Bankstown City Lions vs Western Sydney Wanderers – 7pm (ish), Sat 11 March The night started off well as I completely demolished one of Bankstown City’s famous ćevapi rolls. However, not everything was running as smoothly as the Jensen Park canteen. First, in a repeat of last year’s shenanigans, the floodlights hadn’t been switched on, delaying the kickoff by about 20 minutes. To make matters worse, one of the assistant referees assigned to this game had gone to the wrong ground, and another assistant picked up an injury in the 20s match. Luckily, former WSW media manager Christian Layland was on hand to replace the injured AR, while a young man who had only done 15s games before filled in for the other AR until half time. Bankstown City look to have a tough year ahead of them, having only managed to keep three first grade players from last year’s squad. Apparently they are short of match practice due to not having a proper preseason, and the washout of last week’s derby with Bankstown Berries wouldn’t have helped. On the other hand, WSW were coming off a somewhat disappointing draw with Mt Druitt – the Wanderers were hoping [...]