The Brisbane Roar Chronicle
The dugout26 Feb 2029
Carlo Armiento frozen out at Brisbane Roar
This is not rotation. Carlo Armiento has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Brisbane Roar is pretending otherwise.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Giorgos Vrakas 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.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Words exchanged at Brisbane Roar
Sam Sutton 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.
Match24 Feb 2029
Brisbane Roar end the wait against Melbourne City
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match24 Feb 2029
Brisbane Roar get the job done against Melbourne City
A 1‑0 win over Melbourne City, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings26 Feb 2029
Jing Reec takes the honours
Marked 7.94 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Brisbane Roar had the best player on the pitch.
Squad26 Feb 2029
A row about effort at Brisbane Roar
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kane Vincent-Young was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Patrick Moore signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Patrick Moore commits to Brisbane Roar for another 3 years.
The dugout26 Feb 2029
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Keanu Gallagher, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
In brief
- The dugout The team sheet said everything about Oscar Fryer
- The dugout Sebit Ngor gets picked when it counts
- Player ratings Sebit Ngor could have had three