Wanderers

6 wins, 0 draws, 2 losses

GF 15, GA 8, GD +07

Brisbane

5 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses

GF 19, GA 8, GD +11

Brisbane have the 2nd and 3rd top scorers, Muratovic (CF) and Leck (RW) with 6 and 5 goals respectively.

Team selection depends on Babbel's selection.

Anyone who is under contract, fit & owns a pair of boots, will fancy his chances of getting a game on Friday. 

Babbel will want to win both games, as he respects the work the club have been doing in regard to developing our youff. Winning trophies is a positive for player mentality

Does anyone know if ANZ stadium will issue pass-outs between the Y-League final and the A-League game?

I'd like to watch the youngsters in the final, but don't want to get stuck in that shithole for an hour and a half between games.

6 hours ago, bombagol said:

Does anyone know if ANZ stadium will issue pass-outs between the Y-League final and the A-League game?

I'd like to watch the youngsters in the final, but don't want to get stuck in that shithole for an hour and a half between games.

Unfortunately not. Take a picnic dinner. ANZ will let you take food in.

I'm hoping that we can all be in the lower bowl for NYL GF.

10 hours ago, Paul01 said:

Wanderers

6 wins, 0 draws, 2 losses

GF 15, GA 8, GD +07

Brisbane

5 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses

GF 19, GA 8, GD +11

Brisbane have the 2nd and 3rd top scorers, Muratovic (CF) and Leck (RW) with 6 and 5 goals respectively.

Team selection depends on Babbel's selection.

I may have heard this wrong but I'm sure I heard old mate Nick Meredith complaining last Friday night that Roar's NYL team had finished top by a big margin and deserved a home final !!

If they ended up top with 16 points and were ahead by a big margin that just means their conference sucks. We finished on 18 points and it went down to the last game of the season.

29 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

I may have heard this wrong but I'm sure I heard old mate Nick Meredith complaining last Friday night that Roar's NYL team had finished top by a big margin and deserved a home final !!

Meredith is a wanker. Pretty sure they won it on goal difference?

16 minutes ago, GD07 said:

Meredith is a wanker. Pretty sure they won it on goal difference?

He is.....I thought Speedie was bad but putting up with this bloke recently has been torture

10 hours ago, bombagol said:

Does anyone know if ANZ stadium will issue pass-outs between the Y-League final and the A-League game?

I'd like to watch the youngsters in the final, but don't want to get stuck in that shithole for an hour and a half between games.

Yes

55 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

I may have heard this wrong but I'm sure I heard old mate Nick Meredith complaining last Friday night that Roar's NYL team had finished top by a big margin and deserved a home final !!

If you want to be acknowledged as the champions, you should have no fear of travelling to the home of the defending champs & playing them in their own backyard. 

The Roar's next home game is on Friday, 8/2 v's ESFC & will probably have a WL semi as the curtain raiser

1 hour ago, Davo said:

If they ended up top with 16 points and were ahead by a big margin that just means their conference sucks. We finished on 18 points and it went down to the last game of the season.

They beat Melb Vic in one game 6-0. There's your goal difference.

Melb Vic NYL results 

1 win, 1 draw, 6 losses.

But the most pissed off will Heartle$$. Supposedly the best facilities but serves them right for their pathetic attitude after last season's GF. They just pissed off into the sheds and didn't acknowledge our boys. Typical CFG scum attitude 

Unfortunate about the KO time but understandable with the requirements between games.

Lets hope some semblance of a crowd rocks up to support the future.

1 hour ago, Erebus said:

Unfortunate about the KO time but understandable with the requirements between games.

Lets hope some semblance of a crowd rocks up to support the future.

In +2

In x2

4:20 BABEEEEEE

SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY BOOOOOOIIIIIIIII

I would love to go but I have a job. 

I swear to god FFA is runned by fools. Make kick off 5:30pm and people from Sydney will turn up. Missed opportunity of getting bums on seats.

8 minutes ago, thefairy said:

4:20 BABEEEEEE

SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY BOOOOOOIIIIIIIII

I would love to go but I have a job. 

I swear to god FFA is runned by fools. Make kick off 5:30pm and people from Sydney will turn up. Missed opportunity of getting bums on seats.

I wish they had pushed the A-League game back by 25 minutes so it would have been a 4.45pm to 5.00pm kick off.

Imagine if they win, the heat on the A-league team.

6 hours ago, Paul01 said:

I wish they had pushed the A-League game back by 25 minutes so it would have been a 4.45pm to 5.00pm kick off.

