I remember way back when similar questions were raised about Mark Viduka.
Melbourne Knights, and Viduka were flying back then. So Viduka was in a better team compared to Roar.
I don’t want to add to the pressure of expectation on Wadders, by the comparison with Viduka, although I must admit he seems to be a cool character though.
But, I think he should stay for another season, as did Viduka when the question was raised way back then.

As a Roar fan, whilst Roar played some great stuff at times, and O’Shea was a magician, in all honesty, Adelaide did not seem to get out of first gear. They were and are a better side than Brisbane. Adelaide have defensive frailties for sure, but creditably held on for a deserved win.
I had been looking forward to seeing Irankunda who showed a few flashes of quality on the ball, but too few in fairness, and his yellow card showed his other side.
His replacement certainly made an impact. Roar’s defending has been an Achilles heel all season, and the cut backs from the goal line to unmarked attackers seems to be the worst culprit. Admittedly, with Roar chasing the game by then, there had been some positional changes, but all the same!
I am not sure what was more disappointing. Roar’s general defending, Aldred’s inability to jump to prevent Ibusuki’s second, or Irankunda who really did not show up.
Yet again Roar fans have to put aside another disappointing result (and season) and console ourselves with the privilege of having being able to watch Thomas Waddingham. And what a privilege it has been.
In terms of the contest between Wadders and Irankunda there was no contest on the night.

It would have been nice if Roar confirmed who is definitely leaving so that the fans can farewell them on what hopefully is the last outing of the season for Roar.
I’m saying hopefully as play-off positions for the Australia Cup are not finalised; although maybe sorted by the final whistle this evening.
I’m happy with the news on Henry Hore. Thanks SS. Missed it earlier. Still not officially announced though.

Thanks SS. I love our work.
I saw the Marco piece mentioning Roar’s interest in Zawada and Ibsuki.
From a Roar perspective, my thoughts were that Roar were being used by the player agents to get better deals for the players concerned. Surely Phoenix will want to keep Zawada.
If Roar manage to lure Ibsuki away, I would be happy enough. So I hope that Roar have the dollars. Especially as Roar have a number of other gaps to plug.
It’s certainly an encouraging sign that the Roar management seem to have learned not to bring in overseas players that are all reputation and no substance, and instead look to players that can deliver. I trust that is the case anyway.
Halloran fits with the Roar’s Queenslander philosophy, but I am not convinced in the merit of a return to Brisbane, either for him, or for Roar. I guess it would be encouraging to know that ex-players are willing to give Roar a second chance after all that has gone down. That has not often been the case.
Throwing a coin into the wishing well, the ex-player I would most like back at Roar is Dimi Petratos.
My four must keeps at Roar (excluding the youngsters) were Trewin, O’Shea, Jelacic and Hore.
So I am very sad to see Kai Trewin go.
Going to City may well help his representative prospects, and also I believe his partner is in Melbourne. It would make sense for him especially if there is more coin to be had.
A loan extension for Jelacic would have to be up near the top of Roar’s list surely!
And please somebody (anybody!!) confirm that Henry Hore is staying at Roar.
Going into the last round, Roar are matching Phoenix on goals for. But almost double the goals against. Whilst most people are talking about recruitment in attacking positions, it is in collective defending that Roar’s season has been a shocker. Something more than a tweak is needed.
RZ has already commented on the lack of tall timber defensively. A tall striker such as Ibsuki would be useful for set pieces at either end, but a couple of decent centre backs are needed. A bit more height would be good while we are at it.
I would like Nikolovski to get more time, but assuming Neville recovers, it still looks like two centre backs are a must have.
RZ also mentioned some more steel needed in defensive midfield. Perhaps RZ does not believe Gomulka can provide it, and might explain why Gomulka is wanting out. He has been getting a bit more game time of late and has one game left to show RZ what he can do. Personally, I hope he does enough and there’s a mutual decision for him to stay.

My bad!
Thanks for the pick up on my maths. Not my strong suit.
Let’s hope for a win on Friday night

Hi Lionheart
I too am keeping the faith.
I received an email yesterday about auto renewals and based on that I am hoping that we will be getting more comms from Zac real soon.
I am also keen to hear more about the new teams coming in which I hope will end the lottery of uneven home and away fixtures. That has been another bug bear affecting the integrity of the competition.

