2021 R05 – Wollongong Wolves FC V Northbridge Bulls FC
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KICKOFF 2021 - ROUND 05 SUNDAY 28TH MARCH WIN STADIUM 1PM MEN’S CORPORATE PARTNERS 2 #NPLNSW CONTENTS WOLLONGONG WOLVES COACHING STAFF & MANAGEMENT 1st Team Coach Luke Wilkshire 1st Grade Assistant Coach Stephen O’Connor Senior Manager Mark Wilkshire Under 20s Coach Matheus Scapin Under 20s Assistant Coach Daniell Zeleny Under 20s Manager Jorge Perez GK Coach John Krajnovic Chairman Tory Lavalle Match Preview 6 Health and Medical Services Figtree Physiotherapy Technical Director Neil Mann Team Lineups 22 Admin Manager Susan Gatt Season Draw - Home Games 36 Program Contributors Malcolm Rowney Photographer - Seniors Pedro Garcia Photographer – Juniors Chris Horn For advertising opportunities, please contact Susan Gatt @ [email protected]. This program is proudly printed by WOLVES SHOP Fraternity Club, 11 Bourke Street, Fairy Meadow 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] Address: 32 Waverley Drive Unanderra NSW 2526 Twitter: @wollgongwolves Facebook: fb.com/wollongongwolves Instagram: @WollongongWolves NPLNSW.COM.AU 3 FROM THE COACH Welcome to WIN Stadium for our second doubler Northbridge have a young side and we will header with Wellington Phoenix. We are looking be looking to pressure them in possession, be forward to today, with the Phoenix taking on physically strong and move the ball about quickly. Macarthur Bulls FC and us taking on Northbridge FC – the Macarthur Bulls NPL feeder club. I have had to make a change in midfield, with Brendan Griffin suffering a calf strain in training. It With our game last week against Sydney Olympic is a real shame, because Griffo was playing the best called off due to the weather, we are coming off a football I have seen him exhibit since I have been at strong win against Mt Druitt Rangers FC when we the club. beat them convincingly 3-0 a fortnight ago at Albert Butler Memorial Park. That performance showed me We hope you enjoy today, lets be loud in your that we are starting to gel in terms of how we want to support of both us and the Phoenix and I will see play. Scoring goals and winning breeds confidence you at The Frat after the game for a celebratory and today, I expect us to take up from where we left refreshment! off. 4 #NPLNSW MAJOR SPONSOR NPLNSW.COM.AU 5 MATCH PREVIEW v Northbridge Bulls Northbridge Bulls venture to WIN Stadium for Madden, Lachlan Scott and Hamish Lamberton with today’s 2021 Round 5 fixture in the competition one apiece for the Wolves, while Rory Jordon has against the Wollongong Wolves, with this promising tallied two goals for the Bulls. to be a curious contest. Northbridge has scored one Both teams have achieved one victory at this early goal in a previous encounter (when they had an stage of the competition and both teams had last alternate name) while the Wolves have scored four weekend off due to the ‘big wet’ with a number of in the same time period. Mens 1 games being postponed as a consequence. THE OPPOSITION TODAY - NORTHBRIDGE The ladder position for each club is seventh (Wolves) BULLS and eleventh (Northbridge). Both teams have Coach Mile Sterjovski has added former Marconi accumulated four goals each in the three games player Lachlan Sepping and former Wolves’ striker played. Bul Juach to his squad together with Theph Theph Sydney FC, defeated Northbridge, in the previous and Giovanni Panuccio from Sydney Olympic. round, three goals to two, while the Wolves Rory Jordan, who played with Western Sydney accounted for Mt. Druitt Town Rangers 3-0. Wanderers in the 2020 truncated season and was equal top scorer for his club, has joined also. As PLAYERS TO WATCH a player, coach Sterjovski began his first class Emmanuel Peters (NSM) is a goal scorer who playing career by turning out for the Wolves in two has converted a fair tally of opportunities and substitute appearances for the club in the 1995/96 has previously achieved against the Wolves. He NSL season. positions himself adroitly within scoring range of the The Northbridge Bulls were formerly known as goal, has a strong shot and possesses speed. North Shore Mariners and Northbridge FC, entered Right-sided wing/back defender Taylor McDonald the Football NSW State League third tier in 2011 scored the club’s first goal of the season displaying and in 2013 won the Division One Premiership, but his tenacity and skill to