I don't like allan jones but it was a good interview.

I saw the tournament in Morocco being advertised today on Eurosport in a pub in Stockholm.
Considering the times the matches will be played in Europe and Africa it will be massive exposure if you get past the Mexicans. It is already massive.

Western Sydney Wanderers’ Asian Champions League triumph creates huge buzz on social media
Carly Adno
The Sunday Telegraph
November 15, 2014 9:00PM
Harper on A-League latest7:30
ON the field and off it, the Wanderers’ journey has been one of the most extraordinary stories in Australian sport.

Two A-League grand final appearances in their first two seasons of existence got people talking, but when the Western Sydney club won the Asian Champions League against Al Hilal, at the first attempt, their brand exploded globally.

And Twitter has the stats to prove it.

In the six weeks since the A-League season kicked off the Wanderers have received an extraordinary 10 million Tweet impressions. That’s higher than any other club in any sport across Australia this entire year, including both the AFL and NRL grand finalists.


The Wanderers have a better Twitter engagement rate than Real Madrid. Source: AP

What’s more, the club achieved an engagement rate - that includes mentions, favourites, retweets and clicking on a link or photo - of 8.5 per cent over the same period.

To put that figure into context, the Wanderers’ engagement rate was higher than Real Madrid, Manchester United and the San Francisco Giants, who won World Series in the same time period.

Wanderers head of marketing and communications, Mark Jensen, says the club has three main priorities - to engage, to inform and share.

“During the ACL campaign we used a lot of graphics and images that captured the emotion of the tournament from the players and fans perspective, as well as behind-the-scenes content that allowed fans to become closer to the team, especially when we are playing internationally,” he said.


Western Sydney Wanderers celebrate after winning the AFC Champions League final. Source: Getty Images
“Communication with our fans and members is hugely important to us, Twitter compliments our digital delivery of information very well but it is also for a bit of fun.

“On game day we try and take the voice of the fan by being in the moment, informative and provocative. Sometimes it is fun to poke the proverbial bear with a stick, you have to know your audience but also know how far you want to take it on. We want a positive experience when engaging with our followers – it follows our club culture – to be for and with the people of Western Sydney.”


Manchester United's Angel Di Maria. Source: AP
Next month the Wanderers will travel to Morocco to take part in the Club World Cup, which will extend their brand to even more corners of the globe.

“When we had a large Saudi following for the ACL final we engaged with them which clocked us some huge numbers as a result,” Jensen said.

“We will do this again for the FIFA Club World Cup against Cruz Azul and Real Madrid, who are monsters on Twitter.”

http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/western-sydney-wanderers-asian-champions-league-triumph-creates-huge-buzz-on-social-media/story-e6frf4gl-1227124212560

lulz at that article insinuating that the WSW marketing team had anything to do with the Twitter boom during the ACL final. It was all the Saudi Al Nassr fans and that new Saudi WSW Fan Twitter page that generated all the traffic.
The official WSW did nothing special at all.

Good news that NRMA Insurance has increased its sponsorship to include signage at the NYL and W-League games as well as sleeve sponsorship on the A-League shirt and has signed on for another 3 years.

Wanderers is now receiving over $3m pa in sponsorship for their playing strip alone.

Additional to the sponsorship NRMA Insurance intends to spend $3.7m on supporting grass roots football in Western Sydney.

http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/nrma-insurance-signs-new-three-year-sponsorship-with-western-sydney-wanderers/story-fnii5s3x-1227138206700



Edited by gyfox: 29/11/2014 04:02:12 PM

This.

WSF had 7 times as many visitors in the month the ACL final took place (edit: compared to the usual monthly average), with 1/3rd of the traffic from Saudi Arabia the other 2/3rds from Australia and the usual small handful from USA, England, the EU & Japan.

Clearly I'm a social media genius because someone on a Saudi Arabian football forum linked to my site over there. :lol:

Edited by macktheknife: 29/11/2014 04:35:27 PM

What's happening with Mebrahtu?

Still injured with indefinite status.

The rise of Kearyn Baccus!

Can't believe the bad luck we had over in Africa. But then again, I can't believe the luck we had in the final in Asia. Guess you just have to take it and move on. Won the prem in our first year. In the grand final the first two years. Win the Asian cup at our first attempt. More than enough to smile about during a rough patch. And it is pretty rough.

Decent signing. Lets hope the club knows how to use him. I choose not to expect too much from him.

I can't remember if I posted this in here...I don't think I did.

Wanderers - The Complete Story Trilogy

A page where all 3 videos are together. Includes:
Wanderers - The Complete Story (debut season)
Wanderers - The Story Continues (Season 2013/14)
Wanderers - Champions of Asia (ACL Campaign)

and bonus Shinji Ono Tribute that was shown at Parra Stadium.

