Secondary assist on his own goal.
Goal.
Assist for earning the penalty.
Chances created well one of the missed Miluesnic one on ones was his through ball.
It was on TV as well so no excuses to not having Paramount Plus.
I dont get it who are these mysterious Roar fans that are fans of Lofthouse but thought he had a bad game on what forum?

The RBB are the most easily offended, precious and soft supporters group I have seen.
Everything is a conspiracy for them, the club should be laying out the red carpet and announce them into the stadium now?

Let me guess you watched Adelaide play and thought it was 30 , no it was freezing cold under 20.
This weekend did you actually notice that things were different, 4 teams played at night.
In fact the crowds were worse all pathetic.
You and the other whiner have been on all this time about night games, and the crowds were duds.
WSW looked bigger than their usual home crowd to me but they didnt release the figure.

Lofthouse outperformed Florin and Hore in this match.
Waddingham was good again and more importantly lasted the match well.
The problem Roar have is fitness over the 90 min. Florin some matches he drops off a lot like in the cup final. What Roar need to do is keep Waddingham on for 90 minutes not replace him
so they can replace others. Adelaide have the same issues Yull needs to be on the field for 90 minutes for them just as they have big drops offs and players that get tired.

The Jets won in the end because Clayton Taylor was just too fast, powerful and skilful for Payne in particular.
Maraguis put in a decent effort as well.
Stamatepolous he scored 2 goals, but his workrate is poor , he could have done a lot more pressing and making runs for Piscopo.
Piscopo was good but at the end of the game he was trying to hold onto the ball and dribble out of his own area. Maybe he was frustated he did some good work and played some good balls to Aquilina in particular only for the opportunities to be stuffed up.
The problem with the Jets team, Aquilina his touch and effort look poor to 2 years ago and Ingham was careless and daydream like, Grozos not sure what he is up to. At last their defence was positioned better.
Stanton I dont know , on the one hand he is bringing in the goods with the youth, on the other hand some of the other players that need an electric cattle prod or to be replaced with youth.
Wellington have had a lot of luck previous to this game, they actually had a lot more chances in this match than some others but of course their defence the first time its really been exploited . They seemed to have played Zawada not fully fit as well. They now remind me of Macarthur and Western United 2 seasons go. Do they need to park the bus to succeed like those 2 teams did.

I dont know about Nisbets comment took our chances, they had a lot of chances. They did better finishing off corners. It could have been 7 to 8.
Thurgate well he had a good shot that narrowly missed but his effort level like the rest of his team was poor. Penha in the first half tried a bit.
Sakhi it was funny how the commentators blamed him for McLarens miss, when really if a striker only has to deflect it into the net from close range the ball being behind them should not stop them.
Phoenix Barbarouses had an incredible passing game, so many good through balls. He also had to play through Newcastles tougher side.
Kraev on the other hand you mention the good , but he missed some good chances and failed to deliver some other passes when things were on.
Sydney FC they delivered more balls to Aspro in this match than any of their strikers this season.
Roar I would put Lofthouse he hit the through ball to Mileusnic, and then scored off the cut back. It was his intelligent pass that caused the penalty, he put it into just the right spot so OShea could rush into the penalty area.
I would say Priestman turned the game for the Wanderers he just pressed so hard and won so much ball. Once he was on they dominated.

No, but I would prefer him being in the squad over McLaren.

I dont bet myself, but I did advise two people to bet for Greece Euro 2004, both won thousands, the bloke who bet 50 only on them complained I should have told him to put a lot more money on it.

From that I have seen McLaren the previous two seasons benefited from some mysterious defensive lapses. Now this season it looks like Fornaroli is the one. It reminds of Barbarouses against Roar 8 goals in 3 matches.

