Always played well against Melbourne I thought

Haliti is also good mates with milicic so the signing makes sense. I think if he's in the right system he could be a surprise. I've always thought he was under rated too, but only is in the right system. Hoping they bring in another formidable attacker though. Bridge and haliti upfront will need someone creative to help them along.

i'd be very happy if we sign NTS. i've always seen him to be a solid centre-back. along with chipperfield and beauchamp, a RB from then nswpl and ante covic, that would be awesome.

Tbh that is a formidable back end

covic would be great for west Sydney , surprised no one in the hal have chased him yet . i know his wife loved Melbourne as it reminded her of Europe

Wiki says

Hmm Chippers from 'gong, Neill from the Northern Suburbs, Bouzanis from Sutherland Shire, Dylan Macallister from Manly, NTS from Canberra... I guess it was always inevitable you'd have to look from outside the West Sydney heartland, but still it the club can secure atleast a dozen 'West Sydney products' in the first season, then that would be a pretty good result? And if you sign some of the guys rumoured, like those I mentioned, then they are Sydneysiders or from near Sydney anyway.

Mark Bridge, Ante Covic, Tarek Elrich, Mile Sterjovski, Channon Cole, Michael Beauchamp, Paul Reid, Jason Culina, Ante Rozic, Trent McClenahan, Labinot Haliti... They're all West Sydney.

That's a pretty competitive bunch too.

Aswell as Bouzanis and Chippers, there could be some more 'Aussies Abroad' looking to return home that we haven't even considered aswell.

Edited by gloryperth: 2/6/2012 04:37:25 PM

Pretty sure Bouzanis was never at Sydney FC.

Also you named at least 4 RB's

He went on loan in 2007 to Sydney FC if I remember correctly, might have been for their ACL campaign. Didn't make an appearance in any case.

We loaned Bouzanis from Liverpool.

So he did. For arguments sake it counts i guess.

Hopefully Elrich signing with WS means MV will get Georgievski :)

That's true, I would say the same thing if it were Heart.

...no we want him!!! haha nah apparantly he's unlikely to come back to Aus. Ange just thought it was worth a crack. I could be wrong though (hopefully)

Edited by roarz: 2/6/2012 05:14:04 PM

Some good names mentioned above. When is the first announcement of players expected? And hopefully Lucas will be one of them. He could be as influential for Western Sydney as what Muscat was for Victory, only not nearly as dirty.

Even though its been said everyweek for the last 2 months - expect most of those things to be announced during this week.

hopefully.
the only thing i can think off is that they have decided on somethings (eg name or home ground) and are having legal issues (for the name dealing with tradmarks) and contractual issues (for the home ground).

As mentioned earlier, the 4 names that they registered have been accepted and are currently being advertised for opposition claims or something until September the 1st I'm led to believe. I have no idea however trademark law works in Australia, so I'm just saying what I've read, I'd be very happy if someone with a knowledge of the subject here could explain it more. I'm not sure as to whether they can name the club and use it yet, or whether it will have to stay until after September, which to me seems like an extremely long time to wait.

From this though we know that the names are down to West Sydney/ Western Sydney/ Sydney West Wanderers, Wolves, Strikers or Athletic though. I'll check some things and post more later.

Yes, I agree, the sooner the better for them. I can only hope there's a lot more happening behind the scenes than what is going on publicly. Notwithstanding the challenges of getting up and running in such a short time, there will soon be a perception among potential fans and sponsors that the administration behind the club is disorganised. That would be harsh, but it will happen.

Anyway, I hope to hear somehting very soon, at least a handful of player signings.

Okay, the Sydney Rovers FC side announced their name, colours and badge on Friday the 2nd of October 2009 from what I can find. According to the trademark information I can find their acceptance date, the same thing (from what I gather) that West Sydney FC and its various names received yesterday was the 29th of September (the Tuesday), that is, it appears that the name, colours and badge were announced a mere two days after acceptance and before the end of the advertisement period (again, I have no idea how Australian trademarks work). From this it appears that they didn't need to wait until the end of this advertisement period (or its proper name, I'm really not sure) and as such I'd assume that the new Sydney side doesn't either.

Conclusion, an announcement could be very soon.

So, which one will it be? Wanderers, Athletic, Strikers or Wolves?

As I posted elsewhere

'twill be Western Sydney Wanderers.
They will be in black and red.
Coached by Tony Popovic
Assistant- Ante Millicic.
General manager- John Tsatsimas (tbc)
Goalkeeping coach-Ron Corry(tbc)
Home games at Parramatta, derbies at ANZ

First 4 signings look likely to be the following-
Elrich (tbc)
Haliti (tbc)
Bridge (tbc)
Cole (tbc)
Almost tied up-
NTS
Chasing
-Bouzanis
Most likely
-Covic
-Chipperfield

i sure hope its west over western. western is a mouthful, west sydney wanderers just flows

+1

Imagine if West Ham were Western Ham. Sounds so weird

I like the way the club seem to be conducting their business professionally and not via the media.

Not looking forward to the backlash if they decide to play derbies at ANZ.....

You're probably right

Although Western Wanderers isn't so bad:p

I know but it's booked apparently

I hate how the AFL bods now refer to the Giants as GWS. I hope that won't happen with our new club. WSW is to much of a mouthful. Hopefully they will be referred to as West Sydney or Wanderers.

If derbies are going to draw more than 20,741 they have no choice but to move to a bigger venue..

Personally I think a derby between the two Sydney teams at ANZ is a very good idea, with advertising support this game could easily acheive well in excess of 50k...it takes the game, the teams and the code to a whole new level of interest and market, and media interest skyrockets.

Well they do actually

Just have a full stadium:shock:

You'd hope that many turn up

Time will tell