Brisbane Roar FC vs Melbourne City FC: A-League live scores

work in progress, no doubt about that, but if you missed how ordinary they made the champions look for long periods in that match, you missed something special. As I said earlier, they troubled City in both their previous games too, for long periods.

Lionheart - It is a great point of discussion but I am not convinced Roar are playing with a back 4 and if you know about how a back 3 is supposed to function then it doesn't make it easy to analyse the overall performance of the team. Last game Champness was back to perform on the left wing out wide and this immediately causes a problem for Brown who, under normal back 3 tactics,is supposed to do all the attacking down the left. Over the length of the game that appeared to be affecting how Brown was supposed to commit to attack. However that is not the problem facing Roar or Moon. It is how to get the ball from a solid defence to the front men and with a back 3 formation when possession is gained this should show 5 men in the midfield conjuring up ball transfer to the front men. This is not happening on a regular basis ,last night we saw DWH come back into midfield to win balls and carry them at speed for 30 or 40 metres before shooting high or wide. This is not how the system is supposed to work. The centre forward is supposed to use his pace and aggression to create spaces up front and out of the supposed 5 midfielders last night only Parsons was seen to regularly get into a shooting position, even O'Shea was sadly absent. TV does have some added advantage ,as the camera tends to follow the ball and in doing so it tends to focus on players and how they are going about their place in the attack formation. You'd be surpried at how many basic mistakes the camera picks up. Cheers jb.

Chopper-Thank you for your excellent, sensible reply, though to be honest I don't like to be combined with our mutual friend AA. His observations and mine are miles apart in content so please leave him out of our future discussions. You are correct, I am impatient, I have been waiting for at least 8 years to see if Roar can be returned to their former glory as one of, if not the top team, in Australian football. Is that a bad thing?, I don't think so, and for that time I have watched coaches and managers, and players, come and go with little or no success and yet plenty of disturbing news emanating about how the club is run. Our co writer Waz appears to have some inside running to that and may care to enlighten us as to what is wrong at the decision making end of the football pyramid. So Chopper, we are in the same boat my difference is that 8 years is too long to wait for improvement and you apparently are happy enough with the status quo. I was impressed with the team last night considering what their opponent did in their team selection, but a win is a win and at this point in time a very much needed 3 points. Sure there were plenty of reserve team players on show and that in itself was a help in assessing how things are progressing at the lower levels, but as I said ,a return to AP's team standard is still a while away. Cheers jb.

Fox FOOTBALL has been Great for Football in Australia .... Every A-League Match shown LIVE, a First for Local Football in this Great Country. The A-League Final is The Greatest Game played Every A-League Season. And when I spoke to The Great Johnny Warren back in early 1993, We both agreed the The Grand Final MUST COUNT and ALWAYS be OUR Biggest Game every Year JUST Like The WORLD CUP FINAL is .... therefore from the year after that, The Grand Final was The Championship Winner and from that change .... The Football Crowds doubled .... highlighted by that Magnificent BRISBANE Crowd at Lang Park ( Suncorp Stadium ) to watch The 1997 Grand Final between The BRISBANE STRIKERS and sydney united FC ( BSFC winning 2-1, goals from Rod Brown and Frank Farina ) In front of 40,000 + crowd inside the stadium and 5,000+ stuck Outside the Stadium. Finally, Johnny agreed that even though We are both FOOTBALL PURISTS .... It’s THE AUSTRALIAN WAY!!! FORZA BRISBANE ROAR FOOTBALL CLUB!!!

So, channel 10 will show it a 11:00 pm like 7 before?

Explain please. Can Foxtel still telecast streaming ? Can Kayo still telecast or streaming?

JB, I came home from last night’s game around 10 and watched the entire match on replay. Two things surprised me over what I saw at the game. First was Adelaide’s dominance in the first 20 minutes. That they didn’t score can only be attributed to some good defence, mainly by Neville but all round really. Maybe some poor positioning by City’s striker too (balls rolling across the front of goal are scary). Second was the overall view you miss on TV. They had a sideline camera there last night (not always at Redcliffe) and often we saw an individual on screen running with a ball rather than the wide angle which showed just how fast and how far players moved. After their first goal, Roar dominated and had some pretty special plays that didn’t always show up on TV. There were large portions of play when City had the ball and could do nothing with it, back and forth to the defenders, no way top penetrate a well structured defence. I was surprised to see the champions basically made to look clueless. I know there’s a way to go, Moon says so himself in post match interviews, but I like the way our team is travelling. As to the constant changes, I think that with the two centre-backs out and in and out again, they’re moving their shape and positions around to work with the best they can put out on the park. Quite impressed with Brown this year, after all those seasons of watching him develop. At times last night Parsons was one or two plays ahead of his team, and his opponents (not noticed on the reply). Certainly agree they could all pass it around a bit more directly in front of goal, try for an assist rather than shooting (it’s not only Wenzell-Halls, who had a pretty good game last night).