I thought the behaviour of the Western Sydney Wanderers players on the runaway Fornaroli goal was bizzarre. What were they doing or thinking?
Tate Russel is coming across then he just backs off neither blocking the ball to Vellipulay or trying to help block the shot. Maybe this confused Lawrence Thomas who one would have expected to rush at Fornaroli . Maybe he was expecting Tate Russel to come across and then just stay back on the line at the near post. In the end the two of them were in no mans land. If you add in how Tate Russel kept Fornaroli onside despite him having. Then you look back at the Newcastle match where Fornaroli was left unmarked to get 4 its like a collective effort to make him top scorer.
Of course in both matches Fornaroli did score two of the best goals in his career , the rabona and the header .

The one Neville hand balled was going into the goal and was further away and slower moving.
Saying he was trying to tuck his arm in is debatable, at the same time his chest was moving to block the ball. You could argue should have been the red card as it was deliberate but it should have been yellow and a penalty at minimum.
You can argue on the basis of what could have happened if the shot was better. if the ball is close to the keeper you cant say if he sprinted at 100mpf miracoulsy he would have go there.

You can talk about the hand ball whether it should be a hand ball all day.
It certainly was less of a hand ball that the two Roar ones.
The one thing they got totally wrong is that its not a goal scoring opportunity that shot was clearly missing.
Millet drifted wide and Remayne followed him , there is no way that ball is going in, as the commentator said its almost on target.
City have showed amazing magic escaping two gold plated definite red cards.
The commentators seem to be in on it as well.

Roar used to struggle on the counter and surrendered against Barbarouses.
Sydney got Barbarouses as a marquee because of Brisbane Roar namely the 8 goals he scored against Roar in 3 matches.
Not that I am complaining getting Barbarouses was a great idea but certainly Roar were worth about half a million a year extra to Barbarouses.

The only thing you can conclude Gustavsson is looking to do is take his old players to Paris.
The squad sizes for the Olympics is a lot smaller , Tokyo was expanded because of COVID and he took Kellod Knight. I dont understand why Australia would go to Canada for two matches on artificial turf which I assume is not going to feature at Paris.
Liuk, Polkinghorne,Yallop are on their last legs they will be worse by the time of the Olympics . Sayer I dont know why she is the one new player that Gustavsson wants to try , Yallop being the one sub in the second game.
Sophie Harding is 24 all of a sudden she has just come good and looks impressive, tall has decent pace. Scored a great header against the Mariners, good cross as well, caused the second goal by leaping with Dumont then showed pace and a good shot for the third.

The irony about Western United is Thurgate was the Jets effort man for so many years, the rest of the side was the issue.
Penha suffered an ACL in Korea, and I dont know why he is being used as the right wing.
When Penha is the effort man against the Mariner the you have big issues.
Ruka he scored all those goals in Israel, looking at him so far this season he looks pretty ordinary.
Danzaki has become a lay about, when he first played for Roar he was really energetic, unusual for J-league players .
The first match of the season was Western Uniteds best performance followed by the third match which was a hard fought match with Macarthur.
What Aloisi end game is I dont know , Corica has managed to get the sack with 3 losses after a cup, if he fancies a holiday what will it take.

Test cricket with India is incredibly important to them. Then England will be next. Thats the two countries which provide them revenue with India miles ahead.
NZ the secret to their success is an honest administration and using the Indian money to good effect. SA are the BCI without the cash, you dont have a clue whats going on, but unlike the BCI they are getting a modest amount every year as opposed to the billion a year the BCI would be getting. BCI their major issue would be hiding money not lacking it.

They should be paying every test team that tours here a couple of million as an appearance fee and that is contingent on them having their top players.
BBL is losing money its certainly not the best bang for the buck. A more competitive test series with Pakistan will earn them a lot more money.
The other thing is Australia is focused on Australia cricketers and hardly cares about foreign players.
Where is the evidence the T20 comp will make South Africa cricket money. It will give a lot of South African players money and ex players well paid jobs first and foremost Graeme Smith, but where does the South African association get a cut. Its owned by a company which they have 50% in but are they going to make money as a league, previous T20 leagues in South Africa went bust with their holding companies, . The Indian tour is what pays the bills for South Africa every 4 year cycles. Take that out and they are back rubbing two sticks together.
Isn;t the broadcast deal combined with the IPL one.
The BCI could well be getting a cut of the revenue through that before they see a profit.
BCI have not put a cent into the IPL they just take money out of it which is why the players get paid so poorly compared to the revenue.

