
From Aways
A HFX Wanderers Blog
The Morning After the Night Before
I walked past the Wanderers Grounds at 6.45am this morning. Given it sits snugly between my apartment and my local gym, there’s nothing...
Halifax Wanderers 2024 Squad Review
Goalkeepers Yann Fillion, Dan Clarke, Aidan Rushenas There's a question I ask myself to gauge a goalkeeper's performance on any given...
Recalled to Life: The 2023 Halifax Wanderers
It’s the morning of October 13, 2022, and your phone won’t stop vibrating. You resist the urge to check it at first, but eventually,...
Halifax Wanderers vs. Forge: 5 Things We Learned
1. Diametrically Opposed Foes It’s over now so I think we can all be honest: when the CPL schedule dropped at the start of the year, we...
Halifax Wanderers vs. Atletico Ottawa: 5 Things We Learned
Note: An older version of this appeared after last weekend’s pre-season friendly vs. Electric City. This is an updated and re-written...
Halifax Wanderers 2023 Squad Preview
Here we go again, then. After a soggy, sodden autumn and a half-baked, half-assed winter, spring – and the start of a new Canadian...
Interview: Patrice Gheisar, Halifax Wanderers Head-Coach
It’s the penultimate Friday night before Christmas, and Patrice Gheiser – the real Patrice Gheisar that is, not the...
Interview: Matt Fegan, Halifax Wanderers FC Sporting Director
Hey Matt, thanks for doing this. Let’s start with the off-season. How did it compare to previous off-seasons? Were there any extra...
Interview: Andre Rampersad
There must have been a moment during Tuesday’s game against Toronto FC, with 6,500 supporters around him and the sponge grass of the...
Halifax Wanderers 2022 Preview, Part II: The Central Midfielders
If you haven't done so already, you can read Part I: The Attackers here. A profile of the defenders will be out on Wednesday. Back in...
Halifax Wanderers 2022 Preview, Part I: The Attack
It feels paradoxical given they had the league’s top-scorer in the ranks, but last season Halifax Wanderers Football Club had a...
Welcome Home
You didn’t need to have that extra glass of whisky last night but you did so anyway. It was the nice bottle, the Lagavulin, the one...
HFX Wanderers 2021 Squad Review: Midfield and Attack
If you haven't done so already, you can read Part One: Goalkeeper and Defence here Midfield First things first: the Aboubacar...
HFX Wanderers 2021 Squad Review: Goalkeeper and Defence
Goalkeepers Frankly, I've always been slightly baffled by goalkeepers. They exist as a kind of oddball ‘other’ within the footballing...
"It's a bit like the wild west": Talking CPL transfers with HFX Wanderers VP, Matt Fegan
Quinpool Road, a long, stretching artery that connects downtown Halifax with suburbs to the west, has had its nose bloodied this year....
New Beginnings: How HFX Wanderers Started Again
Yesterday, towards the end of an overcast afternoon on Prince Edward Island, Omar Kreim stood over a free-kick on the edge of the York...
Derek Martin Interview: The Journey to a 2020 CanPL Season
Fresh off the heels of today's CanPL announcement that a shortened 2020 season would be taking place in PEI in August, I had the chance...
BLACK LIVES MATTER: A CONVERSATION WITH MARVIN OKELLO
Marvin Okello works in sales, retail, and ticketing for HFX Wanderers. A few days ago he reached out to me regarding a collaborative blog...
THE WEEKEND THAT WASN'T
So, how’s this strange new world treating you, fellow Wanderer? Or perhaps that should be un-Wanderer given recent restrictions. Are you...





















