How often are the training sessions open to viewing Ahmed?

Was at training yesterday. Lots of pass and move work going on. The boys were looking good. Didnt like Berisha running too much with the ball. Yuji really impressed me, i think he will do well once he gets a game under his belt, very calm player too. Do looked a bit lost, but other than that, the lads were looking good.

Loved the intensity too. Smith and Steff were laying in to the lads when they messed up. Swearing was just ridiculous, but damn, it was good to see the passion.

Was the best morning ever being at training, how id love to work for a football club.

Yea i will give it a try this year

You should give it a go. But they have Lambadaridis, Brown, Fitzgerald, Acton, Proia and Halloran as well as everyone else this year.

Nah Never actually played FUT

Have you been on the webapp? They have a lot more Roar players in FUT this year.

Ok Cheers guys , just wandering cause Fifa's coming out next week haha

Yep no new kit this year. Although we might get a new ACL kit (Still unknown at the moment).

Edited by Roar_Brisbane : 21/9/2012 11:05:57 PM

You sure?

We do not...

Does anyone know if we will get a new kit this season?

Contracted till the end of 2012/13 Season:

3. George Lambadaridis - YOUTH CONTRACT
2. Corey Brown - YOUTH CONTRACT
1. Nicholas Fitzgerald - YOUTH CONTRACT
20. Yuji Takahashi (Fgn) (On Loan)
19. Jack Hingert
18. Rocky Visconte
17. James Meyer
16. Matthew Jurman
15. Luke Brattan
14. Erik Paartalu
13. Mitch Nichols

Contracted till the end of 2013/14 Season:
12. Shane Stefanutto
11. Matt Acton
10. Anthony Proia
9. Massimo Murdocca
8. Besart Berisha (Fgn)

Contracted till the end of 2014/15 Season:
7. Ben Halloran
6. Do Dong-Hyun (Fgn)
5. Matt Smith
(?)James Donachie

Contracted till the end of 2015/16 Season:
4. Ivan Franjic
3. Henrique (Fgn)

Contracted till the end of 2016/17 Season:
2. Michael Theoklitos
1. Thomas Broich (Fgn)

Just found this.

Yea he is a CB.

Where does he play ?

at the back right?

James Donachie has been upgraded to the senior squad on a 3 year deal.

That's right, I support the club that's in my backyard, the local football club. Don't you? Conveniently getting pissed with my friends watching the football. I really can't think of a better day out.

You lot with smaller clubs do just that and won't go near a top league game unless it's in your back yard. As long as you can get conveniently pissed and bugger football.

True football fans indeed :oops:

Really, why not? I can provide some insight too, I can tell you that it's good fun, what's football without drinking, singing and mates? Are you sure you've ever been to a football match?

Don't agree. But I can also provide an insight into alleged supporters that attend just to get pissed and sing ear we go!

Lowy Out!

Edited by paulc: 14/9/2012 01:19:46 PM

Why bother? We hear people like you every other week on the radio saying 'those effnicks...'

If you want to know something about your football consumer, what the general public expects and does not need to grow the game, I'm available for an interview.

Rather than create a new thread....

My name is Ahmed for those who dont know and i am a journalism student at the University of Queensland. This semester we are required to do a video news story and well i thought what better story than the current situation with the RCC - and i have approval from my uni professors - . As a Roar fan and someone who has been part of The Den before i thought this would be an article i could relate to and hopefully tell very well.

The idea is to get the story of both RCC and The Den via interviews and to compile that in to a news story as you see on tv. It will not be a story taking sides or knocking one grop or the other, but rather what is the issue and why is it happening. I would be very grateful if people from either fan group would be happy to participate in the interviews and hopefully help me out. The interview would last roughly 1 hour to an hour and half depending on how things go.

I also would like to know if the Roar have open training sessions and when they are. Would i be able to do some videoing of the training as well, probably about 5 to 10 minutes max recording?

if anyone is able to assist me or be of help i would greatly appreciate it. Ideally i am looking for members of The Den and RCC who have a decent understanding of what is going on and the situation.

feel free to contact me either via the forum, PM or by email at ahmed.essof@uqconnect.edu.au

Many Thanks In Advance.


Ive posted this in the Roar Forum too, so just making sure im covering all the bases

Rabble, Rabble Rabble!
I hate fun to,

why can't i just go to a game sit in silence and sip my cup of green tea

Nope, the club is the supporters, the others are employees.



In 99% of the world, the club is run by supporters. The board is usually life long fans who have the time /money/expertise to get involved at that level. Other 'regular' employees are locals who, surprise, surprise support the local club.



As for GCU !

Given the FFA don't allow promotion to the A-League, a local businessman couldn't put his money into one of the already existing local teams and got in that way. As it was Brisbane couldn't get enough supporters from their (4 x bigger) city to stop it going bust.



There wasn't strength of support in Brisbane either. Just a Foxtel deal that forced the FFA to bail them out ahead of NQ, a club who's fans were putting in a big effort. that didn't help them once the corrupt ignorant twats at the FFA trough decided Football fans are disposable.

I absolutely agree, like I said before, that there is no club without it's supporters, but the supporters aren't more important or less important, you need both.

Yes a lot of clubs were founded by it's supporters, but how many are run by them?

The fact still remains that you can't have one without the other, and as soon as one starts believing it is better than the other you get a lot of problems.

As for GCU, without the club there never would have been a club to support. The supporters were just as much at fault for it's downfall as the club was, make no mistake. In reality your 'sig' should also say "Eff all those 'supporters' that never bothered to show up". If the supporters are the club as you say, a show of strength in support would have seen the club/team/support endure no matter the management.

Ooohhhh cheeky

Well I think that's where we differ. The club owe the supporters because without the supporters there is no club. To me, the supporters of the club are the club. It's a little difficult for A-League fans to understand because the clubs are new franchises.

It can equally be argued, with GCU as a case in point, that without the supporters the club cannot survive. In ancient times, the supporters created the club, had an intense relationship with the club, passed down that relationship to the club from generation to generation. Football clubs are not clubs without fans. They may as well be pub squads otherwise.

You make it sound like every club should owe it's supporters something.
While it's true that a club needs it's supporters, supporters also need their club, there's no one without the other, as you should know.
Nobody owes nobody, we're there for each other, through thick and thin, no matter what. I think too many fans have lost sight of what it means to 'support' your team. On the night, it's the team we are there to support, nothing else should matter.

If you were to ask most players, they would say it is a privilege to play for the fans, and for true fans it is also a privilege to support them.

We have the choice to do something about those that threaten that or risk letting them ruin it for us and the players we are there to support.