Brisbane is so focussed on Rugby League and Broncos, tho Lions get s great following too....., Roar fight for Any publicity. 

There's more  Rugby League coverage on news on some channels even now and it's out of season. Go figure that ! Guess that tells you all !

whole state is a bit like it 😔

“Sell out” would be 5,000 

Having a squad that looks better on paper strangely is no guarantee of success.Lol
But if you can win away from home,like PG,MV,WP&WSW,you have a better chance of finishing higher up the table,once all your players are fit.

Robbie's not going to admit failure. He'll continue playing his duds until he's sacked.

Sure thing.

Nix - Were desperately unlucky in the first few rounds but have won their last 3 games and I think their good form will continue. They'll finish top 6 for sure and might even finish top 4.
WSW - Great squad, bad manager. I said that in pre-season and even predicted that they'll miss the top 6 and Babbel will be the first manager sacked.
Perth - Haven't been great but I think last week's convincing win will be a turning point for them.
Jets - Arroyo and Hoolahan have been injured, Champess quitting, Burns and Ridenton not good enough to crack the starting XI. Jets at least have the excuse of being broke, Roar don't have that excuse.
Victory - Injuries and Toivonen is their only visa player ho has been playing well. Basha and Poulsen have been underwhelming (The latter had a decent game last week to be fair), Dobras doesn't seem to be HAL standard while Hoogland has been injured. Maybe it might take a while for Victory's imports to adapt to the league given their imports arrived late and may need time to adapt to the league. Roar signed their imports early so they don't have that excuse.

As for Roar's imports, how many would get game time at other clubs? O'Shea might get a game at Victory given how poor Dobras has been but I don't think any of them would get games at any other clubs. I would go as far and say that Gillesphey and AAH are NPL standard players.

Nice list of excuses for every team but the Roar.  ;)  And the NPL standard players are delivering (or not delivering) the same results as "quality" and "cultured" imports.  Makes you think.

Roar's imports aren't delivering the same results which is obvious to everyone except for you and Waz. The only clubs I gave excuses for were Newcastle who are broke and Victory. If Victory don't improve soon, then they will cop more criticism.

You also didn't answer my question. Which of Roar's imports would get a game at any other club?

The Roar have literally delivered the exact same results as Newcastle and Victory and are 2 points shy of WSW and Nix and 1 point shy of Perth.  It would appear you have an issue with understanding what result means as opposed to opinion.  

Newcastle are broke so they can't afford quality players. Roar are not broke as far as I am aware so they don't have an excuse.

Victory's problems have been well documented. If they don't improve in the next few weeks now that Kruse and Nabbout are back, then I will criticise them as well as I said in my last post.

You stil haven't answered my question. Which Roar players would get gametime at other clubs?

sub, I get you don't rate the Roar imports.  It's been painfully obvious that you have held this opinion before you even saw them play.  You have continued to repeatedly drop into this thread and avail us all of your opinion throughout the pre-season and every game this season (regardless of the result).  I don't give a rat's what you think.  You even argue that the "results" prove your point, which they literally don't. 

You literally asked a question which was directed at those who don't rate Roar's imports and I answered it.

I then asked you on three occasions, which Roar imports would get gametime at other clubs and you threw your toys out of the pram.

Brisbane have not scored a goal in the first half of any match this season. That’s 9 games. The first half is when goals are hardest to come by when the game is most compact. Brisbane have dominated territory and failed to score, United literally have 2 chances and score 2 goals. This is what you call a “lack of quality” from Brisbane. This team is the worse in the league. 

I'm now convinced that ODonovan is much of the problem......has he even touched the ball in the first half!!!!

That was, without doubt, some of the most pathetic football I have ever watched. 1st goal was Young's fault, 2nd goal was just typical of the Roar's season so far. O'Donovan, O'Neill, Aldred, Gillesphey and Inman have looked like crap so far, and I'd probably throw Neville in there too. For all the passes they complete, which offer nothing whatsoever apart from a meaningless statistic, they just really don't offer anything in the attacking-third.

GK - Freke

RWB - Hingert?
CB - ?
CB - Aldred
CB - Courtney-Perkins
LWB - Powell

CM - Mauk
CM - Pepper?
AM - O'Shea

ST - ?
ST - Amadi-Holloway

^ that's how I'd probably start next week: there's really nothing left to lose.

Mells , O’Toole and Hingeart will be playing NYL again this week 
coach got no idea 

Waz et al all seem to have Stockholm Syndrome with the way they defend Robbie Fowler's indefensible team.

Please add me to your list 

Maybe we should go back to parking the bus and looking horrible.At least we were conceding less goals and we were in the game.
What was Fowler thinking putting Mauk as the second striker?
When will DWH be played as a striker?
We need to change things.Get more pace up front and play for faster counterattacks.Put Ingham and Inman on the wings and DWH central.
When we dont have the ball get everyone back and defending.
We arent going to dig our way out of this mess by playing pretty.It should be bleeding obvious after nine rounds we cant defend counterattacks when we are high up the field.Amd we are so so slow in counterattacks.To the extent I cant even classify them as counterattacks.They are play pretty sessions of sideways and back passing until the defence is set.(deja vous?)
WU play to their strengths and know what they cant do.Roar play like they are delusionally better than they really are .
The commentators believe after nine rounds and one bye already that we need a break.Maybe they were referring to the fans?

