Joel King

Left Back - Brisbane Roar
6 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Joel King

16 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Joel King signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joel King and Brisbane Roar agree another 3 years.

Squad

Nick D'Agostino in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Brisbane Roar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jay O'Shea falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Michael Ruhs

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Hosine Bility

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Honours even between Brisbane Roar and Sydney FC

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Emin Duraković is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Sebastián Jaime in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Brisbane Roar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Joel King has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief

  • Squad Jay O'Shea falls out with a teammate over standards
8 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Real improvement from Medin Memeti at Brisbane Roar

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Medin Memeti is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Nick D'Agostino in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Brisbane Roar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A late step up for Joel King

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief