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The Orange Army. (Brisbane Roar Official Thread)

There is definitely a change in focus for us this season.

So many Roar B signings and youth prospects in the squad.

I have mixed feelings on it:

1/ Having young promising players develop, and forge a cohesive positive attacking side is a plus. Being young they are going to be learning to play senior football 'our way' whatever that is now, and with the enthusiasm and energy of youth to combine with less rusted on bad habits we could see a strong side emerging. it also feeds into our obvious marketing and on-selling strategy for the club.

2/ The Roar B side has been losing by a goal or so most games this season in the NPL. Without a core of older and more experienced players of decent quality in the senior squad I am concerned about how a struggling B side can be expected to step up and compete with other aleague sides this season.

I am, without doubt, enthusiastic about our prospects and the young players getting contracts and game time. Ever hopeful but wary...
 
We are recruiting a very good B team here. Should go up at the first time of asking 😂

Seems a good signing on a decent enough length deal. Hopefully we now turn our attention to bringing in some known quality to mix with all the potential we have recruited.
 
My suspicion is that Roar are signing all these young players on scholarship contracts because that is very cheap ($45k for a scholarship player?). Then hoping that some turn out to be good enough to be somewhat competitive in the A League, meaning they don’t have to sign so many senior players on larger salaries.
If by a stroke of luck one of them turns out to be the next Tom Waddingham or Lucas Herrington, then will they have learnt their lesson when selling them on in terms of maximising revenue to the club, or will be content to just get a quick sugar hit?
 
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