KICKOFF NSW MEN’S ROUND 01 Sunday 10 MARCH 2019 3pm ALBERT BUTLER MEMORIAL PARK 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 34 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 CLUB WELCOME I welcome our sponsors, fans and volunteers to were bred on the South Coast. I believe that we have the game today and the 2019 season generally. the personnel to go deep into the finals series this season. However, today is all about winning and At last, match day is here! It has been a long pre- taking the three points on offer. season, having started in the gym in November 2018. After building a strength base for the players, To our fans, please come out and support us every we graduated onto the turf and built up stamina in home game and to any away games you can get to. the group. For the past 6 weeks, the emphasis has We need to turn our home games into a trip other been on building combinations, match fitness and teams dread. We need you to be our ‘12th man’ so giving everyone the opportunity to show me how to speak. much they want to be in today’s starting line-up. I have really enjoyed the start of my coaching career We have built a young and dynamic squad that is with this group of players. They are respectful, has experience in key positions. The spine of the good listeners and learners and have worked hard. I team in Pasfield, Littler, Stojcevski and Scott are all believe they will be a credit to our club this season. experienced players and I will be looking to them to Luke Wilkshire lead the team. They are complimented by real speed First Grade Coach and attacking threats in Takeru Okada, Thomas James and Harry Callahan. The majority of our squad 4 #NPLNSW MAJOR SPONSOR NPLNSW.COM.AU 5 MATCH PREVIEW One honour amongst others that Manly United has achieved is the Premiership in the 1995 Super V League when the Warringah Dolphins, a forerunner club achieved sixty points from seventeen wins, four score draws, one draw and four defeats with forty-eight and seventeen goals being scored and This 2019 opening round fixture pits Manly United conceded. The biggest winning margin was three, against the home team, Wollongong Wolves at 3-0 scores in Rounds 6, 12, 16, 18 and 21 with a 4-1 Albert Butler Park. Today’s match will be the thirty- result in Round 14. first league meeting between the two sides since 1987. In the 2004/05 initial match when the Wolves Seven wins and seven draws were Manly United’s rejoined the NSW Premier League following the 2018 campaign achievements coupled with eight demise of the National Soccer League, it was a defeats. The team scored thirty-three goals and scoreless draw between the two sides, the only conceded thirty-two with a plus one goal difference. time that this result has eventuated. Incidentally, In Rounds 1-11 Manly scored and conceded 17 and 19 there have been a total of ninety-five goals scored goals with the Rounds 12-22 outcome being 16 and in league matches between the two sides with 13 in the same. Fewer goals were conceded in the goals per game ratio of 3.16. Sit back and view this second half of the season but one less scored. The contest. Which team will emerge victorious? Will goals per game average was 1.5 and the converse the goals flow or maybe a nil - nil stalemate occur was 1.45. The top scorer was Dylan Macallister one more time? with eight with another eleven players plus an own goal, were the scoring contributors. Macalister’s THE OPPOSITION TODAY - MANLY UNITED strike rate was 0.36. Thee the team posted nil Manly have strengthened their rotation with scores and four clean sheets were attained. The the addition of new players, by coach Paul Dee, quickest goal was in the fifth minute of Round 1 by including Adam Parkhouse who has returned from Nicola Taneski and four clean sheets eventuated. Wellington Phoenix, Charles Mendy from Marconi The biggest winning margin was four, a 5-1 win in and Sam Gallagher to replace the departing Sasa Round 22 and the biggest loss margin was three, Macura and Leigh Egger. 0-3 in Round 2. Players who were selected in ‘Team 6 #NPLNSW MATCH PREVIEW Of The Week’ Keiran Paull with four occurrences, will be in for a treat. Goalkeeper and club captain followed by Brendan Cholakian (3), Alessi (2), Justin Pasfield will be a standout in the goal frame Macallister (2), Lobb (2), Travis Oughtred (2) with endeavouring to keep a clean sheet. Sasa Macura, Shaun Catlin and Domenic Ferguson BLAST FROM THE PAST with one apiece. A multi scorer in a single match was Macallister with a treble in Round 22. Cholakian On Saturday night in 2012 Round 2 at John Crehan was also named as a substitute in the ‘Team Of The Park, the two sides met with Trevor Morgan and Year’. In Rounds 1-11 the goal difference was minus Craig Midgley being the incumbent coaches. two and in Rounds 12 - 22 it was plus three, an improvement. In the second eleven games, Manly The home team consisted of Daniel Collison, Jack scored one less goal and conceded six less than in Keating, Jacob Timpano (Capt.), Michael Robinson, the first eleven games. Samuel Jacob, Nick Littler, Chris Nathaniel, Mark Picciolini, Sasho Petrovski, Peter Simonoski and From 2014, Manly United has concluded the Sean Robertson. Joseph Savor, and Fabien Iacovelli seasons in 10th, 8th, 3rd 4th and in 2018 in 8th replaced Timpano and Simonoski. position. The team has dropped down following the Championship success in 2017. Manly’s team comprised Dylan Mitchell, Sean Bowden, Marc Richards, Michael Daly, Scott THE MATCH-UP Balderson, Matthew Sim, Colin Iley, Jordan Edwards, For the last five matches between the two clubs Chris Payne, Leigh Egger and Damir Prodanovic. honours are even with one win apiece together Mitchell Macedo, Daniel Grant and Justin Hayward with three draws. The last two matches played have came on for Sim, Edwards and Prodanovic. been draws. Manly leads with seven goals to six The Wolves started well scoring only after seven with each team scoring in all five matches. Overall minutes had elapsed. Seven minutes on another goal since 1987, Manly leads with twelve wins to the occurred. The first goal came through Petrovski. Wolves’ ten and also leads in the scoring, fifty-two Mitchell palmed a Littler cross out and it fortuitously goals to forty-eight. Manly has kept the Wolves travelled to where Petrovski was standing in a scoreless on four occasions while the reverse is central position. He duly headed the ball past the eight times. The northern beaches team ‘s biggest custodian. Simonoski added the second meeting a score was 5-1 in 2006 with Richie Williams scoring Robertson cross to strike the ball into the goal. Earlier from the spot, James Monie with a treble and Joey in the match the speedy Balderson nearly goaled Schirripa getting the fifth. Adam Casey got onto the but Collison was three, diving at his feet to deny. The scoresheet for the Wolves. The Wolves hit six in two matches. It was 6-0 in 1987 with Randall Easthorpe 2012 and Robert Giraldi achieving a hat trick each and 6-1 in 2014, with Jordan Murray with a brace, with Peter Simonoski, Ricky Zucco, Matthew Bailey and Sam Matthews with Brendan Cholakian converting a penalty kick for a consolation goal. PLAYERS TO WATCH Brendan Cholakian has been a stalwart of Manly for a number of years and his guile in midfield, prodding and setting up play, is a pleasure to behold. He crops on the scoresheet with regularity in addition. Adam Parkhouse will attempt to set things rolling on his return to the club and his A-League experience will stand him in good stead. The Wolves’ new English born striker Thomas James will want to get onto the score sheet early as a confidence builder and if he can produce like he did at Canberra FC the crowd NPLNSW.COM.AU 7 MATCH PREVIEW custodian also had to dive at Hayward’s bootlaces United 1 (Sasa Macura 72’) to see off the danger.