For the record, it is three seasons outside the top six for the men’s Roar.
Whether or not the signing of RZ is exciting or not, I guess it will have to do until the real excitement comes along.
Four wins, four losses, three draws with one to go under RZ is the sort of form that over a season might just have enabled Roar to nick a spot in the six, without necessarily setting the world on fire.
To be fair, he walked into something of a firestorm and has put out the fire and stabilized the ship.
Roar supporters may have hoped for more, but in fairness, RZ has delivered on what we reasonably could expect under the circumstances.
RZ has had sufficient time at the club to put a slide rule over the current crop of players and have input into who stays and who goes. He said as much in his latest post match interview.
Appointing RZ is sensible without being ambitious.
Whether he gets to keep the players he wants to keep will be revealed very soon enough.
Trewin is rumoured to be going. Jelacic is a loanee who achieved what he came to do by achieving Olyroo selection. Rojas is another where the rumour mill has run hot since he arrived.
If we can trust the weekly Queensland Injury updates, there are a number of players not listed as injured, and not featuring, who I assume RZ deems surplus to requirements.
Armiento and Parsons come to mind.
Whether RZ can get the players in that he would like may take a little longer to be revealed.
Certainly, based on the disappointments, false starts and missteps of past years, I am not getting overly excited. I don’t think Roar will be splashing the cash anytime soon.
All eyes will be looking to more of the youth coming through, with hopefully one or two shrewd older signings along the way to bring in some more quality and experience.
Can RZ take Roar forwards and upwards?
Can he build a team that not only dominates possession, but actually can score more goals than the opposition?
Personally speaking, if he can achieve that, I won’t care what colour strip the team wears.
We dare to dream.

The lost opportunity for football in Australia, that is the Brisbane Olympics, is yet another failure by the Australian football to come together and articulate a common vision and set of non-negotiables that has broad appeal right across the Australian Football Community for the betterment of the sport.
12 months ago, the Federal Sports Minister called for football grassroots to unify before seeking government funding.
By not heeding this, I believe, as I have commented previously, that collectively we make it easy for governments at all levels to ignore football.
You would think it relatively straight forward to put forward a proposition that each major population centre with A League aspirations has a suitable stadium that can be used by an A League franchise(s) as well as the broader football community. But somehow, this is elusive.
In a country that prides itself on the fair go, you would also think it relatively straight forward to demand greater parity of grass roots funding for stuff like training fields, changing rooms, women’s amenities and equipment. Again, elusive.
Why has this not happened?
Despite what Anika Wells spelled out, and reiterated more recently, no leadership has emerged to bring the various fifedoms together to formulate a set of common requirements.
To date, football in this country has lacked the leadership to overcome the I’m Allright Jackism, parochialism, and the self interest of the disparate parties across the broader community.
Whether it be Football Australia, or the APL, or the state federations, or prominent and powerful clubs, or players associations, or football alumni, or academies, or interested media, etc; not one of these dominions has come to the fore on behalf of the game of football as a whole.
I call upon the football alumni to come forwards and provide leadership.
I acknowledge that what you have achieved was through your personal hard work and sacrifices, and the sacrifice of your families. But the game which provided you with the platform to launch your careers was built by the giants who came before you. And the future generations need your help now.
We need a national football convention with delegations from around the country tasked to develop a positive agenda for football in this country, and formulate a set of funding requests and priorities to take to federal and state sports ministers.
As Waz says, there are 100 plus things we need to change.
But funding is up there in the top one to use a Brian Cloughism.
We should not be letting the likes of Anika Wells of the hook through our own ineptitude and tribalism.
I cannot think of another way.

Hi BT
The Olympics website (Olympics.com) does not distinguish between qualifiers and competition matches of the upcoming games with respect to eligibility of up to three men footballers born before 1 January 2001.

Either that is misleading and I stand corrected, or it is actually right.

With the competition occurring outside of any official window, getting players released from Europe at this stage of the season is a challenge.
I wondered if TV had thought outside the box a bit and asked Leicester to release Souttar as an overage player. It would bring some leadership and international experience at the back, plus a potent weapon at set pieces. Younger players could learn from his guidance.
Given Marasca’s aversion to Big Harry, it appears that Leicester are just biding their time to offload him to help offset their financial woes and so the answer would most probably be yes.
As for Nestor. No comment. If recent events in the UK have taught us anything, it is that weighing in with uninformed and disrespectful comment is ill advised.

