Wasnt having a dig but i think you undersetimte the appeal of a smaller stadium. Its worth a shot just for a few games, but as you said after its a mute point since its not up to aleague standard, didnt know that.

Moot boys, not mute.  Mute means you can't talk.
Sorry for bring a grammar nazi, but this one just annoys me.

Whats the difference between A league standard and W-League semi final standard or Liechardt oval standard?
Surely with an independently run HAL ,they can revise the standards.
Dolphin Oval is far from a dogtrack.

Dolphin is up to standard for A League games, but doesn’t meet lighting standards for night games

.... and yes, it’s okay for FFA Cup and W League night games lol.

Sorry, using phone, normally double check. Funny enough your comment reminds me of that episode of seinfield with george and the bubble boy. Its Moops, its Moores.

Are lighting upgrades coming to dolphin stadium in the future?

40 minutes to Suncorp from the North side? Where are you based... Bribie? Jesus lololol

They should've initially split Brisbane into two teams representing the north and south, that way the whole people from one side river issue becomes a hell of a lot less significant.

Beerwah 😁

In the hypothetical future of a 2nd div, the ideal split is north side, brisbane, south side. I think it matches the natural organisation of SEQ. 

Most north side fans don't go to many games at Suncorp because of the travel. If the Roar were at Dolphin (and not playing as insipid as this season), I think you'd fill it every week no problem. People from Redcliffe will go to anything in Redcliffe, so a professional team moving into their stadium would get local support easy.

Having said that, moving permanently would be pretty fucked up imo. You can't have a Brisbane team playing at a stadium that's not even in Brisbane. It's not fair to fans that have been with the club through some dire times.

It'd be a good thing for a game or two per year, but unfortunately I think the Roar is destined to the money suck that is Suncorp for a long time. 

Mr B is Bob Irwin confirmed

Are you sure? I cant seem to find them now but i am sure i read back in the early days of the league that stadiums are required to have a video screen of some minimum size and some minimum corporate facilities (that were ridiculous, meaning that ballymore was not an option) that dolphins surely would not meet.

maybe i am getting confused with the ACL requirements but i am sure there were similar requirements for the A-league that meant that only suncorp, cbus and the gabba were up to standard in seq. 

Crikey 🐊

We have apparently signed Eli babalj as an injury replacement for the rest of the season. I thought he was contacted to an Indian side during the last transfer window so couldn't sign but apparently not the case.

Not expecting much. Had potential but not the right attitude previously, hopefully his time in India has opened his eyes. 

Good luck to him

Why would Roar bother with him. They just signed Loko then they turn around and sign Babalj.

What's the point, we got DWH and Loko. It's Babalj not Someone who's gonna make a difference. More wasted money.

If it was Fornarolli or someone of that quality. Well ok, fair enough but it's not.

Good luck to him!!!

He'll need more than that!!

DM must be an imaginary position in the Roar structure.It certainly hasn't appeared to exist for two years.
Having Babalj makes sense for more longballs ,which is the Roar style these days.Ping it to him.He holds it up for DWH to run onto.
Bautheac and McKay ping it into the box for Babalj and Mikkelsen.

Meanwhile back in defence......

“Why would Roar bother with him”??

Why wouldn’t they?

You can only sign players who are available not who you want at this time and of year.

Sounds like I've got to justify my comments here.

Well unless I'm sadly mistaken, and I honestly hope I am, I just don't see Babalj being an answer to the problems that have Roar sitting in bottom spot.

Now Tongjik was a step in the right direction, taller stronger young decent defender to fill a spot where there is a problem.

Or a decent 6 or 10 signing would have been a step in the right direction but no, they sign another 9.

So if our defence is shaky, seems to me that mids are gonna sit deeper, therefore to keep shape the team is all gonna sit deeper otherwise the front man/men and mids are to far apart. So solution is very basically to strengthen defence and midfield. How does another 9 solve this problem?

I think crimsons into something though, let's try knocking it long to Babalj 's head...........hang in wasn't Taggart supposedly good in the air and we were still at the bottom.

Hey Waz do you see my point ?

I am not trying to be s smart ars, just trying to justify the reasoning behind Babalj signing.

Is he gonna play??

is he going to play? maybe off the bench, is he going to solve any problems? nothing is going to solve our problems this season. the season is over, we need a clean out.

we are very short on squad numbers with holeman, mauk, hingert, otoole, and probably devere out injured for the rest of the season, papa and taggs gone, daggers will be missing for one game for the ollyroos (probably 2 actual games by the time you take out travel and recovery). we only signed Tongik and Loko to replace 7 or 8 players,

at this stage it is sign anyone that is available just to have enough players to get through training. 

@ Jimo8

All good. I’m working down in Victoria all week so less active

I see you’re point and there’s nothing wrong with it. At this stage the options for fixing roars predicament are limited - the best hope was a new coach would lift performances (which hasn’t really happened) as opportunities to sign new players are limited.

Signing Babalj is to be an indicator that D’Agastino is not going to get much of a run, and I’m okay with that. D’aggers has not impressed.

So as long as Wenzel-Halls gets a run I’m okay this.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/heaven-sent-robbie-fowler-firming-as-brisbane-roar-s-next-coach-20190307-p512eg.html

There’s the coaching shortlist. Decision made I recon - it’s Robbie.

Hmmmm ?  Great player ....no experience coaching ....same as Aloisi when he started   .....
Not overly enthused by this .
Hope these guys know what they are doing .
The Bakries have yet to hire a decent coach. Ange was our last good one and he was hired by different owners (and no I do not count Mulvey as a good coach) .

It's a bit of a gamble with Fowler.But he is effectively a clean skin,so who knows?He could prove to be a gem.
Anyone coming in is going to be a gamble.So someone who knows us is a plus.
He certainly has played at a high level and could bring in some good visa players .
What will all those Liverpool Euro snobs do?Lol
Will our away strip be all red?

What the fuck, how about a coach with some experience, utter stupidity if true.

lets not get too carried away...at present it is just journo talk ...

Fair enough, but we are talking about Roar here, you just know its true.

Well, if Rangers FC can take Gerard with no coaching experience why wouldn’t Roar take Fowler?