Gersbach Masterclass Defeats Western United

[Carns]

1 hour ago, Smoggy said:

Anyone want to have a go at putting together a worst ever Wanderers starting 11 for every position. ???

It's been done. But could probably use an update given its age!

P.s. so many people who haven't been on here in a long time...

[mack]

44 minutes ago, Smoggy said:

Anyone want to have a go at putting together a worst ever Wanderers starting 11 for every position. ???

• GK - Tristan Prendergast. Totally out of his depth. Complete dud. PS: Massive competition for this spot.
• DR - Seyi Adeleke. I still have no idea what Popovic saw in him. I can only assume he confused his 46 games for the Lazio academy team for the senior squad?
• CB1 - Aritz Borda. One of the worst foreign players in the history of the league. He has the worst win percentage at WSW for any player who had more than 10 games. More red cards than good tackles.
• CB2 - Jeong Tae-wook. You know a foreign player is terrible when their absence and replacement by a 20 year old massively improves the team.
• DL - Ziggy Gordon. A multi-year cavalcade of inept defence, inaccurate passing and failing at just the wrong time.
• DM - Chris Herd. Liability on and off the field.
• MC - Bruno Pinatares. He was the football manifestation of traffic cone.
• AM - Kosta Grozos. The club spent 6 years trying to make him useful. Then the Jets spent 3 more trying to make him useful. They eventually turned him into a central defender. He's still not that useful.
• MR - Steve Kuzmanovski. The stepover king who stepped over to Melbourne City, did two ACL's and now has a million subscribers on TikTok & Instagram because he looks like Pep Guardiola.
• ML - Jumpei Kusukami. A left winger who should have been a fullback, his entire career was a fraud.
• ST1 - Simon Cox. He failed to score into an open net with a ball that was 3 and a half inches from the goal.
• ST2 - Alex Meier. Despite having one of the better goals a WSW player has scored, and having an even better one rubbed out by a bad ref call, the club signed das fussballgott and instead got das fussballscheisse.

[StringerBellend]

1 hour ago, WSWJACK said:

Cannot believe Majok has not been mentioned here, forget the ten yard trap, his first touch was so abysmal and powerful, they would have to fish the ball out of the parramatta river after the game finished, and while I’m at it I’ll throw Ibini under the bus as well.

How did Majok get out of the youth team with a first touch like that? In fact how did get out of park football with a touch like that? Any coach that recommended him should be sacked 

[StringerBellend]

Grozos is a decent player, captain of Jets and has been excellent as a centre back. It just took him longer to mature than we expected. 

Llorente was way worse than Ziggy Gordan.. Llorente invented social distancing before Covid 

[102megan]

I love how this thread went from us playing the best game in literal years, to talking about our worst 11.   😂😂😂

[Edinburgh]

1 minute ago, 102megan said:

I love how this thread went from us playing the best game in literal years, to talking about our worst 11.   😂😂😂

It's all Mack's fault 

[102megan]

2 minutes ago, Edinburgh said:

It's all Mack's fault 

Always with the derailing of threads! 

 

 

(Please don't ban me Mack! 🥺🥺🥺)

[Smoggy]

19 minutes ago, Edinburgh said:

It's all Mack's fault 

It usually is to be fair 

[Edinburgh]

15 minutes ago, Smoggy said:

It usually is to be fair 

I think you're being generous 

[Sithslayer1991]

2 hours ago, WSWJACK said:

Cannot believe Majok has not been mentioned here, forget the ten yard trap, his first touch was so abysmal and powerful, they would have to fish the ball out of the parramatta river after the game finished, and while I’m at it I’ll throw Ibini under the bus as well.

No way remember Babbel's interview. We all knew his touch was bad hahaha

[MathyouWSW]

2 hours ago, Smoggy said:

Anyone want to have a go at putting together a worst ever Wanderers starting 11 for every position. ???

I went with the traditional 4-2-3-1 formation

Goalkeeper: Daniel Margush - He just knew how to f*ck up anyway possible.
Left Back: Seyi Adeleke - He looked complete and utterly lost on the field. Got no f*cking idea what popa saw in him and probably one of popa's worst signings for the club
Centre Back 1: Artiz Borda - Arguably the worst foreign player the club has ever seen. Couldn't defend at all.
Centre Back 2: Dylan McGowan - F*cking hate him with a passion. The bloke makes a mistake when he was trying to defend and would blame others for his mistakes. Couldn't defend at all.
Right Back: Ziggy Gordon - For someone that was a right back at the club, he would constantly move himself to a centre back despite the squad was play 5 at the back already. He was frustrating to watch
Defensive midfield 1: Jacob Pepper - Just felt like he never had the skills to play in the A-League
Defensive midfield 2: Marc Tokich - Same for this guy and it still blows my mind he got signed by some Swedish division 2 club. Which is probably on par to being signed by an NPL club, right?
Attacking midfield: James Troisi - The club signed him way passed his prime. Was useless and a prick that only cared about himself. I hated the fact he was a club captain
Left wing: Jaushua Sotirio - See this GIF mack posted...enough said.
Right wing: Abraham Majok - See Sotirio's gif above. He is still the same with Sydney Olympic FC.
Striker: Federico Piovaccari - The outside king, he just didn't know how to stay onside. Absolutely frustrating that apparently the club spent big on him.