That’s a very apt analogy Waz.
It’s been interesting in all the talk of funding for football, that nobody seems to have listened to what the Federal Sports Minister said over a year ago.
“I think the difficulty is [that] each sport has its own federated nature, and what I’ve said to both Football Australia and the individual state federations when I met with them all together, is it would be really great for them to land on a unified purpose and proposal.”
Without leadership in the game to round up the chooks, achieve a consensus, articulate a common vision, and challenge governments to deliver, football will whither on the vine.
As a football community we are sending out signals disparately and based on self interest.
We make it super easy for governments to ignore us.
Especially when you add the dog whistles about bad crowd behaviour, football not being a man’s game, and lack of excitement (aka goals) to the noise.

Kaz and Zac certainly have their work cut out. I am happy to cut them enough slack to keep going.
As you say Waz, the root causes of a lot of what went wrong predates them. Added to which is the Aloisi walk out and the Ben Cahn illness.
To cut RZ a bit of slack also, he did not have a hand in the squad he inherited except maybe a bit of influence in the Jelacic loan. I agree the head coach needs to have a say in recruitment.
That said, whether RZ is the man to lead the team forwards I am not totally convinced.
There was an initial reaction to his tenure in terms of results, but one point from the last nine at crunch time is a bit underwhelming.
Roar seems light years away from being able to recruit players capable of playing in style and actually getting results.
I would settle for a team with real backbone grinding out results at the moment. It works for Wellington. And countless clubs around the world.
I agree with the SS’s comments that SA are overachievers in terms of development of players, and a whole lot more.
Unlike SA, Queensland is stuck with the NRL sucking the sporting life blood and the dollars out of the state.
SA should consider themselves fortunate not to have that particular albatross around its neck.
With Brisbane Roar being practically homeless, it is ironic that Lang Park was original a football stadium before it became the home of rugby league.
It’s a fair point about dwindling membership. A bit more communication from Kaz and Zac might be a good thing right now. But its the results on the field, the lack of Finals football, and the forces at work to drive away the active support that are doing the damage.

For us in Brisbane, the reality is dawning that our season is pretty much over in terms of Finals, and it is going to be a long off season. There’s probably a few supporters at other clubs feeling the same right now. Adelaide appear in the same boat. Fighting over the scraps.
Albeit with an exciting match winner in Irankunda that Brisbane lacks.
The huff and puff is all but puffed out north of the Brisbane line. Truth he be told it was the Macurthur game that did for us.
Watching Finals will again be like watching the grown ups party on in the living room though a door left ajar.
There’s the Cup competition I suppose which holds the attention of the diehards, with hopefully more of the kids getting a go.
We look forwards to some noteworthy Tillies action, and some Euros (I am giving Ukraine my sympathy vote this time round), but as far as the APL goes and Australian club football, for myself as a Roar fan, this seasons is done. Put a fork in it.
I can’t help but think with the long off season, Australian football shoots itself in the foot.
Whilst club football will be up running in a lot of the northern hemisphere quick smart, it’s almost like in Australia its a case of; yes we do have a national competition if we ever get around to it some time around Oktoberfest. Yawn!
At least the prospect of seeing Irankunda here in Brisbane later this month (assuming Mr Veart allows us the opportunity) can be enjoyed with a sense of neutrality.
Hopefully we can at least say we got to see his send off, which arguably up here, will be the most momentous part of this season which promised so much and which has delivered so little.
The big question is will it also be TW’s last game in the APL too? As I said. It’s a long off season.

I have not been given to throw my toys out the pram in response to recent Socceroo performances which many have criticized, and I am not about to succumb to raptures of joy and relief about the 5 0 victory over the world’s 115th ranked team.
Beating Lebanon by five goals was a good result. But compared with the very creditable Socceroo performances in the last world Cup, against more fancied oppositions, this performance should not give us too much comfort.
These two games in the second of three qualifying rounds have been useful, not only in terms of achieving progress to the next round, but towards the rebuild towards 2026.
A win is a win, but my point is that there are more games to play, and much work still to do.
It took very decent performances by Craig Goodwin and Ajdin Hrustic (until he was scythed down) to open up a gap in quality between Australia and Lebanon which ultimately enabled a convincing win as it turned out.
The good news is that we can hope both players will be part of the 2026 world cup squad; assuming we qualify. The challenge is that we need more than these two to step up.
Apart from these two, and probably Ryan, Souttar and Irvine (who was not at his best), I suggest that the remaining twenty-one spots are up for grabs.
A few players did not hurt their chances of being there in 2026, but this side needs to improve drastically over the next two years. Individually, each player has a lot to play for.
Graham Arnold’s task is to mould a team that peaks and is fit for purpose at the next World Cup, whilst along the way achieving the required results to get us there.
Inevitably at times, this will not always be pretty. It certainly will not be easy.
So far so good.

