Its season 11 of the Hyundai A-League and The Jetstream Podcast returns for the new season. Furns (@newyboys) is joined by Michael (@BodyNovo) and David (@Jeterpool) to preview the opening round and the season ahead. We discuss the ongoing ownership rumours, preview the game against Wellington as well as predictions for the other games of the opening round, and our thoughts and predictions for the season ahead.
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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
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.
Its an even fuller house this edition as special guest Perth Glory supporter Matt joins David (@Jeterpool), Michael (@BodyNovo), Mitch (@jerkpv4) and Mitchy (@mitchy_novo) for an FFA Cup review episode of The Jetstream Podcast/Pubcast hosted by furns (@newyboys).
In the immediate aftermath of going out of the 2015 FFA Cup competition on penalties to Perth Glory, we sat down in the Sydney Junction Hotel to dissect the overall team and individual player performances, tactics and coaching, as well as the news and recent turmoil surrounding both clubs. We thank Matt for joining us and giving us the Perth perspective, and we hope you enjoy his contributions for this episode.
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