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The Orange Army. (Brisbane Roar Official Thread)

James McGarry serving a one-match suspension for too many yellow cards and will be unavailable for Brisbane Roar in their A-League Men matchday 18 game against Sydney FC on Saturday, but Noah Maieroni returns to the squad after having served his suspension. Austin Ludwik and Quinn MacNicol have both been promoted to the extended squad also.
 
Your coaches tactics are cynical, that is all. If Alex King wasn't such a donkey of a ref half of your team shudda got yellow cards.
 
Matildas star and West Ham captain Katrina Gorry, one of Queensland’s finest footballing exports, has confirmed she wants to one day return to the Sunshine State and play for her old club Brisbane Roar.

At 34 with a wife and two kids I could see this happening in a few seasons time. She would be a huge signing for the Roar, possibly the signing of the season for whichever season she comes in.

 
I would love to see a renovated Perry Park become the home of football in Brisbane.

But I do wonder, with good reason, if the club have plans to try and move elsewhere.
 
If the club moves elsewhere, you effectively get rid of the Brisbane market. Not sure that is viable. What is needed for the league is a strong competitive Brisbane club.
 
OzQldRoarDan said:
Not sure if people have seen that Dave McDaniel - one of the founders of the Den - passed away this week. The Roar board have made a comment, and apparently the team will be wearing black armbands this weekend.

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Welcome to the forum

Sad to hear Dave passed away
What can u tell me about him
 
He had a lot to do with the old Roar Supporters Forum, and the Den active support. I only ever knew him from his online stuff - I've never been much of a contributor, so I know about people, but don't really get to know them. I know he started a social football team of people from the active support - called themselves The Den FC. Played several seasons at lower level in Brisbane. Leaves his wife Liz (who has also been involved with Roar Supporters) and at least two kids.
 
OzQldRoarDan said:
He had a lot to do with the old Roar Supporters Forum, and the Den active support. I only ever knew him from his online stuff - I've never been much of a contributor, so I know about people, but don't really get to know them. I know he started a social football team of people from the active support - called themselves The Den FC. Played several seasons at lower level in Brisbane. Leaves his wife Liz (who has also been involved with Roar Supporters) and at least two kids.
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Will be missed. The den seems to have been quiet this year. Is that due to heaby handed policing or frustration with the club
 
grazorblade said:
Will be missed. The den seems to have been quiet this year. Is that due to heaby handed policing or frustration with the club
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Unsure - there was a take-over by a bunch of kids a few years ago, so there's been some internal ructions in the Den over the last few years, which has slowed things down. I'm sure there's some frustrations with the club and performance as well.
Don't think Dave's been involved with the active for a while.
 
OzQldRoarDan said:
Not sure if people have seen that Dave McDaniel - one of the founders of the Den - passed away this week. The Roar board have made a comment, and apparently the team will be wearing black armbands this weekend.

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Condolences to the Roar family....
 
brisbaneroar.com.au

Brisbane Roar Confirms First Squad Changes Ahead of 2026/27 Season

Brisbane Roar FC can today confirm several changes to its A-League Men’s squad as the club commences significant recruitment ahead of the 2026/27 season. The changes mark the first phase of a broader squad redesign being led by incoming Sporting Director James Gow, who...
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Brisbane Roar have announced the first set of delistings ahead of A-League Men season 2026-27, with Ben Warland, Austin Ludwik, Antonee Burke-Gilroy, Michael Ruhs, Ben Halloran, Chris Long, Quinn MacNicol and Jacob Brazete being delisted by the side upon falling out of contract. Marius Lode, Youstin Salas and Nick D'Agostino also return to their parent clubs after having completed their loans, whilst Sam Klein has been transferred to St. Pauli and Georgios Vrakas leaves by way of mutual consent from the remaining year left on his contract.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
brisbaneroar.com.au

Brisbane Roar Confirms First Squad Changes Ahead of 2026/27 Season

Brisbane Roar FC can today confirm several changes to its A-League Men’s squad as the club commences significant recruitment ahead of the 2026/27 season. The changes mark the first phase of a broader squad redesign being led by incoming Sporting Director James Gow, who...
brisbaneroar.com.au brisbaneroar.com.au

Brisbane Roar have announced the first set of delistings ahead of A-League Men season 2026-27, with Ben Warland, Austin Ludwik, Antonee Burke-Gilroy, Michael Ruhs, Ben Halloran, Chris Long, Quinn MacNicol and Jacob Brazete being delisted by the side upon falling out of contract. Marius Lode, Youstin Salas and Nick D'Agostino also return to their parent clubs after having completed their loans, whilst Sam Klein has been transferred to St. Pauli and Georgios Vrakas leaves by way of mutual consent from the remaining year left on his contract.
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Very sorry to see MacNichol depart, he'll probably end up as another Eli Adams. Neither Burke-Gilroy nor Jacob Brazete were given much opportunity this year. Salas will be missed, he was one of the better performers during the year. Overall, Vrakas was quite ineffective. I can't understand why Vidic isn't on the list, he started well but faded badly as the season progressed. Hopefully Roar's recruitment will unearth another Berisha or Broich over the next few months!
 
Taff-01 said:
Very sorry to see MacNichol depart, he'll probably end up as another Eli Adams. Neither Burke-Gilroy nor Jacob Brazete were given much opportunity this year. Salas will be missed, he was one of the better performers during the year. Overall, Vrakas was quite ineffective. I can't understand why Vidic isn't on the list, he started well but faded badly as the season progressed. Hopefully Roar's recruitment will unearth another Berisha or Broich over the next few months!
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I am not sorry to see Warland, Ludwik, Halloran and Long leave. They did not make an impact, and Long was not worth bringing in for the end results.

I was disappointed with both Ruhs and Brazete's involvement this season. I expected much better things from Ruhs and I think we did not use him well enough to gain from his strengths. Brazete was just on the outer the whole time and the excitement he brought the previous season just did not get a chance to be seen.

MacNicol seemed to be a bit of a pet project for Valkanis - but our injuries meant we never had a stable team to have him grow into it well enough so he was bit like last Christmas' kitten.

Burke-Gilroy was such a force for us last season - just no room for him it seemed so we lost out on a really good player there.

Lode was nothing special and cost us at least one game. He was not the answer to losing Herrington with Dimi Valkanis not a good enough centreback himself to be the key at the back.

Daggers got injured - real shame.

Salas was huge for us. We can probably replace him but it is a shame we have to.

Not a massive loss collectively for us - just a few players, including Klein, who we will have to recruit very well to replace.
 
RIMB said:
I am not sorry to see Warland, Ludwik, Halloran and Long leave. They did not make an impact, and Long was not worth bringing in for the end results.

I was disappointed with both Ruhs and Brazete's involvement this season. I expected much better things from Ruhs and I think we did not use him well enough to gain from his strengths. Brazete was just on the outer the whole time and the excitement he brought the previous season just did not get a chance to be seen.

MacNicol seemed to be a bit of a pet project for Valkanis - but our injuries meant we never had a stable team to have him grow into it well enough so he was bit like last Christmas' kitten.

Burke-Gilroy was such a force for us last season - just no room for him it seemed so we lost out on a really good player there.

Lode was nothing special and cost us at least one game. He was not the answer to losing Herrington with Dimi Valkanis not a good enough centreback himself to be the key at the back.

Daggers got injured - real shame.

Salas was huge for us. We can probably replace him but it is a shame we have to.

Not a massive loss collectively for us - just a few players, including Klein, who we will have to recruit very well to replace.
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Macnicol is a player I'm guessing valkanis would like to keep

Valkanis seems to like strong, physical players that can win when their is contact, so brazette probably didn't fit

Hopefully we play some young locals
 
WhatAmIWatching said:
Hopefully Brazette and McNicol get another opportunity. I am undecided about Burke-Gilroy and perhaps a different club will improve him. As for the rest, nah.
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I don't know where the talk of MacNicol going to Melbourne City has ended up, and I agree about both getting opportunities.

The two seasons before, Burke-Gilroy was one of our best players - to the extent that we played him out of position frequently to fill gaps from injuries and the like.

I really liked what he brought.

Unfortunately, he just did not appear to fit with Valkanis' preferences (no complaints from me about McGarry at left fullback) and we did not see anything of him this season just gone. He is (was?) a better player than many we had - just not in the positions they occupied.

By the laws of football, we can expect McGarry to get injured next season and we will not have the quality of Burke-Gilroy to step in.
 
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