I'm attempting to keep the contracts thread up to date. Are you guys able to run your eye over the list as I have it, and help me out if it's wrong or needs more/less detail? Cheers

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/forums/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1948325&

WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS   
Head Coach: Tony Popovic 15/16

2014/15   
Seyi Adeleke (V)
Kerem Bulut (ACL only?)
Kwabena Appiah
Ante Čović   
Sam Gallaway (ACL only?)
Antony Golec   
Brendan Hamill
Tomi Jurić   
Nick Kalmar (injury replacement + ACL)
Iacopo La Rocca (V)   
Yianni Perkatis   
Nikita Rukavytsya
Yojiro Takahagi (ACL only?)
Jason Trifiro   

2015/16   
Daniel Alessi*   
Dean Bouzanis
Romeo Castelen (V)
Shannon Cole   
Alusine Fofanah*   
Labinot Haliti   
Golgol Mebrahtu   
Daniel Mullen   
Mateo Poljak (V)   
Vitor Saba (V)
Brendon Šantalab   
Matthew Špiranović

2016/17   
Kearyn Baccus
Mark Bridge
Nikolai Topor-Stanley

http://www.westsydneyfootball.com/topic/5942-squad-development-s3-part-2/
http://www.westsydneyfootball.com/Player_Database/_/current-players/
Current status:

Updated 13/1/15

Injury Replacement
Nick Kalmar (for Brendon Santalab & Kearyn Baccus). Not included in squad tallies below.

Injury Replacement + Future Full Team Deal
Kearyn Baccus (for Brendon Santalab). Not included in squad tallies below.

Asian Champions League Group Stage Contract
Kerem Bulut
Sam Gallaway
Yusuke Tanaka. Not included in squad tallies below.

Expiring End 2014/15
Ante Covic
Antony Golec
Brendan Hamill
Iacopo La Rocca (foreign)
Jason Trifiro
Jaushua Sotirio
Kwabena Appiah
Martin Lo
Nikita Rukavytsya
Seyi Adeleke (foreign)
Tomi Juric
Yianni Perkatis

Expiring End 2015/16
Alusine Fofanah (First Team U21 Contract)
Brendon Santalab
Daniel Mullen
Daniel Alessi (First Team U21 Contract)
Dean Bouzanis
Golgol Mebrahtu
Labinot Haliti
Mateo Poljak (foreign)
Matthew Spiranovic
Romeo Castelen (foreign)
Shannon Cole
Vitor Saba (foreign)

Expiring End 2016/17
Mark Bridge
Nikolai Topor-Stanley

Squad Caps:
23 of 23 First Team Players
3 of 3 Under 21 Contracted Players - Note, I'm unsure who the 3rd contract has gone to. It could be either Marty Lo or Sotirio.
26 of 26 Total Contracted Players

Special Player Limitations (As part of overall squad cap)
5 of 5 Foreign Players (1 foreign position will may be removed after 2014/15)
? of 1 Marquee Position (Wage not included in Salary Cap)
1 of 1 Australian Marquee Position (Wage not included in Salary Cap)


Edited by macktheknife: 16/1/2015 11:40:17 PM

Thanks mack. A few questions for clarification:

Yojiro Takahagi - is he contracted for ACL only? I can't see him in your list at all.
Nick Kalmar - he is contracted for the ACL too, yes?
Kearyn Baccus - his full team deal is until end of 16/17, yes?
Matthew Spiranovic - he is the Australian marquee, yes?

Edited by pv4: 19/1/2015 10:04:33 AM

Takahagi has been upgraded to a HAL contract for the rest of the season, as expected.

http://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/article/yojiro-added-to-hyundai-a-league-squad/q57cgef6oi9s1tf1oie385ayg

The #10 position? I thought he was a defender.

Thats Tanaka the other J-League player we signed to an ACL contract.

Yeah we signed 2 :lol:

These 2 have got me really excited. Hopefully we can punt one more person today and get Tanaka on the A-League books.

Also does anyone know if we can make Appiah disappear or something? I would love to see Kalmar on a full contract.

Daniel Mullen officially gone.

can't wait to see if we can put a few wins together this half of the season......fingers crossed.....

do you reckon Mr primo is spending after a tight set of purse strings prior by the FFA??

No. When the FFA owned the club we spent the salary cap plus $600k per season on Ono. Now we are spending the salary cap plus a reported $450k on Spira. If Yojiro is moved to marquee then we will have the ability to spend more on squad players.

Kwabena Appiah officially given the arse.

I want to ask Wanderers fans who are sticking by Popovic and don't want him sacked a serious question. At what point would you sack Popovic if our bad form continues?
Would you do it this season or would you write off this season completely and give him next season to turn things around?
Personally I would sack him as I have seen enough and I just believe there is absolutely no excuse for the position we are currently in, but again I want to hear from those who disagree and would like to know at what point would you say enough is enough.

You aren't getting relegated. It's whether he should try to build towards ACL or call in one of the usual suspects. Farina, Kosmina etc

Well i would hope if Popa was to get the sack then we go for someone from overseas instead of managers like Farina and Kosmina.
We already know what those two offer and it simply isn't good enough especially Farina.

I wouldn't sack popa. You may say it's living in the past but let's not forget in 2 and half seasons we have been minor premiers, 2 grand finals and Asian champions. Yes he has stuffed up lately but it is his first manager position (not including being assistant) so he is learning also.
If he was sacked I would guess rudan will take over.
As for the season, yes it's a write off. Build towards the acl games and next season

Rudan is a very poor choice as replacement, he is a shit coach

I'd re-assess at the end of the season, by that time acl will be into the knockout stages and enough time to see what Popovic can do with the new recruits.