Nothing more than an open discussion. The players are professionals who play the game for a paying audience. If they can't take scrutiny they should be doing something else. 

Sorry waz, that was a reply to another post, not yours 

All good. Figured that 👍

Good thing is, most are discussing how we could/should have won it rather than how we blew it.

I think the main point is that it is nice to be looking for how we can now take our game up a level to be competitive at the top rather than finding one or two players we thought pulled their weight this week.

My call is we are doing great things already and will go great this season.

I'm not sure you can say 3 at the back is the way to go..it's a favoured, by some, system at the present time in footballs evolution. 
Yes if you have the players, fine but if you don't you get exposed in those wide areas.
And as someone else commented, that's where we had the problem on Neville's side. 
Personally I'm not a fan for a number of reasons, that I don't think I need to go into, you all understand I'm sure. 
But mainly for the reason that you do get exposed to easily and it just st encourages the opposition to exploit that area. 
Yes it can be a choice.....IF you got the players.
Personally I like 4231. But it didn't suit my team this year either. 

I would agree with you!

What most impressed me was the speed of ball movement. The A League has been afflicted since Ange P by slow ball movement and it was great to see a BR team moving the ball quickly with crisp, quick passes. 

Sometimes Anges Roar used to bore me to tears with those endless languid side tones side passing movements. His Roos sides played the same way. 

Me too. Like watching chess sometimes. 

The english style is very very much to move the ball, with speed, from one end of the park to the other as quickly as possible. 

CCM struggled to cope. I thought they were clearly second best for 80% of the game,no matter what spin the CCM supporters put on it

To be fair Mariners fans just need to focus on the result, we’re left picking the meat off the bones of defeat. 

You can see Roars style of play now - conservative away to Sydney and more adventurous at home to Mariners. The results in either don’t change the realities. 

Roar will win win more than they will lose playing like that, and they’ll be tough to beat away from home which puts them towards the top end of the table. 

The glaring gap is second striker - Holloway needs to be playing again soon, or DWH 

The other good thing is that they are passing the ball in space and expect the player to be there. That to me indication of the intent to play with speed. come start of season those passes are hitting the players. 
I'm looking forward with us playing at the speed we are showing for 90 minutes. I think teams are going to struggle.

We just have to worry about fast attacks from the wings. But that is a tradeoff in many system. It's better than being torn apart through the centre

I think the game was a wake up call for the team. They were not as intense compared to the SFC game. I think they thought it's just the CCM we killed SFC so we are fine. Oar and de Silva are very good players add the Korean bloke that's a solid midfield 3 that's going to hurt a lot of teams. 

I do have little concern on rod in the team. To me he has mostly been anonymous in the games I watch. To me dwh would be far better in this system.

League was getting way to slow and defensive. So excited to see the roar being the speed.

Hopefully we have a couple of ready made replacements for ROD in DWH and Holloway.  The big Archilles for me is Neville on the right.  He's a solid back-up, but I'm not sure if he's a starter.  Anyway, there have been enough good signs in the games against HAL opposition to feel positive about the season ahead.

It’s early in preseason but I think Neville has done really well. I’m not sure Hingert will displace him now although looking at Pepper the other night he might. 

Anywhere to stream tonight's game?

Captain Pepper leads Roar to a 1-0 win over Glory 

Very happy for Jacob. I think this could be his year.

Wow Pepper reinvented.Presumably not playing in the backs.

Sadly we can’t even claim this result sets us up for the new season lol - although surely this result makes us favourites for the NYL 😂

The academy has done a great job over the last few years, which is why the decision to make wholesale changes to the staff and set-up bewilders me. 

How was the parking/seating for the Glory game at Knights?

I think the Academy continues to evolve. Sherman had  fallen out with many NPL clubs so Moons appointment will at least fix that. 

It was a good goal too:

http://bit.ly/2NGd5Pp

So any feedback on the Perth game?

Messaged with people who were there. By all accounts Roar youth were impressive. Glory had most of the chances but Roar had a good 6 or 7. Max in Goal pulled off a good double save at the end to keep it 1-0

Can anyone tell us who played and where if possible. 

Even rough idea idea would be nice. 

Both sides are listed here: 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2608308069234849&id=1361064053959263

FMD, the Brisbane Times editor is hating on Brisbane Roar on Twitter .. in a ding ding with David Pourre. He is the FOOTBALL editor ffs 

What is the Brisbane Times ? Never heard of it ...

ha ha, little brother to Courier Mail 

3-1 win over Newcastle Jets