ha ! I bet the guys who had pay cuts just love him !

ha ha, yeah. But when their agents go and find out there’s no more on offer elsewhere they no doubt settle down.

It’s probably why they can fit Taggart under the cap on a massive wage (which is what we had with Berisha all those years ago)

just asked Vince Rugari if he had heard anything ..here is his answer...

"he is absolutely not doing a medical today but funnily enough, i've heard it's gone from a 'no' back to a 'maybe' in the last 24 hours. he's had a couple of changes of heart over the journey!"

so looking better than yesterday ...still a possible anyway.

thinking about the Flamini possibility ...it occurred to me that a player like that would obviously Google the Roar to get a feel for what we are about ...and as much as I would like a small intimate boutique stadium ..it must be impressive for these Euro guys to see Suncorp Stadium as our home ground.
It is a great looking stadium by any standards.

As long as he don’t google the crowd v Nix over the years

Vince Rugari was pouring cold water on the story on Thursday but this came out afterwards in France. Is he or isn’t he?

https://lematin.ma/express/2018/mathieu-flamini-route-laustralie/298308.html

Yeah, right. I'd just seen it getting posted around a few forums, etc. I've also heard he is in Croatia so would make it hard to do a medical 😂
Interested to see what the old boy still has in his legs. In any case, he's an upgrade on McKay.

He is a career 1:20 games to goals guy and hasn't scored in 3 years. So he is really just looking at that industrious, defensive minded kid who runs for days and will link up with the #10 while covering the back 4. We really would have a strong foundation through the middle of the park with Papa/LDV at the back, TK/Flamini/Mauk and a hard working Tagz up top. And if Jack looks suspect on D, we throw in Dane or Nigro.

The bloke would be a rock-solid Star in the HAL, he oozes class.

I’d heard personal terms were all agreed (including a kicker from the Fox marquee fund) but it was his outside football interests that presented a problem and it went from a maybe to a no sometime midweek.

Hopefully it’s back to a maybe and a yes.

All this Honda news has me super keen for us to land a stud CM. I called Honda months ago, hoping we could secure him and it sorta shits me that Victory made it happen while we grabbed a random bloke from Denmark (holding all judgement and hoping hes Broich 2.0). Bonus for us is that if Honda plays RW at least Connor can trash talk him in Japanese 😂

FoxSports is providing $1.6M and MVFC is funding $1.3M ... hard to ask the Bakries to stump up a seven figure salary when only 9,000 people are showing up to every game.

depends on how you view it ...maybe if they stump up seven figures we will double that figure....or more ?

@ miron Mercedes

Yeah and maybe they won’t. But if you do increase your crowds there’s still stadium QLD to deal with who slug you $5 for every patron on top of stadium rental. You can see why an owner wouldn’t invest in a QLD team, all sports are basket cases here apart from Broncos

4,100 tickets sold for the Cup game at midday today and on-line sales have been going crazy.

The club is asking people to buy on line if they can and to turn up early Tuesday night if possible.

If they sell 10,001 to the game, does that automatically invoke the Stadiums Queensland extortionist public transport levy? 

Any higher and it would have to be close to the top 3 attendances for a Round of 32 game?

Pretty sure the Power game got near 5k last year didn't it?

Power got 4,017 last year.

I hope there's at least 10k to see city smack roar 

lol. Think you’ll be wrong on both counts.

3-1 Roar and 5,100 crowd 👍

Was a guess but it should be up there, 6k would easily put it in top 3

New season shirt leaked or just an updated training top, a bit hard to tell:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1983318718400457&id=1361064053959263

Hoping it is just a training kit and the new ones aren't ready yet. Surely they can come up with a better design than that? No need for the maroon stripes on the side and that colour combo is pretty ugly. 

It does seem strange that they wouldn't just use last seasons kit however. 

@ Mello-D

Looks a bit like a training top to me. But the ActronAir logo looks great which will presumably be on the new shirt too?

There’s also the question of how much can you jazz up our Orange shirt? They tried last season with the white sleeves and it was a disaster

They should just take the exact template of the maroon kit (including the cool texturing pattern) and make it all orange with black highlights. Then do an all black with orange highlights one for the away kit. Would look schmick. 

last I heard was it would be black and orange ..and that sounds good to me

definitely the training top just with the actron logo on it. look at the pictures from training on any of the roar socials same top. (also can tell because there is no A-league logo and the umbro logo is not centred). Hull city have a couple of good black and orange strips by umbro from a few seasons ago would be happy with any of them really. 

how do you delete a post on here ?

I tried to add a photo (couldn't figure out how to do that ) then tried to delete the text that went with that photo ...and now have an empty space which I can;'t delete...so I filled it with this  ....any advice (polite advice :D) 

Yeh, you can't delete the Post, just leave blank

https://imgur.com/ 
I use if you need to create a picture that you can then post

If the picture's already on the net just copy/paste but if you're on your Mobile it probably won't work.

thanks ...weird you can't delete though .