I don’t for one minute think Leicester City has willfully flouted any regulations though at the end of the day the lawyers will determine the legalities and what is what. More likely they have been like an oil tanker at sea, unable to stop on command, and drifting to a standstill in whatever part of the ocean it ends up in

A few things stand out to me:
One is that there was a rule change after Leicester City were relegated. Which pertains to one of the matters at hand. The rules are evolving.
Another is that the Championship has it’s own rules. Leicester could be damned if they go up and damned if they stay down.
Associated with that is that the handling of promotions and relegation has not been worked out yet, and is rendered all the more difficult due to the different jurisdictions of the two competitions.
Lastly, there is the overall complexity of the regulations themselves. It seems very much a matter for the lawyers and certainly beyond my pay grade. The offside rule is simple by comparison.

Whilst most agree there needs to be financial integrity, what supporters and club members do not want to see are opaque and legalistic points of law pursued through the courts undermining the very integrity of the competition they seek to protect.
We do not want hard won points totals determined in the court room rather than on the field.

At the end of the day, these regulations may further widen the gap between rich clubs and poor which is precisely the opposite of what is needed. This is all the more frustrating for fans when fat cat clubs are perceived to flout the rules with impunity. A shout out to Everton fans here.

In the case of Leicester City whose four game Championship points margin has already been eroded to nothing, recent form would indicate promotion back to the EPL is not guaranteed. It is very much wait and see first which division Leicester are in in season 2024-25.
Watch This Space!

If we discount the morning and afternoon shows, the Socceroos move up the list a bit.

In that evening time slot, the ratings for AFL and NRL Thursday night shows (2nd and 4th respectively) are for me the telling ones. People are tuning into channel 7 and channel 9 news and mostly sticking round for the footie. Triple the number tuning into football.
And the Socceroos weare still behind the ABC and 10 regular Thursday evening shows.

Does Paramount Plus get included?
If the figure is just 10Bold, then 552,000 would not be the full number.

Hi SS
You make a good point about Taggart and I think it applies to Australian strikers in general.
I like Taggart and wish he was back at Brisbane Roar. I love Bruno too. Not so much Mclaren.
We seriously need a talk about how we develop strikers in Australia because there’s a glass ceiling if ever there was one.
It’s one thing to be a top striker in the A League. Another in a major league and on the international scene. Duke is probably the best of the bunch.
Fingers crossed that Waddingham is the once in a quarter century exception. Liking the look of Yengi too.
What Arnie has assembled seems to me to be up with the best we can get from a country where in terms of football infrastucture, national competitions, and youth development structures we are a country mile behind the more popular codes.
Re the Scottish brigade. I am not following you.
Boyle is out injured but is a regular at Hibs in SPL.
Burgess is a regular at the top/second/third team in the Championship. Ipswich’s position depends on which day of the week or even time of day at the moment.
Souttar. Tragically not playing at Leicester. I get why the Leicester coach wants Ben Nelson to get a go, but don’t get what he sees in Coady, Faes or Vestergaard over Souttar especially given Leicester’s tendency to capitulate late in games without Souttar. (As a Leicester City fan I think Souttar will play EPL next season, but not betting on Leicester City doing the same)
John Iredale plays in Germany. Sydney born. Played for Sydney FC. It’s Jack Iredale at Bolton that comes from Scotland
I think you are a bit harsh on Metcalfe and Baccus s well.
One thing I am expecting is that assuming Australia makes the World Cup in 2026, a few of the boys from the U23 play list will be in the mix.