Dis-honorable mentions/subs:
Danijel Nizic - Still blows my f*cking mind how Burnley FC signed him. They must of knew he was s*it after they loaned him to Chorley which were in the 6th tier at the time.  He played for Morecambe FC and their  fans hated him so much
Brendan Hamill - Another player that was so frustrating to watch and would make errors equivalent to Margush to allow the opponents to score.
Mark Natta - Might be a harsh one but I never understood the hype for him. when we played 5 at the back under Robinson, he looked lost and was constantly ball watching in my opinion. Plus, he was frustrating to watch in the NPL squad, he would always try for a long ball but they would be too big and go out for a goal kick or throw in.
Kostas Grozos - Probably another harsh one but he just never developed under the Wanderers and I still think he has not developed to the full potential at the Jets.
Jordan Mutch - He didn't do much... 
Jumpei Kusukami - very underwhelming player 
Keijiro Ogawa - Another underwhelming player. Still pissed off that he didn't score against APIA Leichhardt in the Australian Cup
Dimi Petratos - He was completely sh*t with us. I almost had him as the starting XI attacking midfielder but Troisi pissed me off more
Bernie Ibini - It was like watching Bambi on ice when he had the ball. 
Ramy Najjarine - You could put him anywhere on the field and yet he didn't have any constantly at all.
EDIT:
Kwabena Appiah-Kubi - Almost forgot to add him! Never understood what popa saw in him. Very reminiscent to Sotirio. I can't believe he played for 5 A-League clubs as well.

[Edinburgh]

@mack

C'mon mate! You're culpable here.

Stop this depressing crap!

[WHACKO]

It's become the norm bagging this team.

We the team goes well we still feel more comfortable bagging the past 10 years teams of crap players.

The pain lingers long and deep.

[Edinburgh]

6 minutes ago, WHACKO said:

It's become the norm bagging this team.

We the team goes well we still feel more comfortable bagging the past 10 years teams of crap players.

The pain lingers long and deep.

Yeah,  but no need to stick the boot in! Especially when we're kicking ourselves! 

[mack]

Behave or I'm turning this place into a rugby union forum.

[Carns]

28 minutes ago, mack said:

Behave or I'm turning this place into a rugby union forum.

Finally, a Shute Shield safe place!

[WSWJACK]

8 hours ago, mack said:

Behave or I'm turning this place into a rugby union forum.

Go the Tahs 

[SBW]

14 hours ago, mack said:

• ML - Jumpei Kusukami. A left winger who should have been a fullback, his entire career was a fraud.

I disagree on Kusukami, he cannot be any worse than Keijiro Ogawa

[StringerBellend]

27 minutes ago, SBW said:

I disagree on Kusukami, he cannot be any worse than Keijiro Ogawa

He was he was totally ****, like the kid at futsal that does a million stopovers before blasting the ball into thr basketball score board 3 metres above the goal 

[Sithslayer1991]

1 hour ago, SBW said:

I disagree on Kusukami, he cannot be any worse than Keijiro Ogawa

Yea Jumpei was bad. So bad my father-in-law still remembers him purely on how poor a player he was. And we had Kubiah Appiah play or us.

Ogawa was slightly better than Jumpai. Its the recency bias

[StringerBellend]

2 hours ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

Yea Jumpei was bad. So bad my father-in-law still remembers him purely on how poor a player he was. And we had Kubiah Appiah play or us.

Ogawa was slightly better than Jumpai. Its the recency bias

Majok made Appiah's finishing look like Samuel eto 

[Erebus]

On 14/04/2025 at 1:13 PM, Zelinsky said:

CR really knew how to pick goalkeepers. First he let Lopar go and puts Margush in, and the year after he signs Mejias who was as good or bad as Margush. God, give me strength. 

And all season we heard how it wasn't good enough that we conceded a goal every time we defended a corner  and that he's working on it ..

 

Mack, disagree with Mieir over Piovacarri. At least Mieir admitted he couldn't compete and retired with grace.

Pio ate ice cream all season and we had to shift Bridge to a no.9 to make the Adelaide GF.

Cejudo did jack **** all season and then decided to play when his contract was up and requested an extension 😂 

I totally forgot about Ogawa but pretty sure I labelled him Jumpei MK2 when we signed him iirc. 

[Erebus]

Anyway we're 9 games unbeaten and you'd think to win silverware that needs to get to 16 games or so unbeaten. It's a tough ask but we're arguably the form team atm. Knocking off City on Saturday can get us one step closer to 2nd.

 

Looking at fixtures and the likes of sfc, WU, MV, city and Auckland are playing each other and will drop points.