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2015/16 Hyundai A-League – Round 1 Preview – Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle United Jets

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2015/2016 Hyundai A-League
Season 11 Round 1
Wellington Phoenix FC vs Newcastle United Jets FC

When: Sunday 11th October, 2015
Where: Westpac Stadium, 105 Waterloo Quay, Wellington, NZ
Kickoff: 5pm AEDST (local time 7pm)
Watch: LIVE on Foxsports 4 and FoxSports 4HD
Listen: ABC Grandstand Digital online or ABC Radio App
Tweet: @newyboys #WELvNEW #NTUA

If you are unable to travel to the game in Wellington, please join us at our away venue – Sydney Junction Hotel (SJ’s) at Hamilton and watch the game LIVE. SJ’s is our venue for away Newcastle Jets fixtures. 

FIXTURE FACTS

Overall – 25 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 6, Phoenix Wins – 15, Drawn – 4

In Newcastle – 11 matches.
Jets Wins – 4, Phoenix Wins – 6, Drawn – 1
In New Zealand – 14
Jets Wins – 2, Phoenix Wins – 9, Drawn – 3

Average Home A-League Crowd – 10222
Average Away A-League Crowd – 9156

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 28, Phoenix – 50
In New Zealand –
Jets – 10, Phoenix – 31

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 9, Phoenix – 15

Cards in Fixture
Jets – 48 (43 yellow, 5 red), Phoenix 42 (39 yellow, 3 red)

Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets – L (0 points from last 0)
Phoenix – WL (0 points from last 0)

Leading Scorers
Jets – N/A (N/A)
Phoenix – N/A (N/A)

Last Result –
Jets 2 (Bonevacia 12’o.g., Neville 18′) – Phoenix 2 (Krishna 68′, Hicks 90+4’) at Hutt Recreational Park, A-League, Round 18, 22/02/2015 .

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 10 Round 18

Newcastle Jets Wellington Phoenix
Ben Kennedy Glen Moss
Scott Neville Manny Muscat
Taylor Regan Michael Boxall
Andrew Hoole Ben Sigmund
Sam Gallagher Andrew Durante
Daniel Mullen Roly Bonevacia
Ben Kantarovski Alex Gorrin
Zenon Caravella Nathan Burns
Jacob Pepper Michael McGlinchey
Ki-Je Lee Albert Riera
Edson Montano Roy Krishna

FIXTURE RECORDS

Biggest Win

Jets 5 (Heskey 36’, Griffiths 46’, Taggart 57’, Taggart 77’, Bridges 90+3’) – Phoenix 0 at Hunter Stadium, Round 24, 22/03/2014.

Heaviest Defeat

Jets 0 – Phoenix 4 (Brown 18’, Rojas 31’, Greenacre 41’, Macallister 88’), Round 19, Season 6 at Westpac Stadium, 18/12/2010.

Leading Scorers in fixture –

Jets – Joel Griffiths (4)
Phoenix – Shane Smeltz (6)

2015/16 SEASON STATISTICS

Number Name Appearances Starts Substitute Appearances Subbed off Minutes Played Goals Assists Yellow Cards Second Yellows Straight Total
1 Mark Birighitti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Daniel Mullen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Jason Hoffman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Nigel Boogaard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Ben Kantarovski 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Cameron Watson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Enver Alivodic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Mateo Poljak 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Milos Trifunovic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Leonardo Vitor Santiago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Labinot Haliti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Andy Brennan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Ki-Je Lee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Mitch Cooper 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Themba Muata-Marlow 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Lachlan Jackson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Radovan Pavicevic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 Ben Kennedy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 David Carney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 Braedyn Crowley 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
25 Brandon Lundy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

COACHING

Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Scott Miller – 0 wins, Ernie Merrick – 0 wins, 0 drawnNewcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –

  • Phil Stubbins – 3 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
  • Gary Van Egmond – 12 matches (3 wins, 3 drawn and 6 losses = 25% win ratio)
  • Richard Money – No matches
  • Branko Culina – 7 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 5 losses = 29% win ratio)
  • Nick Theodorakopoulos – No Matches
  • Craig Deans -1 Match (0 win, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
  • Clayton Zane – 2 matches (1 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 50% win ratio)

Wellington Phoenix Coach Record – Ernie Merrick 37% win ratio (9 wins, 6 drawn, 9 losses)

PLAYER FOCUS
This week we take a look at the player who has returned to the Jets in the off-season and scored his first and second A-League goals against the Phoenix in the one match.

