WPM R2 vs Perth Glory | Sat 28th Oct | 5:30pm | RoF/Sky Sports 7

Last ever Distance Derby match in Welly. Auckland/Perth take the mantle of the longest away trip next season.

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Last ever Distance Derby match in Welly. Auckland/Perth take the mantle of the longest away trip next season.

Auckland has a direct flight though so on pure travel time and distance it's still us.

Wellington Phoenix squad: 3. Finn SURMAN, 4. Scott WOOTTON, 6. Tim PAYNE, 7. Kosta BARBAROUSES, 8. Ben OLD, 9. Oskar ZAWADA, 10. David BALL, 11. Bozhidar KRAEV, 12. Mo AL-TAAY, 14. Alex RUFER (c), 15. Nicholas PENNINGTON, 18. Lukas KELLY-HEALD, 24. Oskar VAN HATTUM 25. Jack DUNCAN (GK), 26. Isaac HUGHES, 34. Josh RUDLAND, 40. Alex PAULSEN (GK), 41. Kaelin NGUYEN, 42. Fergus GILLION, 52. Jackson MANUEL

* Two to be omitted

Ins: 24. Oskar VAN HATTUM (returning from injury), 41. Kaelin NGUYEN (promoted), 42. Fergus GILLION (promoted)

Outs: 5. Fin CONCHIE (injured), 23. Luke SUPYK (injured), 48. Charlie BEALE

Unavailable: 5. Fin CONCHIE (injured), 19. Sam SUTTON (injured), 23. Luke SUPYK (injured)

Perth Glory Squad: 1.Oli SAIL (GK), 2.Johnny KOUTROUMBIS, 3.Jacob MUIR, 4.Luke BODNAR, 5.Mark BEEVERS (co-captain), 7.Stefan COLAKOVSKI, 9.David WILLIAMS, 12.Luke IVANOVIC, 13.Cameron COOK (GK), 14.Riley WARLAND, 15.Aleksandar SUSNJAR, 17.Jarrod CARLUCCIO, 19.Trent OSTLER, 20.Giordano COLLI, 22.Adam TAGGART (co-captain), 23.Daniel BENNIE, 24.Oliver BOZANIC, 29.Darryl LACHMAN, 77.Bruce KAMAU

* One to be omitted

Ins: 3.Jacob MUIR

Outs: Nil

Unavailable: 6.Aaron MCENEFF (injured), 8.Mustafa AMINI (injured), 10.Salim KHELIFI (injured), 11.Adam ZIMARINO (injured), 21.Antonis MARTIS (injured), 27.Jayden GORMAN (injured)

With Daniel Elder as referee

Phoenix: 8 wins, 3 draws, 7 losses
Glory: 8 wins, 5 draws, 9 losses

Ryan

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Last ever Distance Derby match in Welly. Auckland/Perth take the mantle of the longest away trip next season.

Auckland has a direct flight though so on pure travel time and distance it's still us.

If that's the technicality we can use to keep the fiercest Derby in world football, I'll take it!

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Wellington Phoenix squad: 3. Finn SURMAN, 4. Scott WOOTTON, 6. Tim PAYNE, 7. Kosta BARBAROUSES, 8. Ben OLD, 9. Oskar ZAWADA, 10. David BALL, 11. Bozhidar KRAEV, 12. Mo AL-TAAY, 14. Alex RUFER (c), 15. Nicholas PENNINGTON, 18. Lukas KELLY-HEALD, 24. Oskar VAN HATTUM 25. Jack DUNCAN (GK), 26. Isaac HUGHES, 34. Josh RUDLAND, 40. Alex PAULSEN (GK), 41. Kaelin NGUYEN, 42. Fergus GILLION, 52. Jackson MANUEL

* Two to be omitted

Ins: 24. Oskar VAN HATTUM (returning from injury), 41. Kaelin NGUYEN (promoted), 42. Fergus GILLION (promoted)

Outs: 5. Fin CONCHIE (injured), 23. Luke SUPYK (injured), 48. Charlie BEALE

Unavailable: 5. Fin CONCHIE (injured), 19. Sam SUTTON (injured), 23. Luke SUPYK (injured)