convert from a Darcy ultimately were defeated in the Grand Final, losing Madden high ball. In games, McDonald chimes in to Balmain FC in extra time. The club finished 2019 with attacking forays and defends stoutly and safely season on top of the Mens 2 standings in both the and as measure of standing represented the NSW league and the club championship thereby sealing state team versus Queensland late in 2020. He is an promotion to Mens 1. integral member of the Wolves and will be up and In the 2020 Rebooted eleven game season, down the right corridor as he goes about his duties. Northbridge concluded the season on ten points in BLAST FROM THE PAST ninth position from achieving two victories and four draws. Mitchell Smith was the top scorer with four In the Round 4 2020 Reboot season, North Shore goals, joining four others on the score sheet. Three Mariners played the Wolves at Albert Butler nil games eventuated and the best result sequence Memorial Park, Kemblawarra. The line-ups were was two draws in Rounds 5 and 6 and the converse as follows: Wolves - Hayden Durose (Gk), Harry was three defeats in Rounds 2-4. The best result was Callahan, Nick Littler, Guy Knight, James Stojcevski 3-1 and 1-6 was the least impressive in Round 10 and Capt., Takeru Okada, Lachlan Scott, Marcus 3 versus Marconi and Sydney FC respectively. Beattie, Harrison Taranto, Chris Price and Taylor McDonald. Josh Bingham, Bul Juach, and Ethan In Mens 2 for the last three seasons prior to 2020, Kambisios replaced Callahan, Knight, and Taranto. North Shore has finished in 5th, 3rd and 1st positions, Mariners – Ryan Wood (Gk), Chris Lindsay, Charles certainly an upward trajectory. Now in Mens 1, the Williams, Emmanuel Peters, Jesse Piriz, Daniel Dias, club will need to maintain and lift the standards and Jack Musgrave, Eddie Caspers, Zac Sfiligoi, Jack will no doubt be capable of implementing this. Loughlin, Nelson Pyl and Mitchell Smith. Tristen THE MATCH - UP Van Rhoon, Lawrence Frederick and Edward Lee replaced Dias, Caspers and Lee. At this stage of the 2021 competition, the top scorers for each team are Taylor McDonald, Darcy Scott scored the first goal five minutes in. A headed 6 #NPLNSW on ball from a Guy Knight throw reached Scott scorer in the previous season (2017) with a sixteen and he converted by striking the ball in at the near goal achievement. post. Smith had a chance that Littler intercepted English striker Bentham was the top scorer in 2014 and Beattie had his shot blocked. Two minutes past and played two seasons with the club. In 2015, he the half hour, Scott eluded a player on the right scored six goals from six appearances, a goal per side before putting an across the goal pass. Okada game ratio of 1.0 sprinted in the hit the ball home high into the goal. As the match progressed, Durose was there to repel TWO SELECTED TOP SCORERS FOR WOLVES - Smith and Williams. After the half time break, the THOMAS JAMES and SASHO PETROVSKI second of Stojcevski’s corner kicks was headed James scored a season high twenty-two goals to down in a crowded area. The ball bounced and become the club and competition top scorer in 2019 Littler was at the far post to convert. At three goals with a goal per game ratio of 1.0. He beat Sasho down, the North Shore team was not to be denied. Substitute Frederick picked up a headed out Littler Petrovski’s previous record season haul of twenty- ball, and set sail for the goal. Durose came to narrow one goals. He was a multi scorer in a single match the angle but Frederick lifted ball upwards. With the on five occasions with a treble in Round 2, and four assistance of the breeze, the ball dipped into the braces in Rounds 4, 7, 13 and 15. His initial goal in goal. Kambisios blocked Sfiligoi as he shaped to Round 1 was achieved at Butler Oval. Positioned at score. In time added on, Scott brought up his brace. the far post he slotted home Takeru Okada’s left field An Okada ball was headed on with Scott gaining cross with a defender in attendance. His final season possession. He subsequently scored with a powerful goal was from the penalty spot. Harry Callahan had right-footed drive. Coach Wilkshire – ‘ what we can taken possession of a Brendan Griffin pass on the be is still more ruthless in front of goal… We worked edge of the penalty area. He turned and moved on things and I was happy to see that today. ..The inside only to be impeded by a Marconi defender.