Imagine if they win, the heat on the A-league team.

I get the issue with the start time but here goes an explanation.

4.20 pm start first half start. 45 minutes + injury time. 

5.15 pm half time

5.25 pm second half. 45 minutes + injury time.

6.10 - 6.15pm normal time ends.

if required, extra time starts around 6.20pm with 15 minutes each way. No break between extra time halves. Extra time ends around 6.50pm

then if necessary, penalties till 7.00pm. 

Presentation after that till 7.15pm.

A-League warm up after that.

i have organised with my boss to work extra time this week so that I can leave early on Friday to get to the game. And like my youngest son says, at least they win.

The above is why it starts so early. They probably thought a double header would get people to the game but its going to have the reverse effect.

Should have played it on Saturday at marconi.

As Wanderers chase history, Y-League Head Coach Athur Diles eyes further growth

By  Joey Lynch -  January 31, 2019 

On Friday, the Y-League side of Western Sydney Wanderers will run out onto the surface of ANZ Stadium not only looking to affirm their status as the best academy in Australia – but also equal a little bit of history.

Champions of the Y-League in 2017/18, the youth of Sydney’s West not only has the chance to join Sydney FC, Melbourne City and Central Coast Mariners as multiple time champions of the competition but also become the first ever side since a youth football league was re-introduced by the A-League to go back-to-back.

Given the fluid nature of youth football, in which the number one goal is not the pursuit of results but instead the development of players and promotion to senior football, back-to-back national youth titles are exceedingly rare, having previously only occurred twice.

The Australian Institute of Sport was the first to accomplish the feat when they downed Adelaide City 4-1 and 8-1 in the deciders of the 1997/98 and 1998/99 seasons.

Their exploits were then matched by the Parramatta Power youth, who defeated Melbourne Knights 2-0 in the 2001/02 decider and Whittlesea Stallions 6-2 in the 2002/03 finale.

Joining the Wanderers academy in 2015 after a stint as the Technical Director of Sydney Olympic (who won a single national youth title in 1987), Arthur Diles has helped oversee a sustained period of success for the youth incubating at Wanderland.

The former Sydney Olympic, Sydney United, Parramatta Power, Crawley Town and KV Mechelen player was initially put in charge of the club’s U18s, before winning a U20 NSW NPL2 championship in 2017 and making the move to the Y-League Head Coaching role in the championship-winning season of 2017/18.

The Wanderers won their first national youth title in 2017/18

The Wanderers have never finished with less than 13 points since the Y-League made the shift to its current, eight-game format in 2015/16 – the same year that the academy expanded to include teams beyond seniors and U20s – and Diles says that this consistent success comes down to a clear sense of purpose.

“I think when this academy started almost four years ago it had a clear vision of where it wanted to be,” Diles told dailyfootballshow.com

“With our technical director Ian Crook and all the coaching staff from 13s all the way up there’s a lot of good coaches here and everyone’s working really hard to achieve that, and this year’s starting to show where the academy’s heading.

“It doesn’t mean that we’re there yet, I think we’re still scraping the surface at the moment.

“Once the new complex (The Wanderers will soon move into a $15m facility in Rooty Hill) is finished next month I think we’ll again improve in leaps and bounds.

“As of this year, the club has made an incredible decision to wipe any fees associated with any player that comes into the Wanderers. Just with that, making that statement really shows that these people are very interested and passionate about the academy.

“Once you can start doing things like this, you can start to call yourself a proper football club because anywhere around the world – you look at clubs in Europe or South America or in Asia – clubs that are professional, very few of them make their players play to be there.

“The fact that we can do that only after four years is a testament to the owner and the club that they can do that moving forward and will allow us to keep working in a professional way, take away the financial restraints that it has on some families and allow every player to be part of the Wanderers whether they can afford it or, you can be there if you’re good enough.”

In contrast with their 2017/19 season, in which a high powered Wanderers outfit coasted through the Y-League’s regular season to the Grand Final, the 2018/19 campaign has carried with it significantly more challenge for the Red and Black.

With the struggles of Markus Babbel’s senior side often meaning that youth were called up – the likes of Tass Mourdoukoutas, Tate Russel, Mathieu Cordier, Nicholas Suman and Abraham Majok have become regular parts of the Wanderers senior side in recent months – the Wanderers were forced to battle right down to the last game of the season in 18/19; defeating Sydney FC 2-1 to finally secure their place in the season finale.

