Personally, dane Ingham could do alright as a rwb instead of hingert. Offers more going forward although perhaps worse in defence.

How should line up against western United?
Match them with 3 at back? They often have close games against us but they have more dangerous wingbacks and diamanti. My preference would be 4 at back with full backs asked to sit deeper.

With Gillespie out I think back 4 is the way to go. We also need to get more play in midfield as we can't make hinget and brown our main play makers.

The only thing I'm confused about is how O'Shea is always placed in the holding midfield / deep play maker rather higher up. The issue is that he likes to take few touches of the ball and maybe take on a player. Which is not a good idea deep in your defensive half. Find this quite odd.

Questioned that signing in the first place....as did others. 

But we all wish him well. 

O'Shea's strength to our team is forward. But who do we have to bring the ball out of defence if we don't have O'Shea deeper? We really don't have a creative DM.

Jesse Daley has the drive to cover the defensive side, but his attacking prowess is not as strong. Akbari has more of the attacking flair, but his defensive side is not as strong. Do we move Danzaki back and push O'Shea further forward?

         DWH Kudo
            O'Shea
     Akbari    Danzaki
             Daley
Brown Neville Aldred Hingert
             Young

Not that much different from the Nix starting eleven - Trewin and Gillesphey out for Neville, and Danzaki deeper into midfield to help free up O'Shea more. Danzaki and O'Shea rotate through their positions like O'Shea and Inman used to.

What has happened to Danny Kim ? He is the only other creative DM that i know of. Is he injured, not good enough or doesn;t fit? He could be brought on moving O'Shea further forward if need be. Daley seems poor playing forward. Good energy, but offers little going forward. His passes are almost always sideways or to O'Shea. Akbari has potential with direct runs and distribution. 

HIngert and brown are actually quite good at bringing the ball out of the defensive line, daley and akbari complement that with their engine (the sideways passes bring brown and hingert into play allowing them to then hit oshae/danzaki)

i would go with 

                        young
Hingert  Aldred neville/trewin/JCP  Brown
            Daley
                                           akbari
                        Oshae
         Danzaki                         DWH/champness
                           Kudo/DWH

Scotty was rumoured to be nearing a come back so i would give Kudo 60 mins then bring Scotty on as first prefferance

going through the stats for western united there hasn't been one formation that they have particularly struggled or dominated against. but the games that they have in have been when diamante has been tightly followed. basically all their wins have come when the average position of diamante has had no opposition near him and the games they have lost have had an opposition players average position right on top of him ( a mix of RB and RCB)

If we stay in a 5 at the back or a 4 at the back it will be a huge ask for either hingert or trewin to mark diamante out of the game but i think Hingert will have the better chance at it. he will have to sacrifice his forward runs  so it will be a lot of work for the player in front of him 

Before AON left he was doing a good job as a DM.But Akbari and Daly are not the complete DM  package.They plug a gap ok but dont exhibit the ball control skills to control midfield.Whether thats because they dont have the confidence to step up or are under instructions to play second fiddle to JOS ,who knows.
Either way at some stage they need to step up and make an impact on games or they will become squaddies.
I like how AU need a DM and bring in Juande now after seeing a weakness in DM.
If Roar are going to make a go of this season,there needs to be a change soon.Maybe Ingham leaving means someone is coming in.Whats Amini doing these days .He is the type of player we need.

Postponed WU game might mean Scott MacDonald is back with us for our next game :)

Not such a bad outcome.  We sorely miss the space he can create for the boys in the front.

When I saw the email I half thought it's a bit of gamesmanship going on. Get Scot back and rest a few injury niggles. Really it's up to FFA officials but it's actually to our advantage. Especially with the potential lock with this unknown source covid case.

The postponement still leaves the question unanswered. Why?

A few days of sunshine and wind as predicted would have fixed it. I bet if it was an NRL game it would have been played the day after.

Maybe sewage or other foul water flowed over the ground from flooded drains or backed up Dolphin Club toilets.

Maybe the grass lifted and would be too loose for safe play that soon.

I don't know why we are bothered by the postponement - it happened - they had a reason. Nefarious reason or otherwise it is done and may even help us.

And to be honest, if it was sewage on the grass NRL probably would have played the next day ;)

Yes it has happened, it's only a postponement and it's not that big a deal, particularly given the early notice. On the other hand, why not give a better explanation rather than just say the field got too wet. There has been pretty close to 4 sunny, fine days since the rain stopped, so it is reasonable to think the field should be ok unless there are other particular reasons rather than just the field copping a lot of rain (and in reality there was less rain in Redcliffe than a lot of other places around the region). By not giving more detail it just leads people to speculate that something is being hidden, and adds to public perception that Roar is not managed very well.

