Team vs Sydney

Team vs Sydney

It's getting exciting as the days click closer to the Sydney game.
Players unavailible are: Cleberson (most likely), T. Brown, S. O'Dor, Barbourousas, Paston,Johnsen and Lia. So  players are likely to be unavailible:
Likely Lineup:

--------------------------------------Moss---------------------------------------------

Christie/Old------------------------Dodd----------------------------------Lochhead

--------------------------------------Aloisi----------------------------------------------

Ferrante---------------------------Felipe-----------------------------------Daniel

-------------George----------------Coveny--------------Smeltz------------------

It looks alot better for us this week and Bar the defence the team looks pretty close to full strength.
I'm tipping an upset.
Anyone brave enough to hang their balls on the line and agree?

They're without Milligan and Carney s well...

...but no.  Bling by 1.

I say bling by 2, but we will score this weekend. 3-1 or 4-2 the final score - To the money mob.

All I want is for us to score at our end and the players to come over and celebrate in front of us...simple really!

I wonder who will be the first Phoenix ever to score? I hope its Covs.

Hopefully they will score at the end that we are.  We don't want a player having to run 100 yards to celebrate with us, and then go off knackered - it is only pre-season, remember.

I think the atmosphere of playing in front of a home crowd will give them a great boost and they'll pull of a surprise 2-1, with the winner coming in injury time after Moss makes an incredible save and they go end to end. The house will come down.

I think the backline will be

I suspect so as well.

im keen for the old greece national team 5-4-1 11 men behind the ball

Got you a European Championship.

Sydney will win it 40-1, with you getting a goal in the 91st minute while Sydney players have walked off to the pub.

<cough>Ban Stick<cough>

Official A-League Squads:

Wellington Phoenix v Sydney FC
Sunday 22 July 2007
Kick-Off 2:00pm NZST (12.00pm AEST, 11:30am ACST, 10:00am AWST)
Westpac Stadium, Wellington

Wellington Phoenix squad: 20.Glen MOSS (gk) 2.Plodder CHRISTIE, 3.Tony LOCHHEAD, 4.Cleberson GOIS, 5.Randy HICKEY, 7.Ross ALOISI (Captain), 8.Vaughan COVENY, 9.Shane SMELTZ, 10.Michael FERRANTE, 11.Daniel CORTES, 13.Steven OLD, 15. Webster PALLADINI, 21.Felipe CAMPOS, 26.Greg DRAPER, 30.Jacob SPOONLEY (gk)

In: Ross Aloisi (return from suspension)

Out: Steven O�DOR (suspended � 1 week)

Unavailable: Mark PASTON (foot � 3 weeks), Tim BROWN (hamstring � 1 week), Taxi JOHNSON (achilles � 1 weeks), Vince LIA (knee � 6 weeks), Costa BARBAROUSES (national duty � 1 week), Royce BROWNLIE (foot � 2 weeks).

Sydney FC Squad: 1.Clint BOLTON (gk), 2.Iain FYFE, 3.Nikolas TSATTALIOS, 4.Mark RUDAN, 6.Tony POPOVIC, 7.Robbie MIDDLEBY, 9.David ZDONKEY, 10.Steve CORICA, 14.Alex BROSQUE, 15.Terry McCLOGGER, 18.Adam CASEY, 23.Ufuk TALAY, 24.Ben VIDAIC.

In: Alex Brosque (return from suspension), Tony Popovic (New Signing).

Out: Brendon SANTALAB (foot - 2 weeks), Jacob TIMPANO (toe - 2 weeks)

Unavailable: Ruben ZADKOVICH (ingrown toenail - 3 weeks), Brendon SANTALAB (foot - 2 weeks),One FOOT (Qantas Socceroos duty), Mark MILLIGAN (Qantas Socceroos duty), Jacob TIMPANO (toe - 2 weeks).

... or to put it another way, who's definitely out for Sunday - suspensions / injuries - and so who does that leave as likely starters?

God Hard News you seem to have slightly embellished the official team listings! I'm sure he's not listed as Plodder Christie officially! Who the hell is Randy Hickey?

The Bling injuries are fun too. I hope I don't get an ingrown toenail! 

 

The ingrown toenail wasn't me, it's genuine and superb.

Randy Hickey:

  The hair looks more like Randy these days though.

PREDICTED STARTING LINEUP:

--------------------Bolton

Casey--------Rudan---Fyfe------Tsattalios

------------Talay--------McFlynn

Middleby----------Corica----------Brosque
---------------------Zdrilic

BENCH:
Vidaic
Popovic

I met Terry McFlynn at Star City Casino and he seems a decent enough bloke, although it was quite an interesting night - as I also met Terry Butcher and Anthony LaPaglia - that night was a couple of days before the whole whoohaa  about LaPaglia trying to oust Butcher came out, that was the night after the game that the Tards had beaten Sydney 2-1 (Muscu*t 2 goals in the 2nd half) - the beginning of the end for Butcher.

There's your beginning and end.
Hard News2007-07-20 00:39:59

Wellington Phoenix v Sydney FC
Sunday 22 July 2007
Kick-Off 2:00pm NZST (12.00pm AEST, 11:30am ACST, 10:00am AWST)
Westpac Stadium, Wellington

Wellington Phoenix squad: 20.Glen MOSS (gk) 2.Plodder CHRISTIE, 3.Tony LOCHHEAD, 4.Cleberson GOIS, 5.Randy HICKEY, 7.Ross ALOISI (Captain), 8.Vaughan COVENY, 9.Shane SMELTZ, 10.Michael FERRANTE, 11.Daniel CORTES, 13.Steven OLD, 15. Webster PALLADINI, 21.Felipe CAMPOS, 26.Greg DRAPER, 30.Jacob SPOONLEY (gk)

Eh? Who is Palladini and Randy Hickey D:?? And where is George? (i might just be blind) Suprised Cleberson is playing too.
valeo2007-07-20 01:09:26

Yeah, Butcher didn't have the world clarsh technical skills that Fozzie demanded.

Webster (Palladini) = George
Randy Hickey = Karl Dodd
One Foot = David Carney

Ha if this is it then I'd love to see Daniel vs Casey...
Safire2007-07-20 16:07:29

Adam Casey to pwn WPFC

So just to make it clear?? are we playing a 4-4-2?? hope so I hate five in the mids, and think we wont be able to hold if we play with 3 at the back.

See news article on homepage.

I think it's 4-4-1-1, and Ricki wants to play attacking footy- yeehaa!

Feverish2007-07-21 09:52:19