To mesh or not to mesh, what are they doing?

QUEENSLAND Roar teammates Reinaldo and Andrew Packer had to be separated at training yesterday as the intensity cranked up a notch ahead of tonight's A-League clash against cellar dwellers Perth Glory at Suncorp Stadium.
Big defender Sasa Ognenovski was forced to intervene when a nasty push and shove developed between Packer and Reinaldo, who wasn't pleased with an earlier tackle made by the defender in a high-intensity training drill.
Roar coach Frank Farina later dismissed the incident, saying there were "no dramas" and that it showed "they're all ready for the game".
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22656138-5003412,00.html

After reading this, it kind of made me wonder. Is the reason the Roar aren't reaching their full potential because of the players skill level, or because they simply aren't melding as a team? When you have fighting in a game between opposing teams, that's bad enough. But when someone has to separate two teammates, it really makes you wonder what's going on.
The reason that Kruse and Zullo work together so well is because they actually like each other. The fact that they've played together for so long would mean practically nothing if they hated the sight of each other. Look how much they've helped our campaign through their obvious displays of unselfish teamwork!
The fact that Farina later tried to play the whole incident down shows that there is much more to it than meets the eye. Reinaldo is a fairly arrogant player, as is Andrew Packer. Packer also strikes me as the sort of fellow who won't take any s*#t from anyone (being from Ipswich and all).
Maybe instead of spending so much time at training injuring themselves (has anyone else noticed the excessive amount of injuries sustained at training?), the players should be doing teamwork building exercises, trust exercises and how not to attack your fellow player exercises!
That aggression should be channelled into the game when it is being played, not against each other while you are practicing.
I honestly think that if the players learnt to trust and respond to each other, we might be able to break the three season slump that disappoints us every time.

Introducing our newest member

Ok. Last blog I raised the point that my father reckoned their should be a refs analysis page regarding to the A-League. We all know the usual suspects, Breeze, Shields, Zetter, Williams and so on. Well, he went ahead and made his own blog, dedicated to the refs of the A-League. We all hate them, but I guess we owe it to them to have a fair report each week. Check him out:
www.refscall.blogspot.com
Hey Hamish, is it too late for him to join the Bloggers Cup? He'd probably overtake me even if he started on zero!!!!

All hail King Zullo

Ok. I've been seriously lazy with my blogging. I've been keeping relatively up to date with my tips, not that the results actually reflect that!!

I have been religiously watching and attending all the Roar games, but can't remember much of any of them. I do remember Mark Shields looking like he was about to fight . . .. . . Muscat maybe?, but yeah, that's about it.

I promise to try and be more regular with my blogging.

I would like to point out to everybody reading this, even though you probably all know, Zullo and Kruse rocked! It's about time we had young people with nothing to lose and everything to prove puting themselves on the line for the sake of the Roar, and it actually paying off. On a not so positive note, they both seemed to suffer from cramps. Heat? Inexperience? A combination of the two?

Also interesting to not that when Craig Zetter was telling Reinaldo to get off the field during a cramp of his own, it was not a Roar player but in fact Aloisi who ran over to help him stretch it out. Never picked him as the type.

Well, on my once a day Google Alert (very imformative, you should sign up) it said that Aloisi was being cited by FFA for his attack on a defender. The only incident I can think of that would relate to that (but an attacker, not a defender) was when Robbie Kruse went flying over the sideline. Was that Aloisi? Was that the incident in question?

It started with Tiatto. It's going to continue. Unfortunately. I don't see the point in things that happened during the game being dredged up and the players potentially being suspended for something the referee did not pick up. Is this a poor reflection on the referees? Or is it just people looking for answers where they shouldn't be?
Opening a pandoras box I believe Miron Bleiberg said at the time of Tiatto's hearing. And it's completely true. Are the soccer matches going to be so much like Rugby League that we have to stop the game for the video referee?
I mean, fair enough if people want to debate red cards. But I don't think it should change it. They did the wrong thing, they should be mature enough to deal with the consequences.

If we suspend people for a game on hearsay, who knows what sorts of rubbish could be made up and believed (definetly not saying Vargas was lying. Don't get angry at me Cestaz!!!)
But unscrupulous players would have seen this event being taken to the extreme it was, and use it to their own advantage, be the incident fact or fiction.

Well, that's my little rant for the evening.

It's raining here at my place. Makes for a nice little change.

Good luck for the boys on the next few away games. I reckon that we can win them. I hope. Just get that useless Brazilian off the pitch. And I'm not talking about the one that most of Suncorp seems to hate, and Farina seems to love. I'm talking about the one who's had one shot on goal the whole season, and who stuffs up practically every kick he's taken.

But that's just my opinion

By the way, we all seem to talk about the players every week. My dad wants someone to talk about and review the referees each week. Anyone up for the challenge??