Yes the postponement is not a major issue as were a mid table go nowhere club, but I’m surprised some here don’t care as to why? 

I honestly don't understand why anyone cares.

Sure, we should have visibility about things that affect our club - but being concerned about the specific reason for a postponement when they have said it is to do with the bad weather seems a bit needy to me.

It is not a ground we own. They are not facilities we own. Let's say the toilets in the Away Team rooms flooded and they want time to clean it all up properly. Or say the light towers or facilities were poorly designed and water got in to the electricals. No need to pay out on Dolphin Stadium for that, or even to explain it. It is not about Roar or how we manage our club - it is about a ground that we lease for the game not being available. That is not on our club.

If we made the decision for our own reasons after being advised the ground was touch and go - then all the more reason not to give reasons.

I trust that the club has made a decision that is best for the club in the circumstances. I don't need more than that.

True supporters would want to know the details why they can’t get their football fix. It’s not as though they have the option to watch their team every second week.

True supporters wouldn't pay out on true supporters if they disagree with them...

Not paying out. Just genuinely intrigued why they wouldn’t want to know. It’s quite amazing when you think of it. 

Fair enough - it is funny that we both feel equally baffled by the other's concern/lack of concern.

Don't mistake a lack of concern about this one factor for a lack of concern for our club though - that in itself is offensive logic.

It was actually aimed at one individual, tongue in cheek.

Wow after today we could have slid down that slippery pole to 9th.😱
WP are truly a better team and deserve to be higher.
Fortunately WU have MC next so they wont be jumping us yet.
NJ and MV ain't going anywhere either.
I cant believe how crap NJ’s are after the way they were playing at the start of the season.

The way teams are playing now,the bottom six are MV,NJ,BR,WU,MB and PG.

Go Brisbane Draw!

Not sure what the problem is. The Bakries are happy. That’s all that matters.

Before Scott Macdonald came to our club we were playing almost exactly like we are now. Plenty of opportunities but all rush and small return.

When we have him in the side we are more composed and competitive going forward.

Until we get him back, gauging our performance and worrying about our position in the table is sort of irrelevant - for all that we can't win back points we have already dropped.

He comes back and something happens or it doesn't. We win, we climb. We continue to draw or lose, we stay down.

Shame that we depend so much on the one player, but that is our reality. It is clearly such a critical role in the team, and does go some way to proving the lack of depth that many pointed out at the start of the season.

I of course am counting on the Scott Macdonald return =  wins side of things.

The bigger worry should be why a visa spot has been used on Masato Kudo, who's played a grand total of 140 minutes of football according to Transfermarkt. Seems like a waste of money to me, and surely there's someone who would've been a better option...

The top teams are breaking away finally.
Yet teams like WP,PG,WU and even Roar who are outside the six are hardly shocking teams.The reality of a 12 team competition,shows up mediocrity i guess.
SFC  are sixth and havent played poorly at all. 
It will be interesting to see if CCM can hang on.

Yes agreed. 12 games or so in and zero return. 
Maybe the guy was decent but maybe he's just done now. It happens. 
In any case looks like wasted money once again. 
Roar needs to find someone who can ID a 20 goal striker for us. 

I am still open to Kudo working out for us.

We needed a proven striker and we got one. We have seen bugger all of what made him that in the games for us, so there is much more to Kudo that we have not yet seen. If he can't kick a ball into the net he would be failing in training and wouldn't even be on the bench - so that can't be it.

We know that he came in with a lower level of fitness and is working through that. The start that last game suggests he has the run in his legs back to some extent.

He might be a bit like Maclaren in that we have to work out how to get him into the game - which is not the situation we wanted to fix our goal scoring problems.

As you say - if he doesn't show enough real quality soon we may never see it. With the fitness issues to start I am counting time from his start last game - so 1 game so far without return. That's not disastrous. If Moon starts him consistently now we know that he has faith in his ability. If Moon keeps tinkering with starts, the bench and out of the matchday squad then we know he is not working out as Moon had planned for him.

It is a huge weight of expectation I already have on Scott Macdonald's return - but it might take his vision and timing to create what Kudo can finish.

Your premier is really not a football fan is she?
NRL yes.