Wanderers Draw Guizhou Renhe, Ulsan & TBD of Japan

Games are tough and mistakes are often punished. You have to put away your limited chances.

The individual players in the East Asian leagues are far superior to our own players'

Where HAL teams can win is being compact and taking their chances. If you play an open expansive game (like Brisbane tried to), you'll get destroyed because one on one, all their players are better.

2.5 week trip is on the cards between 30th march and 17th April !

I think the Japanese are technically far too good for us. 

Still I am sure Popa will set up accordingly. We have a few Australian players with Asian experience and this will come in handy. 

And we have Ono O no no no!

Wouldn't recommend Ulsan unless you're planning to do some travel, K-league attendances are pretty low.. more so for ACL games. I'd say if we plan to do a tour as a big group.. needs to be Guiyang or Japan. We want to make an impact both locally & abroad. Guiyang should be a serious consideration because it's probably cheaper than Japan & they get OK crowds.

So which one is it.

To progress through the knockout phase, the key thing is to win your home games (see Adelaide's record).

Anyone know's the visa requirements for China, Japan and Korea.

Do you need to apply or just get stamp at the gate.

I'm jealous of the Mariners.

 

Got any more videos of our opponents? Would love to see what we're up against (and yes, so jealous of the Mariners lol)

Yokohama F Marinos

Yoko look great but Guizhou seem to go all out active as well... Crucial point is, its pretty impractical for us to travel in numbers to the Guizhou game, because the Derby is 4 days before it, and Adelaide at home is 3 days after it... Not a lot of leeway.... The Japanese date is definitely best fit for travelling. 

Anyone know's the visa requirements for China, Japan and Korea.

 

Do you need to apply or just get stamp at the gate.

for Oz passport holders it's visa issued on arrival for both Japan and Korea

not sure about China - it used to require you get visa approved before arrival which took a few days via one of their Embassies in Oz

Anyone know's the visa requirements for China, Japan and Korea.

 

Do you need to apply or just get stamp at the gate.

 As far as I am aware, if you are travelling on an Australian passport you don't need a visa to Japan & Korea. Visa required for China - $60 I think.

 

 

require you get visa approved before arrival which took a few days via one of their Embassies in Oz

 

That still applies. Could be quicker to do it online, then you drop off your passport at the visa application centre on Elizabeth St in the city.

When do tickets go on sale? All I need to know.

Club should sell them as a package for us with our seats for the home matches

Pfft, you guys all go and book your trips to the peasant group stage games, i've already got my accommodation booked for the final.

Club confirms Japanese opponent will be either Yokohama F. Marinos or Kawasaki Frontale, so Tokyo here we come!

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/wswanderersfc/news-display/The-Low-Down-AFC-Champions-League/81134

By New Year’s Day we will know our Japanese opponents following the conclusion of Japan’s Emperor’s Cup tournament. What we do know is that we will face either Yokohama F. Marinos or Kawasaki Frontale.

 

Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Yokohama F. Marinos finished first and second in the J-League respectively, therefore if either of those two teams win the Emperor’s Cup, Yokohama will take the Emperor’s Cup Champions League slot. This will mean we will play Kawasaki Frontale, who finished third in the J-league, as they will move into the slot reserved for the J-League runners-up.

 

If any club apart from Hiroshima or Yokohama wins then we will be joined by Yokohama F. Marinos.

They got a little something something.

Hi,

This may not be the right thread for this post ( didn't know where else to put it )

Does anyone else think we might have a home game advantage due to the length of our nets? This is something were used to, but is the opposition?

I'd love to hear Jamcals position on this?

That's an interesting thought... I haven't been able to study the goal nets of East Asia as much as I would have liked, my areas off expertise are largely Oceanic/European goal nets, so I can't provide a conclusive opinion on this. However I can only imagine that the nets in Japan are far shallower than that which we see at Wanderland... Therefore whilst we would get a home advantage, intimidating the opposition with our nets of sizeable girth, the nets we encounter on our travels will pose a difficult task as it may be tough for the players to get their eyes used to such petit nets.

I can only imagine the governing body of the ACL would have to step in and propose a competition wide standard for the size of the goal nets. Not to do so would simply be irresponsible. However I must wonder if it would be possible to apply this standard to the West Asian clubs... A sizeable challenge, no doubt, but one of upmost importance.

Jamcal here are video's of both the Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium (home of Ulsan Hyundai) and Guiyang Olympic Centre (home of Guizhou Renhe) goal nets in action. As I'm sure is immediately apparent, both sets of goal nets are of at least an equivalent size to Wanderland, if not larger. This disproves your supposition that East Asia would have shallower goal nets, and I hope lays to rest any fears you have about the fairness of the competition

Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlM-swgM2hY

Guiyang Olympic Centre

The final of the emperors cup is going to be between Yokohama Marinos and Sanfreece Hiroshima.

So depending on who wins, who will we play in ACL?

We get Kawasaki Frontale.

We get Kawasaki Frontale.

Their Active support.. (video 3 weeks old)

They look to have the largest active support group in our group.

We are clearly better then all of them.

They're okay, lullaby chants.

 

We get Kawasaki Frontale.

 

Their Active support.. (video 3 weeks old)

 

They look to have the largest active support group in our group.

 

We are clearly better then all of them.

 

 

They're okay, lullaby chants.

 

this is our chance to showcase the wanderers and their support to the world, or at least Asia for the moment

Members dont have to purchase tickets for the home games do we??

Members dont have to purchase tickets for the home games do we??

Yes we do.  Our memberships cover A-League games only.

Members dont have to purchase tickets for the home games do we??

Yes we do. They aren't included in the A-League membership. Details will come next month I imagine.

 

Members dont have to purchase tickets for the home games do we??

Yes we do. They aren't included in the A-League membership. Details will come next month I imagine.

 

yeah i thought as much, kinda silly though. Assuming members get first priority though ?

Good news!

Now the North Terrrace won't be restricted to RBB members only! 

 

 

Members dont have to purchase tickets for the home games do we??

Yes we do. They aren't included in the A-League membership. Details will come next month I imagine.

 

yeah i thought as much, kinda silly though. Assuming members get first priority though ?

 

 

 

• Priority booking for Asian Champions League matches

This is what the membership site says.