KICKOFF 2021 - ROUND 12 SUNDAY ALBERT BUTLER 16TH MAY MEMORIAL PARK 2.30PM 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]. 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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 our home game against joint league The one disappointing aspect of the game was the leaders Rockdale City Suns FC. chances we leaked from long balls and set pieces. We have spoken about this during the week and Today is also the beginning of the second half of have worked on improving that part of our game. the season, with everyone having now played each other once. Rockdale have had a strong start to the Although Rockdale beat us in round one, we season and will no doubt be tough opponents. controlled large parts of that game but were unable to convert our chances. It is important today that we We are coming off a solid home win against match their aggression, enthusiasm and physicality. Sutherland Sharks last Sunday. We ran out 3-2 If we do, I am sure we will create enough chances to winners having trailed twice. I was particularly take the three points. pleased with the character shown by the boys, to not drop their heads and to fight their way back in This is one game I am really looking forward to and I to the match. It was also great to see Leroy Jennings hope you enjoy it and we come away with the three score a hattrick. All three goals were fine finishes points. and included a nice freekick from about 30 metres out. We know Leroy has this quality and it was great I look forward to seeing you all back at The Fraternity to see him shake off the shackles and score his first Club. goals for the club. I believe that he can now get on a scoring run. 4 #NPLNSW MAJOR SPONSOR NPLNSW.COM.AU 5 MATCH PREVIEW v Rockdale Ilinden Rockdale Ilinden, the 2020 Rebooted League conceding nine. The best result sequence with out Champions are the Wollongong Wolves’ opponents loss was five games, achieved on two occasions, in today’s 2021 Round 12 fixture and this game Rounds 1-5, draw, win, win, win and draw, and should be an intriguing issue at Albert Butler Park. Rounds 7-11, win, win, win, draw and win. Amaury Rockdale and Wollongong have scored twenty-five Gauthier was the top scorer with five goals with six and seventeen goals against each other at goal other players joining the scorer’s club. Only twice per game ratio of 1.56 and 1.13 respectively since did the team neglect to score which was second to 2013. In the initial meeting in 1987, the Wolves two other teams in the league with one solitary nil defeated Rockdale 3-2 with goals by Pat Brodnik, score. Rockdale equalled four other teams in this Jock Morlando Randall Easthorpe being the Wolves regard. ‘scorers with Paul Darlington and Pat Rodas being Rockdale’s achievers in the Round 2 fixture. How Rockdale has finished the last five seasons in 6th, many goals will be scored today? 3rd, 5th 10th and 1st position. Semi-finals will surely be on the radar for Rockdale at least in 2021 THE OPPOSITION TODAY - ROCKDALE ILINDEN following their great success in 2020 Reboot FC competition. Rockdale’s coach, Steven Zoric has added to his THE MATCH - UP squad in an attempt to duplicate the success of the previous year. Daniel Araujo has moved from All up Rockdale numbers ten victories as against Blacktown City, Bai Antoniou has returned to the the Wolves’ twelve with, only one draw. Rockdale’s club from Sydney Olympic together with Zac Sfiligoi biggest win was 4-0, coming in this season’s Round from Northbridge Bulls and from Sutherland Sharks, 1. Correspondingly, the Wolves 4-1 victory in 2011, James Temelkovski. being the club’s biggest score. Rockdale has won honours over the years with Rockdale and Wollongong occupy second and one being the 1984 NSW Premier League Division seventh on the ladder with six and four wins 1 Championship after accounting for Premiers respectively. Rockdale has scored twenty-two goals Inter-Monaro 3-2 at Marconi Stadium. The team with Alec Urosevski being the top scorer with a ten was captained by Bill Pilovski and coached by Ilija goal tally. Lachlan Scott is the Wolves’ top goal Talkacs. Rockdale came from