Wollongong Wolves V Sutherland Sharks
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KICKOFF NSW MEN’S ROUND 19 Saturday 20 JULY 2019 6pm WIN STADIUM CORPORATE PARTNERS 2 #NPLNSW CONTENTS WOLLONGONG WOLVES COACHING STAFF & MANAGEMENT 1st Team Coach Luke Wilkshire 1st Grade Assistant Coach Yuzo Tashiro Senior Manager Mark Wilkshire Under 20s Coach Manny Mavridis Under 18s Coach Richard Lloyd Under 18s Assistant Scott Nichols Under 18s Manager Robbie Day GK Coach John Krajnovic Match Preview 6 Chairman Tory Lavalle Team Lineups 20 Health and Medical Services Figtree Physiotherapy Season Draw 38 Technical Director Neil Mann Admin Manager Susan Gatt Program Contributors Malcolm Rowney Photographer - Seniors Pedro Garcia Photographer – Juniors Chris Horn For advertising opportunities, please contact Susan Gatt on 02 42 722 624. This program is proudly printed by WOLVES SHOP 32 Waverley Drive Unanderra Public Notices: • Entry inside the perimeter fence of the playing area is prohibited at all times and offenders will be prosecuted. • All spectators are requested to vacate the ground within 15 minutes of the end of the final game. Police may be requested to remove any unauthorised people who remain after the stipulated time. • The setting alight of, or the lighting or discharging of any type of object, including fireworks, signal or smoke flares is strictly prohibited. Offenders will be arrested and charged. Website: wollongongwolves.com.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 02 42 722 624 Address: 32 Waverley Drive Unanderra NSW 2526 Twitter: @wollgongwolves Facebook: fb.com/wollongongwolves Instagram: @WollongongWolves NPLNSW.COM.AU 3 PHOTO GALLERY Welcome back to Win Stadium for our clash with Despite their position on the table, Sutherland have Sutherland Sharks FC. been strong and have caused teams problems – especially of late. They have strengthened their At the moment, I am in Russia. I was invited back by squad, particularly with the arrival of Charles FC Dynamo Moscow to be a part of their celebration Lokolingoy up front. to open their new stadium. Although it is not ideal to miss tonight’s game, it is important that I maintain However, we will be focused on our own relationships with Europe. Those relationships may performance. As I have said in the past, winning one day be beneficial to our club. is a habit and we won’t take our foot off the pedal heading into the final rounds and the finals series. My assistant, Yuzo Tashiro has been at my side all We are injury free and healthy. The boys continue season and we won’t lose anything by having Yuzo to work hard in training. Now we must execute on take the team tonight. the pitch and be clinical in defence, attack and in the I hope you all enjoyed our NAIDOC week and the box. commemorative jersey two Sunday’s ago. Although We have some crucial matches on the horizon and I it wasn’t our best performance, it was a good 3 would love for the boys to wrap up the championship points taken against Hakoah, particularly given prior to our last home match against Marconi on APIA and Blacktown had a 1-1 draw. Those results 11 August so we can all celebrate together come increased our lead to 7 points with 4 games to go. 4.45pm that day. We are obviously in a strong position in the league I hope you enjoy todays match. Everyone is however we aren’t over the line yet. I will be looking welcome back to the Fraternity Club after the game. for the boys to improve on our performance against Come back for a meal and a drink with the players Hakoah. and the fans. 4 #NPLNSW MAJOR SPONSOR NPLNSW.COM.AU 5 MATCH PREVIEW thirty-nine being conceded. In Rounds 1-11 the team scored and conceded 17 goals but in Rounds 12-22 V 13 goals were scored and 22 were conceded. The upshot is that the team scored less and conceded more in the second half of the season. The highest winning margin was three goals, which eventuated From Seymour Shaw Park in Miranda, the Sutherland in 3-0 victories in Rounds 4 and 6. The highest losing Sharks venture to WIN Stadium for tonight’s clash margin was four goals in the 2-6 result in Round 18. with the Wollongong Wolves in Round 19 of NPL The best sequence without loss was three games, NSW Mens 1 competition. This will be the 30th Rounds 2-4, win, draw and win. Seven nil scores league meeting between the sides with ninety goals was the highest in the league and Adrian Vranic was being scored in total since 1987, at an average of 3.1 the top scorer with ten goals with ten other players goals per game ratio. Will this encounter follow this plus an own goal contributing