We dance again tonight 

Should be a good match - MacArthur are very well organised and tough to break down.

Roar may not be mentally mature enough overall (inexperienced youngsters), to be prepared with a quick turnaround following 4 straight wins. Moon will tighten things up a bit which is good but could well end up a bad game for the Roar if they’re not up to it in their head. This will be a good test. 

I would not say I am nervous or concerned (we are playing well), but I am expecting this to be a hard game for us too. Great test against a physical, skilled side for the first time.

While Mariners are with us on points that might help the youngsters keep some perspective mentally - games in hand are meaningless if we don't convert them and it is not like we are runaway leaders by any means.

Footnote: I have contacted the Suncorp Sniper to deal with anyone using cowbells tonight.

hey good start for BR early days but, 2 wins vs MV after their last season and seem to be worse.
Jets, another struggler who outplayed BR mostly but win.
1st game MC were at least in part what they once were last season and from 70min 10 men BR loss.
The win against AU was a credible attacking win.
MU are organised but lack goals in them, at test but not a massive challenge with familiar players @ home vs's newbies, should win this pretty good.
5 played of 23, way to go yet.

Who starts off the bench? Millsy is back, Susnjar & Jovanovic in good form. Could it be another player in good form Genreau?
Millsy is captain.

Agree. I think tonight is one of those nights where we learn a few hard lessons. Probably be lucky with a draw tbh 

Milligan is too far past his best, and because of that is far and away the dirtiest player in the League.  I'm not at all sure he's worth a starting place for the Bulls.

Well, Macarthur have gone win, loss, draw and then win,loss, draw. Its time for a new tune tonight! Roar to finally achieve a clean sheet.

He's changed nearly the entire starting lineup for the Bulls

A bunch of Bullsh1tters 

I thought you were a big advocate for the Bulls :P

That is the worst the Bulls have played so far this year.  I suppose it is what happens when you rest most of the best players in the squad.

That is garbage defending by Golec.

Not sure why they stick Golec out of position at LB when they can play Walter Scott there instead.

Federichi best signing for the Bulls.

nice goal !

Classy by Genreau.

lol classic !

Great awareness by Derbyshire.

Good snatch and grab win by the Bulls, just one of those nights for Brisbane.

Golec played left back at the Wanderers during the ACL Championship Year. Milicic was the assistant coach.

yep agreed with the snatch and grab win.
Totally against what i expected that was good defense by Bulls but i expected BR to crack them but didn't even get much of a decent shot in a crowded box area most of th egame.
Take your chances and Bulls took their 2.
Back to earth for BR supporters.

I rate him very highly, but DWH should've buried at least 2/3 goals tonight. We dominated for 75% of that game and probably deserved to win it, but you have to give it to Macarthur for sticking in there and scoring a pretty good goal

Yeah but he sucks there, we saw that when he played there at CCM and we're seeing it now.

Back from the game - disappointed but not deflated. No 'back to earth' for me - just understanding we still have work to do as expected. Had expected a bit more quality to our finishing is the main disappointment, but we worked with Milicic's favoured pissing around in the backline without getting twisted and stupid. We were obviously playing a more defensive structure for the first half hour or so and did not try to pressure the slow build up and possession side of Macarthur's play until later when the game opened up more.

Macarthur would have beaten us on possession, but I think we had the better attacks (except we didn't score).

We did not take our chances though (so close with DWH's shot past Federici and just wide). Macarthur took their chances very well - shame about the hideous mistimed header by young Trewin - he'll learn something from that.

At the ground it seemed that the ref was giving a free kick to whoever hit the ground. Most seemed legitimate 50/50 fair challenges and a few looked like they should have gone our way - but not given if we stayed on our feet. Orange Tinted Glasses? I didn't think so at the ground but I am wearing my big boy's pants so you can let me know if you thought it fairly even on dodgy calls.

The yellow card to O'Shea was particularly bamboozling. Happy if anyone watching the televised version tells me it was deserved - just couldn't see any sort of foul at the ground.

Federici such quality although many of our shots just lacked any power. When he was needed he was there to stop the shots. Jamie Young had a couple of brilliant saves. Glad to have him back for that.

Wind was horrendous - swirling, inconsistent, really strong dropping away to nothing then full strength again in the space of minutes. Would not have been an easy game to play in despite the cooler conditions.

To whoever said Lachie Rose is dirty off the ball - I watched as often as I got the chance and he seemed to be playing pretty clean. Seemed well contained by our defenders yet did not explode with stupid behaviour.

Milligan is a thug. There, I have said it again. Launching at a player with elbow cocked and did not miss - no card from memory, but what bothers me is that he plays dirty every game and gets away with it.

Win to Macarthur - deserved as far as playing possession based football and capitalising on chances. We just have to work on being more clinical with our finishes (not like previous seasons mind you - just needing a tweak). We score first and we avoid the time wasting ambulance calls followed by instant recovery from an almost dead player. Milicic anti-football at its best.

Reasonable performance by the Roar - did enough to almost win :) Next time...!

Watched the replay of O'Shea's yellow and Genreau is a dirty diving prick.

He ducked under O'Shea's arm and hit his face against O'Shea's arm on purpose then fell to the ground 'in pain'. Same as the tackle on Rufer where he studded him then pretended to be hurt.

Outright cheat and worst sort of cheating at that. Causes other players to get cards when he is at fault which is the very description of simulation and exaggeration.

I don't see Genreau deliberately hitting his face against O'Shea's arm or diving.  He was trying to move to the front position and got caught with O'Shea's arm in the way.  I don't see it as a card.  Depending on where the ref was looking from it may have looked worse but it was one of those incidents that could have been let go without any action in my view.

Understand what you are saying - but he is coming from behind. He can see the arm and he initiates the contact which says to me that he deliberately ran into the arm (sure, that is just my opinion). No way that hurt him like he pretended either. Definitely no card for O'Shea, but more than incidental contact and a real effort to get an opposition player carded by Genreau.

Edit: I have seen it in two previous games (wellington and a later game I can't recall) then again tonight where he initiates contact or just plain fouls someone then pretends he is seriously hurt - more than just trying to get out of a card himself. Three times in so few matches says it is an action he performs all too 'cleverly' and that is why I compared him a few days back in another thread to that ball boy who got Marrone sent off. Played for and got.

Edit 2: I have watched it for the fifteenth time with your perspective in mind Gyfox, and I will concede that he may not have tried to hit his face. I will not concede that he does not then act up to cause trouble for O'Shea. He did initiate the contact but may not have targeted the arm in the split second he had. Still diving (as in simulation/exaggeration) and still a cheat trying to get someone carded. Nuff from me on it unless anyone wants to discuss it further...

Great composure by Jake Hollman for the assist too, could have gone down with some contact but stayed calm and delivered a nice ball for Genreau to finish.
The kid can really play when he was at Sydney FC along with Tilio who has also left for an opportunity at Melb City.

Quite a flat game but chances were still created by both teams, crucial the bulls won that as they had Adelaide on Friday, Brisbane wasn’t too bad in the second half but it wasn’t there day.

Best part of the match was the heckler in the crowd telling Tommy Oar “Central Coast are on top Tommy, you should have stayed there”.

What you didn't want to see is the 3 or 4 previous fouls