Tag Archives: A-League

The Roar faced a tricky midweek roadtrip to EnergyAustralia Stadium to play a resurgent Newcastle Jets on a humid Wednesday night in New South Wales.  Although the Jets currently sit bottom the table, they have recently found their form and over the past weekend they made short work of Adelaide United, crushing them 3-0.  With former Arsenal striker Francis Jeffers ...

This weekend I was thinking back to Tim Parks’ book A Season With Verona where he talks about why we support the teams we do and what it tells us about ourselves as people.  When was the last time you sat back and thought about why you are a fan of one club but not another?  Or why you watch ...

It was a top of the table clash on Saturday night between the Roar and the former league leaders Adelaide United.  This match of the round would pit the two most entertaining sides in the league against each other and promised to deliver fast, free flowing football.  Due to the A-League’s bizarre fixture arrangement, this would also be the Roar’s ...

Ricky Herbert is a man who never loses. Ricky will always make sure that he dumps a girlfriend before they get a chance to dump him.  He always back the horse with the shortest odds and he buys homogenized milk.  It’s this cautious approach to life that has made Ricky a world-renowned football manager.  His conservative, ultra-defensive style of play ...

Football can be a funny game.  Last week’s villain can be this week’s hero.  That was the case if you were a Brisbane Roar fan and you went from being angered last week by Melbourne Victory’s Robbie Kruse who scored against us to this week praising his name when he scored again to help sink Adelaide United to their first ...

They must be putting something in the water in Brisbane.  Somehow, completely against the run of form, both our local rugby and football teams have transformed from being basement dwelling also-rans into genuine title contenders. Earlier in the year, the Queensland Reds managed to turn around almost half a decade of mediocrity into a fifth place finish in the Super ...

So I booked in my Facebook username today and went with a rather predictable “facebook.com/edo.inoue”.  I’m still not sure I understand the point of having a Facebook Username but there was a lot I didn’t understand about Facebook when Pat first recommended it to me two years ago. I went out drinking last night with a friend from work in ...