2013/2014 Hyundai A-League
Season 9 Round 25
Perth Glory FC vs Newcastle United Jets FC

When: Sunday 30th March, 2014
Where: NIB Stadium, 310 Pier St, Perth, WA
Kickoff: 7pm AEDST (4pm local time)
Watch: LIVE on Foxsports 1 and FoxSports 1HD
Listen: ABC Perth 720AM or ABC Grandstand Digital online/ABC Radio mobile app
Tweet: @newyboys #PERvNEW #NTUA

If you are unable to travel to the game in Perth, please come down to the District Park Tennis Club in Broadmeadow and watch the game LIVE. The Tenzo is now our permanent venue for both home AND away Newcastle Jets fixtures.

Statistics

Overall – 26 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 6, Glory Wins – 14, Drawn – 6

In Perth – 12 games
Jets Wins – 1, Glory Wins – 7, Drawn – 4

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 29, Glory – 47

Cards in Fixture
Jets – 52 (51 Yellow, 1 Red), Glory – 43 (40 Yellow, 3 Red)

Recent Form 
Jets – LWWLW,
Glory – LLDLL

Leading Scorers
Jets – Adam Taggart 13, Glory – Shane Smeltz 4

Last Result –
Jets 0 – Glory 1 (Harold 38’) at Hunter Stadium, Round 13.

Biggest Win
Jets 4 (Haliti 13’, Brockie 54’, Petrovski 68’ pen, 69’) – Glory, Round Mid Week 1, Season 6 at Energy Australia Stadium, 10/02/2010.

Heaviest Defeat
Jets 1 (Parisi 71’) – Glory 5 (Mori 33’, 62’, Harnwell 46’, Despotovski 52’, Sekulovski 81’), Round 7, Season 1 at Energy Australia Stadium, 08/10/2005.

Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets – 6 (Joel Griffiths)
Glory – 7 (Jamie Harwell)

Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches

Newcastle Jets Coaching Records –
Gary Van Egmond – 16 matches (3 wins, 6 drawn and 7 losses = 19% win ratio)
Richard Money – 3 matches (1 wins, 0 drawn, 2 loss = 33% win ratio)
Branko Culina – 6 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 4 losses = 33% win ratio)
Nick Theodorakopoulos – 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)

Average Away crowd – 8631

Key facts:
• As has been heavily reported during the week, the Jets haven’t won in Perth since Season 1, Round 14. That’s approximately 9.5 years. The average score in Perth is 2-1 to Perth.
• The Jets have lost on the last 6 visits to Perth.
• The Jets haven’t beaten Perth in the last 7 meetings between the two clubs.
• This game will be the first time Jack Duncan faces his old club.
• Adam Taggart is only 1 goal off equalling the Jets record for most goals in a season.
• The Jets haven’t scored against Perth this season.
• Ben Kennedy has kept 3 clean sheets in 10 appearances against Peth, the most of any Jets keeper.
• Perth has kept 4 clean sheets in the last 6 matches against the Jets, but haven’t kept a clean sheet since Round 15.
• There have been 10 penalties awarded in the 26 fixtures.
• Daniel Piorkowski is the only Jets player to have received a red card against Perth.
• The Season 4, Round 11 match is the 9th dirtiest game in A-League history.
• The two teams have tended to score more goals in the second half than the first in these fixtures.
• Joel Griffith’s goal last weekend means he is the first Jets player to reach 30 A-League goals for the club.

The Referee – Kris Griffiths-Jones:
• Has refereed a Perth/Jets fixture once, which was a victory for the Jets.
• Has refereed 7 previous matches involving the Jets with a W-D-L record of 2-2-3.
• He is the only referee who has sent Zadkovich off in his Jets career.
• The last two Jets games he has officiated, he has booked 4 Jets players.
• The last game he officiated was the Round 4 clash this season against the Mariners, which was a 2-2- draw.
• There is an average of 3 goals per Jets game he officiates.