the scoring. The goal trend? With a host of gifted strikers in the midst, this per game average was 1.34 and the conceded goals could be most likely. ratio was 1.77. Vranic’s strike rate was 0.45. Players, who were selected in the ‘Team Of The Week’, were THE OPPOSITION TODAY - SUTHERLAND SHARKS Jacob Tratt with seven appearances, Vranic (3), Nick For the 2019 season, Terry Palapanis has signed on Olsen (2), with one each for Joshua Da Silva and Nick as coach after previously being at St.George and Littler. Tratt was also named in ‘Team Of The Year’ Mounties. He has brought with two Spanish players Since 2014, the Sharks have finished the seasons in Juan Carlos Heras Romero, a striker with 22 goals in 6th, 10th, 7th, and 10th and in 2018 in 10th position. 2018 together with Raul Beneit Romero with eleven goals in addition, both who also were at the previous THE MATCH –UP clubs mentioned for Palapanis. In addition Mateo The top scorer for each club is Thomas James (WW) Poljak and Marc Warren have signed after departing and Jeremy Cox (SS) with nineteen and eight goals Marconi Stallions with Jeremy Cox returning to respectively with the Wolves scoring forty-five goals the club from Sydney FC, plus Anthony Bouzanis with Sharks achieving twenty-five. The scorer of from Hakoah Sydney City East and Tarik Erkan from the team’s previous goal is Jerry Skodatis (SS) and St.George. Caoimin Fowler, a former Wolves’ player Lachlan Scott (WW). with seven matches made his debut for his new club after returning from overseas in Round 2. Midway Sutherland has fourteen wins to the Wolves eleven through the season Sydney FC’s Liam McGing, in their match-ups since the 2006 season while Jerry Skodatis and Charles Lokolingoy, plus Western Sutherland has kept the Wolves scoreless in eight Sydney’s NPL Mens 2 player Alexander Lopez has matches while the converse is four. During this also been added. season, the Sharks have four games with a nil score to the Wolves one. Sutherland’s best winning Sutherland Sharks won one of the club’s honours in sequence versus the Wolves is five from 2009 - 2011, 2012 when the team was victorious in the Waratah 5-1, 3-0, 2-0, 3-0 and 2-1 while the Wolves’ best was Cup final. Against APIA Leichhardt at Cromer Park, two on three occurrences, in 1987 , 2015-2016 and Dee Why on 8th July, the Sharks won 4-1 with the 2017, 4-0, 1-0, 3-0, , 3-1 , 3-0 and 3-0 respectively. club’s goal scorers being Chris Price, Matt Bailey, Blake Powell and Panni Nikas. Also in the team that In the previous round Sutherland was defeated day were Nathan Denham, George Souris, Yianni 3-0 by Marconi and the Wolves defeated Hakoah Fragogiannis, Paul Cotte, Matthew Gordon, Hussein Sydney City East 1-0. Salameh, Hayden Morton, and Nick Stavroulakis. The position on the table is first for the Wolves on Simon Jaeger, Todd Halloran, Nikas and Nick forty-two points for an unprecedented eighteen Tsattalios replaced Denham, Salameh, Bailey and weeks, while Sutherland have twenty-one points Powell. and occupy ninth place. In the 2018 season the club finished on twenty-three The result sequence in the previous five games is points attaining seven victories and two draws with Sharks - draw, win, draw, win and loss, Wolves - loss, thirteen losses. Thirty goals were achieved with win, win, win and win. 6 #NPLNSW MATCH PREVIEW PLAYERS TO WATCH Hollifield, Brian Cokely, Robert Giraldi, Jeff Ainsworth (Capt.), Pat Brodnik and Rade Stefanovski, with the The Spanish player Raul Beneit Romero is player who coach being John Fleming. The Sharks team listing has been impressive in his career at the Sharks this was Craig Burchmore, Robert O’Shea, Peter Terry, season. He is skilful player who has scored a total of Brett Nelson, Robbie Seller, John O’Shea, Steve four goals, one of which was against the Wolves in Meades, Wayne Parsons, Darryl Sharpe, Craig Hill Round 8, and will be eager to add more to his tally. and Tony Caban. The Wolves high scoring duo of Thomas James It was a dour Wolves performance with the team and Lachlan Scott, with twenty-nine goal haul holding a slight advantage in the first half with between them so far this campaign, will be out to only Giraldi and Stefanovski making forays with cause consternation for the Sharks’ custodian and Stefanovski’s crosses adding to Sutherland’s backline. Both players are quick off the blocks with consternation. However, Sutherland’s defence, swift acceleration and will take on players with skill the O’Shea brothers, dealt with them adequately and precision and are potent when in range of the to keep the opposition scoreless.