The Guardian Headline says it all.
“World game the winner as Lebanon fans celebrate despite defeat to Socceroos”.
What’s Not to like about a game like that?
Especially Australia in the first half.
From a group of fellas that for the most part don’t play together week in week out and play in so many different leagues, the understanding between players and some of the one touch and both short and long range passing was excellent.
Congratulations to Arnie on getting the side up for it and the improvisations due to injury.
Perhaps the overall result flatters to deceive as Waz puts it. That’s a fair call.
We need to play for 90 minutes.
We dodged a bullet or two late on and I thought Palestine at least deserved the one that hit the post.
I would have been disappointed with a draw, but could not in all honesty have complained.
I would have loved to have heard what the Lebanon coach said to Arnie at the end.
Quite possibly. The next game starts at nil nil and we will be coming for you!
Not often referees get the plaudits, but I appreciated the referee letting a lot go which kept the game flowing. He stopped when there were possible head or serious injuries but otherwise used his whistle judiciously for the most part.
Given this is the second round of qualification only, and assuming we get out of it, the next round will be tougher. No disrespect to a very good Lebanon side.
I can’t wait for Tuesday.

Thanks Lionheart
Typo in my post. $11M over 10 years at Perry Park btw

According to the Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory, the tax payers are spending $40M on a 12,000 seater rectangular stadium for the Ipswich Jets (Rugby League)
Federal Government : $20M
State Government : $10M
Ipswich Council $10M

Meanwhile, the Brisbane Lord mayor has this to say about a Perry Park development:
“We certainly support Brisbane having another boutique rectangular stadium in the long term, however, right now we are focused on other matters such as keeping costs down,
building better transport and incentivizing the delivery of more housing”.
He went on to write that BCC hold a lease on the Perry Park site with the YMCA; $11M has been spent on various upgrades and facilities over 1 years; BCC will continue to work with Brisbane Strikers and YMCA yada yada; oh and wait and see what the Quirk review comes up with.

The Quirk review said that developing Perry Park was amongst a number of proposals submitted that were found to have had merit and legacy outcomes for Queensland but it was not part of his recommendations. Strangely, Mr Quirk did not see fit to meet with Football Australia, though he met with Football Queensland according to the report. Last time I looked, the Matildas and Men’s U23 football team were under FA and not FQ.

I could find no information on FQ’s website about what they proposed to Quirk, or the Olympics or generally so I am none the wiser about FQ’s position. I’m alright Jack perhaps?.

Meanwhile, submissions on the proposed increase in number of concerts at Suncorp have closed. We now await the rubber stamp in favour or the extra concerts and the consequential hunt for new venues for the next A League season.

If anyone north of the Brisbane Line has more information on any of the above, let us know.

Meanwhile, in my project management days we used to talk about the challenges of herding cats.
The football community is very divided and each cat is doing it’s own thing.
Until we resolve that, I think we have Buckley’s chance of moving the game forwards up here.

I just listened to Arnie being interviewed before tomorrow’s world cup qualifier, and when asked about the state of the game in Australia, his frustration was palpable.
To be fair, Arnie said he had not expected the questioning he got. He was doing his polite best to answer.
Yet another NRL club is getting tax payer finance for facilities, and Arnie is asking why not football?
He spoke about reliance on the generosity of an NRL club allowing the Socceroos to train on their fields. NRL gets the new pants and football gets the hand-me-downs.
He spoke about the issues in the A League that people have commented on here, and the importance of a vibrant A League competition as a dependency for national teams.
It really is depressing.
Tears in your eyes bang your head against a brick wall frustrating.
What will it take for Australia to wake up and take football seriously?
Our politicians seem to throw the buckets of money around every which way until it comes to football. Then it is all short arms and long pockets.
Quite frankly, until this gets fixed, I am beginning to think the Socceroos should play all their games outside of Australia. It would certainly save the boys a heap of air miles and the facilities are decent pretty much everywhere but at home.
Up here north of the Brisbane line, our state has already turned its back on hosting the national men’s teams; so for me it would make no difference.
I guess a few fans in the other capital cities would be a bit sore. But something has to give.

