I'm just giving a big shout out to Brenton1986 for the effort he is putting into this thread for all of us to have an easy job of keeping track. Don't "like" this post - I didn't earn anything - but if you feel like it throw a few likes at any of his comments so he knows his effort is...

I'm still giving Popa the benefit of newness in the role at the head of a stale and failing team, along with our results under his first games for us. I cannot comment on his player selection on any informed basis but I can agree with those who say that he has chosen those players who he thinks...

How much of City's good form attacking this year is due to Scott Jamieson? Many years ago he came to Suncorp for an All-Stars game. In the first half, every aleague player just did what they did for their own team week in week out and it was a useless mess. As they game progressed I saw...

I found the players to be the problem with attitude and nastiness - the ref did a pretty good job of stopping it becoming worse but nothing was ever going to stop passionately invested players in a grand final from venting and getting frustrated. I was surprised that City seemed to be the...

City have the edge due to their midfield pressure and that composure in the final third that has made them the team they are this season. They construct their plays so well. Victory with as many, if not more, opportunities but they are all rushed and frantic seeming and not good enough yet to...

Photos. See previous threads about Arnie, Gustavsson, most Socceroos players, most Matildas players and so on...

This is how my brain works: Is there actually an option in the ownership contract that allows anyone to step in under the circumstances mentioned? As I understand from things I've read over the years there is no one standard licence agreement since Roar have the 'no other team in Brisbane'...

Good win with some very decent performances and combinations. Argentina being a lesser opponent certainly helped us to look better with a lot of loose balls and heavy touches being swooped on by us when they went into open space - even when the Argentinian player had a better start position. I...

The ref let a lot of foul contact go towards the end of the first half, or called things the wrong way to my eyes, and my feeling is we are copping the raw end of the stick overall. But the offside goal might make up for that :) Either her sideline officials don't see anything or they don't...

There could be a sponsorship from Brisbane Abbatoir in the pipeline. Now I see purpose in my Club's direction.

I think I might have stepped in some once.

I hadn't considered a few of those thoughts. Thanks Mono.

I don't mind NoMates views - they are based on his passion for the game and his team and they always have a basis (however flawed that may be ;)).

From a thread posted sometime back about the statistical side of a good youth team leading into national success it prompted me to think about the role of youth leagues in producing senior talent. From my ignorant and generalised observations, it seems to me that the first thing youth players...

I heard they delivered hundreds of mattresses to the ground in preparation for the session.

If that front picture had them holding hands with their counterparts it would be so much more entertaining.

South Melbourne Hellas would never relocate here. The catering is crap and the food outlets are closed before the end of the game. I know what matters.

I know we have had this discussion before but all I will ask this time is - do you consider the owners are the club? I don't. All of your statements about lack of ambition and the like may be completely true for the owners, but I disagree that they are either staff and player related or state...

Application to wind up the Club's Corporate entity. I can dream that means the club remains as a football team and they find new owners rather than possibly losing the club entirely. I do not relish being PPIMB, GCKIMB or, god forbid, SMIMB. As much as NoMates is NoDoubt grinning ear to ear...

And to think I deleted my intended reply to Mono about not telling his Mrs when he said football and kids come first - "I won't say a word when you are off at the game then" - because I thought it marginally over the line...