THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE PS4 NPL NSW MEN’S ROUND 12 3PM • SUNDAY WIN STADIUM V 28TH MAY 2017 FIXTURES TEAM LISTS MATCH PREVIEW TEAM OF THE WEEK #PS4NPLNSW CORPORATE PARTNERS 2 CONTENTSHEADING NPLNSW.COM.AU WOLLONGONG WOLVES COACHING STAFF & MANAGEMENT 1st Team Coach Jacob Timpano 1st Grade Assistant Coach Neil Mann and Alfredo Esteves Senior Managers Robert Positti and Surit Wadhwa Under 20s Coach Julio Miranda Under 18s Coach Richard Lloyd GK Coach John Krajnovic Match Preview 6 Health and Medical Services Figtree Physiotherapy Technical Director Neil Mann Team Lineups 18 CEO Chris Papakosmas 2017 Ladder 19 Admin Manager Susan Gatt Season Draw 30 Program Contributors Malcolm Rowney Photographer - Seniors Pedro Garcia Photographer – Juniors Chris Horn Ground Announcer Kevin Morrissey For advertising opportunities, please contact This program is proudly Susan Gatt on 4225 0999. printed by WOLVES SHOP 105 Crown Street Wollongong 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: +61 2 4225 0999 Phone: 105 Crown St Wollongong NSW 2500 Twitter: @wollgongwolves Facebook: fb.com/wollongongwolves Instagram: @WollongongWolves 3 SPONSORS #PS4NPLNSW 4 WELCOME NPLNSW.COM.AU FROM THE elcome everyone to WIN Stadium – The And it all begins right here, today, at WIN WWolf Den for our Round 12 match against Stadium – The Wolf Den, against Parramatta Parramatta Eagles FC. Eagles FC. Half way through the season, and it’s fair to Our home crowds have been excellent this say, we find ourselves a little behind where we season and our team loves nothing better than were planning to be at this stage of the year. playing in front of the faithful at the best home ground in the competition. The boys have been very competitive in every match we’ve played, but a lack of luck at We have enjoyed a very strong run here at WIN times, a loss of focus in crucial situations and Stadium and are looking for it to continue. possibly a touch of complacency have cost us significantly. 3 wins, a draw and a loss from our first 5 home matches have proven what a difficult ground The major issue however has been our WIN Stadium in for visiting teams. consistency. Making our home ground a fortress and We seem to turn up against the top of the tightening up our performances away from table teams and follow this up by letting our home will see us make a big statement for the guards down against the teams below us on remainder of the competition. the ladder or the ones we are expected to beat. We know we have the players to make a big splash. It just goes to show the high standard of this year’s competition. We have no doubt the pride, talent and passion burns strongly in every one of our There are no easy teams and on their day, any players. team can beat anyone. We have absolutely no doubt our best form is Makes for a strong, hard and very exciting in front of us. season. We know what needs to be done and we will The beauty for us is there are 11 more games make sure it is done. still to come. Watch and enjoy the football on offer today. Plenty of time left in the season for the mighty Wolves to bounce back and start our climb up Wollongong Wolves v Parramatta Eagles FC. the ladder. The start of our impressive run home. The entire squad have spent the past week GO THE WOLVES! re-evaluating and are poised and focused to respond in the best way possible. Good, fast, hard, quality football and stringing some victories together. They boys have pledged to eliminate the inconsistencies in our performances and show the rest of the league just how potent a team we really are. 5 MATCH PREVIEW #PS4NPLNSW THE OPPOSITION: The Wollongong Wolves FC welcome Wolves: Daniel Beltrame, Jacob Timpano, Parramatta FC to WIN Stadium for this Round Robert Cazzoli, Dominic Longo, Ben Blake, 12 fixture of the PlayStation NPLNSW Mens 1 Michael Clare, Mineo Bonetig, Alvin Ceccoli, competition. This will be the 29th meeting in Adam Hughes, Chad Bishop and Shane McGirr. league and cup games between the two sides Craig Morton and Daniel Aliffi replaced Cazzoli since the first in 1987. and Clare. Adrian Alston was the coach. THE OPPOSITION TODAY – PARRAMATTA FC Parramatta: Peter Munsie, Michael Mouyis, John Kelso, Noel Spencer, Mathew Clowes, Parramatta last won honours in 2010 season Michael O’Shea, Nathan