KICKOFF vs ROUND 2 WIN STADIUM SUNDAY 18TH MARCH 2018 3PM #NPLNSW CORPORATE PARTNERS 2 NPLNSW.COM.AU CONTENTS WOLLONGONG WOLVES COACHING STAFF & MANAGEMENT 1st Team Coach Jacob Timpano 1st Grade Assistant Coach Nick Montgomery and Alfredo Esteves Senior Manager Robert Positti Under 20s Coach James Ford Under 18s Coach Richard Lloyd GK Coach John Krajnovic Health and Medical Services Figtree Physiotherapy Match Preview 6 Technical Director Neil Mann Team Lineups 20 CEO Chris Papakosmas Season Draw 34 Admin Manager Susan Gatt Program Contributors Malcolm Rowney Photographer - Seniors Pedro Garcia Photographer – Juniors Chris Horn Ground Announcer Andrew Byron 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 3 WELCOME #NPLNSW elcome to WIN STADIUM – The Wolf Den Club captain Chris Price, Justin Pasfield, Wfor our Round 2 clash with Rockdale City Peter Simonoski, Joshua Macdonald, Taylor Suns. McDonald, Brendan Griffin, James Baldacchino, Our boys kicked off our 2018 campaign with a Michael Robinson, Steve Hayes and Ethan draw last Sunday against Blacktown City and Kambiosis. Very shortly they will joined by we’ll be looking for the full three competition another locally produced Wolves gun who is points on offer in today’s encounter. very much a crowd favourite. Maximising results at home is crucial in a Complementing our core ground of locals, competition as strong as the NPL NSW Men’s we have been fortunate to have retained the 1, so making WIN STADIUM a fortress, like we services of 2017 players James Marcovic and did last year will go a long way to our mighty Luke Kairies and further bolstered our talent Wollongong Wolves Football Club staying in the and depth with the addition of youngsters top part of the table. Michael Stojanovski, Ryan Ensor and Quivi Fowler. Our players love playing on the best ground in the competition and all our opposition teams Add to this the leadership, experience and know they are in for a hell of a tussle whenever temperament of Nick Montgomery, Yuzo they play us at The Wolf Den. Tashiro and new signing Takuya Nozawa it is no wonder Wollongong Wolves fans are Retention and selective recruitment was a confident about the team’s chances for this major focus for us in the off season. The season. Illawarra and South Coast have long been renowned as one of Australia’s most fertile First Grade coach, Jacob Timpano is to be junior nurseries when it comes to the congratulated for assembling such a quality development of football players. Many talented squad and will have them gelling and playing and successful footballers have emerged an attractive brand of football that will have from our region, playing in the A League, our supporters screaming at the top of their representing the Socceroos and carving out lungs and chanting for more. lucrative careers overseas. This will continue as At this stage of every season, each team is more and more kids, boys and girls, learn their excited about their chances and believes love of the game and develop their passion they will be fighting for much higher honors and skills right here across our entire region. at season’s end. Realistically only 5 teams As the major representative pathway for will progress at the conclusion of the initial football players in our area the Wollongong competition rounds to qualify for the semi Wolves take development of our players as finals and the ultimate accolade, the 2018 our paramount consideration and understand premiership crown. the important role we play in providing the The Wollongong Wolves intend to me right opportunities for them to take their game to amongst the pack when things start to get the highest possible level. This is not simply serious. only for our first grade squad but just as And it continues today against Rockdale City importantly for our U20s, our U18s and in fact Suns. all our junior and SAP teams from U9s all the way through to our U16s. Our stars of today Thank you for your support and commitment will be the inspiration and example of our stars in attending today’s match. of tomorrow. We will continue to pack WIN Stadium – The This season we have 11 members of our Wolf Den with the best, most passionate and first grade squad who were born, bred and