2013/2014 Hyundai A-League
Season 9 Round 24
Newcastle United Jets FC vs Wellington Phoenix FC

The Squadron and the Yellow Fever will be embarking on the “12 Pubs of Jardel” prematch pub crawl, anyone wanting to join the festivities please click here for details.

When: Saturday 22nd March, 2014
Where: Hunter Stadium, 294 Turton Road, New Lambton, NSW
Kickoff: 530pm AEDST (gates open 430pm)
Tickets: https://www.proticket.com.au/Events/Details/2754
Pre-match: from 330pm District Park Tennis Club, Cnr Lambton and Curley Rds Broadmeadow

Watch: LIVE on Foxsports 3 and FoxSports 3HD
Listen: ABC Newcastle 1233 or ABC Grandstand online
Tweet: @newyboys #NTUA #NEWvWEL #12PubsofJardel                                                                             

Supporters are reminded that active support has relocated to Bay 60 for the remainder of the season. All existing Bay 2 members should have already been sent their new membership cards. If you have not received this please contact the club on 4979 7611 . Anyone with a membership in another bay who wishes to join Bay 60 for this game also needs to contact the club to organise a temporary ticket for this game. Any other supporters simply need to purchase a ticket for Bay 60 via the above link.

Statistics

Overall – 21 games between the two teams.

Recent Form 

Leading Scorers

Last Result –

Biggest Win

Heaviest Defeat

Leading Scorers in fixture –

Coaches Head to Head – 1 match

Newcastle Jets Coaching Records –

Average Home crowd – 10422

Key facts:

• The last 5 away games for Wellington have seen 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses.
• The Jets last 5 home results are 1 win, 2 drawn and 2 losses.
• Adam Taggart is 3 goals behind equalling Joel Griffith’s record of 14 goals in a season. He is also the club’s all-time 5th leading goal scorer with 13 goals following last weeks match, equal with Mark Bridge. Taggart has taken 10 less games to achieve this milestone.
• Kew Jaliens is also closing in on the club record for most yellow cards in a season. Jaliens has 8 while the record is 10 (Ruben Zadkovic in Season 7).
• Wellington haven’t kept a clean sheet in the last 8 games, and have only kept one clean sheet away from home all season (12 appearances).
• The Jets have only ever received 1 penalty in 21 meetings. This was in Season 3 and was scored by Mark Bridge (30/12/2007). The Jets have since gone 18 matches without a penalty in this fixture. This was awarded by Strebre Delovski
• The Phoenix, however, have received 5 penalties since this time. They have converted 4 of them – Chris Greenacre being the only player to miss his shot.
• The Phoenix have beaten the Jets in the last 3 visits to Hunter Stadium.
• In the first meeting between these two clubs in Season 3, Round 3, Matt Thompson scored the 500th goal in A-League History.
• The Phoenix have scored an average of 1.9 goals against the Jets in all matches. The Jets have scored an average of 0.85 goals. This goes up to an average of 1.25 at home.
• The Jets have only ever kept 3 clean sheets against the Phoenix, while the Jets have been kept scoreless 10 times.
• Vince Lia and Manny Muscat are the most booked Phoenix players in the match, having been booked 5 times against the Jets in the past.
• 4 Jets players have been sent off in the fixture – Joel Griffiths, Mark Milligan, Ryan Griffiths and Sam Gallaway. Sam Gallaway is the only player to receive a red for a second bookable offence. Gallaway is also the only player of these 4 to have been booked during a Phoenix game.
• The Phoenix have had 3 players dismissed – Nick Ward, Tim Brown and Tony Lochhead. These were all second bookable offences.
• Glen Moss has kept 3 clean sheets in 14 appearances against the Jets, 2 of these as the Phoenix keeper. He hasn’t kept a clean sheet against the Jets at Hunter Stadium, letting in an average of 2 goals.

Referee – Strebre Delovski