Jets Kruse past Farina's men

Joel Griffiths who else, tucked a scrappy goal away to earn the Newcastle Jets their first win of the season, and an away win in Fortress Suncorp:)

Uber Coach Gary Van Egmond is making the best of a bad bunch and quickly.

A side looking a shadow of their former Champion selves stuttered early in the season and got flogged 5-0 in Melbourne.

Two weeks later against a team fresh from a 3-0 away win in Perth, the Jets kept a second top team scoreless and pinched one at the end.

Not pretty, but Frank Farina's tactics play into everyone's plans when they play at home.

How many goals do Matt Mackay and Massimo Murdocha ever score or perhaps more importantly create. Nil, certainly not at home.

Everyone talks about the pace of these guys, but you need more than pace.

And you need Robbie Kruse. Last year he was the star for the Roar. Not Michael Zullo.

It was Kruse who can play that special ball, score a goal and create something every game.

Time to play him, and often.

Kruse could change this Roar side. A side with too much experience and not enough guile.

But Farina sends the same pattern out week after week at home, and it doesn't work.

And if it does it's more by luck than a plan. And it's pretty easy to overcome for the following weeks coach.

Defend, let the Roar huff and puff which they do so well but rarely create real chances, or not many of them, and then when the Roar goes out of them you start to attack.

And even if like Newcastle you have few forwards, one is all you need to come alive around the 80th minute.

This defeat is blamed fairly and squarely on Frank Farina. He has the squad.

A squad that can hit teams away from home but our former National Coach has done little or nothing to improve on all-attack home style of former Coach Miron Bleiberg.

Time for a rethink Queensland.

Bring in Robbie Kruse get rid of Massimo Murdocha, or move him into full-back to replace Seo and give the ageing team more pace out wide, and see what difference that makes.

As for the Jets they have sorted their defence but will they ever score more than one?

Unlikely, but Gary Van Egmond will be sorting something, don't worry about that.

At this stage expect the Jets to soar above the Roar in the League table and stay there.