3 points always suspended Western Sydney Wanderers FC

[quote Kevin Airs @KevinAirs442]

Tahj Minniecon and Panni Nikas among the many trialists at the #wswanderers today.[/quote]

wonder what sort of philosophy Popovich is going to try, and if he will be able to implement it with the limited players he has.

Surely build your team around Mooy, by all acounts he is a very talented attacking midfielder.

A poster on the FourFourtwo forums reckons D-Mac will sign with the Wanderers.

Nepean FC are in the 4th teir of football in NSW, so not sure much can be read into the score line. The RBB had their first chance to rip some flares.

Grabbed this from the Sydney forums

Thread name should be changed to National Roads and Motorists' Association Insurance Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club, to reflect the new naming sponsor deal.

Selma Bouvier-Terwilliger-Hutz-McClure-Anderson-Simpson

If Cockerill's figures are right, 2+ mil over 3 years, that is one heck of a sponsorship.

I approve of this thread name change.

In other news Filippo Inzaghi has officially retired from the game, so we won't be seeing him in a unicorn shirt.

Shame, he would've carved the A-League.

Reports of West Sydney fans attending the Sydney/Rams game, lighting flares and starting a couple of fights.

FFA is funding Terrorists with tax payer dollars.

@piignata9 Very disappointed in what happened tonight. Not needed and a few spoil it for everyone. Needs to be stopped now.

@piignata9 On the football front. Good display by @sydnetfc Plenty to be excited about for the up coming season #ramsydfc

(Hopefully they sort it and we don't get thugs in the Aleague)

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/football/outrage-as-boy-6-injured-in-brawl/story-fn63e0vj-1226450457937

RBB have just shot themselves in the foot with that. Gorman isn't exactly fond of active support, and now he has to come down hard to try and save face with the public. Last thing a new club needs and sets the image of the league back years.

So their away strip is red and white with white socks, and Heart's home and away strips are red and white with white socks.

Their home strip is red and black, as is Adelaide's away strip

Great planning

New Nighthawks kit.

Not hard to spot a Nighthawk in a crowd.

According to tweets, Sydney United fans are playing up at the friendly against the Wanderers tonight. #GoWanderers

[quote Tony Tannous ‏@TonyTannousTRBA]

Calmed down a bit, my count was 7 Syd Utd fans taken out the back. Plenty of anger/complaints about excessive spray

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Wanderers concede their first ever goal, to go into the break losing 1-0.

[quote Shiny Steve @Shiny_Steve]

Believe it or not. The RBB now have their shirts off. #notpretty #winter #GoWanderers

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Wanderers losing 2-1 currently.

It ended 2-1 to Sydney United. The disturbance has already made the Daily Telegraph - http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/violence-rocks-soccer-match-between-sydney-united-fc-and-western-sydney-wanderers/story-e6freuy9-1226456110281

Some awesomely dense replies in the comments section of that article there.

Post from the Sydney Forums[quote mack]This was all after the 'offensive' banners had been taken down. Massive police over-reaction to one cracker. They had police dogs running in at full tilt. One idiot let off a firecracker (not a flare and not a smoke bomb), the security and police move in, batons raised, pepper spray going and start attacking the United supporters. Massive over-reaction. They cleared the entire bay for no reason.

Tom Smithies had left before half-time, clearly had nothing more on his mind but another beat-up.

As for the match itself, United got extremely lucky.  Their first was a very scrappy and lucky pinball inside the box after a corner.

Their players were diving all night (#7 was a disgrace), and the ref fell for it eventually, then ordered a re-take after it was saved. Typical a-league shite on display in the ref department.[/quote]Can't seem to find a team list for Sydney United or who scored the goals. I assume Pavlovic would be #7 because that is his number for the NSWPL games.

5 year ban for trouble makers. FFA get tough

I think the FFA have to be very careful that they don't overreact here - there is a PR war to be won in Sydney/Melbourne media.

On the one hand these idiots need to be dealt with.  That can be done quietly and with the clubs involved.  On the other hand they need to get a handle on the negative press involved with any disturbance at a football match vs what goes on at other sports in Australia.  Go to a cricket match in Aussie or the races and by the end of the day you see some of the worst behaviour imaginable.  The FFA needs to do a better job of defending football as a game without becoming apologists for the individuals concerned.

It's a tricky balance but these 5 year bans for what really doesn't seem like a particularly big deal risks making it appear that there is a bigger problem with the sport than there is.

 Can we start calling WSW "Bogan Hobos" - seems an apt derivation of their name.

 Behind the scenes at the Bogan Hobo's Press HQ:

Day 13: Release "Tomorrow, as engaging the community is key to everything WSW stands for, we'll be having a community engagement opportunity so that footballing community feels suitably engaged"

Day 14: Release: "We're currently engaging the community at our Parramatta community engagement, if you're part of the community, and want to be engaged, come on down"

Day 15: Release "Our thanks go to all the local community who were in engaged in yesterday's WSW community engagement, we look forward to further engagement of the community in our next community engagement opportunity at some godforsaken sports oval in somewhere in Boganville, thus ensuring that every community, whether they want to or not, is appropriately engaged in our never-ending community engagement programme"

Day 16: Release"Player signings: We feel that it isn't our priority to sign internationally renowned players as this type of player is unlikely to encourage engagement from the community, we're mostly after bogan players who come from the wider bogan community that are likely to enhance further community engagement" 

WSW - Engaging the community (endlessly)

I think the commonly accepted nickname is the Unicorns.

Sounds like Ono is arriving on Monday for a medical. Hope they haven't signed Yoko by accident.

 FFA are a disgrace.

From what people are saying on other forums, it suggests Ono's star power has waned. So it probably wouldn't be a huge drawcard for the Japanese audience.

so annoying! and reports are they might be getting another import spot - so 7 in total!

Homegrown talent my ass