Markus Babbel Is New Wanderers Coach

2 hours ago, Carns said:

From memory we lost 3-2 vs Manly and won 6-3 vs Olympic.

You're risking a ban. 

Deal with him @mack

Why is that ban worthy? 

On 13/07/2018 at 10:51 AM, Taurus said:

CEO made it clear at the recent fan forum, that the club would unfortunately need to continue with the practice of conducting BCD trial games.

Of course that isn't their preferred option, but, if the club is going to incur fines & potential financial losses from making the games open to our supporter base, I suppose they don't have many other options. 

The NPL clubs which would like to host us in pre-season trials & potentially generate a few thousand dollars, are the big losers.

PS: We've played Manly & Sydney Olympic thus far. No player has been given more than 45 mins in either game

Fair enough that the club needs to go down the path of BCD in the current circumstances, but I think they could at least have a summing up of the trial results afterwards, eg as Perth and Brisbane have done this week on their social media.

Keeping the clubs supporters in the dark re the teams progress so far is not a good thing in my opinion.

11 hours ago, papersun said:

Fair enough that the club needs to go down the path of BCD in the current circumstances, but I think they could at least have a summing up of the trial results afterwards, eg as Perth and Brisbane have done this week on their social media.

Keeping the clubs supporters in the dark re the teams progress so far is not a good thing in my opinion.

Poor communication (or lack of) follows the clubs general MO under JT

Will we play any friendly games??

At least two while they are in Queensland... I think Gold Coast and Brisbane Roar BCD

3 minutes ago, Frankos187 said:

At least two while they are in Queensland... I think Gold Coast and Brisbane Roar BCD

They are in Queensland already right?! U know what days we play?

6 hours ago, wsw4ever said:

They are in Queensland already right?! U know what days we play?

They left this morning I think for a week. Not sure what days they play.

Squad left Sunday, arrive back on Saturday.

Playing a QPL club on Tuesday & Roar BCD's at Robina on Friday

10 hours ago, Taurus said:

Squad left Sunday, arrive back on Saturday.

Playing a QPL club on Tuesday & Roar BCD's at Robina on Friday

Thanks for the info.

Footballers are on holidays atm. Signings will be done in due course. Compared to other teams like SFC and MV who have lost a lot of players, we're doing ok.

SFC are at risk of losing to Rockdale.

5 minutes ago, Erebus said:

Footballers are on holidays atm. Signings will be done in due course. Compared to other teams like SFC and MV who have lost a lot of players, we're doing ok.

SFC are at risk of losing to Rockdale.

SFC still have a decent core of Australian signings. If they nail their 4 foreign spots they will (unfortunately) be fine (maybe not in time for FFA cup.

be interesting to see how well their scouting works for a second time. 

last season they had 4 foreign spots nailed 

We really need Roly to fire this year

Any updates of the QPL friendly today?

On 16/07/2018 at 9:50 AM, Frankos187 said:

At least two while they are in Queensland... I think Gold Coast and Brisbane Roar BCD

Which Gold Coast team are did they play?

Gold Coast Knights are playing in the FFA Round of 32 but probably not them

1 hour ago, Paul01 said:

Which Gold Coast team are did they play?

Gold Coast Knights are playing in the FFA Round of 32 but probably not them

Not Gold Coast as who I thought it was. Pretty sure Rochedale or something like that...

On 17/07/2018 at 2:38 PM, StringerBellend said:

SFC still have a decent core of Australian signings. If they nail their 4 foreign spots they will (unfortunately) be fine (maybe not in time for FFA cup.

be interesting to see how well their scouting works for a second time. 

last season they had 4 foreign spots nailed 

We really need Roly to fire this year

I’m not so sure, without the 3 marquees in the team it effectively means they need to rejig policy. Do they still go with a stacked first XI or do they recruit more evenly across the 26 player squad?

Not so straightforward as recruit foreigners = success

8 minutes ago, Prydzopolis said:

I’m not so sure, without the 3 marquees in the team it effectively means they need to rejig policy. Do they still go with a stacked first XI or do they recruit more evenly across the 26 player squad?

Not so straightforward as recruit foreigners = success

They will stack the first XI again

largely for them it is now about the foreigners they didn’t lose much in the way of Australian players from the last year, they still have same core of former and fringe Socceroos

They have

Assuming 4 2 3 1

GK doesn’t change (accepting he’s a bit crap)

Defence: Zullo, Grant and Wilkinson 

so need a foreign CB

defensive midfield:

ONeil and Brilantte (assuming the referees continue to let the rotational foul no change there 

Attack: Broaque, Ninkovic  remain so need to replace Adrian and Bobo

they need a couple of bench players to replace Simon and Carney

41 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

They will stack the first XI again

largely for them it is now about the foreigners they didn’t lose much in the way of Australian players from the last year, they still have same core of former and fringe Socceroos

They have

Assuming 4 2 3 1

GK doesn’t change (accepting he’s a bit crap)

Defence: Zullo, Grant and Wilkinson 

so need a foreign CB

defensive midfield:

ONeil and Brilantte (assuming the referees continue to let the rotational foul no change there 

Attack: Broaque, Ninkovic  remain so need to replace Adrian and Bobo

they need a couple of bench players to replace Simon and Carney

See Sydney FC thread for their trial game starting line-up for tonight.

Anyone know the result of our friendly with Brisbane roar who we supposedly played today?

yes, you can tell the World Cup is over as I’m hanging out to hear some friendly results.

Very cloak and dagger stuff from the people's club at the moment. You get more candour from that orange mouth in the White House than this mob

How good would it be if we could actually attend our friendly games like we did in the past. 

14 hours ago, Frankos187 said:

Anyone know the result of our friendly with Brisbane roar who we supposedly played today?

 

yes, you can tell the World Cup is over as I’m hanging out to hear some friendly results.

Game didn't proceed. 

Roar apparently called it off due to illness in their squad. I noticed that their NPL squad were also playing Friday night, so they couldn't call upon those lads to fill the gaps.

In regard to our friendly game on Tuesday night against a QPL club (5 - 2 win), the starting 11 played about 60 mins & lead 3 - 1 when substituted.

Shipping plenty of goals against NPL teams doesn't help anyone's confidence...

our CB pairing is probably Tongyk and Hamill. What do you expect?

On 21/07/2018 at 1:06 PM, Taurus said:

Game didn't proceed. 

Roar apparently called it off due to illness in their squad. I noticed that their NPL squad were also playing Friday night, so they couldn't call upon those lads to fill the gaps.

In regard to our friendly game on Tuesday night against a QPL club (5 - 2 win), the starting 11 played about 60 mins & lead 3 - 1 when substituted.

I saw a snippet in a News Ltd headline that we were supposed to play Gold Coast but it was cancelled - any idea who we did play? If Roar was also a no-go, it's a bit of a jumbled pre so far.

On 21/07/2018 at 2:16 AM, ColdRock said:

Very cloak and dagger stuff from the people's club at the moment. You get more candour from that orange mouth in the White House than this mob

Preparations for an effective Blitzkrieg are best made in secret perhaps?  Hopefully our tactics will take everyone by surprise and we will storm the league!

Way too quiet at the moment. Don't like it. Doesn't give me confidence.

Only 2 weeks before our FFA cup campaign begins and that defence has not improved from last season

We’ve played a couple of behind closed doors kick around against NPL teams no need to panic yet 

Pre-season game vs Hills at Marconi tonight. Half-time is apparently 3-0 WSW with Fitzgerald 2 & Scott 1. Ziegler on the pitch.