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    By mack

    The Western Sydney Wanderers have announced 6 pre-season friendly matches.

     

    With the Western Sydney Wanderers entering their pre-season preparation, the club have confirmed a half-dozen pre-season friendly matches.

    • Macarthur Rams - Wednesday August 7 - 7:30pm Kickoff - Campbelltown Stadium
    • Canberra Olympic - Wednesday August 14 - 6:15pm Kickoff - AIS Athletics Field, Canberra.
    • Wellington Phoenix - Wednesday August 21 - 6:15pm Kickoff - Lily Homes Stadium, Seven Hills.
    • Adelaide United - Sunday September 22 - 2:00pm Kickoff - Centrebet Stadium, Penrith.
    • Melbourne Victory - Sunday September 29 - 2:00pm Kickoff - Kingston Twin Ovals, Tasmania.
    • Bankstown City Lions - Thursday October 3 - 7:15pm Kickoff - Jensen Park, Sefton.

    Opinion:

    There are some stand-out issues I can see with this schedule. The first is that there is a month long gap between the Wellington & Adelaide matches. It seems extremely odd that a club will start by playing three pre-season matches, then simply stop for a month.

     

    The second is that the Western Sydney Wanderers have snubbed the three major New South Wales Premier League teams that exist in South-Western Sydney. Marconi, Bonnyrigg & Sydney United all exist in an area that has major support for the Wanderers. Club Marconi has the largest section of local support when the Wanderers play away matches for example. If Sydney FC can arrange to play Marconi, how is it that the Western Sydney Wanderers cannot?

     

    My final consideration is the quality of the clubs being faced is not particularly high. While the quality of Melbourne Victory is clear, both Wellington & Adelaide are undergoing rebuilding phases under new management, and the three other teams are all outside the NSW Premier League. Sydney FC had their season start incredibly poorly due to a badly mismanaged pre-season campaign, and they have chosen to undertake 15 pre-season matches this year. I hope that the Wanderers are not repeating the mistakes other clubs have made in the past.

     

    I hope that the month long gap is being prepared for a tour of some kind, or for friendlies yet to be announced. Pre-season is vitally important in getting the A-League season proper off to a good start, and getting it wrong could derail our campaign to retain the Premiership before it even begins.

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    Kizza

    There's probably a limit of tickets per transaction though so you can't book the whole grandstand for a $5 fee.

     

    But what if there isn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111!11

     

    I can't make most of these games anyway, unfortunately

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    Davo

    Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Homer camps out second in line at the ticket window for football tickets and the guy in front of him buys out the whole stadium.

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    West13

    Our school played Kings the other week and the RBB didn't show up. Devastated.

    Oh boy.. are you a GPS student?!... If so, ESFC is the other way!

    Kidding, but how do Kings kids feel about bring yuppies out west?! I bet they say 'our school is in Carlingford' rather than North Parra.

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    Stevo99

    There's probably a limit of tickets per transaction though so you can't book the whole grandstand for a $5 fee.

     

    Lol it says limit of 4 per transaction. So I bought 4 and clicked add more to basket... And added another 4. The most pointless limit on anything I have ever seen.

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    Davo

     

    There's probably a limit of tickets per transaction though so you can't book the whole grandstand for a $5 fee.

     

    Lol it says limit of 4 per transaction. So I bought 4 and clicked add more to basket... And added another 4. The most pointless limit on anything I have ever seen.

     

     

    And you only paid the print at home fee once? That's awesome.

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    Stevo99

     

     

    There's probably a limit of tickets per transaction though so you can't book the whole grandstand for a $5 fee.

     

    Lol it says limit of 4 per transaction. So I bought 4 and clicked add more to basket... And added another 4. The most pointless limit on anything I have ever seen.

     

     

    And you only paid the print at home fee once? That's awesome.

     

     

    Yeah only paid it once. $4.50 spread across 8 tickets isn't tooo bad, I suppose

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    RBB

    I won't be there. Not taking advantage of me.

     

    i asked pro ticket about this f'ked up fee

    "If I buy a ticket to Wanderers vs Rams a quarter of the cost is to have the ticket emailed to me which should really cost less than $0.01. I was wondering why you would charge $4.50 for an automated email but $5.50 for postage? "

    and the bs response is

     

    "Thanks for your feedback on our transaction fees.

     

     

    We understand how it can appear that generating and emailing a PDF can be done for free - but unfortunately that is not the case. There are a range of costs involved with the process - for example website hosting, internet traffic charges, email charges, PDF generation licences, software costs, merchant fees etc...and the list goes on! I'm felching myself right now!

     

     

    Rest assured that PROticket try and keep our fees to a minimum and are proud to offer one of the lowest booking fees in the country, certainly less than our major competitors."

     

    I'm sure that they get a decent slice of the initial $15 ticket charge to cover all of that **** and that the email really is worth to them $0.01 - a holes

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    pseudonym

    WSW Official Facebook page confirmed that you cannot buy Wellington tickets at the gate

     

    Next Wednesday night at Lily Homes Stadium Seven Hills.

    We highly recommend pre-purchasing your tickets as there will be no tickets on sale at the gate on the night. Visit Proticket.com.au.

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    fatshlob1

    WSW Official Facebook page confirmed that you cannot buy Wellington tickets at the gate

     

    Next Wednesday night at Lily Homes Stadium Seven Hills.

    We highly recommend pre-purchasing your tickets as there will be no tickets on sale at the gate on the night. Visit Proticket.com.au.

     

    thats a ****en disgrace if u ask me

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    Stevo99

     

    I won't be there. Not taking advantage of me.

     

    i asked pro ticket about this f'ked up fee

    "If I buy a ticket to Wanderers vs Rams a quarter of the cost is to have the ticket emailed to me which should really cost less than $0.01. I was wondering why you would charge $4.50 for an automated email but $5.50 for postage? "

    and the bs response is

     

    "Thanks for your feedback on our transaction fees.

     

     

    We understand how it can appear that generating and emailing a PDF can be done for free - but unfortunately that is not the case. There are a range of costs involved with the process - for example website hosting, internet traffic charges, email charges, PDF generation licences, software costs, merchant fees etc...and the list goes on! I'm felching myself right now!

     

     

    Rest assured that PROticket try and keep our fees to a minimum and are proud to offer one of the lowest booking fees in the country, certainly less than our major competitors."

     

    I'm sure that they get a decent slice of the initial $15 ticket charge to cover all of that **** and that the email really is worth to them $0.01 - a holes

     

     

    That's rubbish! On the receipt for the Pheonix game it had merchant fee, GST and credit card fee all separate from the $4.50 printing fee. And I'm pretty sure they were all separate from the $15

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    Drone

    I doubt ill go to this one too, works been busy of late and I can't be 100% sure that I'll make this, so I won't be pre-booking. Those fees are ludacris too.

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    Redhead

    Does anyone know how/where/when we can buy tickets for the game at Centrebet Stadium at Penrith - WSW V Adelaide United??

     

    It's on 22 September and I can find no reference to it on Centrebet Stadium web page, or Proticket.

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    Tranquilo

    i wander if sale tickets are slow at the last minute they may change their mind and have tickets available at the gate?

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