Rivera, Michael in the NSW Premier League Mens 2 by winning Brown, Mark Bridge, Ben Delicata and Richard the Premiership and promotion into Mens 1 Cardozo. Nathan Burns, Andrew Kane and competition. Michael De Bono replaced O’Shea, Rivera and Parramatta finished 2016 in 8th position on 27 Cardozo. The coach was Trevor Morgan. points from 8 wins and 11 defeats and scored It took an hour in before Parramatta took the and conceded 31 and 46 goals respectively lead. Prior, in the first half Bishop was sending with a goal difference of minus 15, bettering in good crosses but McGirr, Hughes and Clare three teams. In seven games the team did failed to capitalize. Conversely, Parramatta’s not score which was the second highest and Bridge had a near miss and together tied with one other team. Three clean sheets with Brown and Spencer spurned further were achieved and Marco Sama was the top opportunities. However, Spencer had done scorer with 6 and nine other players scored the lead-up work, which allowed Delicata to also. The best result sequence without losing score with a well-taken shot in the second half. was 2, win and win in Rounds 15 and 16. The Six minutes later the Wolves replied. A curling best winning margin was 3-1 in Round 6 and Bishop corner kick found its way to Hughes. He 12 against Sydney Olympic and Blacktown touched it on to Ceccoli. He then produced a Spartans and the highest defeat margin was low trajectory shot, which flew powerfully into 5-1 in Rounds 3 and 7 with Manly United and the goal. As each team strived for a winner, Sydney United being the opposition. Beltrame thwarted Bridge and Timpano’s long Frank Cosentino is the coach again in 2017 distance shot nearly crept into the goal but and he has added new players such as Jacob Munsie’s fingertips saved the day. A Bishop Ott and Jordan Crighton from Blacktown corner kick rolled along the cross bar for a time Spartans while the Sama brothers Gosue and causing consternation before the winning goal Marco have been joined by another brother was scored by Brown in the 82nd minute as the Nicolo from overseas, and all will pull on the defence opened up. Post match Brown stated Parramatta shirt. In addition, Ryan Norval ‘that was a good result’ and ‘a good Christmas from APIA and Howard Fondyke from Sydney present’. Olympic have joined. (The player’s comment is taken from writer’s BLAST FROM THE PAST original interviews for the match reports at that In Round 5 in the 2004/05 season on Sunday, particular time.) 19th December 2004, the two teams met at THE MATCH - UP Crehan Park. Parramatta and the Wolves have scored 76 goals between them in all their meetings with the Wolves scoring the most, 43 to 33. 6 MATCH PREVIEW NPLNSW.COM.AU There have also been eight draws, four being The Wolves number four scorers plus an own scoreless. Parramatta has failed to score on goal and six Parramatta players have shared ten occasions while the Wolves number eight the scoring task. (seven on the field of play. Parramatta’s best This season Parramatta has three nil score league result sequence without losing has been games while the Wolves number four (one four matches - win, win, draw and win (1987 being the Round 1 game when the result was -1989/90) while Wollongong’s best is six - win, overturned and 3-0 score line being ratified). draw, draw, win and draw (1990/91-1992/93). The Wolves shade Parramatta in the number of SCORES AND SCORERS FROM THE PREVIOUS wins, eleven to ten. FIVE LEAGUE MEETINGS Parramatta sit in 12th position with 5 points 1. 2015. Parramatta 0 drew with Wolves 0 from one win and two draws, and having 2. 2015. Wolves 4 (Peter Simonoski 2, Jordan scored 13 goals, while the Wolves have scored Murray 2) def Parramatta 2 (own goal, 11 goals, achieved four wins and one draw and Joshua Symons) being in 8th position on 13 points. 3. 2016. Wolves 3 (Peter Simonoski, Nicolas In each team’s previous matches both teams Bernal, James Baldacchino) def by were away, Sydney FC defeated Wolves 2-1 and Parramatta 4 (Luke Grima 2, Tomislav Mijic, Parramatta lost to Bonnyrigg White Eagles 3-2. Ante Tomic) The top scorers for each club are Gosue 4. 2016. Parramatta 0 def by Wolves 1 (Josh Sama and David Rezo (Parramatta) and Yuzo Macdonald) Tashiro (Wollongong) with 3 apiece and 7 goals respectively. The latest scorer for each team 5.