March 3, 2015

by Martin Stern

Kingaroy will travel to Toowoomba to play Warwick Wolves on Saturday, March 14 at Clive Berghofer Stadium.

Players from both Gunners and Wests will make up the side, with Debbie Ovens and Mauro Buzzo sharing coaching duties.

The match gets underway at 5:00pm.

Gunners travelled to Hervey Bay on the weekend for a trial game against Bayside Warriors.

Seconds lost 3-4 and Firsts 0-2.

Some players had to double up and will be better for the run.

Meanwhile, Wests men’s team had a trial game amongst themselves in very warm and humid conditions.

Wests men will travel to Dalby for trial next weekend.

The Second Division side will take on Dalby at 5:00pm, while the First Division side will play Chinchilla at 7:00pm.

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Redbacks Hit The Park

After a long summer, Kingaroy Junior Redbacks will start training this Thursday from 4:00pm at the Kingaroy Junior Soccer Fields.

Players will also have another chance to register for the season.

Coaches will be putting players through their paces while starting to sort teams out for the coming season.

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More Refs For South Burnett

Local footballers should find themselves with some new referees if everyone that took the recent Level 4 Course in Kingaroy register.

Aidan Penfound, Raegan Campbell, Maxine Evans, Neil Gurnett, Jason Hetherington and Tommy Schmidhauser completed the Level 4 (Junior) Theory Course on Sunday.

Cassie Kelly will be doing the course next weekend in Toowoomba.

These referees will start off with junior fixtures in May and will be assessed before finally getting their full qualifications.

Congratulations to Brendan Young, Greg Mashford, Alex Firman and Jackson Kelly in completing their Level 3 (Senior) Theory Course.

Referee training will be held in Kingaroy on Monday, March 9 at 6:30pm.

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Brisbane Roar haven’t had a good run over the last week, going down to Beijing Guoan 1-Nil and drawing with Perth Glory 2-all (Photo: football-shirts.co.uk)

Lack Of Roar Firepower Disappoints

Brisbane Roar played Beijing Guoan last Wednesday evening in front of a small crowd of just under 7000.

The day, time and travel distance (despite free public transport) made it difficult to travel and get home.

However the Den faithful more than made up for it in noise and cheered the lads on.

A stoppage time deflected free kick gave the 10-man Beijing Guoan a shock 1-0 win.

Substitute Shao Jiayi’s set piece deflected off Andrija Kaluderovic’s attempted headed clearance and wrong footed goalkeeper Michael Theo to snatch the three points in the opening match of Group G.

Brisbane dominated possession throughout the opening stages and seemed on course to find an opener after Beijing had Erton Fejzullahu dismissed for a stomp on midfielder Adam Sarota in the 28th minute.

A flurry of chances followed for Roar, with Kaluderovic and man of the match Thomas Broich both going close either side of a Sarota shot over the crossbar.

The half-time break allowed Beijing to rediscover their shape and the Chinese Super League side proved difficult to break down.

Kaluderovic and Brandon Borrello both had half chances around the hour mark without Roar being troubled at the other end, as Luke DeVere impressed on returning to the scene of his last Brisbane Roar appearance.

Henrique’s second half entrance enlivened the crowd, but the Brazilian was unable to break the deadlock with the match seemingly drifting to a goalless draw.

However, just moments after coming off the bench, former China international Jiayi fired in the fortuitous free kick to seize all three points for Beijing in the dying seconds.

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Brisbane travelled to Perth on Saturday to take on A-League front runners Perth Glory.

Perth Glory are Hyundai A-League leaders and they took advantage of the 10-man Brisbane Roar in the closing stages to snatch a 2-2 draw at Nib Stadium on Saturday night.

Dino Djulbic scored the equaliser in the 84th minute after Roar defender Corey Brown was sent off eight minutes earlier for denying Jamie Maclaren a goal-scoring opportunity.

Brisbane had earlier taken the lead with two goals in three minutes to Jean Carlos Solorzano in the 60th and Matt McKay in the 63rd after teenager Daniel De Silva gave the home side the lead in the 26th minute.

It ended the Roar’s three-match winning streak as well as Glory’s winless streak, which had extended to six games.


 

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