The Brisbane Roar Chronicle
Boardroom3 May 2027
Brisbane Roar spell it out for Toby McLaren
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Toby McLaren has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market3 May 2027
Milorad Stajić 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 The request is on a desk at Brisbane Roar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 May 2027
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.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at Brisbane Roar
Sebit Ngor 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Ben Warland
“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.
The dugout3 May 2027
Nick D'Agostino without the man who signed him
Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Nick D'Agostino was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.
The dugout3 May 2027
Milorad Stajić knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Milorad Stajić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Boardroom3 May 2027
Brisbane Roar were not finished after all
Written off a fortnight ago, the squad has closed ranks and answered on the pitch. Something was said behind that door, and so far it is holding.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager plants his flag on Dean Bouzanis
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Dean Bouzanis’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
In brief
- Squad Extra work for Justin Vidic at Brisbane Roar
- Squad Mitchell Webb is settling