@ hames jetfield

I have no idea what game design or women’s studies is so can’t comment on those.

Anything in the sports science/sports development area though is playing to a global growth industry and, even though this focuses on soccer, includes multiple sporting opportunities.

25/year isn’t an insignificant number though and it’s questionable whether there are related jobs following qualification in Brisbane but employment opportunities do exist with Roar, Private Schools who have expanded their football offering dramatically these past few years, schools generally, FQ, and other Accademies in the State.

But given the growth in soccer there will be a lot of kart time/full time employment opportunities in the next decade so TAFE are not unreasonable in addressing that.

I haven’t looked at the content of this but would assume they’ve done their homework. It would be nice if FQ were involved in things like this but for anyone involved in football in Queensland we all know they’re an organisation stuck in slow-motion so it’ll be no surprise if they’re not.

@keeper66/miron

I watched the City goal back on the football show last night - I still think the near post comment is a bit harsh on keepers generally but watching this one back a couple of things stood out

First off no one tracks the attacker run which is being telegraphed as the only option, the LB is engaged directly in the action so it’s a midfield failure not to read and track the run

Secondly once the attacker is bearing down on goal Young is caught like a deer in headlights and does nothing other than wait for the shot, I agree rushing out would have both narrowed angles as well as put the shooter under pressure

Franjik in the travelling squad for the weekend:

BRISBANE ROAR SQUAD

Goalkeepers: 21.Jamie YOUNG, 31.Brendan WHITE

Defenders: 2.Dane INGHAM, 6.Avram PAPADOPOULOS, 8.Jacob PEPPER, 19.Jack HINGERT, 24.Connor O'TOOLE, 34.Aaron REARDON, 77.Ivan FRANJIC

Midfielders: 10.Brett HOLMAN, 16.Mitchell OXBORROW, 17.Matt MCKAY (c), 18.Joe CALETTI

Attackers: 9.Massimo MACCARONE, 14.Fahid BEN KHALFALLAH, 22.Eric BAUTHEAC, 26.Nick D'AGOSTINO, 33.Petros SKAPETIS

Ins: 2.Dane INGHAM (returns from international duty), 77.Ivan FRANJIC (promoted)

Outs: Nil

Unavailable: 1.Michael THEO (gk) (finger – 2-3 weeks), 3.Luke DEVERE (knee – 10 weeks), 4.Daniel BOWLES (knee – TBC), 5.Corey BROWN (hamstring – 2 weeks), 7.Thomas KRISTENSEN (hamstring – TBC), 13.Jade NORTH (groin – 1 week), 20.Shannon BRADY (broken foot – TBC)

Fastest ever club statement by an A League club?


Sunday, 25 November 2017.

Brisbane Roar Football Club and Avram Papadopoulos acknowledge that the defender’s conduct in the incident with Sydney FC’s Matt Simon in the second half of Saturday night’s Hyundai A-League match was unacceptable.

Roar’s key defender is disappointed and sorry for his actions.

“I would like to apologise to the Club, playing group, supporters and sponsors for letting game-related emotions get the better of me which caused a serious error of judgement,” Papadopoulos said.

As a Club, we do not condone this type of behaviour.

Brisbane Roar FC recognise that this is an isolated incident and believes it is uncharacteristic of the player.

This matter will be dealt with on the side’s return to Brisbane on Monday. BRFC and Avram Papadopoulos will not be making any further comment at this time.

ENDS

Shane Stefanutto
BRFC Media Manager

While you're their Shane, where's the apology to fans for the rubbish served up for 90 minutes?

I thought the best we have played so far this season, by far, was the first game when we had the youngsters that had gone through pre-season together. It was some of the slickest, fastest and most accurate passing we have shown  in any season regardless of the game result.

Since then we have brought in our big name players (you sign them you have to play them), and every game we have looked more disjointed.

Add in the injuries to our key defenders, exacerbated now by Papadopolous' disgusting behaviour, and we are disjointed from the midfield forwards and inexperienced and unsettled in defence. I am afraid that we are putting pepper on an itchy nose at the back.

I think this is one of those seasons where we say we are glad to have a team to watch and any victories are a bonus.

Thankfully i missed this game.

It was a good game to miss, only 10,044 turned up at the ground as well so you’re not alone in having something better to do.

What worked tonight? Very little although some of the passing moves were very slick but lacked end product.

What didn’t work was a lot.

Defence - looked okay pretty much all night but keeps having these trapdoor moments

Midfield - is pretty much non-existent in my book. If we have two holding midfielders (Holman and Mackay) they’re not holding much.

Attack - Bautheac was off tonight, just a one off; Caletti invisible; Khalfallah next to useless again; Maccarone shows genuine skill but if he isn’t getting the ball in the right area with support it’s pointless.

Overall there is no game plan - it looks like they’re sent out there “to give it a go” and “do the best you can lads”. For the life of me I can’t see what we’re trying to achieve?

Avraam’s - send off. Well deserved, so too Simon for reacting. I don’t know what he was thinking but the culture in the club must stink if this is what we’ve stooped too. Not sure what he’ll get as Victory players can kick an opponent while laying on the ground, push match officials and still only get a couple of game bans - but much as I love Avraam he’s not the sort of player I want at Roar.

And with the North dive last season and the numerous yellow cards this season it’s clear the culture is now rotten behind the scenes.

The VAR is again proving sh*t and no friend of ours. How the handball leading up to the SFC penalty wasn’t spotted is truly staggering. We would still have gone on to lose by a similar score imo but the VAR is sucking the soul out of football.

There’s a heavy price to pay in Brisbane for sending out poor teams and we’re treading in the familiar footsteps of the Lions and Reds who’s crowds collapsed from over 20k to just over10k. If we follow the same pattern we’re in for 6-7k at Suncorp and less at Robina next up.

Crisis time for Pourre and John “I’ve got a three year contract” Aloisi ...

Despite having zero expectations for this season,it's depressing watching the slow moving trainwreck we have become.
What a disfunctional squad.
Aloisi somehow sees his midfield of McKay,Holman and Caletti as a winning combination.To the opposition all you have to do is apply pressure and wait for the cracks to appear..Normally a clear passage through the middle with said players all over the place and the defensive line in disarray.
SFC were always going to exploit that.For Arnie it was too easy.
How is it that Aloisi thinks Roar are good enough defensively to avoid having a DM?

I had higher expectations tbh but nagging suspicions on the coaching side. The team is unfit, disorganised and quite frankly starting to look demoralised. Where is the leadership coming from?

The only reason you risk going with such an old squad is if you think you can win silverware. The strategy has failed diabolically, and going forward from here we are going to have to start rebuilding the front six from scratch (with the exception of Bautheac).
Aloisi, owns this squad and must pay the price for its failure - not just underperforming, but NOT performing at all!!
We are the least structured and organised side in the league. We have got worse the more game time Holman has had. He seems to just run around trying to ensure that no team mate knows where he is.
But according to Bozza, as long as the coach shows confidence in the players, the rest is up to them.

I think a lot of people predicted this coming. I think at the start of the season I picked Brisbane to come 8th or 9th. No surprise you guys are doing poorly especially when you lose influential players like Broich, Petratos, Maclaren. You need to substitute like for like and its not even close to doing that. You need to do a heavy clean out and start again and get rid of the dead wood. Players like McKay in particular are in deep trouble because while he is still serviceable he is on pretty big dollars and needs to be performing better, as does someone like Holman. The key senior players of Brisbane need to stand up or they will soon be out of a contract. 

I still see this squad as capable of anything, but it is so out of form, something needs to be done immediately. Some of the players were not bad and some had absolute shockers. 

In relation to the game:
Young - Was nothing overly special, but still had a good game. 
O'Toole, i thought played well.  
Hingert needs to cut out the errors, but he did some reasonable things.  
Pepper (who is playing in his best position, despite the commentators constantly calling him makeshift), I thought was passable, given what he has shown as previously and allowing for the bad luck on the penalty (where he was penalised for chesting the ball at point blank range deflection). He was still caught out quite a bit though.
Papadopoulous- I thought he played reasonable enough, outside the incident.  The spitting incident, i am astonished that he intentionally spat at him and that it has all been addressed and settled so quickly. Watching it, they were so far appart when it happened, didnt appear to be overly niggling each other and Papadopolous seemed to be looking away and not even acknowledging the spit.  I thought for sure that he was just spitting generally in the direction of Simon and he hadnt even known what happened and was taken a bit by surprise when it all happened and he took the dive.  Obviously that wasnt the case.
Caletti - Not great, obviously, but not as bad most are making out.  He has no runners supporting him and making options on the ball and this has drained his confidence.  He will improve when the forwards get some width and start running.  
Mackay - Actually tried quite hard, and he suffered from teh same problem as Caletti.  I thought he actually played some good quick balls. They were not really on most of the time, but i suppose you can only play what is in front of you.  He needed to step up and organise things a bit more.  Also any of his good work was offset by so many unforced passing errors.  Again it was mostly the lack of ball options, but there was still a lack of attention to quality which is realistically evident across the entire team.
Bautheac - A very good player who simply played incredibly poorly by his standards.  
Kalfallah - He was also very poor today.  He has done some good things this year, but he is so inconsistent.
Holman - A game to forget today.  He does some brilliant things in a game (not really today though) but he is all over the place. I dont see how he can possibly keep his spot.  Like Kalfallah, he looks to be a dangerous player coming off the bench but no more.
Maccarone - I still think he is hte best striker in the comp.  it is just such a shame that he has noone around him to provide service or run off him.

Moving forward, hard decisions need to be made.  Kalfallah was obviously promised a starting role when he came.  He needs to be moved to the bench where he can do more damage as against tiring forwards.  This ridiculous modern concept of stacking the midfield and playing in a straight line with a hope that central attacking midfielders will run wide or fulbacks will get forward enough to give depth, needs to go.  our two centre attacking midfielders (or whatever they are) need to playin the traditional wingers role. That means Bauteac to play wide on the left.  Skapetis (or whoever) should be wide on the right. Boththese players (whoever they are) need to be told to have chalk on their boots.  If he hits form, i wouldnt mind seeing Franjic take that wide midfielders role.  This leaves us with two strikers up front.  It would allow Holman to rove as he seems to do anyway, and more importantly, one of the players needs to playoff Maccarone.  

 

@ RBB

fair call, plenty of people did see this coming

But it need not be this way - an old squad should fall over later in the season not from R1 and I can think of several coaches who would do way better with this squad than the Aloisi’s are.

Then there’s the change in culture - remember when Roar were a shoe-in for the fair play award and we finished up top. What’s with this diving, spitting and fouling sh*t??

Brisbane is unfirgiving when it comes to poor teams - the locals just don’t turn up when you’re playing poor football and players look disinterested. Especially when the team doesn’t identify well with queensland with acts like diving and spitting. So we’re going to pay with the lowest crowds in a decade unless they change something really, really quickly.

Welcome to the real world Waz.

Didn't apologise to Simon?

People predict that about Brisbane almost every season though. I still think they will make the 6. 

That 6th spot is really up to grabs, but i feel we are the worse 3 sides. at least AU, WSW and CCM you can say are playing well. Nix, Roar and MV are just not. MV Should be a lot higher. I guess you can say the same thing about the roar. On paper our attacking threats look great, just havent lead to anything real.

For Brisbane to make the six you have to find four worse teams.There aren't!
WP who are last are a better balanced side,but have been gutted with international fixtures .
CCM are clearly a superior side.
MV like Brisbane are struggling ,but like WP have been gutted with international fixtures and frustrated players getting red cards.They have a better balanced squad than Brisbane,but are in for a tough new year with ACL.Maybe of some of those youngsters get a run they can get some wins.
Perth with their rubbish style and injuries are still on 10 points.
WSW clearly a better team and now a good coach.Two games in hand and still on 8points.
Adelaide is a far superior TEAM .With their striker back ,they will finish well above Roar.
SFC,MC and Jets all top four teams.