Abraham Majok is one of a number of Wanderers’ academy graduates to receive regular A-League minutes in 2018/19

For Diles, however, having players develop to the point where they can be promoted to A-League level represents a far larger goal then the short term pursuit of Y-League results.

“A lot of these boys that have come through in the last year, especially in the last month or six weeks, those boys have been here from the day the academy started,” he said

“They were all here, they came to this club as 15 and 16-year-olds and that makes it a little bit more special because they’re not just players that came here in the NYL and went from the NYL to the first grade.

“Those boys all played in the same U18s team here when we first started the academy and for me, it’s been an absolute joy and pleasure to see them progress that way.

“At the same time, looking at where they’re at, we know how hard we have to work with the next crop coming through because we want to get them in a better place then these ones are.

“We continue to work harder, we have to keep doing more in order to keep growing our program.

“There’s a lot to be excited about but at the same time, we’ve got to realise that these things where you get five or six young players into your first team doesn’t happen very often around the world. You’re normally getting one or two in there every couple of years.

“We’ll continue to try and maintain that but the reality is that there might not come as thick and fast as this current crop has but there’s a lot of good players for the club that the fans can be excited about in the coming years.

“It’s actually been quite interesting from our (academy) end because when I first came in and Popa (Tony Popovic) was still the head coach we would all follow suit and we had a certain structure and philosophy which the whole club covered.

“With Josep (Gombau) that changed, the philosophy changed so we still followed suit and then this year (with the switch from Gombau to Babbel) there’s been a slight change again but also a change in the mentality.

“It’s not just about learning the one system to play.

“We have a style of football that we want to follow but the structure or the system can change within that and that’s probably been a great thing that we’ve been able to play – and that’s from the academy all the way through – some different systems, not just the same system.

“I think that’s important for the player’s development.”

I don't believe Bossi put his name to this 'positive' WSW article

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/the-hairdryer-depth-no-issue-as-wanderers-pups-show-the-way-forward-20190131-p50uu6.html

By Dominic Bossi

31 January 2019 — 5:30pm

Call up: Marc Tokich, left, is one of several youngsters who will be unavailable for the Wanderers' youth side for their NYL grand final.CREDIT:AAP

That's due to the struggles of the A-League team and head coach Markus Babbel's of promoting youth to make-up for injuries and underperforming senior players and that won't change on Friday. Against Brisbane Roar at ANZ Stadium, Diles will be without youth players; goalkeeper Nicholas Suman, defender Tate Russell and midfielders Marc Tokich and Keanu Baccus - the latter never having played for the youth team he's eligible for having spent the season with the A-League team. All four have been called-up for Friday night's A-League game against the Jets.

The NYL squad has received a boost with Abraham Majok, Mathieu Cordier, Tass Moudoukoutas back from the A-League squad while Kosta Grozos has made his return from injury.

Despite being depleted of first choice players week in, week out, the Wanderers still topped their conference with six wins from eight games. That they made the grand final is already a triumph of their depth and investment into their youth academy and retain their NYL trophy would go some way to providing fan optimism for next season, when they move into their new stadium. 

Here's our squad from last Sunday

1 minute ago, Taurus said:

Here's our squad from last Sunday

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Y-League Starting XI: Carwardine, Aquilina, Pagden, Cordier, Wilmering, Mahazi (c), Monge, Agamemnonos, Roberts, Peterson, Adam Substitutes: Kalac, Constable, Grozos, Silvera #WSW #WSWvSYD.

 

What changes do we anticipate could occur.

Mahazi played 90 mins, so I expect he moves back onto the bench for AL game. 

MonsterKoutas & Majok are probable starters. I doubt we pull a surprise & start Grozos, given he's probably only ready for 45 - 60 mins at most.

Greenwood / Suman & Tokich are possible late inclusions.

Russell is unlikely to play NYL GF, as we have precious little defensive cover in the extended AL squad

All depends on Markus then.

Roar are apparently taking quite a few youth players to Adelaide

We have to watch out for Muratovic, Brady and Leck if playing (not listed in the Brisbane A-league squad)  plus an ex-WSW academy player, ? Duncan.

See you'se all at the game. Speculate to accumulate 

https://www.sportsbet.com.au/betting/soccer/others/australian-national-youth-league/western-sydney-wanderers-youth-v-brisbane-roar-youth-4492480

Starting XI: Carwardine (GK), Wilmering, Cordier, Mourdoukoutas, Aquilina, Agamemnonos, Monge, Grozos, Roberts, Majok and Adam

Subs: Greenwood (GK), Pagden, Constable, Peterson and Puflett.

We're 2 down after 40 minutes.

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