knowledgeable fans in Australian football. developed right here across the Illawarra and LOOK OUT – THE WOLVES ARE ON THE South Coast. No other side in our competition HUNT! can boast such an impressive record. ENJOY TODAY’S GAME 4 01: LARGE USE: OVER 150MM WIDE This logo has a smaller ‘®’ symbol SPONSORS 02: SMALL USE: 55MM - 150MM WIDE This logo has a larger ‘®’ symbol 5 MATCH PREVIEW #NPLNSW he Wollongong scorer was Alec Urosevski with ten goals and TWolves welcome nine other players made contributions with the 2017 NPL Mens goals. Urosevski also scored the quickest goal, 1 semi finalists from which eventuated in the 8th minute in Round 8 Ilinden Park, Rockdale Bonnyrigg White Eagles game. The best result City Suns for their sequence without loss was seven matches - Round 2 encounter win, win, win, draw, win, draw and win Round this afternoon at WIN 1-2, 4-8 (Round 3 was a postponed match) and Stadium. Today will the the team neglected to score on five occasions, 20th meeting since the first one back in 1987. which was bettered by five teams. Multi- It was 3-2 Wolves win then with the Wolves’ Pat scorers in a single match were brace achievers Brodnik, Jock Morlando and Randall Easthorpe Urosevski with three and Jordan Figon with and Sun’s Paul Darlington and Pat Rodas, being two. the scorers. Players that were selected into the ‘Team Of Results have gone either way for the Suns and The Week’ were Urosevski with five selections, the Wolves in recent times. Which teams’ turn followed by Ante Covic (4), Blake Ricciutto (3), will it be today? Jordan Figon (2), Harris Gaitatzis (1), Daniel THE OPPOSITION TODAY – ROCKDALE CITY Petkovski (1), Alek Canak (1), Patrick Savor (1), SUNS Trent McClenehan (1) and Toufic Alameddine New additions to the team for 2018 that coach (1). Covic, as well, was the joint recipient of the Paul Reid have signed include Bai Antoniou 2017 Mens 1 ‘Goalkeeper Of The Year’ Award. from Sydney FC Youth and Michael Neill, ex- He was also included in the ‘Team Of The Year’ Central Coast Mariners and Sydney United. along with Urosevski and Ricciutto (as a sub.). The Suns since their inception in 1969 have THE MATCH-UP won honours. In the NSW Super League in Since the 2004/05 season in the NSW 2009 the team achieved 46 points from 22 competition, the two teams have met on games from 14 wins and 4 draws to win the seventeen occasions with the Wolves behind in Premiership of that competition. The team the number of wins and goals, 7 wins to 9 and scored and conceded 46 and 22 goals with 17 goals to 24. Rockdale’s best score was 3-0 in a goal difference of plus 24. Mile Todorovski 2016 with the Wolves best being 4-1 in 2011. coached the team. Players used included The highest number of goal scored in a single Angelo Kosmatos, Paul Dee, Peter Apolevski, match was five, emanating the second round Saso Trajcevski, Adem Kir, Cameron Jones, Igor of matches in 2011. The nil scores per team are Kotevski, Kurt Crnic, Robert DiMeglio and Askin Oygur amongst others. The club also that year won promotion to the Premier League. Since 2014, the club has concluded each season in 5th, 6th and 4th and last season in 3rd position. This is a very consistent performance in an upward trajectory and with their new artificial pitch will aid their prospects. In 2017, Rockdale won its first game in Round 1 and were not defeated until Round 9. Achieving 42 points from 12 wins and 6 draws, the team scored and conceded 42 goals and 28 respectively with a goal difference of plus 14, which was the fourth best in the competition. The percentage of goals scored to games ratio was 1.9 and 1.27 in conceding. The top 6 NPLNSW.COM.AU 4 (WW) and 5 (RCS). BLAST FROM THE PAST In 2018 after Round 1 the two teams occupy This Round 15 match in 1987 was played at 4th (RCS) and 6th (WW) positions on the points’ Seymour Shaw Park in Miranda. table after one round. The team line-ups were as such - The top scorer who has one goal is Alex Canak Rockdale - Ian Barker, Mike Boogard, Jeff (RCS) and he was scorer of the previous goal Wilson, Bill Pilovski, Darren Wilson, Pat Rodas, coming into this match. Vladimir Tortevski, Lou Dounis, Vince Nastoski, In the previous match the Wolves and Tony Genovese and Alex Bottalico.