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Happy New Year and Western Sydney Wanderers in July we play EPL giants From the Chairman to our enjoy the game. Football Club I would like to Arsenal in our first ever dedicated football staff, players officially welcome you all here international marquee and administration, we remain JOHN TSATSIMAS today to help ring in 2017 with friendly fixture right here at a committed completely to our vision CEO your extended football family. packed-out ANZ Stadium. of being a globally recognised and WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS For more information on the MR-WX627 For more information on our products 5 please scan the QR Code. Phone:1300 280 625 please visit www.mitsubishielectric.com.au FOLLOW @WSWANDERERSFC #WSW WARM-UP WITH HAYDEN FOXE COURTESY OF ANDREW HOWE @ANDYHOWE_STATTO AST WEEK’S RESULT against Brisbane We know what we want to achieve Lwas a pleasing result overall. We were at this football Club and that’s to win playing a side who were unbeaten in nine things. Each week the players are games and to restrict them to the few growing and understanding each other chances they had, especially at home, more but where we are now is not was positive on our behalf. where we want to be. We want to be There were times when we had to be challenging for titles so that means we resilient and desperate, and I thought have to keep working harder and keep we defended as a whole team very well, doing all those little things better. and in another game we might have got Perth will be a tough test today. something more out of it. They are always a physical side who We’re in the middle of a busy can score goals and play good football. period at the moment with the short They’re in a similar place to us on turn-around of games but it’s not the ladder but I look at performances too hard for us to keep the players rather than results. If we keep OLLONGONG WOLVES DEFEATED focused. One of this group’s biggest performing the way we have been, I’m WParramatta Eagles 1-0 at Melita strengths is their professionalism on confident we’ll win a lot more games Stadium in a controversial game played and off the pitch. than we don’t. on this day in 1992. The match ended in mayhem after referee Manny Loupis had reversed an injury time penalty call for a Wollongong handball in the box, VISIT THE WANDERERSSHOP.COM.AU FOR ALL YOUR WANDERERS MERCH instead awarding a free kick against the Eagles for offside after consulting with VOTE FOR YOUR EARN his assistant. Police reinforcements were +500 called to the South Granville venue after MAN POINTS Loupis was threatened and bottles were OF THE thrown at him after the final whistle. The match continued a remarkable defensive run for the Wolves, who had conceded MATCH just six goals in 15 games since the start THE PLAYER WITH THE MOST POINTS AT of the season. With the likes of Charlie THE END OF JANUARY WILL BE CROWNED TH MINUTE MEMBERS’ PLAYER OF THE MONTH VOTING OPENS AT THE 70 Yankos and Mike O’Shea in defence, VOTING CLOSES AT 10:00PM and John Filan between the sticks, DOWNLOAD THE APP Wollongong ended the 1991/92 season WSW REWARDS with a national league lowest goals conceded record which stands to this day WSWREWARDS - just 17 goals against after 26 games. Ge O te OUBl hAdR WaDeEr Vs CaBeRa SUdA 2 jnUrY X :3pM CApBlLoW saDuM TIkEs On aL Ow wAdElAd.oM.aU/tIkEs 6 THE WANDERER ROUND 7 WARM-UP WITH CATHERINE CANNULI @cANNULI_13 ’M CONFIDENT THAT in 2017 we will find I’ve really been impressed with Ithe consistency we need and hopefully Brendon Santalab this season. He we can start things off with a bang today continues to deliver and he plays with against Perth Glory. so much pride and passion. I think if Playing against Perth is always we had another 10 Brendon Santalab’s tough. No matter what kind of form we’d be unstoppable. they’re in, they’re always a tricky team The New Year also brings to face, though I think if we really turn about our return to the Asian things on and take our chances, we’ll Champions League and I can’t definitely come out on top. wait. It’s always good to be Our general football has been great playing top-level football against so far this season and things will start to the best teams in Asia and to be turn when we take our chances in front able to see where we’re at as a of goal, so it’s only a matter of time. Club and also as a nation. Once we string a couple of results It’s great to be on that stage where together, our confidence will grow and I people all around the world are think we’ll see a strong second-half of the watching us and seeing how we do season from the boys. things in the West. 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League looming, the new The Wanderers have always season was never going to be been a team who excel when short of talking points. the chips are seemingly down, And it began with a bang, and in a league where fortunes as a Hyundai A-League s we enter the New can change in an instant, the record crowd of 61,880 Year and take stock Red & Black will be quietly packed into ANZ Stadium for Aof the three months backing themselves to taste Sydney Derby XIII. of football we’ve had so far, finals football yet again. The Wanderers came off it’s fair to say that it’s been Even before a ball was second best in that contest but yet another unpredictable kicked, the 2016/17 season was bounced back immediately Hyundai A-League season. shaping up to be a watershed the next week, knocking And although there’s campaign for the Wanderers.