  • Jason Hoffman has made 4 appearances against Wellington Phoenix which has consisted of 2 starts and 2 appearances as a substitute. He has been substituted 0 times. He has played on the field for 227 minutes.
  • He has captained the side 0 times and scored 0 penalties.
  • He has scored 2 goals and provided 0 assists. He has received 0 yellow and 0 red cards. He scored for the Jets once every 692 minutes.
  • Jason Hoffman has a Win-Draw-Loss record against Wellington Phoenix of 2-0-2.

The opposition player is a former Jet from the Grand Final winning team, who also the Phoenix captain:

  • Andrew Durante has made 19 appearances for Wellington Phoenix which has consisted of 19 starts and 0 appearances as a substitute. He has been substituted 0 times. He has played on the field for 1740 minutes.
  • He has captained the side 18 times and scored 0 penalties.
  • He has scored 1 goals and provided 0 assists. He has received 3 yellow and 0 red cards. He scored for the Opposition once every 1740 minutes.
  • Andrew Durante has a Win-Draw-Loss record for Wellington Phoenix against the Jets of 11-4-4.

KEY FACTS:

Goals

  • Both teams are without their leading scorers from last year – Edson Montano and Nathan Burns

Players

  • The Jets have kept only 2 clean sheets in Wellington.
  • However, Glen Moss has kept only 3 clean sheets in 18 appearances against the Jets.

Discipline

  • All red cards (8) shown in this fixture have been given at Westpac Stadium.

Newcastle Jets

  • The Jets haven’t won the first match of a season in the last 3 years.
  • Their W-D-L record on the opening day is 2-3-4.
  • This is the 3rd year in a row the Jets have been the visiting team in Round 1
  • Nigel Boogaard will become the 21st captain of the club (assuming he is the captain)
  • The Jets have lost only once away from home to Wellington in the last 3 seasons (1 win, 3 draws, 1 loss)

Wellington Phoenix

  • Wellington has scored 8 goals in the last 15 minutes of home matches agaisnt the Jets. That’s 26% of their goals in this fixture.
  • Ernie Merrick has lost against the Jets only once during his time as Wellington coach.
  • When Wellington has scored first (15 occasions), the Jets have never won and only come back to draw twice.
  • Wellington have only won their first match of the season once in 8 seasons and have lost their first match in the last two seasons.
News, Squadron

2015 Squadron FSC AGM

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The Squadron FSC (Football Supporters Club) Committee wishes to inform all Newcastle United Jets supporters that our Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 11th August 2015.

The AGM will be held at the Sydney Junction Hotel, Hamilton. Please be at the venue from 5pm for a 530pm start. This date has been chosen to coincide with the FFA Cup match day which will see the Newcastle United Jets take on Perth Glory at Wanderers Oval, Broadmeadow. Kickoff is 7:30pm AEST.

Nominations for positions on the Committee are to be given in writing by emailing squadronfsc@gmail.com , deadline is 7 days prior to the AGM

Please note that to be eligible for nomination to the Squadron FSC Committee the member being nominated must have been a member for the season prior to the nomination, and two seasons prior for a place on the executive committee.

We welcome new and returning members who will be able to sign up on the day of the AGM. Membership remains $5 for the season until 30th June.

The Squadron FSC AGM 2015

When: Tuesday 11th August 2015 5pm for a 5:30pm start
Where: Sydney Junction Hotel, Hamilton

With Thanks,

Squadron FSC Committee

Podcast

The Jetstream Podcast Ep30 – Its a Pubcast!!!

Its a full house as David (@Jeterpool), Michael (@BodyNovo) and Mitch (@jerkpv4) join furns (@newyboys) for an offseason episode of The Jetstream Podcast err Pubcast – we recorded this at the Sydney Junction Hotel in Hamilton!! So we do apologise for rugby league, Ray “Rabbits” Warren and the sound checks in the background. At least you know we were actually all in a pub though……..

Its been an absolute plethora of news since the last podcast just before the end of the season, and we discuss all the major talking points – Tinks and Stubbins are out, FFA and Miller are in, some players have been re-signed and the Jets/FFA are talking engagement and listening to the community.
We review the season on and off the pitch, discuss the ownership changes and then talk about the future under FFA ownership.

We invite all listeners to send us any questions, comments, feedback, topics, etc you might have:
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