My new year's resolution was to try to fall back in love with or, at the very least, summon some enthusiasm for season five of the A-League, but we're single digits into the year and I'm already failing dismally. Is it just me, or is anyone else wondering where their unbridled enthusiasm for our national football league has gone?

I still watch every game, of course, and I still support my teams. But this season, my don't-call-me-I'm-watching-football passion for the A-League (the W-League, that's a different story) has suddenly gone AWOL. And I'm starting to wonder if it's because of my local team.

I'm largely a Sydney fan, but being based in Queensland these days means the team I most regularly get to see play (and support) live are Roar. And to be blunt, even though I like (and want to like) them, sometimes it feels as though Roar are doing their best to dissuade me.

It's no secret that I've never been a GCU fan because of the undefeated-inaugural-season meets I'm-going-to-close-half-the stadium-to-teach-you-recalcitrant-fans-a-lesson bollocks, so I could never defect from supporting Roar to barrack for them. But I'm starting to think the bollocks virus has travelled up the M1.

This season started with, of course, Roar ticket price hikes so dramatic and so crazily timed when a strong competitor was entering the market just a freeway drive away that no mathematician, much less fingers-and-toes-counting me, could quite determine their basis.

Then there was the drawn out Farina drink-driving saga, although I'd argue his jumping the shark moment came months before when he signed the less-than-Brazilian Bob Malcolm.

Charlie Miller, who's been a shadow of his former self since starting with Roar, defected to Gold Coast with the parting, throw-your-toys-out-of-the-pram shot that Postecoglou wouldn't let them have fun at training. Of course, had Postecoglou been within an arm's reach of me, I'd have high-fived him when he retorted - I couldn't have said it better myself - that he didn't think that the fans had been having fun watching them lose.

Craig Moore clearly didn't get the Learning From Miller's Mistake memo when he reportedly issued an 'it's him or me' ultimatum about Postecoglou and the Roar management promptly chose 'him'. What Moore was thinking, I don't know. Without some major (say, drink-driving) transgression, no club is going to sack a brand new coach just a month or two into his term just because one player, no matter how many years they've spent in Europe, says so. Nor will they happily lump the massive contract payout and expensive The Roar's Next Top Model - I mean, Coach - search that such action would incur.

What Roar (or at least Roar players) don't seem to understand is that we fans who've stuck with them through thick and thin - even now, when it's taking all our will power and politeness to do so - don't give a flying fooey whether they like their coach or if they're having fun. It's a job. There will be parts of your job and people you work with we don't like. We have to lump it in our normal work days. What makes you think you don't have to?

You'll start having fun when you start consistently winning. Please note the emphasis on 'consistently' as one win here and there does not a happy fan make. Particularly when that one win is followed by some insanely-bad-for-no-good-reason losses.

My resolution - nay, my desire - to fall back in love with the A-League and Roar was almost completely derailed before the new year had begun courtesy of that soul-destroying 5-1 loss to Gold Coast on Boxing Day. I'm not going to lie that, knowing Roar's short attention span, I started to despair when Matt McKay put Roar ahead just seven minutes in. From that moment I absolutely knew that they were not only going to concede a soft goal, they were going to lose. But who could have predicted 5-1?

That's not to take anything away from Gold Coast because they did put the passes together and they proved scoring wasn't a fluke by putting the ball in the net repeatedly in that second half, but Roar couldn't have done much more to help them short of getting torches and ushering them through.

My question is whether Roar help me recover my AWOL enthusiasm for them and the A-League? Will they reward a long-suffering fan?