League champions Twin City and perennial Cup threat Melrose were both beaten in the opening round last weekend.

Wanderers squandered a 2-0 lead against Albury Hotspurs, while Wodonga Diamonds prevailed at Melrose Park.

Twin City coach Harry Wilhelm said it wasn’t panic stations, but it was time to re-evaluate.

Wanderers are expected to add Tommy Sanhaboa, Kerty Godon and Tom Coulston to the team that lost 3-2 at Aloysius Park.

“We were devastated with the result last week and the boys showed that on the track on Tuesday night,” he said.

“We weren’t bad but a couple of mistakes and some ill discipline cost us.

“It’s not panic stations but we will make changes that give us a bit more variety in attack and a bit more pace in defence.”

Wilhelm wasn’t making excuses after Twin City lost eight of last year’s starting line-up to Murray United in the summer.

“We want our boys to come through the juniors and play to as high a level as possible,” he said.

“We may have lost players to the NPL but we still want to be the club that provides the next eight players for Murray United, that proves we are doing the right thing by our juniors.”

Melrose coach Chad Thomson said he wasn’t reading too much into round 1 results.

“I still think Boomers are going to be a more than handy side but look what Wangaratta did to them,” he said.

“Teams are still finding their feet, working into the season.

“There were some positives out of last weekend — we dominated play for periods of time against Diamonds, held the ball really well but just didn’t capitalise.

“Evan Rawluk was up front as a lone striker for 60 minutes and he got through a power of work and we pushed someone up to chase the game and that worked too.

“Dylan Howe holds the ball, sits deep and reads the play well.”