All I say is Mells now 9 Goals , 8 assists. 

Things I took enjoyment from tonight's game pretty much involved Jamie. Basically yelling for the entire 2nd half telling the players in front to turn and play forward and went ape shit when they passed back. Also the usual stupid keeper going up getting the biggest crowd cheer all game. 

I don't mind Akbari but needs some confidence to play forward because he has the ability to play a killer ball. 

I don't actually like halloway, very slow and lazy. But to be happy best there is not a lot to like with this team.

First goal was down to young , slow to react but to be fair it was a special ball by Diamanté 
second goal down our left really showed the lack of pace we have in JCP and Gillespie ,
if Fowler refuses to play some players just to prove a point to them , well maybe he won’t make it as a manager after all.

It's not the Brits so much it's the Aussie players too!!

Odonovan has had a full round and it's not happening so he must go to bench. 

DWH must play centrally with maybe AAH but not Mauk. Mauk is an attacking midfielder for god sake. 

Neville, why ?

does it not dawn on this team that getting in behind is a good option??

Robbie if you want to save your job you need a quality striker and a quality quick CBack. 

Back from the game - got there late and missed the first goal so don't know much about that yet.

We did not huff and puff so much tonight. We got down the wings and through the middle regularly, but we struggled to create real pressure or panic in the defence once we got there. We can find a way through a contested middle when we try, but we don't try enough - looking sideways a bit too often and not seeming to see an open player as often as not.

Ingham has the most hideous touch of any of our players based on his performance when he came on. Most of his passes were behind their target or not hard enough to make the distance. He is not any sort of impact player - I would rather we start with him than bring him on when we need to up the ante (if we have him on at all).

Neville is a player I have time for. His workrate is huge both forwards and defensively and while his final passes are often aimless he has got an eye for other players and opportunities, good ball control and body strength. I would rather have him in my side than not.

One thing I cannot stand is a ref who gives a yellow card to a Roar player for a professional foul but fails to give one to an opposition player who commits a professional foul, then after the whistle kicks the ball away hard and right into a Roar players face. FFS - in another incident where a Roar player was fouled blatantly and professionally he only gave a yellow when the offender then forced him to by running back through after the free kick was awarded and knocking the ball away. Far too often he has managed players rather than play in games I have watched and he is probably my least liked ref these days. It is a broken record - but professional fouls (by any player) should get a frigging yellow card from the first time.

Too much faking injury as the game wore on. A few calls went the wrong way or should not have been called at all. Funny when Rudan was telling Kurto to take the ball to the other side of the goal - and he did and finally got a card for time wasting.

Not an uplifting, heart racing game - but not an embarrassing performance. Really happy with the combinations we put together from time to time with 6-8 passes getting through traffic. On a better day we would be getting through with 3-4 passes but getting through all the same. Yes, a long way from 90 minutes of sustained pressure, but with my orange glasses on I will say another competitive game and several steps up from last week.

If only we could get a good cross in to a moving player or use the skills we have to get inside the box rather than skirting round it.

All the changing of players and shape etc is not making much difference..... the common denominator here that is not changing is ROD......and goals win games. 

Thats the problem or or at least that's where change needs to be made. 

I think the changes are part of the problem.

We have a team that needs to work together well to win - not a team with a couple of game breakers who can win a game on their own. The worst thing is to mix and match players, structures and playing style in my eyes because no-one actually learns their role to perfection and no-one can count on another player to do something in any given situation.

CCM to shock FC tmro would put us last ?

Wow, you have some great rose-coloured glasses. I didn't think we had any combination at all, and didn't look like getting through the traffic. Plenty of passes backwards and sideways under no pressure, and even then there were far too many poor passes. And I wouldn't say we got down the wings and through the middle regularly either, and on the handful of occasions we did get down the wings the crosses were invariably shit (too short, too long, high and loopy, misdirected, etc).

I agree with you on this. All the changes aren't helping to develop how the players play together as a team, and I suspect the sheer variety of changes now being made is starting to create confusion.

Your dreaming.
Absolutely zero chance.More likely a flogging.

Agree on the pointless crosses - we are no threat in that regard - more likely to simply pass into a defender, too easily to the keeper, or over everyone.

Just to be clear - I am talking midfield traffic and not traffic in the box - where we were woeful trying to make progress.

When we got someone to move in between lines and actually passed it to them we looked more dangerous, and the defence was unable to stop us getting the ball forward. We put the ball from the backs into the middle, then out to the wings, then back in to the middle when we looked our best. There was not a game full of them, but it happened enough times to stand out as a positive in the game.

Again for clarification - regular can mean once every twenty minutes. I do not say we did it often. It is the times that we do well that stand out for me and they happened several times in the game. My expectation (and hopes for the team) is that the moments can be done more and more frequently in successive games until we actually start considering that how we play our football rather than positive exceptions.