Perth Glory Squad: 1.Oli SAIL (GK), 2.Johnny KOUTROUMBIS, 3.Jacob MUIR, 4.Luke BODNAR, 5.Mark BEEVERS (co-captain), 7.Stefan COLAKOVSKI, 9.David WILLIAMS, 12.Luke IVANOVIC, 13.Cameron COOK (GK), 14.Riley WARLAND, 15.Aleksandar SUSNJAR, 17.Jarrod CARLUCCIO, 19.Trent OSTLER, 20.Giordano COLLI, 22.Adam TAGGART (co-captain), 23.Daniel BENNIE, 24.Oliver BOZANIC, 29.Darryl LACHMAN, 77.Bruce KAMAU

* One to be omitted

Ins: 3.Jacob MUIR

Outs: Nil

Unavailable: 6.Aaron MCENEFF (injured), 8.Mustafa AMINI (injured), 10.Salim KHELIFI (injured), 11.Adam ZIMARINO (injured), 21.Antonis MARTIS (injured), 27.Jayden GORMAN (injured)

I hope Nguyen makes the bench I liked what I saw of him in the cup.

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Wellington Phoenix squad: 3. Finn SURMAN, 4. Scott WOOTTON, 6. Tim PAYNE, 7. Kosta BARBAROUSES, 8. Ben OLD, 9. Oskar ZAWADA, 10. David BALL, 11. Bozhidar KRAEV, 12. Mo AL-TAAY, 14. Alex RUFER (c), 15. Nicholas PENNINGTON, 18. Lukas KELLY-HEALD, 24. Oskar VAN HATTUM 25. Jack DUNCAN (GK), 26. Isaac HUGHES, 34. Josh RUDLAND, 40. Alex PAULSEN (GK), 41. Kaelin NGUYEN, 42. Fergus GILLION, 52. Jackson MANUEL

* Two to be omitted

Ins: 24. Oskar VAN HATTUM (returning from injury), 41. Kaelin NGUYEN (promoted), 42. Fergus GILLION (promoted)

Outs: 5. Fin CONCHIE (injured), 23. Luke SUPYK (injured), 48. Charlie BEALE

Unavailable: 5. Fin CONCHIE (injured), 19. Sam SUTTON (injured), 23. Luke SUPYK (injured)

Perth Glory Squad: 1.Oli SAIL (GK), 2.Johnny KOUTROUMBIS, 3.Jacob MUIR, 4.Luke BODNAR, 5.Mark BEEVERS (co-captain), 7.Stefan COLAKOVSKI, 9.David WILLIAMS, 12.Luke IVANOVIC, 13.Cameron COOK (GK), 14.Riley WARLAND, 15.Aleksandar SUSNJAR, 17.Jarrod CARLUCCIO, 19.Trent OSTLER, 20.Giordano COLLI, 22.Adam TAGGART (co-captain), 23.Daniel BENNIE, 24.Oliver BOZANIC, 29.Darryl LACHMAN, 77.Bruce KAMAU

* One to be omitted

Ins: 3.Jacob MUIR

Outs: Nil

Unavailable: 6.Aaron MCENEFF (injured), 8.Mustafa AMINI (injured), 10.Salim KHELIFI (injured), 11.Adam ZIMARINO (injured), 21.Antonis MARTIS (injured), 27.Jayden GORMAN (injured)

Perth = Dodgy Keeper.

Early prediction - Williams, as the only former outfield Nix player, will score.

Either him, or Sail will score from his own box

Wellington Phoenix will be without midfielder Fin Conchie for 3-4 matches after he suffered a hamstring injury in training. David Ball also in doubt for Perth Glory due a hip complaint.

— Phillip Rollo (@ByPhillipRollo) October 26, 2023

Old should replace Ball in the 11 and then 2 academy boys filling up the bench. We might see the most inexperienced bench ever in our history?

Good grief, early injuries are not what we need.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/a-league/300997277/wellington-phoenix-lose-midfielder-fin-conchie-for-one-month-as-injuries-pile-up

Scoreless draw quite likely, but I will take a 1:0 with Kraev scoring.

Listening to what Chiefy is saying it would seem as they are hoping to come out hard and aggressive so maybe we score 1 or 2 early and hope we can hold out for the win? Still early days so not conceeding and not losing would be acceptable. Especially with injury issues. But, having said that, it is Sails return and I'd like to give him a "decent" welcome home with a solid 3-0 defeat.