behind to win this getter with four, with nine players joining in with the match with the three goals emanating in the twenty- team scoring a total of sixteen goals. Rockdale has seventh, fifty-fifth and eighty-sixth minutes with Terry five scorers Jones scoring two of these. Other teams members In the previous round, Rockdale defeated Sydney included Ken Slaveski, Robbie Yousef, Paul Degney FC and the Wolves defeated Sutherland Sharks 3-2. and Darren Wilson. Rockdale had finished in the The scorers were Alec Urosevski with three, and Bai runners up position in the Premiership with thirty- Antonoiu for Rockdale and Leroy Jennings with three two points from fourteen wins and four draws, one for the Wolves. point behind Inter-Monaro, scoring forty six goals and conceding twenty three with a goal difference The result sequence for last five rounds played is – of plus twenty-three. WW - Win, Loss, Loss, Win and Win, RI - Win, Win, Draw, Draw and Win. Rockdale Ilinden in 2020 became Premiership winners when they outlasted the Wollongong PLAYERS TO WATCH Wolves to win on goal difference of one goal after Amaury Gauthier, in his second year at Rockdale eleven rounds. However, at the final hurdle to win is a midfielder who has creative flair to assist in his the double, they succumbed in the Grand Final to team’s goal scoring exploits and has scored a quite Sydney United 58, 4-3 on penalties after concluding a few himself. extra time 3-3, with the goal scorers being Michael Neill, Jaden Casella and Daniel Petkovski. Rockdale Newcomer to the top side in the past few weeks is topped the table on twenty-four points with seven Wolves’ Nav Darjani who has been in remarkable wins and three draws, scoring twenty goals and form to date. He has scored a goal, and showed 6 #NPLNSW immense talent in his passing, match vision, his two but Covic thwarted the enterprising chance. tackling and overall play. Watch and be impressed. Rockdale through Urosevski and Figon tried to find a way through but the defence and Pasfield kept them BLAST FROM THE PAST in check. With nine minutes left in the match, Tashiro In the 2017 season Round 10 fixture the Wolves brought up his brace by heading in a MacDonald played Rockdale at WIN Stadium. The Wolves were cross. Timpano –‘I thought we dominated the Justin Pasfield, Hayden Morton, Chris Price, Brendan match… We are a good side. We can beat the top Griffin, Michael Robinson, Darcy Madden, Joshua sides as we did today.’ Tashiro - ‘We had good play McDonald, Nick Montgomery, Patrick Antelmi, today and I got the goals. Josh MacDonald is a good Peter Simonoski and Yuzo Tashiro. Nicolas Bernal creative player. We have good moves.’ Madden - and Brett Wilson replaced Simonoski and Tashiro ‘They are second on table for good reason, but we respectively with Jacob Timpano as coach. The were happy to beat them.’ Suns line-up was Ante Covic, Daniel Petkovski, SCORES AND SCORERS FROM THE PREVIOUS Trent McClenahan, Paul Reid, Blake Ricciutto, Alec FIVE LEAGUE MEETINGS Urosevski, Aleksander Canak, Harris Gaitatzis, Brayden Sorge, Patrick Savor, and Jordan Figon. 1. 2018. Rockdale City Suns 4 (Aleks Canak x2, Jonathan Grozdanovski Steven Hesketh subbed on Alec Urosevski, Bai Antoniou) def Wolves 1 (Peter for McClenahan and Savor respectively. Simonoski) Both teams in tight affair tried to gain an advantage 2. 2019. Wolves 0 defeated by Rockdale City Suns 1 (Alec Urosevski) but all attempts were in vain until MacDonald made ground with the ball down the wing before 3. 2019. Rockdale City Suns 1 (Jonathan crossing. Tashiro met the ball to direct, placing it Grozdanovski) defeated by Wolves 2 (Nick Littler, to the left of Covic. Griffin tried to bring up number Thomas James) 4. 2020. Rockdale Ilinden 3 (Amaury Gauthier, Tomoki Wada x2) defeated Wollongong Wolves 1 (Thomas James) 5. 2021. Rockdale Ilinden 4 (Alec Urosevski x2, Kyle Cimenti x2) def Wolves 0 TWO SELECTED TOP SCORERS FOR ROCKDALE ILINDEN - JASON NAIDOVSKI and JORDAN FIGON Naidovski reached the club summit with his five goals in the 2011 NSW Premier League season with his first goal coming in the fifty-third minute of the Round 11 Parramatta fixture.