The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle
Squad17 Apr 2034
19 days out for Bailey Wallace after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Western Sydney Wanderers will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market17 Apr 2034
Shane Gallagher hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Western Sydney Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Apr 2034
Zach Lisolajski in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Western Sydney Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Apr 2034
A row about effort at Western Sydney Wanderers
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Angus Thurgate was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Apr 2034
Alou Kuol has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Western Sydney Wanderers will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market17 Apr 2034
The Joe Wallis talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Western Sydney Wanderers know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout17 Apr 2034
Cameron Gray asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Boardroom17 Apr 2034
Western Sydney Wanderers keep producing them
105 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
Squad17 Apr 2034
Questions about Jackson Williams on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
In brief
- The dugout Abdoul Sambaré keeps his manager's vote
- Boardroom Western Sydney Wanderers board back the manager