KICKOFF ROUND 17 SUNDAY WIN STADIUM V 2ND JULY 2017 FIXTURES TEAM LISTS FIRST GRADE MATCH PREVIEW 3PM 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 Andrew Byron 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 Address: 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 Wolf Stingrays and The Illawarra Local Aboriginal Land WDen for our Round 17 home match against Council. Jade, Australian Socceroo, Brisbane Roar Sydney United 58. A-League stalwart and Australia’s most successful and recognised footballer of indigenous A vital match for both teams and one that is going background has developed a program focusing to have a crucial impact in the run home to the on football skills, drills and funs that also delivers finals. positive messages and reinforcements in regards With 6 rounds remaining, every match is going to to education, school attendance, community have a major bearing on who finishes where in engagement, health, leadership and goal setting. the top 5. Designed for all, boys and girls, the program has a particular emphasis on indigenous, disadvantaged The Wolves destiny still remains in our hands. and underprivileged sections of our community and is exactly the kind of initiative we will be We are sitting two wins outside a finals berth involved with much more in the future. and with a strong run home we can still make up ground and force our way into finals contention. As the major representative football club across our region we have a great responsibility to Wins are required in all our remaining matches ensure we provide access and opportunity to all. and the belief and faith amongst our squad is still very strong. As a sporting club we can make significant contributions to our region and by introducing Consistency has been a problem for us this our great game to as many people, particularly season, with the Wolves springing some major children, as we can, we ensure the strength of upsets against much more favoured opponents, football across the Illawarra and South Coast followed by letting our guard down against those continues to flourish. we were expected to beat and coming away empty handed. Another great initiative has been our “Local Football Club” promotion for each of our home This simply shows the quality and strength of our games. We have had a selection of juniors from competition, reinforcing there are no easy games our local clubs making their debuts at WIN and no guarantees. Stadium – The Wolf Den, and all the kids have We have already shown we can more than match absolutely loved the experience. It is from these any other team in our league on our day and it’s young ones, we will continue the production line time now we find the consistency, in attack and of future first graders. defence, to highlight just what a force we are. Today the junior stars from South Coast United We have enjoyed a reasonably successful season will be entertaining the crowd, so please give to date, however anything less than a spot in the them a huge cheer. top five at season’s end will be viewed as a major They are our stars of tomorrow. disappointment. We hope you thoroughly enjoy today’s big match On the field the mighty Wolves have proven we and continue to support our Wolves loudly and are more than competitive. proudly. Off the field we are also making great strides and Support our club that supports our community. forging ahead on a range of fronts. GO YOU WOLVES! Our Community Engagement Programs continue to grow and spread the football gospel, far and wide, across the Illawarra and South Coast. Recently we assisted in launching Jade North’s “Kickin With A Cuz” initiative at Albert Butler Oval, Kemblawarra, in conjunction with Jade, The Illawarra 5 MATCH PREVIEW #PS4NPLNSW THE OPPOSITION: The 2016 National Premier League Australian from Round 5 onwards. Newcomers to the squad Premiers Sydney United 58 visit WIN Stadium for in 2017 are Nick Olsen plus the return of Ante the Round 17 clash with the Wollongong Wolves. Tomic, Anthony Tomelic and Petar Markovic. We welcome the club on this occasion, which Matthew Sim and Riley Woodcock have had will be the sixty-fifth such league meeting, with A-League experience at Central Coast Mariners the present fifth placed club (SU58) playing the and Sydney FC respectively, have been additional seventh placed club (WW). signings together with Adrian Vranic. Woodcock THE OPPOSITION TODAY - SYDNEY UNITED 58 however has since moved on and Sydney United’s late season signings for Round 16 and beyond Sydney United 58 last won honours in have been left defender Michael Neill from Central 2016 winning the Premiership plus the NPL Coast Mariners and Sam Perre from Marconi Championship Of Australia by beating Edgeworth Stallions. Panni Nikas left following the Round 15 Eagles 4-1. The team was Thomas Manos, clash with Sutherland Sharks to play in Thailand Kristopher Vilmas, Masato Mochizuki, Chris Payne, but has been re-signed after 48 hours. Yutaro Shin, Peter Triantis, Nicholas Stavroulakis, Theo Kofinas, Glen Trifiro, Matthew Bilic and BLAST FROM THE PAST Panni Nikas. Tomislav Uskok, Robert Mileski and This match was played 13th October 1996 at Nick Taneski replaced Mochizuki, Payne and Shin Sydney United Sports Centre at Edensor Park. It respectively. Mark Rudan was the coach, with was the first round of the 1996/97 NSL season. the goal scorers being Trifiro with a hat trick and Nikas. Sydney United: Zelkjo Kalac, Joe Vrkic, Mark Babic, Tony Popovic, Chad Gibson, Robert Enes, In the 2016 NPL NSW Mens 1 competition, Sydney Ante Moric, Paul Bilokapic, David Zdrilic, Kresimir United 58 concluded the season in first position Marusic and Ante Milicic. on 54 points from 17 wins and 3 draws, with only 2 defeats. Fifty-six goals were scored by twelve Wolves: Brett Hughes, Richard Lloyd, Stephen players with Payne being the top scorer with Laybutt, Jason Connolly, Neil Harlock, Matthew twenty-two. The team scored in every match, Horsley, Sonny Sevin, Michael Reda, Anthony which was the best in the competition. Ten clean Surjan, Tony Perinich and Nick Josevski. Lupcho sheets were achieved which also was the seasons Naumovski, Martin Bourke and Sasho Dimoski best. The best sequence without loss was 18, replaced Sevin, Reda and Josevski respectively. Rounds 2-12, 14-20 with Round 13 in before Damir Cvetko and Velimir Kupresak replaced Round 18 - win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, Gibson and Moric respectively. draw, win, win, draw, win, win, win, win, win, win, The Wolves captain, Horsley, struck first in the draw and win. The biggest winning margin was match after seven minutes but the away team 4-0 and 5-1 in Rounds 3 and 7 versus Sutherland did not hold the lead for too long. Zrdilic goaled Sharks and Parramatta respectively. Multiple after a further two minutes had elapsed to bring scorers in a single match were Payne with a hat the score back to even Stevens. Sevin was next trick in Round 11, and two braces in Rounds 4 and to score on fifteen minutes before Sydney United 15, Nikas, with three braces in Rounds 5, 7 and 14, equalled through Babic with eight minutes left on and Mileski, with a brace in Round 7. the clock before half time. Horsley brought up his The coach who replaced the outgoing 2016 coach, brace in the fifty-second minute before Vrkic was Mark Rudan for 2017 was Croatian, Davor Bajsic. red carded in the 76th minute and his team were However, he only lasted a couple of matches then a man down for the duration of the match. before moving on, with Rudan back at the helm However, despite this, United’s Milicic goaled with 6 MATCH PREVIEW NPLNSW.COM.AU an unlikely equaliser with nine minutes left before The top scorer for each club is Panni Nikas the final whistle. The Wolves could not capitalize (Sydney United) and Yuzo Tashiro (Wollongong) with their man advantage and so the match ended with ten and eight goals respectively. in a high scoring draw, 3-3. Sydney United 58 have achieved twenty-seven THE MATCH-UP points from eight wins and three draws, scoring There have been seven draws between the two thirty goals while the Wolves have scored twenty sides with Sydney United on top with the most goals, achieved seven wins and one draw and wins and goals, thirty-eight and one hundred being on twenty-two points.