The Weekly Wanderer: Now or Never

This Friday night’s encounter against the Mariners will be a special one for the home side as they farewell regular season football at Wanderland until the 2017/18 season.

While this fixture holds little significance for Tony Walmsley’s men, the Wanderers will need nothing less than a win to keep their top-two hopes alive. Last week’s 2-0 defeat to the Victory saw Tony Popovic’s troops drop from first to fourth in a matter of days. As a result, a little luck this weekend could go a very long way.

Inconsistency has been one of our favourite words this season. That and wasteful. The lack of a true goal-scoring number nine has coast Western Sydney a lot of points thus far and may just cost them the league title. Meanwhile, it’s been a different story at the Central Coast this season. Despite the promising young talents coming through the club, 13 points from the past 25 games just simply isn’t good enough for a team used to competing well into April.

Nevertheless, with club captain Nick Montgomery returning from injury, the Yellow Army will travel to Pirtek Stadium this weekend full of confidence and with nothing to lose. For the red and blacks however, this is it. Failure to take maximum points from this fixture will surely signal the end of their chase for the Plate.

The stakes surrounding this match are almost unbearable. Goals have been hard to get this season; fingers crossed they come in abundance this time around. It’s been a season full of dramatic twists and turns, can the Wanderers pull it off one more time? Here’s to a win. COYW.