I agree Waz.
Though ex Mayor Quirk seems breathtakingly short on reality in his recent review when it comes to football.
Mr Quirk talked a lot about legacy infrastructure, but seemed blindingly oblivious to the needs of football.
Rectangular stadiums, training facilities, and somewhere in the mix, a venue to host the Tillies and other major footballing nations.
Whilst at the time back when the Brisbane Olympic bid was put forwards, it might have been understandable to not have foreseen the gargantuan leap forwards in the popularity of women’s football in Australia, you would have to live under a rock on the bed of the Brisbane River for it to have escaped you by now. But somehow, it has eluded the ex Mayor.
Even in the sporting backwaters of the ABC Offsiders program last weekend there was speculation about the Matildas’ popularity enabling them to fill the MCG.
At Aunty, world sport must forever be measured according to a cricket/AFL yardstick. How quaint!
And all that was for a friendly game against a middle ranked nation!
We are nothing up here in Queensland if not parochial. We pride ourselves on our stoic resistance to reality in the face of the overwhelming factual evidence. It is who we are.
The fair weather supporters from the hallowed halls of governments, in their tax payer funded seats, have long since mothballed their Tillies shirts and scarves for a rainy day or their next photo opportunity.
Yet the Instagram footage which they so brazenly craved lives on in cyber space to reminds us that funding for football was promised.
Mr Quirk in fairness was not one of the Canberra and George street blow ins I refer to.
But not to have used the reset to give the worlds’ largest sport, and Australia’s largest participation sport, a central prominence in his report, makes all his talk of legacy infrastructure seem …. . (Well you can choose your own adjective for it).
I have run out of words to describe unforgivable
It is not a quirk of nature that aspiring juniors, especially girls, have nowhere to play; to say nothing about answering a call of nature.
It is a failure on all sides to recognize where Australia has landed post the tsunami of the women’s world cup.
In the future, we might well not need one new rectangular stadium in Brisbane, but several.
And included in the mix we need to pose the question.
Where exactly do they plan to house an order of one hundred thousand female football supporters?
Perhaps the Brisbane Olympic football games will be telecast from the MCG!
So far that seems the most sensible option out there.
I fear the legacy of the Olympics will be one of embarrassment and ridicule.
Certainly, all hopes of an A League venue being a windfall beneficiary remain dashed.
Maybe the women’s Asian Cup in 2026 will see reality rammed home yet again.
Don’t hold your breath. We are out of dead horses on George Street.

Arguably the question about Wellington Phoenix is what took them so long?
In what passes for a salary capped league (which is a topic in its own right and one for another day), they remain one of only two A League mean’s teams to have won neither a premiership nor championship to date. And no chickens actually hatched this season either.
Wellington Phoenix (along with having the most insufferable TV broadcast team) have enjoyed a distinct home advantage (not the only ones in the league I have to say) plus a nucleus of international footballers over the years.
So what has taken them so long indeed?
Quite clearly they have a good coach and their previous one was no slouch either.
Their success has actually been a slow burn over five or six seasons now.
The recruitment has been good, and it sounds like the work off the park is reaping dividends.
With the home advantage they enjoy, and the great defensive work on the road, they have a as much chance of winning silverware as say the Mariners do.
If they do win silverware, then our congratulations will be well earned. Good luck to them.
As for playing style.
Rueben Zadkovic bemoaned Brisbane Roar’s lack of quality in both penalty areas last weekend whilst praising his team for the football played for vast chunks of the 90 plus minutes against Macarthur.
By contrast, Phoenix are efficient in both boxes. And their fans are loving it.
Why wouldn’t they?
Here in Brisbane a plethora of recent coaches have extolled the virtue of attacking football.
The last one that prioritized fixing the leaky defence incidentally was unceremoniously shown the door. His time at the club coincided with Roar’s most recent finals appearance.
There is not a lot of joy in picking the ball out of your own net more times than any other club in a season, and I suspect there would be a few more walking through the Brisbane turnstyles if Brisbane had a similar set of results to Wellington.
As they say. Football is a results based business.

Whilst on this topic of Paramount and Channel 10.
Does Channel 10 do much to cross- promote football?
I confess I do not watch Channel 10 ever, but would start to do so if they had a football show, or interviewed footballers on shows like The Project once a week.
I tell you what. Some of those recent A League goals make for easy on the eye advertising.
Do the APL advertise the product in social media at all?

Agreed
I watch the Roar live whenever I can. Or on Paramount when they are away. I often watch the mini match after that at some stage.
These past two seasons I have often found myself tuning into Paramount to watch the Mariners when I can. That’s about it.
As a total left field thing, when I leave the Roar games, I listen to the end of the Paramount post match analysis and interviews on my phone as I walk along. I really miss the post match reactions we used to get on local radio back in the UK which was part and parcel of the match day experience. And Paramount don’t show the full show on the match replays. It works for me.
But the thought of watching all those other games. Heavens no!
Far better for me to catch Roar in the NPL on live stream.