R4 vs Brisbane Roar | Sat 28th Oct | 7:35pm | RoF

33.Petros SKAPETIS - Oh snap. This kid was picked up by QPR for a bit - meant to be very talented. Mark Hughes brought him in if memory serves me correctly - LoneGunMan. He was thought of as being the next big thing. 

Nothing came of it and he ended up following Hughes to Stoke. Doesn't look like he started there either, so it'll be interesting to see if he starts. 

I've watched a couple of Roar games, Skapetis was either subbed on early or subbed off. Looks to be a creative player in wide areas but not particularly hard working. From what I've seen I'm more worried about Maccarone, Ben Khalfallah and Holman

Cheers for the update. Figured we'd see Khalfallah & Maccarone starting, just spotted an ex-R so pleasently surprised. 

Must admit, watching the Nix this season has been far more pleasing/bearable than previous seasons. Despite feeling nervous during the off season at how slowly the club were moving on appointing a new manager, I've been impressed with what I've seen thus far.

The signings have been better, the football has been better and the team seem to be gelling well. We're only a few games in, but thus far I haven't turned the TV off in a fit of rage - even with 2 defeats. 

Onwards and upwards. 

Andrew Durante a fitness test away from starting against Brisbane Roar https://t.co/pmhFnPU7D1

— Andrew Voerman (@andrewvoerman) October 27, 2017

Who was the joker he went to that said he’ll be out for 8 weeks? Dr Nick?

Article suggests Finkler is set to start, so guessing Ridenton drops out. Wonder if we could try a narrow 4-4-2 diamond?

                     Smith

Galloway Mullen Durante Abbas

                    Paracki

             Vidosic McGlinchey

                     Finkler

            Krishna Kaludjerovic

Doyle in for Durante if he fails the fitness test. Galloway & Abbas to bomb forward to provide the width with Paracki covering their forward runs. Hopefully this would get Krishna more ball & in better positions than he has been getting atm.

I hope the weather is this good tomorrow evening. Wellington turning it on!

As much as I agree with RR that Krishna is wasted out wide, you're probably right that we need to try a proper creative central mid in the current formation first given how well the team is performing otherwise. Though even in that formation, Vidosic did look to come centrally much more than Krishna was obviously instructed to. It's just frustrating to see him so far away from the goal mouth.

Are you sure about this?

Game Day!

You Know the Drill! 

Been doing my bit to spread the word to get along tonight to watch our work in progress.

Be surprised if we don't take another step forward. Every side wants an early goal, but will make a helluva difference if we grab one, as it could spark something special.

However Brisbane are more than odds on to score in the game with Maccarone around up front, and they'll fancy themselves to take advantage of our enforced defensive shuffling.

What I think he's trying to say is there is a feeling (maybe just with Sarpong) that he's not a targetman, back to goal, winning headers striker. I think he's a relatively effective back to goal and targetman, much more than you would expect. We do seem to be hitting aerial crosses more, but no one is late into the box- like Daniel and Tim Brown, and Dario has cashed in a couple of times, but otherwise it's been a little low percentage...

AK is ok, but needs more from the rest of the attack. Krishna is a dynamic counter attacker, but it doesn't seem like we're going to try to do a lot of quick countering.

Rogerson starting for the WeeNix this afternoon, so guessing he won't be on the bench tonight.

Where's all the firing up on this thread?

Probably suffering in today's heatwave.

I'm amped for this and firing up GoT style - Dracarys!

Hot Hot Heat alright - beer is helping.

Amped for this

COYN 

I am soo peeved of that I cant go tonight, had concussion, no loud noise for me and such a great day for this one.

No Dura.

Abbas Doyle Mullan Galloway

Finkler on the bench.

Ingham on the bench for the roar.

Unsure if pointed out elsewhere but Keegan Smith is Photoshopped (poorly) over Italianos mugshot in the match day program.

You'll have to do some browser trickery and open my image above in a new window to see Keegan, who is on the far right of the image.

Lineup

AHAHAHA that's absolutely tragic. Feel sorry for Keegan, the club shouldn't be doing him dirty like this - still doesn't have any info or description on the club website.

Disappointing croud for such a nice day. Picking 6.5-7k-ish

Anyone able to help with a link to stream the game?

Classic! Wee Mac's mascot is nearly as tall as he is!

WHAT A START!

NO WAY 

The one time I can't find a stream early and this happens

anyway COYN YOU LEGENDS

Couple of poor options from Ridenton so far.  Hopefully he can get it sorted.

Hope u get sorted soon.

WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!