Bailey Shaw

Left Back - Brisbane Roar U18
11 Dec 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Bailey Shaw

71 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jordan Lauton damages knee ligaments — 43 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 43 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

The mood at Brisbane Roar has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

A fracture rules Bailey Shaw out for 85 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brisbane Roar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Brisbane Roar

Position 10 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

A falling-out at Brisbane Roar

Dean Bouzanis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Joel King 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.

Match

Melbourne City take the points off Brisbane Roar

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Dean Bouzanis gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Chris Byrne: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

Back issues
70 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jordan Lauton damages knee ligaments — 50 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 50 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Bailey Shaw breaks a bone — 92 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

The small margins put Brisbane Roar out

Out, 1‑2 to Macarthur FC, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Alfie James, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.91

A mark of 7.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Brisbane Roar

Lachlan Wales 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.

Squad

Words at Brisbane Roar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jay O'Shea is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Brisbane Roar find a way past Auckland FC

Auckland FC made Brisbane Roar work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Elliot Collier

Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

Ben Warland gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

69 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Bailey Shaw breaks a bone — 99 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Lachlan Wales 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Brisbane Roar against Newcastle Jets

0‑1 to Newcastle Jets, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mitchell Glasson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mitchell Glasson, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

Luke Wallace counts the days

“I watch every Brisbane Roar game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Auckland City runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

Chris Byrne faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Chris Byrne after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Mitchell Glasson has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Brisbane Roar will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Ben Warland

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

68 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

107 days out for Bailey Shaw after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Brisbane Roar will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

James Durrington puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Brisbane Roar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Brisbane Roar

Dean Bouzanis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Brisbane Roar

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jay O'Shea was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Sydney FC take the points off Brisbane Roar

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

No hiding place for Gabriel Popovic

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Popovic, and the manager let it.

Squad

Mamadou Sidibé wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Brisbane Roar know it.

The dugout

Jay O'Shea is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

Chris Byrne: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief