The Brisbane Roar Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Daniel Arzani
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Brisbane Roar have done the hard part with Ferencvaros, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Brisbane Roar
Giorgos Vrakas was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Michael Ruhs 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Brisbane Roar rebuffed over Angus Thurgate
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Western Sydney Wanderers have kept their man, and Brisbane Roar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Melbourne Victory join the queue for Ben Warland
Add another name to the list: Melbourne Victory have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ben Warland. The answer from Brisbane Roar has not changed — yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
Brisbane Roar promote Oliver Wallace from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oliver Wallace has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Brisbane Roar promote Keanu Byrne from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Keanu Byrne has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Luke Clark joins the Brisbane Roar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luke Clark is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Benjamin Halloran in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Brisbane Roar are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Squad Brisbane Roar are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Ben Warland knocks on the manager's door