Western Sydney Wanderers

On the most significant day of announcements yet for the club, which will enter the competition in 2012-2013, the Wanderers also unveiled their striped black, white and red Nike playing strip and first player-signings.

Promising midfielder Aaron Mooy will join the club from Scottish side St Mirren while former Newcastle captain Tarek Elrich and exciting state league player Kwabena Appiah-Kubi were also unveiled.

More player-signings will be announced in the coming days and weeks as inaugural coach Tony Popovic assembles his squad from scratch.

Wanderers executive chairman Lyall Gorman described it as a landmark day for the club and said the team colours and logo had been decided upon after community engagement in fan forums and online surveys.

Gorman said the club would play "some" of it's game at Parramatta Stadium, with stadium negotiations still ongoing.

Campbelltown Stadium and Penrith's Centrebet Stadium have been mentioned as other potential venues.

Popovic said he was delighted his first three player signings were all western Sydney products.

"There are local players from the west which is great and it's something we're really trying to do here at Western Sydney, sign players everyone out here will be able to engage with," Popovic said.

Hierro_4 wrote:haha i wont lie, im not looking forward to that brisbane game but the sydney game will be good!

i think the difference between wsw and the gc and northern queensland projects is the region. western sydney is the breeding ground of alot of our best players in the past and at this present time, whereas (correct me if im wrong) the gc and northern queensland have been quieter on that front.

theres also a massive fan base with a great population of families and football fans alike in the west... plus the benefit of not hiking it to moore park fortnightly is sure to win some people over!

First week of october should be entertaining!

paxtonpale wrote:Wanderers have a tough draw coming up in the new season with Sydney third round apparently and Marniers first up.

fatman123 wrote:Have they got a marquee signing yet?

Peccadillo wrote:I'm an onlooker, living in Bankstown (represent ) - Will be interested following the WSW story. I have been to a couple of Sydney games. I came to Aus at the birth of the A-League when Yorke was signed and I remember the crowd was 20,000+... Then I went to a Brisbane game last year and the crowd had depleted.

Never really took to Sydney FC though - Looking forward to be a plastic fan of WSW though I wonder if they will be selling cheap season ticket's given they will be trying to build the fan base? Anyone heard anything about this?

Agree with Hierro about the regional thing. It will be great for grassroots level in the area also.

I play football in the Bankstown amateur PL though - Sydney FC appear to be trying to claim the market in certauin areas though - Offering free transport to Allianz Stadium. Cheeky buggers. Based on conversations I have had about it with people in the area though I think they will find this area will be WSW fans. Bankstown feel's a lot more a part of western sydney than Eatern suburbs snobs

lszanto wrote:
Season ticket costs about $99 for a student or $199 for an adult. Pretty cheap for a student but too expensive for adults imo.

A few of my friends have bought membership but i'll probably just go to a few games, hopefully see Del Peiro play

Peccadillo wrote:

lszanto wrote:
Season ticket costs about $99 for a student or $199 for an adult. Pretty cheap for a student but too expensive for adults imo.

A few of my friends have bought membership but i'll probably just go to a few games, hopefully see Del Peiro play

Yeah thats a huge jump... Yeah I might just go to the Melbourne, Sydney FC + Brisbane games.

Forza Rossoneri wrote:$99 is pretty damn good for student season tickets.

Adelaide's is nearly twice as much at $189 for a concession ($231 for adult)