Mark Shaw

Defensive Midfielder - Brisbane Roar
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324 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

11 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Oct 2032

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jereno van Gom

128 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brisbane Roar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces11 Oct 2032

Supporters organise against the Brisbane Roar board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom11 Oct 2032

Pressure builds in the Brisbane Roar boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market11 Oct 2032

Oliver Hughes 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 The request is on a desk at Brisbane Roar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad11 Oct 2032

Jordan Lauton 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.

Squad11 Oct 2032

Too much change too quickly at Brisbane Roar

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Loan watch11 Oct 2032

Owen Harrison counts the days

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

The dugout11 Oct 2032

Oliver Lavale 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 Oliver Lavale trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout11 Oct 2032

Kai Watson is still paying for one afternoon at Brisbane Roar

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager makes Adam Ward a promise
  • Squad Questions about Mark Shaw on the training pitch
Back issues
323 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

4 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Oct 2032

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jereno van Gom

135 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brisbane Roar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom4 Oct 2032

Brisbane Roar spell it out for Robert Frankowski

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Robert Frankowski has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom4 Oct 2032

Crisis meeting at Brisbane Roar

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad4 Oct 2032

Tempers go at Brisbane Roar

Jordan Lauton 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.

Squad4 Oct 2032

Marc Tokich is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Marc Tokich has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Market4 Oct 2032

Brisbane Roar and Oliver Lavale are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad4 Oct 2032

Mark Shaw signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mark Shaw commits to Brisbane Roar for another 3 years.

The dugout4 Oct 2032

Miguel Di Pizio loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Miguel Di Pizio's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

The dugout4 Oct 2032

Oliver Lavale knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Brisbane Roar, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief