Hard to imagine by his performance I know. Hope to hang onto him at the Roar for a couple more seasons.

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Thought that Kruse had a good game and really made a good target man. However, saying that I believe GCU just had a real shocker night and made The Vic look real good. This! I believe was what Culina Snr. was alluding to in his eloquent manner. The teams perform the same but if the opposition lags off it gives the other the upper-hand.

17 year old Oar,18, 10th December. Already 2 levels of football thinking ahead of his team mates.

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I would be disappointed though if they don’t hold onto Devere. It’s my personal opinion derived from the NSL days is that you know a club is doing badly off the field if they let a player with overseas potential go to another Australian club.

That’s certainly one thing that stood out to me observing from afar.

But – and I include the Victory here – over the whole 5 years, just about every club has been next to hopeless at home, with the Roar perhaps the worst off.

Building a following is tough from scratch – but if you can’t get it together especially when you’re at home – that just doubles the difficulty factor!!

I remember at the start of the A-League that each club would send media communications people to have regular meetings with Matt Caroll. I know this because I knew the bloke at the Roar. Supposed to be an exchange of ideas each club learning off the other. Unfortunately that old enemy of progress “Ego” got in the way at the Roar. Again known from the same source.
In comparison MV has been a well oiled machine with each part coordinated to produce close to a Rolls Royce engine than a Kia. Ange is starting to make the right moves,increasing the people with football knowledge around him. Will take time(dont expect much this season) but his moves so far are in the right direction.

Stability has been the name of the game – about six regular starters have been there for at least 4 seasons – that shoudln’t be big news – but in the A-League, as young as it is, it actually is a bit of a rarity.

I’m not a huge fan of Broxham’s, and I’m sure Art isn’t either, but I accept what this article is saying that he works hard to fit in with the more “gifted” players, doing the dirty work, tracking back, pressing, winning 50/50 balls, and occasionally bringing a player down – he does have a bad habit of sliding in indiscriminately, and hopefully he can fix that bad habit up in the near future.

He’s not too bad on the ball and with his passing – but he can be inconsistent – and go through lengthy patches where he is abslutely spraying them left, right and centre.

And please, please – leave the dead ball situations to Carlos!!

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/melbourne-has-invested-in-its-future-by-re-signing-midfielder-leigh-broxham/story-e6frg7mf-1225805929399

Just reading this The Roar are 5 years behind on & off the field. They cocked up from word go by accepting the “Lions” bid.. We appointed a football manager last week(young Brazilian) & Ange has just put the feelers out with local BPL coaches to provide a stronger pathway from local club football to the Roar. In other words develop a feeder system.

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The FFA have boldly relaunched their corporate name and image as “Football Federation Australia” … as it being their right to do so … ie reclaiming their rightful name “Football” as it was first coined by the inventors of the round ball game, which every other code had hijacked… So let’s rejoice together and abide by that long awaited grand FFA imitative, long live Grooky and Football side by side on Planet Earth and eventually all over Australia… (after your eventual demise of coarse)

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Let me get this straight, the powerhouse club in Melbourne, with their high profile, big city, lots of supporters….

So the club that has pumped the so called powerhouse twice this year by a combined 6-0 (the apparently boring Mariners) is nothing….Classic.

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/117864,fabianos-early-exit-to-thailand.aspx

It would be a great tribute to our Indiginous peoples – and would probably be more apppreciated and of far more value than any of the ‘SORRY’ statements that seem to be so fashionable these days.

However, I have the common sense to realise that it just wouldn’t catch on !
Sort of like trying to get everyone in Australia to call Soccer . . . Football !

You cant keep changing the premise of your argument.

I stated 20K was not a good crowd given the extra publicity around the MV and GC game. You come back with comments about AFL teams.

The fact is MV has levelled off quite quickly, maybe the FFA is right to bring in another team to build derbies but the after season 2 many predicted 40-50K crowds for the blockbusters against Adel and Syd – it has not eventuated.

Redb

but, Lord to his credit, struck while the coals were hot and drew public funds to develop a stadium for the private play-thing franchise teams of super wealthy individuals.

so, don’t you DARE complain (or give the impression of not being 100% grateful for) about a free gift $270 million stadium. THAT would be very, very poor form.

They should also enter into agreements with Marconi and Sydney United so that those teams receive more than the stipulated 3k from a transfer to an A league club. Perhaps putting in a generous sell on % so that those teams are happy for Rovers to suceed rather than seeing them as the fox sports funded enemy.

As to the colors Red Balck and White I have seen this potential kit and I think it looks quite fetching. This isn’t what ROvers would look like but does show the potential of those colors.

I don’t think we are going to see a really intense rivalry in the A league for a while because we are still at the stage where there is a shared bond of struggle that all football fans have had to put up with. I think the critical mass of two HAL teams will start the ball rolling PR wise and along with FTA we will be on the road to ACL domination.

East vs West isn’t everything but it will be that little element that gives the Sydney rivalry a head start, that tiny bit of undercurrent that invokes that little bit extra of local pride