Roar wondergoal sinks Glory 1-0

Just saw vdB has left for India. Released, no transfer fee. Just kill me now.

When Mulvey took over he said all the roar needed was a little tweaking. When Rado was still in charge it seemed to me the team were still dominating play but were just lacking that desire/hunger or cutting edge whatever it was. Mulvey has in very little time taken the team on a seemingly directly downward trajectory. At this point I would say that the clubs decision to replace Vidosic with Mulvey has been shown for what it was, that is completely reactionary. As a fan I am very concerned about the direction the club is going in.

How about Ian Ferguson, we can make him available for you if you like?

No one in Australia who is available (I'd love Popovic!!). I think it has to be an overseas appointment. With Brisbane's climate, and the way the A-League is heading, I personally would favour a South American coach, preferably a Brasilian. Good English essential. Someone who believes in the beautiful game but takes no prisoners with his players. Someone who can establish a suitable Brisbane style that reflects the region's beaches and tropical climate. I believe that establishing a distinctive, crowd friendly style is vital. Postecoglou was disappointed the crowds didn't build. Well, Brisbane were successful but they were mostly pretty dull to watch. This is an NRL town, and winning, as has been demonstrated, isn't enough. The style of football is just as important. Queenslanders love being different to the south - so give them tropical football!

Scheduling the match to go toe to toe with Skyworks was incomprehensible.

RF, who would you like to see take charge of the Roar?

Easily the lowest quality BNE match I have seen since August 2010. However, relieved to bag 3 points, especially on the road. Neither team did anything to suggest they will give the finals a shake, if they even make it. Should acknowledge that each team was missing five (5) key playera (Smeltz, BDV, Burns, Miller, Heffernan + Berisha, Steffanuto, Smith, Henrique and North). Even though the BNE performance was poor, it was great to see the players show some desperation and heart. Earlier in the season, a performance of this quality would have also lacked any sort of determination and interest. Atleast last night they wanted to be there. If Redmayne was still at the club I would have replaced Theo with him, but alas.

A long list who aren't up to scratch. In the entire Roar team against Perth, taking into account past form not just present, I would say only the following are A League standard: Broich Franjic Brown Yep, that's it for me. 3 players. I don't believe ANY of the others are up to the mark (Donachie, however, is one for the future if he can be developed), and that includes Nichols and Murdocca. The A League standard has moved past their glass ceiling. Brisbane is in dire trouble, and not just for this season, unless a tough, experienced coach is appointed and given a free hand to rebuild, including paying out some contracts to lose players. There is no room for sentimentality in this process. This is professional football, and the club's future is at stake. This is without doubt the worst Brisbane Roar team I have seen, playing the worst football I have seen a Brisbane Roar team play. Mulvey is failing dismally.

Nathan - Nothing to do with the result or which of the two teams played better. My main gripe is that there were far too many players on both teams that IMO just don't deserve to be professional footballers.

Thanks for not expanding on the awfulness of HeartFC. I thought we couldn't do any worse than our collapse against SFC but JA and the boys proved me wrong. I'm sure the Derby will fire up the lads in a way nothing else seems to at the moment.

You're all only saying the match was an embarrassment to the A-League because Brisbane got outplayed and got the lucky win :) Well, okay, so I wasn't in the best place to properly observe the match but like I said in the match thread, I was encouraged with how Perth were playing (pace, excitement, etc) we just couldn't shoot for peanuts...

Gawd, it was bad. I would rather sit through ten hours of rugby league (!) than to watch such an awful display again. Like an alcoholic, Brisbane needs to hit rock bottom before they can rise again, and I suspect we have not yet reached that lower space. As I have stated before, they are a spent force and the club needs to achieve some very smart en masse recruiting for next season, or we will see a similar scenario play itself out.

The only positive i can take from last night is that we possibly have the best named footballer in the A-league in Storm Roux.Another new low at the Glory on many fronts .

Awful game. Delighted to win. Over the years I've become accustomed to seeing Brisbane dominate a game and lose 1-0. It was kind of nice to see the game from the other side of the fence. Still: awful game. The worst I've seen Brisbane play for a few years.

Agree, jb. The game was an embarrassment to the A-League and to both teams. Truly awful football. Poor skills, relentless unpressured turnovers. Two very poor teams, poorly coached, playing without a clue. Even in this contest of awfulness, Brisbane's win was to undeserved that I would prefer not to have the points. The team is so poor at present that it matters not whether we make the finals. Mulvey has now had time to have an impact, and the team is still relentlessly trending downwards. Instead of shaking the Roar up, as he needed to do, he appears clueless and does not appear to have any real control of over the rusy tramp steamer the Roar have become as the ship goes under. It is clear now that Brisbane need to appoint an experienced coach who will act fearlessly at the end of this season in rebuilding the team. Mulvey is proving not to be the man for the job. The problem he will face is the contracts too many of the squad are on. Broich is a mystery. How can a player who dominated the league a short time ago turn into such an ineffectual player almost overnight? Roar supporters have known that the squad has long been threadbare of quality. Now that lack of quality is on display in the starting 11, and it really is not a pretty sight.

for the first time in about 3 years I was really disappointed in how Brisbane played.

in reality - probably all true Jbinnie. the quality of the game was less than the others. but we have known this. i'm happy to get 3 points and see a cracking shot at goal go in. its happened to us many times. perhaps the perth GK was unsighted, that doesn't matter. theo made a couple of howlers didnt he? i'm looking for positives in corey brown and davies/doe (not sure what is going on), and 3 points. we all know they aren't up with the top 4, but i'm happy for this week.

Yesterday was an experience for any football watcher,from extreme high to new low. In a day of wet windy conditions I watched 3 football matches all across our large country. What did I see? In Melboune in front of nearly 27,000. I watched a highly entertaining game with not a little good football being played but the almost constant excitement of an old fashioned cup tie keeping me on the edge of my chair. 3-1 to Victory but Sydney trying to the very end & coming close. To Sydney, where again, in front of a healthy 14,600, I was again highly entertained by 2 teams,one reduced to 10 men very early,playing a good brand of football & keeping the big crowd entertained to " the death". It would be doubtful if any one of the 41,600 left these 2 grounds early,disappointed by the standard of entertainment on offer. Then to Perth,& the pleasure, (& hopes for the future ) began to unravel almost at once with only 4800 spread over a mausoleum of a stadium under re-construction.Atmosphere-nil. On the field of play we had 2 grand finalist clubs from last year & that alone, one woud imagine, would be a guarantee of good football entertainment.Even allowing there were "key" players missing from both sides (for various,some unpalatable reasons) it would be reasonable to expect that 2 clubs of this standing,after 8 years in the HAL, would have players of quality in their 23 man squads to "take up the slack". What did we get?????. The number of unforced turnovers (bad passing) to the opposition team reached immeasureable proportions unless an assistant coach was charting that malaise.Players were quite obviously playing in positions, that, to be kind to them, they had never played before.Perth missed chance after chance,not always created by their clever football but more likely by intercepting poorly placed passes in dangerous areas .Roar, on the other hand, got three or four manufactured chances in 90 minutes but blasted them all well wide of the target,their only high point being a purely speculative shot by Meyer that sneaked past the goalkeeper who appeared to be unsighted. At the end of proceedings it was embarassing to watch & listen to the body language & comments of the 3 man panel who.like me, had sat through the day's 3 matches. They were obviously stuck for words & it took the usually verbose Bosnich to "break the feeling of dis-belief" by saying "both these teams are struggling". So were we who were watching. jb

Stand up Jams Meyer, he backed himself to take the opportunity and shoot. Does this mean he will be on the bench next week?