Melbourne City vs Brisbane Roar highlights: City fight back rewarded with draw

big call

jb, I must admit I was surprised to see young Ingham start, but not at all urprised that Kristensen didn't (he must have been tired, surpised he was on the bench and came on). I thought we had the beter of the first half and probably the last 20 minutes, and were a bit unlucky with Theo letting one through that we'd expect him to get. But I take your point - coming weeks will be a test of our squad management and team selections as much as anythung else.

well the difference in revenue from ticket sales is quite different....

If you watched carefully ref was standing right behind the action seeing Ingham pulling back of Fitzy's shirt and then putting his arm across Fitzy's shoulder. 100% stupid from Ingham and probably would have been a foul anywhere else on the pitch.

Watch Borrello's knees buckle as if shot - but there was no gun, there was hardly any contact. He went down and hoped the ref would look favourably towards him.

so I heard Valkanis going on post match about refs etal. No change it seems, blame someone else.

Flop? You're kidding right?

OK Nemesis, why do we continually hear from the Fox commentatrs and others, when there's contact inside the box a penalty is on the cards, or they've given the ref a reason? There was contact, fair penalty is a common call on Fox. We hear this most weekends, and players, especially City players, take advantage of that and go down easily. I don't think Borrello was trying to milk a penalty, he didn't look to the refor appeal for one and the ref was right beside him. He was certainly tuched, slight push. I don't think it deserved a penalty, but why are you and the Fox team going against your normal commentary and saying not fair, this time? Even the Fox team eventually showed the second goal a ouple of frames earlier which showed MacLaren on side.

Pablo You might be on to something., Everytime I put up the attendance, and that's all I do, it's only ever a number (sometimes 5 digits, other times 4 digits), people on this board absolutely lose the plot. They start attacking the messenger, they start talking about other sports, they put up irrelevant posts. Why do people react like this? You are perhaps the first to have suggested the potential problem with some of these people.

If everyone knows this persons agenda and he/she chooses to waste their life posting on codes that they don't like, why doesn't everyone just ignore them ? I'd also be quite hesitant to berate this person as we just don't know their mental state. This is probably their only social interaction. So while it is probably a bit mean to take that from them, we aren't social workers and reading the same boring comments from them is getting a bit tedious.

Doesn't have to be a dirty game to have a load of cards given out. A lot of cynical shirt tugging going on these days.

"Borello’s dive. Flopping to the ground to trick the ref into awarding a pen? That was blatant simulation." ? Your havin a laugh Stevo, your 'flopping to the ground' is normally the likes of Brandan, Fallneroli, Kamau or even Kilkenny and now it looks like youngsters such as Fitzgerald have taken on the role in the absence of the so called experts. J.A. was right in calling out City as divers, even JVS came up with some lame excuse about it all and guess what? JVS is gone and their still doing it.

"Borello’s dive. Flopping to the ground to trick the ref into awarding a pen? That was blatant simulation." Unlike Fitzgerald's ?

Nemesis - As usual your comment gives no credit as to how a team, made up up 7 reserves,overcame a two goal deficit to draw level ,and which they could quite easily have won. The City coach made quite a shrewd observation and after half time obviously decided to "hammer" at Roar's major weak spots,out wide on the wings, and didn't that change pay up in a big way. Kamau and Fitzgerald took the game right up to a sadly depleted Roar back-line and didn't it pay dividends. City were by far, from goalkeeper out, the better team in the second half ,so give these kids some credit where it is due. Roar?? Yes they have had a busy week but, that run on team?????? Cheers jb.

AFL 140 years old 1st year of the AFLW A-League 12 years old, W-league going for 8 years.

Swanny I'm big enough to accept that the A-League last night got a bigger crowd than the AFL Women's. These days, that's a notable achievement.

ON the odd occasion....

Both Brisbane goals from ref errors. Wonder if the vocal Roar fans on this forum will be complaining like they usually do? Two nil and they stuffed it up.

Lionheart -- Did the run on team selection not seem a bit strange to you?. With the back line totally decimated,Hingert and North not available, not only did Roar play an almost new face at right back, but also chose to keep Brisbane's best player, Kristensen, (who usually "screens" the back line) sitting on the bench ,until it was apparent he was needed. Overall, I thought Roar went back to the bad habits of a few months ago,with the endless passing across the back four allowing what had to be a very worried opponent,plenty of time to get back behind the centre line and re-group,making it harder for the Roar "fast breaks" to gain the necessary penetration ,where ,when they did, they found a very experienced goalkeeper putting on a "master class". This brings back the age - old argument in football,with 3 substitutes available should a manager always field his strongest team for the opening stanza./ Cheers jb.

Don't worry Abt mr football Tully . He's an armchair afl expert . He is posting gushing comments about the girls afl on that site . Posting A league crowd figures floats his boat and makes him feel like abig important man