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  • Wanderers Win In Season Two Debut

    mack

    By mack

    The Western Sydney Wanderers completed a 2-0 win over a spirited Macarthur Rams outfit tonight at Campbelltown Stadium in their first pre-season match of the 2013/14 A-League season.

     

    The Wanderers opened their A-League Premiership defence in front of four and a half thousand raucous supporters, including a large contingent in the half-way line RBB section. Heavy rain prior to kick-off dampened expecations of a crowd numbering over 6,000 but those who did turn up were treated to a typical pre-season match. The Wanderers were rusty and had many players out of position or filling in from other State League teams, while the opposition Macarthur were up for the challenge and not bowed by the 2012/13 A-League Premiership winners.

     

    The major surprise of the evening was that the Wanderers line-up included Nick Ward on trial. The utility journeyman, having been released from his second stint with the Perth Glory, took up position at right fullback. Unfortunately for the 28 year old, his performance was well below the standard one would expect from a Wanderers player, with seemingly every touch he made resulting in a loss of possession or killing a potential attacking thrust. He was caught flat-footed on several occasions and his positioning while the Wanderers were in possession was left wanting.

     

    The second was the debut of a truly atrocious pre-season kit by Western Sydney. I don't know if it was created by putting together offcuts of fabric, but the garish striped number will go down in history as one of the worst kits ever used by an A-League team.

     

    The rumours that a new back of shirt sponsor would be coming on board were confirmed as Mitsubishi Electric adorned the strip for the first time. A welcome addition and one that should help push the club closer to a break-even figure by the end of the season.

     

    Two goals were scored on the night, the first half saw Shannon Cole convert a free kick on the half-hour mark. The kick wasn't particularly fast, but it managed to go through the wall and left the Macarthur goalkeeper stranded on the other side of his goal. The match was secured when Mark Bridge scored from close range in the second half with a strong finish after good lead up play from Trifiro and Minniecon. The match was a great way to kick off Season 2013/14 for the club and it's supporters, and I hope that the rest of the pre-season continues in the same manner.

     

    The Wanderers next match will be against Canberra Olympic on Wednesday the 14th of August, 6:15 PM at the AIS Athletics Field in Canberra.

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    JamCal

    I thought Matador actually went alright last night. I was expecting a lot worse tbh

     

    What I found though (with every chant) is that a lot of people have no endurance or get bored too easily and only sing a chant twice and then give up.

    I noticed this with every chant.

     

     

    I must say I was guilty of this last night... Not during the season at all... But ******* hell I lost RBB fitness over the winter... 

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    JamCal

    At about 2:40 in that video ^ popa says that Martin Lo is 16.

     

     

    Still, even for 16, he was pretty good. 

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    AEK

     

     

    Oh btw, I swear I thought I saw Patrick keating sitting behind me yesterday!

    the real one or the one that moderates the forums

    Real one

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    NATO

    Loved natos flag looked awesome, decent turnout and the new chants sounded pretty good. Our team is finding its feet again and a person next to me noted that the players had some kind of timer/pace maker on their necks to calculate how much they had run. Any one else see this or did the person next to me have to many drinks tonight>?

    Thanks mate but unfortunately that flag went missing at the end of the night!

    I will be making another though with thinner material and now I have had some practice it will look heaps better.

    I did salvage 2 other oversize flags with no images on them just red and black patterns.

    Will bring them to the next game and return them.

    Loved the night IT WAS GREAT TO SING AGAIN.

    I took out a few guys with the RBB flag that were in front of me and whipped everyone in the face in the surrounding seats sorry about that.

    New chants sounded great can't wait to hear it in the bloc with a full crew.

    Oh yeh and the $6 cans of beer can go get F$%!D my family is living on 2 minute noodles until tuesday now.

    Overall didn't watch the game again missed everything but got to sing got to wave the flag and catch up with good people bring on the new season.

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    NATO

    do u mean as in some pinched your flag or it just got misplaced. Hope no one actually pinched the flag cause thats a big no no

    mate we were in campbelltown!

     

    It was down at Dad and Daves hock shop at 9am today!

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (I've lived around here for 20+years) Locals know Dad and Daves

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    blameturner

    A quick search on Martin Lo.. was on Footall stars of tomorrow but dont know much else. Westie through and through.

    "There could be a growing trend in Australian football with Martin Lo leading the way. This talented 13yo Australian representative was born in Sydney of Vietnamese background and he is making huge inroads in the game. Martin started playing football just seven years ago with his local church side Guilford McGreedie but in the space of the last 12 months, he has represented NSW, Australia and is also part of Project 22, where he trains four times a week. Martin is also a Year Seven student at the famous Westfield High School, who's most famous student was a Socceroo by the name of Harry Kewell!!"

     

    Also found he played national under 13s in 2010, so he would be 16 tops!

    He played for Guildford McCredie??! I always hated those guys... In my age group at least..

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    hawks2767

    Martin Lo is 15 and 9 months - confirmed from family member

    Imagine that kid sitting in class today, 'yeah last night I played the Wanderers, do you even lift'?

     

    Someone post the 'like a boss' pic lol

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    HungHuynh

     

    Martin Lo is 15 and 9 months - confirmed from family member

    Imagine that kid sitting in class today, 'yeah last night I played the Wanderers, do you even lift'?

     

    Someone post the 'like a boss' pic lol

     

    Coming from a prestige sporting school (Westfield) the impact isn't as great as a prodigy from a regular public school quote "'yeah last night I played the Wanderers, do you even lift".

     

    It'll be a massive boost to vietnamese community if this kid's talent become a big one.

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    Drone

    I ended up missing the game, but I did see Nick Ward's name on the team sheet as a trialist. Did he get a run?

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    mack

    I ended up missing the game, but I did see Nick Ward's name on the team sheet as a trialist. Did he get a run?

     

    Yeah. He ran backwards. :nono:

     

     

     

    Martin Lo is 15 and 9 months - confirmed from family member

    Imagine that kid sitting in class today, 'yeah last night I played the Wanderers, do you even lift'?

     

    Someone post the 'like a boss' pic lol

     

    Coming from a prestige sporting school (Westfield) the impact isn't as great as a prodigy from a regular public school quote "'yeah last night I played the Wanderers, do you even lift".

     

    It'll be a massive boost to vietnamese community if this kid's talent become a big one.

     

    A lot of the students would be locals still, so it's still a pretty big deal. Then again, most of the current youth team come from Westfields so yeah.

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    Drone

     

    I ended up missing the game, but I did see Nick Ward's name on the team sheet as a trialist. Did he get a run?

     

    Yeah. He ran backwards. :nono:

     

     

    A lot of the students would be locals still, so it's still a pretty big deal.

     

     

    :rofl:

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    Stokz

     

    They should try an give panagiotis nikas a go , he's killing it with sutherland sharks

    Not Croatian enough

    Well there was Cindric and Anto Vuijica trialling, imagine the tantrum WSW1981 would have if another Cro was signed lol.

     

    BTW Poljak is going out with Anto's sister :)

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    1988banana

     

    They should try an give panagiotis nikas a go , he's killing it with sutherland sharks

    Not Croatian enough

    He's Greek

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