The Brisbane Roar Chronicle
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
A brace, and Justin Vidic takes the afternoon — 9.87
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Justin Vidic provided it, and the 9.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Dean Bouzanis keeps Brisbane Roar in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
Brisbane Roar tie Callum Bailey down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Sebit Ngor 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.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
Graduation day at Brisbane Roar
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match23 Oct 2027
Justin Vidic sends Brisbane Roar past Macarthur FC
It finished 3‑2, and it was Justin Vidic’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Brisbane Roar.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Dimitris Valkanis signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dimitris Valkanis commits to Brisbane Roar for another 4 years.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Ninety minutes of Austin Ayoubi at his very best
Marked 9.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Brisbane Roar.
The terraces25 Oct 2027
The crowd has taken to Justin Vidic
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market Shane Hunter steps up from the Brisbane Roar academy
- Market Brisbane Roar promote Thomas Morgan from within
- Market One of our own: Mark Robertson joins the Brisbane Roar first team