decisions always even themselves out during the course of the season. Any perceived luck we supposedly had is long gone. how a team that consistently has more possesion than most teams, doesnt win any fouls shows you the level of ineptitude that refs have in the a league. I use the most recent match against brisbane as an example where the foul count was completely against us. That lower league OAP on your team went through several of our players with tackles and we got zero calls or even a card for him. juric and yengi consistently get calls against them rather than for them based on the size of the opponents.

I see more bias from SA, and for AU by refs than any other team this year

Yeah despite the recent doom & gloom articles & punters (excuse the pun) here predicting the slow demise of the A-League. This is great news with Paramount/Channel 10 broadcast deal. Some interesting pts from article from Vince Rugari In a further sign of the company’s commitment to growing the sport, Ten’s owners ViacomCBS have bought a 2.5 per cent share in the Australian Professional Leagues. Means they have stake to make it work, marketing etc. The APL has also agreed to share responsibility for broadcast production, a move rarely undertaken by major sporting competitions in Australia. Paramount+ shows the UEFA Champions League and Italy’s Serie A in the US, and is believed to be interested in complimenting its A-League and W-League coverage by securing other football rights in Australia. The financial element of the deal is a boon for A-League clubs and above expectations. In the first year, it contains $32 million in cash - with Football Australia receiving a 20 per cent share, as per the APL’s independence terms brokered last year - and a further $11 million in contra, which will be gradually reduced over the term of the contract.

JB I'll reply both to you and boy scout AA. It is easy to pick the negatives from any football team and their players. When criticism is not constructive such as "all three are rubbish" with no talk of technical deficiencies or when "they have tried 3 or 4 players at wingback recently" without mentioning Brindell-South's injured shoulder or Hingerts's pulled hamstring, then both of you are guilty of inane commentary just for the sake of it. Boy scout loves to rabbit on about "longball Brisbane" without any real knowledge about what a longball is and JB looks for a utopia where Brisbane are at the top of the League but fails to realise that McLaren was at Brisbane and he scored plenty of goals with the club. But Brisbane won nothing then despite the huge wage bill. In fact Brisbane have had their fair share of strikers over the years including Berisha, Borello, Barbarusous, Taggart, MacLaren and Macdonald but there are ebbs and flows for all teams as they rejuvenate their squads and players age or move on. The positives for Brisbane are that their academy is providing young players in most positions and providing these players are nurtured they will provide the success all teams strive for. This week both Parsons and Dehmie signed their first professional contracts and there were many young players from both sides in the match and all were learning their trade. Surely JB this is better than sitting on the pine, that is one thing that AA approves of but I must admit that I also approve of JB's structure and balance but I think he should also add patience. That is also something AA should include in his philosophy because I have seen too many young players pushed too hard too early and it has destroyed their game completely.

no form of jealously from me what so ever, i know the position of my club. They consistently deliver on the pre requisites each year (young players, majority adelaide born players, attacking football & a top 6 spot) for a club with the 3rd lowest budget in the league, i’d say we consistently over achieve and long may it continue when you get to a final of a champions league come talk to me, when you actually get our the group stage; come talk to me ????

doesnt matter if he was 1 month old, or 10 years old. He's local and will be welcomed home

welcome to the east coast bias Guppy

sink or swim unfortunately, its part of the profession

Another one with slight jealousy, I understand, I follow Derby in England & always envy the bigger clubs with their champions league games & trophies. I'm a traditionalist, you need go along way to convince me Melbourne City not best team this year, so personally not that fuss for the finals, it would be nice to win, but we not the premiership winners this year.

I was born in Adelaide too Andy but I'm deffo not a South Australian :silly:

in last night's squad, more at Roar. AU's squad last match average age late 20's kids need to be developed, not thrown into the deep end like AU has done to more than a few youngsters

ps. he was in nappies when he left SA, his parents transited through there a while, like me, I've lived in five States

I welcome Chanel 10. Let the swift rise of the A-League begin. I wonder if some Fox “expert” commentators will make the switch?