No the difference is MLS comes down harder, but even more importantly the hools dont get media backing in the USA media like they do by Hill and co.

“Inebriatti members are prohibited from entering the south end and supporters section of BMO Field until they have completed the online MLS Fan Conduct Education Class at their own expense.”

Collective punishment for the whole supporters fan group.

The English are actually a lot less protective of their kids than Australians.
In particular the upper classes think nothing of sending their kids to the top schools where they play rugby union and form the main numbers for rugby union . Its the stiff upper lip and right of passage business.
In Australia now plenty follow rugby league but no way will their kids be playing it. I would say the number of players of actual rugby league here would be similiar to England but a lot of them are actually Kiwis not Australian. Rugby union is richer in England and takes the best players now, whereas in Australia it works the reverse. The biggest difference is touch is much bigger in Australia has a couple of hundred thousand players which could make it the number 2 as the other cook their figures.. In England they would have more touch players than rugby league players as well but not as many in Australia.

British rugby league got bigger crowds than rugby league here has ever gotten here, and in one part of England.
It had a large first division around 30 teams and played a lot of games so it would have been a lot of local rivals playing each other constantly and small teams relying on fans from their opposition. The combined crowds in its heyday were double what rugby league here gets, and equal to the AFL now.
The TV era led to a decline being in one area of England it didnt have the broad appeal across the nation for TV .It was still far ahead of Australian rugby league economically, the real thing that led to Sydney being the hub of rugby league and continues this day is the pokies. If Australian rugby league didnt have the pokies the best players would have been going to England to play till pay tv came in and the tv rights increased.
What I think has led to the further downfall of British rugby league is splitting into two divisions followed by further removal of teams to introduce expansion teams. Murdoch while being the supporter of rugby league has been the reason for its failure trying to exploit the sport for pay tv purposes, reducing top level teams just excludes more people from the top level and trying to introduce expansion teams from other areas London Broncos and then French teams and even Toronto. . Murdoch if he had his way in Australia the 12 team super league all on pay Tv with Perth Melbourne and Adelaide teams he might have repeated whats happened in England.
I havent seen any wide evidence of British rugby league fans watching the NRL, unlike Australians watching the EPL and NBA.
If you looking for a lesson dont expand to areas where you dont have the media coverage like London Broncos. In a lot of small towns there is non stop coverage of local teams in local media, take a team out of the first division then that interest and support goes down.
In Australia the A-league teams can be local and get no coverage at all.

The biggest crowds in the old days were for the Windies because they were the best quality opposition, not because it was an easy win.
These days India and England are the only two teams left who pick their strongest side not that the English performed last time even with that, Cricket Australia gets their TV money plus all the English and Indian fans that will turn up anyway.
The question has to be why are they willing to pay a fortune for foreign players to play in the Big Bash and even have their own auction and not pay a cent to the opposition to field their best team in the test series.
Australia pocket all the money from a home test series not the ICC it should be their responsibility to make sure the opposition get some money.

Your the one who has been making specific arguments without any evidence regarding concerts bringing in the money and this is your defence.

Here is the breakdown of revenue
Membership 8,722 7,831
Hiring and management fees 19,739 8,929
Ticketing and admissions fees 4,159 2,823
Catering 13,673 10,885
Sponsorships 3,546 3,23

As far as I know Suncorp and Gabba have membership but Gabba would be bigger membership , do members go to concerts I dont think so.
Ticketing and admision would be their own events.
Sponsorships naming rights to stadium.
Catering depends on the stadiums deal, you dont know what percentage of the catering money the hirer takes. Does that include anything from concerts who knows.
The major difference between the two years an extra rugby league team came into Suncorp and the Roar started playing games at Suncorp again. What the number of concerts difference is I dont know.

