KICKOFF NSW MEN’S ROUND 10 Saturday 11 MAY 2019 6pm WIN STADIUM 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 Welcome back to WIN Stadium! Their talent means we have a squad of 20 to 25 players who I have confidence in playing. We have A few weeks ago before our game against Mount a squad of players who, if they stick together, could Druitt Town Rangers FC I wrote in this column how dominate this league over the next few years. impressed I was at the reaction of those players who had not had many minutes at that point in time. Our performance against Blacktown last Sunday was very pleasing. Everyone who stepped up into As can generally be expected, a few injuries have the team performed and we were a bit unlucky not started to creep into the squad. Lachlan Scott is to come away with a 5, 6 or 7 nil win. out for another three to four weeks with a fractured cheek bone, Brendan Griffin is still out with a knee Today we are up against Rockdale who have been ligament concern, Takeru Okada and Darcy Madden on a bit of a roll results wise for the past 4 or 5 have had short term soft tissue injuries. Chris Price weeks. I believe that if we bring our recent form, we has also been away on leave. should be able to maintain our lead at the top of the table. Those are five important and experienced players. Those injuries and increased games due to the FFA In my view, our home crowds have been a little Cup have meant that I have had to delve deep into disappointing. I question whether this region is our squad. That includes bringing up boys such as really ready for an A-League team when we can’t get Brendan Low, Bul Juach and Liam Willie from the people out supporting their own young talented under 20’s. players who are sitting top of the table and playing the most entertaining football in the league. I also used 7 or 8 under 20’s players in our Round 5 FFA Cup match against Coledale Waves. If you are reading this, you are an active supporter and I thank you. I want to see massive crowds here These boys have impressed me to say the least. at WIN Stadium, so please bring your family and Brendan, Bul and Liam have not looked out of place friends to the games. training with the first team and I gave Bul man of the match in his debut against Blacktown City FC. For I hope you enjoy todays match. Bring on 3 more me, Bul’s performance and work rate created the points! space for TJ and others to shine. 4 #NPLNSW MAJOR SPONSOR NPLNSW.COM.AU 5 MATCH PREVIEW Rockdale City Suns in 2018 qualified for the FFA Cup Round Of 32 for the second time beating Glebe V Wanderers, Bankstown United, Sydney United 58 and Blacktown City. Their opponents were Sydney FC, the holders of the 2017 Cup. Rockdale shocked by going to an early lead through Harris Gaitatzis and though the Suns scored again through The team from Ilinden Park, Rockdale venture to Toufic Alameddine, they eventually went out of WIN Stadium for the Round 10 encounter with the competition 4-2 with a spirited showing. The the Wollongong Wolves in their NPL NSW Men’s Suns were Ante Covic, Brayden Sorge, Michael assignment tonight. In the matches played to date Neill, Blake Ricciuto, Daniel Petkovski, Idriss El between the two clubs, there have been a total of Hafine, Alameddine, Patrick Savor, Alec Urosevski, fifty-five goals scored at an average of 2.6 goals per Aleksander Canak and Gaitatzis with Paul Reid the game. coach. Reid Jonathan Grozdanovski and Steven THE OPPOSITION TODAY - ROCKDALE CITY SUNS Hesketh replaced Savor, Neill and Urosevski. Rockdale City Suns have strengthened their side In 2018 Mens 1 competition, Rockdale achieved in 2019 with the addition of goalkeeper David nine wins and four draws and suffered nine defeats Bradascevic, returning to the club from Bonnyrigg earning thirty-one points. The team scored 39 goals White Eagles, Leigh Egger and Sasa Macura, a and conceded 43. The goals per game average defender and a midfielder from Manly United, was 1.7 and the goals per game conceded was Joshua Da Silva, an attacker from Sutherland Sharks 1.95. The top scorer was Urosevski with nine goals together with Panni Nikas, from Sydney United 58 and a strike rate of 0.4 with nine other players and a midfielder, together with Matthew Lecce, sharing in the achievement of goals. Five nil scores a Suns junior who has returned from Western eventuated and this was the third highest score in Sydney Wanderers and Parramatta FC. Departures the competition but better than five other clubs. The include Ante Covic, Harris Gaitatzis, Blake Ricciuto biggest winning margin was three in 3-0 and 4-1 in and Paul Reid (retired). After Round 5 coach Reid Rounds 10 and 13, with the biggest defeat being parted company with the club and Nick Porreca was 0-5 in Round 5 by APIA. In Rounds 1-11 nineteen appointed in the interim. and twenty-six goals were scored and conceded 6 #NPLNSW MATCH PREVIEW and in Rounds 12-22 twenty and seventeen goals The respective goal difference for each is plus was the outcome. The defence in the second half thirteen (WW) and minus 4 (RCS) of the season improved. The quickest goal was by In the previous round Rockdale defeated Manly Sorge in Round 14 in the first minute of play. Players United 2-1 while the Wolves accounted for who were selected in the ‘Team Of The Week’ were Blacktown City by four goals to nil. Urosevski with four, Ricciuto (2), Bai Antoniou (2), Gaitatzis (2), with Petkovski, Jordan Figon, Covic, Rockdale occupies fourth position with sixteen Neill, Canak, Savor and Grozdanovski with one points while the Wolves remain in the pole position each. Multi scorers in a single match were Figon, on twenty-one points. Gaitatzis and Grozdanovski with a brace each. The best sequence without loss during 2018 was four, The result sequence in the previous five games is Rounds 17-20, win, win, win and draw. RCS - loss, win, win, win and win, WW - win, draw, win, draw and win. In the last five years of the competition, Rockdale PLAYERS TO WATCH has finished in 5th, 6th, 4th and 3rd positions with a 5th place in 2018. It was slight drop but still a The Wolves’ left sided defender/midfield player qualification for the finals. Guy Knight is a player that impresses and he moves up and back throughout the matches he plays. He THE MATCH –UP positions intuitively for both attacks and defensively The top scorer for each club is Thomas James (WW) and is an exciting player to pay attention to. He sets and Alec Urosevski (RCS) with a tally of twelve and up his supports when he is in an attacking mode, two goals respectively with each team scoring he reads the play well and is ever vigilant in cutting twenty-two and eight. The scorer of the team’s out crosses and intervening in oppositions passing previous goal is Nick Littler (WW) and Sasa Macura movements. He has a strong left foot and has gone (RCS), both in Round 9. close to scoring on occasions. Rockdale has ten wins to the Wolves eight in Alec Urosevski is a player who has a penchant for their match-ups since the 2004/05 season while scoring goals and is quite prolific in this regard. Rockdale has kept the Wolves scoreless in five He is a quick player with close ball skills and is ever matches while the converse is also five. dangerous and in the past he has scored against the Wolves. He will aspire to do this again to assist his team. BLAST FROM THE PAST It was in Round 8 2010, that the teams met at WIN Stadium. The teams were as follows, Wolves - Brody Crane, Alex Mansueto, Greg Valic, Tynan Diaz, Nick McInerney, Lisandro Berbis ©, Tayfun Buyyukopru, Andres Gomez, Jason Trifiro, Andrew Paine, Mark Picciolini, Andrew Keep and Ken Chun and Adrian Karakolevski replaced Diaz, Gomez and Paine.