I hope we see a lot more adventure going forward being a home game. Park the bus type defending in away games and in the heat is acceptable to grind out results like last week. 
I expect we will see a little more of Chiefys game plan this week. In his presser he talked about it all being about the fans. So lets see it.

Ranix

I hope we see a lot more adventure going forward being a home game. Park the bus type defending in away games and in the heat is acceptable to grind out results like last week. 
I expect we will see a little more of Chiefys game plan this week. In his presser he talked about it all being about the fans. So lets see it.

Definitely hoping for an improved attacking display and I think the weather will help a lot with that but I also won’t blame Italiano if the attacking still isn’t great as it seems our attacking options are gonna be super thin with the injuries we have on an already thin attacking unit.

Its game day!!!!
Fire the fudge up!
Weather looks great, just  little chily.
Bring you're best voices!

Very excited for this. Hope a loud crowd to support the lads!

Come on you Nixxx

Absolutely perfect weather, no chance of it being too hot for the lads to play their way. I feel a good result coming on.

Bloody fired up!!!!

theprof

Listening to what Chiefy is saying it would seem as they are hoping to come out hard and aggressive so maybe we score 1 or 2 early and hope we can hold out for the win? Still early days so not conceeding and not losing would be acceptable. Especially with injury issues. But, having said that, it is Sails return and I'd like to give him a "decent" welcome home with a solid 3-0 defeat.

Yep really looking forward to an Oli Oli whats the score Oli whats the score chant being able to be belted out.

2-0 to us!

Firing up! 

Come on Phoenix!

Ugh,no trains on Porirua line. 

ballane

theprof

Listening to what Chiefy is saying it would seem as they are hoping to come out hard and aggressive so maybe we score 1 or 2 early and hope we can hold out for the win? Still early days so not conceeding and not losing would be acceptable. Especially with injury issues. But, having said that, it is Sails return and I'd like to give him a "decent" welcome home with a solid 3-0 defeat.

Yep really looking forward to an Oli Oli whats the score Oli whats the score chant being able to be belted out.

he better be down our end while we're winning

I'm liking the talk around this one. I'm hoping for a 10k crowd but wouldn't be entirely disappointed if 8500-9000 turn up. 

Chiefy is sounding like he wants us to be more positive from the outset, so hopefully this means some enterprising exchanges/goals early on to help get us up and running for the season.

COYN!! 🟡⚫
Fire the fark up! 🔥🦅

I'm not in Wellington and haven't seen any PAX figures or anything so huge grain of salt, but even an 8500 turnout seems a little optimistic to me given last season's crowds 

imanixsupporter

I'm not in Wellington and haven't seen any PAX figures or anything so huge grain of salt, but even an 8500 turnout seems a little optimistic to me given last season's crowds 

Not in Wellington either, but I am forever the optimist. 😇

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Three man midfield of defensive mids. I imagine Pennington plays the more forward role. 

Perfect day for it, Breezey with an edge so not stinking hot. Sun out, Saturday night. The only crap thing is I'd rather be there than at work today. Still bills to pay.

Anyway all the very best Nix and to all you fans whom do turn up. Will be hoping for a big score. We need Oli to drop another clanger like he did in his last game.

WTF is up with the stadium 5 to 5 hardly anybody here and they announce the teams. FFS

Who is Gillion. Are we just making up players?

Where's Wallace? We are missing wingers and that's his natural role. Bunch of youngsters getting a run but he's nowhere to be seen.

MetalLegNZ

Who is Gillion. Are we just making up players?

Where's Wallace? We are missing wingers and that's his natural role. Bunch of youngsters getting a run but he's nowhere to be seen.

Gillion is a winger/midfielder. Has already played in the Australia cup and for NZ age group aides.

5k seems more likely than 8k, I have to say

Looks like 5k on the telly. Where is everyone.

Still absolutely having kittens playing out from the back early in this one. Was a nice counter earlier that was turned behind for the corner, but as yet, I'm still to see this more adventurous Nix play that was being bandied about pre match.

Where’s Piney?

Hahaha lovely finish Zawada and what a gift from Oli

Flappy sail, I’m so pleased you left us 😂

Beautiful assist from oli! 

How dire is Oli.

Nommag

How dire is Oli.

According to many here a great goal keeper