Further more the major expense is 2023 2022

Professional fees and contractors 7,657 7,100
Council rates, water, electricity and gas 6,125 6,535
Insurance 4,240 2,592
Venue cleaning and asset protection costs 4,878 4,511
Repairs and maintenance 42,856 29,284
Software support and computer costs 5,752 3,536
Event costs 3,937 2,543

If there have been an increased number of concerts they have lost all the money on increased maintainence. It suggests that concerts are in fact a money loser and they should be vastly increasing hiring charges for them before they allowed.

What we do know the impact on the field from an 11 vs 11 match of lighter players 65-80kg males is little compared to a rugby league match 80-110kg and a lot less than a rugby union match 80-120kg and AFL has 18 vs 18 75-100kg
A concert on the other hand they seem to relay turf after every one its like having a natural disaster every weekend.
Have you actually every laid turf yourself or looked at the cost.

The thing that doesn’t make sense is the B side with some new players and have never played together are the ones to experiment with the new style of play that is designed at fixing the limitations of the A side.
Or maybe he was trying to silence his critics over lack of experimentation and new faces by setting them up for failure.

The style of play I saw was pass it to the fullback then to the midfielders with a player directly on their back and then relying on them to flick it to the winger while running backwards and being pushed in the back. This was dumb stuff that would make Australia easy pickings for most top international sides which are known for their press.

Fornarolis so called stunning performance has been anything but yes he has done more than McLaren.
2 good matches 2 hit and miss and 2 all miss. He had easy chances in 3 of the 4 draws.
Milanovic has been very good both converting chances and other phases of play.
Stametopoulos hasn;t offered a lot other than scoring goals.
Borrello did nothing much before the injury,
McLaren has done nothing outside of his tap ins, and he has been rubbish in every Socceroos match he has playerd.
Milanovic should be the one picked.
As far as picking old players its been a long time since this was an issue for the Socceroos.
ONeill hung on for a bit too long but it didnt impact in the tournaments, Cahill went to the
It was the 2010 world cup where Grella and Chipperfield a combination of being over the hill and recent injuries meant they should never have made the squad and it showed against Germany.
As far as the Matildas as I pointed out three of the five goals were down to old players. Yallop ,Liuk, Polkinghorne need to be dumped. Van Egmond as well needs to go, she was the one change Gustavsson made at half time and was a non entity.
The other point I would make once Sinclair came on the Canada press was certainly no longer going.
While Fowler, Cooney Cross and Gorry were impressive coming on they had more latitude. Also notice how Canada when faced with a press hit the ball long, they weren’t going to play out in those conditions.
Sayer looks like an average midfielder in the A-league W there are about 50 players similiar why she is there playing an attacking position is completely beyond me. She has a lot of chances against weak opponents and showed little. Her fitness and workrate could be a lot better, there are a lot of A-league W players who would at least be capable of more pressing and movement.
Sarah Hunter is a good player, she was just obeying Gustavsson orders turned in the penalty in a foolish manner and got blindsided as there was a Canadian right there when she turned.
Why exactly did she get her debut in the worst of circumstances. She is an aggresive tackler, decent passer and has a good level of fitness.
Rule I am not sold on her as fullback at international level, she isnt the fastest and at international level you have a lot of pace to deal with. She is quite big so could fit in nicely at centerback and she can pass well enough.
The madness of playing out under pressure from the back has to stop. Gorry got caught out at the world cup many times doing it. The solution play out from the back if they aren’t pressing if they are hit it long and then press them. If it comes to pressing the oppositon then players like Van Egmond are poor. Hunter would complement, Gorry, Chidiac,Raso .