Average Home A-League Crowd – 9791
Average Away A-League Crowd – 11163

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 33, Roar – 38
In Brisbane –
Jets – 17, Roar – 7

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 17, Roar – 13

Cards in Fixture
Jets – 78 (72 yellow, 6 red), Roar 47 (43 yellow, 4 red)

Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets – LWLLW (6 points from last 15)
Roar – DLLWW (7 points from last 15)

Leading Scorers
Jets – Milos Trifunovic (8)
Roar – Jamie Maclaren (10)

Last Result –
Jets 1 (Kantarovski 71′) – Roar 1 (Maclaren 52′) at Hunter Stadium, A-League, Round 8, 28/11/2015.

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 11 Round 8

Biggest Win

Heaviest Defeat

Leading Scorers in fixture –

• Scott Miller – 1 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 0 losses = 0% win ratio)
• Phil Stubbins – 3 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 3 losses = 0% win ratio)
• Gary Van Egmond – 17 matches (9 wins, 3 drawn and 5 losses = 53% win ratio)
• Richard Money – 3 matches (1 win, 0 drawn, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
• Branko Culina – 6 matches (1 wins, 4 drawn, 1 losses = 17% win ratio)
• Nick Theodorakopoulos – 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
• Craig Deans – No Matches
• Clayton Zane – 1 match (1 win, 0 drawn, 0 loss = 100% win ratio)

Brisbane Roar Coach Record – John Aloisi 20% win ratio (1 win, 2 drawn, 2 losses)

General

• The Jets last weekend passed the points tally of the two wooden spoon seasons.
• Mark Birighitti has never conceded a goal against the Roar at Suncorp Stadium.
• Last season, Brisbane won all 3 matches against the Jets. The season before, the Jets won all 3 matches against the Roar.
• Newcastle have scored the first goal in 12 of the 14 matches in Brisbane.

• Milos Trifunovic is 2 goals away from being only the third Jets player to score 10 or more goals in the regular season. The other two are Joel Griffiths and Adam Taggart.
• He has the 6th best goals per minute ratio in Jets history at 1 goal every 182 minutes. Only Joey Gibbs, Franco Parisi, Sasho Petrovski, Adam Taggart and Jeronimo Neumann
• He is the 5th highest scoring Visa player in Jets history behind Michael Bridges (12), Jeremy Brockie (11), Emile Heskey (10) and Vaughan Coveny (9).
• He has scored 4 goals in the last 4 matches.
• Trifunovic is the 5th player to score 2 or more doubles in a season, joining Mark Bridge (2 in Season 2), Ryan Griffiths (2 in Season 7), Jeremy Brockie (3 in Season 7) and Adam Taggart (4 in season 9)

• Jason Hoffman (7), Milos Trifunovic (4), Ben Kantarovksi (4) and Mateo Poljak (4) are all one yellow card away from an automatic one week suspension.

• The Jets have lost their last 4 away matches.
• They have also failed to score in their last 5 away matches. The last away goal was Milos Trifunovic’s 78th minute winner against Melbourne City in Round 3 – 462 minute of play.
• The Jets have kept 9 clean sheets in Brisbane.
• Newcastle have scored the first goal in 12 of the 14 matches in Brisbane.

• In the last 4 Brisbane Roar matches, 4 or more total goals have been scored.
• They have scored the first goal in the last 4 matches of this fixture.

THE REFEREE: – Kris Griffiths-Jones

• Griffiths-Jones has officiated 13 Jets matches.
• The Jets have drawn the last 3 matches he has officiated.
• The Jets W-D-L record is 2-5-6.
• The Jets last win under KGJ was 27/2/2013.
• The only Jets v Roar match he officiated was back in season 2010/11. It ended in a 0-0 draw at Hunter Stadium on that occasion.