Brisbane to fight with WP for the wooden spoon.Given another four or five games we will be well adrift of seven teams.

How to fix Brisbane's problems?
Get a new coach.
Choose a playing style and find players that fit that template.
Players need to go and new players come in.

The forwards lack pace ,fitness and energy.So how can you press opponents?How can you break a high defensive line if you can't run fast?
How can players set up scoring opportunities when they dont know where they are supposed to be and other players are running?

The Midfield is the worst defensive combination in the HAL.It doesnt have a creative playmaker,who knows when to pass and how to pass.

Caletti to be brutal is a weaker, slower,less agile and less skilled version of De Silva that can't make a tackle.He is young though,so can grow and improve.In this Brisbane team his deficiencies can't be covered by other players.Put him in front of Harieje and Brama and he would do a lot better.

I think it is our combination play that has been our strength in years gone by - and you don't get that with a midfield/forward line that does not know each other.

Offside because they were expecting a pass that did not come till late, running one way and the pass going another, crossing to a fast running goal attack when the attacker is holding back waiting on a direct pass and vice versa - the team just does not know what to expect of each other and that makes some sense with defensive injuries and the changes in midfield and attacking payers since pre-season.

If Aloisi can pick his first squad and let them play together for 5 games or so I expect to see passes stick, and converted runs into dangerous places.

But I am not seeing a stable team selection to start with so we are playing a team combination method with individual players.

Are we lacking trust in our 'new' defensive players and deciding whether or not to drop back and help, instead of looking forward in attack?

When we were at our peak we were the most structured side in the league. You could sit high in the stands and see what would unfold 5 or 6 passes in advance. The current side has zero structure and seemingly no strategy. It honestly looks like Aloisi just sends them out there with a "Play it as you see it fellas."

@ clockwork

Hard to escape the conclusion that’s exactly what’s going on - easy to see with Broich in the park it might go half okay. I wonder if he’s got his badges yet??

Broich was key to the structure. The DM would look for Broich on the outlet pass, and the LB would be haring past, with the midfield making itself available inside. So many of our attacks were set up that way.

Watched Bowles play 66 minutes in yesterday’s Y League game. He’s been training normally for about a month apparently.

North should be back this week but Avraams positive influence on Pepper can’t be overstated so JA needs to think carefully about his options.

North to start and Bowles in the bench this weekend then?? Or do we risk Bowles from the get-go and bring pepper in later?

We have enough defensive coverage for two teams- don't forget Franjic.
But what happens if Macca gets injured?

If Macca is injured it’s one of D’Aggers, Scapetis or Gameiro. The latter did 45 minutes on Sunday scoring twice. He looks good but can’t figure out how fit he is.

Defensively CB is a very different position to LB and RB.

Wondered though whether Franjic has the skills to play DM, you look at the SFC first goal and it came right though the DMs channel - with TK playing that goal doesn’t get scored.

And none of those strikers play a remotely similar game to Macca. Fortunately we don't have a structure or style that would need to be changed.

Waz , Franjic has played as a DM before , not sure why JA diddnt use him there early on Sat night , not sure why we signed him to be honest if it were only to play as either a left or right back , those positions in which we have plenty of cover , Hingeart , Brown, Ingam O’Toole and Bowles.
DM is where we were struggling but now CB is an issue , can Ivan play CB?
Massive game this week v WSW at least they are without cornflakes .

@ JonSnow

A midfield of Franjic (DM), Mackay (left/linking) and Holman (AM) is probably the most balanced we could have right now. Surely this thought has occurred to JA?

@ Clockwork

D’Aggers is the closest we have to Maccers style, both can play out and out striker and both can drop deeper to play as a 10. But yeah, the lack of a playing style is concerning.

@3+1 at the back

I can’t help thinking this little fantasy of an experiment isn’t at the heart of all the problems - stuffed up the defence and the midfield in one single swoop