You can tell Moore exerts a lot of influence at the Roar and it would not have surprised me if this had happened 12 months down the track if he had been offered the job.

I expect their will be a bit of a clash of wills with Moore and Ange particularly if Ange trys to offload some of ther senior players at end of season (which would appear to be needed if he wants to change the culture).

PS Broncos crowd actually was lower for the 1st time in 8 years

Very tough job, i htink you really needed someone highly respected and firm. Can’t really think of anyone in Australia with that reputation.

Not a great career move. He doesn’t have the nous to steer the sinking ship.

If we want football in Australia to actually get better we need to get away from this ridiculous “I’ve got a mate looking for a job” mentality and start looking at what is coming through the ranks, not just what is in the current circle of friends

It occurs to me that this is an intentional leak from the club. They have Moore’s mobile phone number will probably have already got his thoughts. Moore will say that he thinks Ange is a great selection and looks forward to working with him, and there will be fluffy media pieces about their mutual respect and forthcoming partnership. Yadda Yadda.

If they are thinking about appointing someone who may not command respect from the players then they shouldn’t appoint them.

It’s not as though they are bringing in someone who’s massively credentialled and has a record that commands the respect of the playing group (eg Lavicka, Schipp). Ange is probably a good coach, but he’s less qualified than Farina, who had at least coached the Socceroos – ensuring that the playing group is onside with the decision to appoint him will be crucial to it working out.

Why oh why do they need to ask Moore if he approves of the boss. How is a new manager meant to instill a team ethic and discipline if he is basically been appointed by one of his players. The club continues to lurch backward.

the whole attitude for a club come from the coach. look at any sport and any successful club. The under lying fact is that the coach behaves himself on an off the field. ( NRL Jason Taylor, Brad Fitler ) neither team did really well.

Farina has had a far better and more expirenced back ground he was the first Australian to play in the Serie A.

I believe that he took the Socceroos and the Brisbane Roar to another level as his time as coach.

It wouldnt suprise me if he pops up again some where on the footballing landscape in some capacity and I wish him best of luck.

For the board of the Roar what are they to do? It was his 2nd time for DD and the Roar have said that they set themselves as role models and examples for the community, with the eye being cast on other sporting codes on off field behaviour it is good that the Roar have distance themselves from this incident. It does set a precident.

On the other hand I do think that Farina was a scapegoat, I was amazed at the speed of Ange introduction and it makes me wonder if they ( the Roar board) hadnt been looking around for another manager for a while.

The Brisbane Roar has a massive job not only on the field but off the field as well.

On field

-Ever growing injury list
- the playing list has a number of very senior players (Charlie Miller cant even play 90mins)
- undiscplined

Off field
- poor crowds
-large debt
- the introduction of GCU
- the media in Brisbane doesnt help ( Courier Mail)
- the stadium costs a packet and they get fined for poor crowds
- senior member tend to drink a little more than would be expected
- there is a attitude problem ( made eveident by Mitch Nicoles being sent home when playing for the under 21s Australian side)

In saying all of this I think there are plenty of fans and people interested in football, we are just waiting for a more organised team and some cofidence that the Brisbane Roar wont fold as a club . I get the feeling that it isnt far away.

side note i would like to see the development of the show grounds to incorperate a 20,000 – 30K seat stadium for football. It has a public trian / bus system heaps of parking, its inner city, near lots of pubs, the 52,000 seat stadium at suncorp feels empty even with 19,000 people in it.

I agree with the sentiments about alcohol, by the way, and that he’d been given a seconfd chance already by the club. But that shouldn’t end his coaching career.

Having said that, I would much prefer to see Farina remain involved in the A-League.

However, being drunk at work (which maybe he would have been if not caught) is a no-no in many walks of life and am sure would invoke disciplinary action, including suspension or termination, from most employers. Harsh price to pay in some respects, but as MD points out manager’s have a privileged career in many respects, albeit a volatile one. Boards dont normally wait for a reason to sack if they want change (SFC….), but from a PR point of view it shifts the blame nicely onto a scapegoat (justified or not).

I have no confidence in Postecoglou to bring to the Brisbane public a team that is heading into a new professional direction. For me a qualified OS manager is the way the club should be looking, but I assume financial constraints make this a pipe dream at the moment. Still I would rather they stick with Radio and have a good look around before going with someone like Postecoglou.

If you get caught drink driving, or committing any other crime, then you must surely forfeit your right to such a privileged circumstance. I’ll occasionally accept an argument that there should be leniency for the very young, but Frank’s hardly that.

Cheers
md

Otherwise, I too thought that the Roar was using this as a pretense to simple get rid of Farina because it suited them.