Also I think the loss of Theo is underestimated. A good goal keeper like Theo marshal's the backline, tells them where they need to be, etc etc. Without Theo there, Smith is having to pick up the slack in this area, and I think as a result his concentration is suffering.

Little can happen this season. Issues like this requires a strategy.

We don't know what the reconciliation of wage figures really look like but suffice to say however that the gain in funds from wages from the loss Berisha, Miller and Franjic will provide us a net gain. Kurtishi won't have a contract next season and we can probably reduce the squad by a player if push comes to shove. And hasn't the cap increased this season?

If we can somehow squeeze Broich under the cap, as we did before, that will leave an opening for a new marquee (providing the Bakries are willing to dig deep).

Edited by paulc: 12/11/2014 05:39:18 PM

Yea I haven't seen any news about the cap increasing.

Imo instead of pushing Broich under the cap lets get him his citizenship move him to Aus marquee and try and get McKay under the cap.

Yep, also plausible as Mackay would be on less than Broich.

Man my memory not so good, or more likely filled with things unfootball related. But how did we play when bes was out last season? Was broich central or still on the wings?

To me, that is the tactics we should be trying to emulate.

Broich played as a false 9

any word when we'll see sarota?,

why not move north to RB? JD centrally?

any word or rumours about a miller replacement?

JD is now away with the Aus under 23s.

That was win no. 100 for regular season games I think. :)

Just quietly I thought Bowles looked good tonight

Henrique and Solozarno look good on the left.Henrique much better for his right foot shots.
Borello on the right.
What a difference some pace makes too.
Bowles played well.Plus some added height is a bonus.
Broich central worked a treat.Sucked in the defence and allowed the midfieldes to make the diagonal passes.Much more space down the wings ,created havoc for the Jets.
The Roar are a much more serious threat with this game plan.The high pressing defence of the opponents leaves the backline exposed.
I just hope Mulvey doesn't put Broich back on the left.It's just too easy to block him out of the game and allow defence to press the midfield.Brioch central drags the defence all over the place and occupies the midfields attention leaving Roar midfielders to take control.
Could this be the next leap forward for the Roar?

I think its 2 weeks now, and Lamba is close as well.

Just waiting for acrossthetasman to upload the game, before i give any comments.
From your comments it sounds good.

was a fantastic performance by us, but you have to bear in mind this is probably the worst Jets performance in there history and im not exaggerating.

some of there defending was Bob malcolm esk.:lol:

Edited by switters: 14/11/2014 10:57:08 PM

Agreed,the heat and short turnaround for the Jets had an impact.But in the first half it was pretty even .In that both sides concentrated on defensive organization.
But Jets couldn't press the Roar ,because the Roar finally sent balls over to the wingers rather than playing out from the back.They were certainly worried about over committing.Roar mixed it nicely and this contributed to the second half dominance and unravelling of the Jets.They didn't know what to do.Sit deep or press.
MV will be a totally different proposition.But teams will know now there is serious danger to pressing the Roar if they mix it up ,going short and long and if they keep the pace on the wings and Broich central.

Good stuff, cheers guys.

I thought we did well in pressing most of the game. However Kurtishi mostly didn't seem to press. Sure we had well won the game, but why did we change the game plan when he came on.

Previous games he has not pressed and this puts heaps of pressure on our back four. Compare to last year when we all pressed and had a great back four.

As I said previously, Kurtisi won't be at the club after this season.

Like Miller (but in a different way) adds little to the team except a spot.

Bit of a shame, can't strike gold all the time. I do like Kurtisi passing and awareness, just a shame he is just slow and little lazy in the pressing.

Interesting that Petratos hasn't struck form yet?

I think we will be formidable once all the planets align.

sucks that solo got injured... I would really like to see Solo on the left and henrique on the right with broich playing the false nine... I think that would be pretty promising.

This would be effective in that all three can interchange between positions.

Was just reminded of your club's ACL participation circa March this season - so with the club starting to find some form perhaps and with that, a more settled line up, - indeed Kurtishi's days should be numbered, all the more due to that that heavy schedule back end of this season and even perhaps the need to upgrade/improve the squad in prep for that? :-k Would make sense as ACL participation/A-League finals kind of leads in and the former even carries into our off-season/next pre-season, as we saw with the WSW. So a kind of transitioning of the squad happening then, with a view to next season would seem logical.

I think Mulvey would certainly need to improve the quality/rotation of the side, for a strong effort at the ACL too.

a success driven club driven to the point of insanity

I sure as hell would hate to work there

You know what they need?

Some German recruits

Yes milk mustache is not a good like

C'mon Roar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Edited by paulc: 28/11/2014 12:47:07 PM

Hmmmmm :-k

Edited by MrBrisbane: 28/11/2014 07:45:38 PM

Any Roar drunk bastards see this yet lol

Copied from our own forums.

Breaking it down.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_Primeira_Liga#Personnel_and_sponsors

Mixed with the table as it stand already...

* Eliminate your strong teams, and almost certainly, teams in the top half of the table. Would be stupid to say 10 rounds into a 34 round season that team has already admitted their coach will go

So, looking at maybe bottom half of table.

* Dead last Gil Vicente got a new coach in early September.

* So that leaves 7 other coaches (maybe)

- 9th Morienense (Miguel Leal.... who was only appointed head coach in May)
- 10th Martimo (Leonel Pontes.... who was only appointed head coach in May)
- 11th Setubal (Domingos Paciencia....... yep, appointed in May)
- 12th Estoril (Jose Couciero..... May)
- 13th Boavista (Petit.... not Emmanuel Petit btw, this coach just goes by "Petit", BUT... wasn't appointed in May !!!!!! :P )
- 14th Academica (Paulo Sergio....... May)
- 15th Nacional (Manuel Machado)
- 16th Arouca (Pedro Emanuel)
- 17th Penafiel (Rui Quinta.... changed coaches TWICE since May !!!)

Any Dutch coaches in Portugal? ;)

#totalfootballorbust