Good signing. Like it. Hope the shirts have just the logo, not the huge block on the front we're seeing on the ads.

I’m hoping the white block is just for the old shirts.

Other than that: 👍

I think it will be.

There's a few good ones floating around on RSF FB.

Yeah, these:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1948977158501280&id=1361064053959263&comment_id=1949038511828478¬if_t=feed_comment¬if_id=1531894811114417&ref=m_notif

(Done by Nice Orange who does great graphics)

They're the ones.

I'd imagine Actron wants to have a presence on the front.

Can see us going with the blue one.

Yeah BRFC_92 I think ActronAir will want the blue. Although the blue CSL logo last season didn’t really look that good on orange did it?

I wonder what CSLs involvement will be this season?

You mean CHL?

It didn't look great but I didn't mind it.

Let's hope they stick around. Sleeve and W-League perhaps? That'd be nice.

Yeah CHL, whoops the power of marketing hey 😉

I do know they do home loans though (..... dont they??)

Roar launch player development project with Fulham FC, AIK FC and Birmingham City

https://playerdevelopmentproject.com/club-membership/

“PDP Club Partnerships are designed to help clubs create a learning environment for their coaches. The PDP team will guide your coaches through the extensive library of learning content and resources available to them.

Player Development Project is the world’s largest online learning resource for football coaches, focusing on connecting the latest research to practical coaching environments. PDP is committed to enabling coaches around the world to share ideas, learn together, and ultimately create positive learning environments for players.”

5,326 on memberships so far, 3 months out from the start of the season that has to be a record (I haven’t even bought mine yet lol)

What is that in comparison to previous seasons at this stage?

@ BRFC

It’s double this time last year apparently but I’m not sure about other years. Roar should be disappointed not to crack 10k this year. I guess a lot depends on the Cup game v City, bomb out and memberships will stall but play well and win and I recon they’ll surge.

54,531 memberships sold across eight HAL clubs so far:

Victory 13,950
WSW 13,607
SFC 8,127
City 5,670
Roar 5,326
Adelaide 3,187
Glory 2,614
Mariners 2,274
Jets - not yet reported
Nix - not yet reported

Can’t believe City are beating us .

Yeah good point. Last year was a disaster so good to see we’re heading in the right direction. We could definitely hit the 10 and as you say, FFA Cup will have an impact for sure

We’re normally down in the Mariners to Adelaide range at this time of the year so I think we can take the current number as a positive.

ActronAir logo updated to black on orange:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2050181795042736&id=2043508565710059&_rdr

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“The newly-created Brisbane Roar Junior Academy is the only A-League academy not to charge for its elite program”

https://m.northernstar.com.au/news/roar-takes-notice-of-fnc-juniors/3474369/

good stuff. But it looks like it starts at u11 when it needs to start at u9 which is the golden age of tech development

@ grazorblade

It starts at U11 for the main academy (which is free) and then they have 10 Academy Partner clubs (including teams like Olympic, Gold Coast City, Sunshine Coast Wanderers) down to U6s

This aspect should be getting a lot more coverage than it currently does

@ aok

Agree.

And what I can’t understsnd is why CFG feel the need to charge?

Roar have 16 teams with an average of 14 kids which is 224 kids, at best they’re getting $2k/year which is less than half a million. Why bother?

Roar apparently wanting Sydney FC's triallist Sebastian Gallegos 

We need a DM not a W so not sure why he's there if he is.

Sebastian Gallegos? Where did that come from?

Visa/DM/marquee signing - he only ticks one of those boxes lol

not really sure about that in DM we have TK and McKay then as back ups Callettie, Nigro, Pepper and mauk can play further back and if desperate Papa can play the DM role. you dont really want to be relying on a lot of them for long stretches (from previous forms) but all can do a more than serviceable job. Also hopefully TK has got his hammy right so wont be out for as long as he was last season.

In the wings we have Tobi and Eric and our back up is Henrique then Shannon Brady. Brady has proved that he is nowhere near good enough for this level so i think we are very short of players for the wings. if our second marquee DM has fallen through then i think there are other places we should be focusing. 

I call bullshit.

This guy looks average and we don't need another winger.

We do also have Dan Leck an Rahmet Akbari who are decent back up to Eric and Tobias

At the moment our midfield looks weak.McKay,Kristensen are past it and Mauk is an unkown.No strong DM.No strong AM.That's not the making of a major improvement on last year.Backup is mediocre at best.
Potentailly good forwards with no service and a turnstile midfield defending counter attacks.Thta's still the reality.Which means sitting deeper again and longballing forward unless Mauk can be a star.
I am staggard that McKay and Kristensen ,now another year older are not considered bench players.
Midfield was problem last year and still looks like our weakness.Where is that star DM?

Agreed. We should be starting with TK and a Marquee in the CDM spots (or Mauk if we can get a ridiculously good AM) and look for it to transition into Caletti and MCDM through this season and into next.
TK is still class but he's getting slower and his injuries killed us last year. McKay should be 4th or 5th option in those two spots, really.

I’m not as savage as Crimsoncrusoe but agree the midfield is where we need a big signing:

AM - Mauk then Holman/Akbari

DM - TK then Mackay/Caletti

We need a strong, first pick DM to play alongside TK.

I’m actually very comfortable if Mackay and Holman play off the bench.