Aloisi proud of Roar turnaround

Pride was not the first emotion Brisbane coach John Aloisi felt after their dramatic 5-4 A-League semi-final loss to Western Sydney.

But Aloisi reckoned the Roar would look back proudly on their 2015-16 achievements after overcoming a nightmare pre-season.

Once the pain of the Wanderers' epic comeback win subsided, that is.

Brisbane were wondering what might have been after letting a 3-0 lead by the 23rd minute slip against a never say die Wanderers on Sunday night.

As gutwrenching as it was, it paled in comparison with what the Roar endured in the pre-season.

When Aloisi arrived to take up the Roar reins, Brisbane had nowhere to train.

Players and staff went months without being paid.

Owners the Bakrie Group were fighting off a multi-billion dollar debt in Indonesia and were nearly stripped of their Roar licence.

Sponsors and supporters started abandoning them.

The Roar were on the brink of collapse.

Yet Brisbane came within a whisker of clinching the Premiers Plate and sealing a fourth grand final appearance.

"We have definitely come a long way (after) what the players and staff had to deal with," Aloisi said.

"I give credit to my players from where we have come from and their never say die attitude.

"Our players believe in themselves.

"Our supporters should be proud of them."

The Roar appear to have taken a step in the right direction after agreeing to move their training and administration to a new $9 million facility at Logan, south of Brisbane.

But Aloisi said there was more work to be done off-field.

"By no means the club is where it wants to be," he said.

"But in a short amount of time we have a lot of history with three championships.

"And games like (Sunday's semi-final) shows this club has to be around and grow.

"Everyone who has watched us know what we are about.

"We are a team that is dynamic, we are going to attack, score goals, play a type of football our supporters want to see - it is winning football."

Still, Aloisi said it hurt walking away from the season empty handed.

"We wanted to win something this season," he said.

"We came away without any trophies."

The Roar did finish in third spot overall to earn a chance to qualify for the Asian Champions League group stage.

But Aloisi said: "It means nothing to me today - next season it might."