I actually think I’m in the minority when I say I’d like Steinmann to stay another season.

Clearly he is a decent player. He started pre season really well for us then from memory got injured and just never returned to the heights of pre season. 

What are some good matchday pubs? Don't necessarily need to be around Suncorp. 

In the absence of anyone else, the pubs along Caxton Street on the way down to Suncorp always seem to be thriving as I walk past on my way to the game.

Can't say anything about the atmosphere on the inside but they look to be having a good time.

A couple of them have footpath seating as well but they look full as I pass.

The Lord Alfred at the top of Caxton Street is/was the Roar's home pub at Suncorp but with the move to Dolphin at Redcliffe I have no idea what happens there now.

If you are thinking of going to a game at Redcliffe, there are plenty of drinking/eating places around Redcliffe itself.

Not much of a pub visitor myself so that's about all I can offer.

I actually think I’m in the minority when I say I’d like Steinmann to stay another season.

Clearly he is a decent player. He started pre season really well for us then from memory got injured and just never returned to the heights of pre season. 

Steinmann, is with the squad in townsville so it looks like he will be with us this season, Corey isnt with the squad, again hopefully it is just a late start to preseason for him to give extra recovery time from injury. Austin is there so i hope we see some minutes from him. 

Steinmann, is with the squad in townsville so it looks like he will be with us this season, Corey isnt with the squad, again hopefully it is just a late start to preseason for him to give extra recovery time from injury. Austin is there so i hope we see some minutes from him. 

Could Corey Brown be off to Western United ? Victory? Western United lost garrucio in the off season to Scotland. He knows Aloisi and fellow ex-roar players.

I almost enjoyed the Heidelberg v Roar game.
Heidelberg showed they are a club with quality both on and off the pitch. Their attacking movements were skilful and well executed, and caused us considerable difficulty. Defensively they were effective all over the pitch - but noting that Roar under that defensive pressure contributed a great deal to Heidelberg's effectiveness.
I am seeing a disturbing trend in our slowing the play down on restarts, back passing, and inability to find a teammate throughout the team. I do not want to think that it is Moon's adopted practice to continually pass backwards until we get caught in a hideous position and lose the ball one way or another. The fact that Moon was getting so frustrated with players passing backwards gives me hope that it is just pre-season wrinkles and players afraid to go forward until they develop some trust in each other.
Danzaki got pulled because his touch and passing were off, and by the looks of it he was ignoring Moon's calls to play higher. He will improve without doubt as he learns how we are playing now compared to what we did last time with him.
If Austin retains his drive and desire through whatever period it takes for the rest of the team to learn how to pass or receive a through ball then he is going to help us to become really dangerous in the front third. If the lack of composure and quality that comes so often into our passing game pisses him off enough early on we could lose him mentally I fear. His touch and vision are a joy to watch and like a lot of really good players he can make seconds of free time when under pressure and surrounded. Love seeing that in players. Also loved seeing him sucking in the deep breaths - he is a fantastic signing for us as both a skilful player and a guide to all those lesser and up-and-coming forwards we have and it can only get better as he gets fitter and his influence reaps rewards.
Not loving Trewin as a 6. His strength is defending and I have yet to consider him a particularly useful link moving forwards - much more as a last ditch, well timed intervenor and interceptor of play coming in than holding down such a critical role bringing the ball out under pressure - especially when we are playing backwards so much and creating a lot of that pressure.
Beautiful strike by Mileusnic. Some very nice bits to our play by a number of contributors - and no doubt much more to come. Hingert had a very good game (I thought - no doubt I am wrong about that again  ).
That was the sort of role that Daley is built for - getting in and stuffing up the opposition attacks.
Chapman looked to be responsible for some very silly decision making that put us under pressure a few times when it was not necessary. A bit of a worry for me when I am counting on our defensive group to be rock solid and instead we are unable to stop good solo runs or cover the passing options other than as a desperation tackle.
As long as we saw pre-season flaws, and not a style of play that we intend running with, I found the positives for us in a game against a very effective and capable opponent, were another good step towards this coming season.
Well done Heidelberg. Glad we got the win and showed some really good moments.
Mono - if you were there in that shirt I could not see you. Was that you running up and down the sideline perhaps? Mad bugger - if it wasn't you he shares your passion for club!

I do not want to see Neville in the WB role. I think he is a good CB and belongs there - with the better of him and Trewin alongside Aldred and the other as our backup.

Hingert/Zabala is our RB and I don't think we should be messing with that either to cover LB. I agree with Hillbilly that we are better off targetting a proper LB.

Sirhcdobo - my problem with the slower play out is not that in itself - it is how it becomes our only option too much. Control of the ball, play and tempo is something I am totally comfortable with and I was for the Fowler style. The hideously slow restarts by Freke I find negative and annoying - like we are playing for a draw from the start of the game. We need to be creating the options we did before we had a good finisher - and 'just' adding the finisher onto the end of that. Our play lately has been heavily defensive and backwards without the frequent positive thrusts. I think we have lost the balance between the two aspects for whatever reason.

definitely last night the balance was off, but i dont think it was a systemic problem, i think it was a team early in preseason that has been focusing on not being completely out played by EPL opponents. i think we have just not quite worked out the off the ball movements, particularly through the midfield and that will come as we run into the season. I actually think the slowing the play down and backwards passing is a good sign of how we will improve this season.

Its a bit backwards of a thought so stay with me but i dont think we need to be creating the same 'chances' we did last season, in fact  i think we should be aiming to be having quite a bit less Shots. In the last 7 competitive games we played last season we scored 8 goals from 27 shots on target from 107 total shots. That's a poor return of 29% goals to shot on target, and 25% SOT from total shots. For comparison the top 4 EPL teams score at a rate of 35-40% goals to SOT and 33-38% SOT per total shots. If we converted at the higher end of the epl percentages we would have only needed 57 shots to score those 8 goals. roughly half the amount of attacking plays that we actually took. 

simply last season we were creating lots of shots but we were not turning that into pressure of testing the keeper and definitely not turning it into goals. You can look at that and say oh our finishing was not up to scratch (which was definitely true in a lot of cases) or you can look at it and say the type of chances we were creating were low percentage chances (which i think was also a large contributor). We have hopefully improved the finishing side of this by bringing in Chaz and the slower build up will hopefully improve the return of shots on target per shot (the idea being not to try and rush to get a half chance but to work it around to get a good chance on goal). This  should also mean fewer attacks the opposition can make, as we should be holding the ball more and putting them under more pressure. 

Now dont get me wrong it would be great for us to make the same amount of chances we did last season and improve our returns but i actually think that a roughly 75% reduction of shots would see us score more and importantly win more. 

So what's Corey Brown done to get flicked from your club?

I have heard nothing at all about him and keep expecting him to take up a position on the bench before resuming full duties.

It has been odd hearing nothing for so long, even for a club renowned for its quiet tendencies like ours is.

Is he gone?

Anyone know anything more?

PFA can get stuffed very unprofessional response 

PFA can get stuffed very unprofessional response 

My guess is the club wanted to get rid of him for a while.  He's finally done something that they think is justification for contact termination. He thinks it's not.
He won't play for us again regardless of the outcome, so it will just be whether the club has to give him some kind of payout.

PFA can get stuffed very unprofessional response 

Unrelated to Brown, but looks like Wanderers beat us 2 - 0 in a pre-season match. No details about squad, when it was etc, so probably can't get too much insight from the result.