Welcome back Mr B and great news on the membership. 

Too late 🤪

Cheers Waz, much appreciated.



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Neville probably looking forward to returning to the A league. I see in India, Robbie Fowlers East Bengal sit bottom, not managing to score a single goal after 4 games. At least Neville will be getting plenty of practice defending.

Lol
Birmingham City dodged a bullet .

That's not surprising.
Fowlers method required a parked bus to to slowly drive forward in attack  and pick apart a stacked defence which never had to worry about fast counter attacks.
It might work when you have absolute quality attackers who can pick holes through a defence and a keeper who can save fast counter attacks.Otherwise its a grind,which is vulnerable to any mistake in defence.
Having said that,maybe his style has evolved and his team is losing in scorefests.

Game against the Jets today is being streamed on the North Coast Football YouTube channel if anyone is interested. 

I think we are definitely looking the better of the 2 sides, only time Jets have looked really dangerous is when they have snuck in behind Gilesphey. Other than that we have had a fair few good shots and the combinations seem to be building between the players 

A few things from the Newy game for me...

- Moon is obviously treating it as a pre-season trial of youngsters against experienced aleague bodies to see how they handle it (always at least 5 youngsters on the field).
- For the most part, body on body, Newy won those strength battles - but not without more than the usual number of hacks, trips and shirt pulls. The young Roar players will have to develop better body positioning and/or strength to move forward.
- Stay out of the fking puddle. The number of times Newy pinched the ball from our players running through the puddle and they never learned not to take it there.
- We need Macca on the field to spearhead the build-up and create pressure.
- Champness on his own is not enough of a threat against reasonably paced, experienced backs to rely on to win games (but he will at times I am sure).
- A bit of same old Roar play with so many youngsters. I was actually hoping to see more of Moon's preferred first choice team as a guide to how we are shaping up. Still, live, free football is a bonus and no complaints here.

Good to see live football.
Roar not with a full strength team and I cant really say anything is different at this stage,regarding their play other than Champness seems to be the main outlet up front and he didnt pass a few times when good options were available..
Both teams preferring long balls to get through the midfield.

I think that was overall a pretty good effort, Newcastle were a lot better in the second half and we struggled to get the penetration we did in the first half (the puddle played a big role in that I think 😁😁).

Joey Champness was probably the key player for us, when he went quiet in the second half we struggled. We have a generally solid team but he is that X factor that will break games open.

Pretty even in the second half.
DWH with a few good chances was most dangerous for Roar.
JOS and Gillesphy heavily involved.
The team looked reasonably solid without anyone standing out .
Whoever partnered Gillesphy was ok.
Parsons reminds me a bit of Borrello.
The Jets were also solid with Ugarkovic ,Thurtell and Some other guy using plenty of skills to beat Roar players in transition.
Jets experienced backs as you would expect had good games.
ROD busy upfront with good support from his wingers ,whoever they were.
I expected to see more players get a run from Roar.But nothing of Scomac ,Aldred ,Hingert or Danzaki.

Good to see despite all their woes Jets are far from a train wreck on the field.No Ibini or Petratos’s fro them today.

I think we dominated until after we scored then lost the midfield and let them back in. 

I liked champness I thought dwh would get the nod over him on the left when we have a full strength squad but now I don't know.

Daley reminds me of mauk, very busy but not quite on the right wavelength. Hopefully that improves as he gets used to his team mates.

Great goal from parsons but was not enough from him overall, he and jbs were very wasteful in the first half (the puddle didn't help)

We were caught way too easily with Balls over the top and quick counter attacks which is concerning going forward. 

Add in the two Japanese players aldred and smac and we will be better but I think that has tappered my expectations. I think we are a 5-8 place team at the moment

A lot will depend on the missing players,because we didnt have the quality yesterday to really threaten up front.JOS was the main creative outlet,but couldnt be everywhere.

$110,000 transfer fee for Duncan. And a Roar win in the courts is as rare as an ACL home win so welcome news 😂

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/roar-sydney-wanderers-win-fifa-case-over-olyroos-star-s-danish-transfer-20201211-p56mqp.html?fbclid=IwAR1YPIIqTyQKlaSAR-wQD65XgrT_FrnxHikR1Q71N1ZHxc4r45OtMyBciJ0

Did we have a sell on clause for taggs when he went os? We could be in for quite a nice payday if so

"FIFA says must be paid to any teams that contribute to the development of a player under 21 who signs their first professional contract with an overseas club".

Taggs was born 2 June 1993 and transferred to Fulham 24 June 2014. 21 and a couple of weeks. I doubt that was coincidence.

Yes. But don’t know what exactly 

if i remember correctly it was reported that we accepted a very low offer but inserted the sell on clause and the club was "very happy" about it. we sold him for 150k when he was valued at 750k-1.5 mill. 

hopefully the club does well on him

The Den is set to announce the use of safe smoke at their first home game against the Nix, recent photos and videos posted to the Official account of the Den on both Instagram and Facebook give an indication of what they might look like. 

The day on which they were tested was quite windy, windier than usual due to recent storms. The specific products have been used down in NSW for games by Sydney FC and the Newcastle Jets. This is a first for Brisbane fans to experience safe smoke that is used over in Europe. 

A pyrotechnician is required to be of attendance for use of these products due to Australian Laws. This is the reason that safe smoke will only be used at selected matches as of now until the den explores more ways to fund this.

If you have questions, fire away.

Excellent news. Dolphin is often windy mind you ... 

Unfortunately, it is although two canisters were tested yesterday and I can say that it was probably the windiest I've seen it. For health and safety, it's better that it doesn't hang around. 10 canisters will be used in each game and will be set off during "who are we". 

got a link to the test video?

Excellent. Can’t do much about the wind. 

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=304147943025357&ref=content_filter

https://twitter.com/brfcTheDen/status/1338710042145538054?s=20

Musti Amini would be a nice pick-up.  I wonder if they are looking at him

Any news of when jerseys will be available to purchase in stores?

None yet, I believe there are issues with shipping from Umbro due to covid

So when do we think we'll first see Masato? I imagine he hasn't arrived yet, given there hasn't been any pictures from the club, and then 2 weeks in quarantine. Hopefully he's been keeping fit!