying a top day out - success on the field is a bonus.

     

    Yeah, I enjoyed this trip as much as any other Newy trip, shame the game was shite mind, but  i can't ever see a reason why I wouldn't  go away to Newcastle or CCM games.

     

    Never understand why Jets and CCM don't bring decent numbers to Parra mind.

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    nmh94

     

     

    a newy mate of mine reckons the crowd was close to a 50/50 split so i would say 4-5K would be right.

     

    I actually enjoyed the trip as much as I have any away day despite the rubbish standard of football on display and a disappointing result.

     

    as predicted our poor results have stripped away many of the event-goers and it just seemed to me that those on this trip were majority rusted on proper fans who get it. i didn't see any 'hey you're in my seat' or much 'arms folded mouth closed in the active bay' or 'flares!!! won't someone please think of the children' type attitudes which is great.

     

    I know for me the away trips are more about catching up with the wanderers family and enjoying a top day out - success on the field is a bonus.

    Yeah, I enjoyed this trip as much as any other Newy trip, shame the game was shite mind, but i can't ever see a reason why I wouldn't go away to Newcastle or CCM games.

     

    Never understand why Jets and CCM don't bring decent numbers to Parra mind.

    CCM don't even take decent numbers to Gosford. That should probably be fixed before we worry about how many are coming to our games.

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    DCWSW

     

    Away support for the game was 2314

     

    As if there were 9k Newcastle fans!

     

    The figure only includes the WSW allocated active and non-active bays, im sure many people bought regular tickets...

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