Not sorry ... Paartalu says Roar need to stick together. Source: Jono Searle / News Limited
A week after sparking rumours of in-fighting, Brisbane midfielder Erik Paartalu hoped his "misconstrued" comments helped the Roar come out swinging in their A-League title defence.
And Paartalu believed he had set the tone with his involvement in a last-round melee that earned him a yellow card.
Last week, he appeared to criticise coach Rado Vidosic after the Brisbane mentor described their play against Central Coast in round eight as silly, naive and of a kindergarten standard.
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But Paartalu said on Wednesday: "I definitely don't apologise for my comments (but) I definitely think they were misconstrued.
"Between our four walls in the dressing room, there are no problems and never been problems between players and coaching staff - we are a close bunch.
"I wasn't referring to just Rado's comments. I was referring to everyone's comments during that time of our bad couple of results.
"What I was saying was that everyone needed to try and be positive.
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"We need to get out of this. There is no point holding back - we need to fight for everything now."
Paartalu admitted he breathed a little easier when told he had no further case to answer after a melee erupted following teammate Thomas Broich's send-off in last round's 1-0 win over the Newcastle Jets.
Paartalu ran in from a distance to assist after Broich's altercation with Jets' defender Josh Mitchell.
Broich's red card was later rescinded.
"You never know which way that is going to go," Paartalu said.
"My intention was not to push him (Mitchell) over but to hold him away from Thomas.
"But I got a push from another player and I fell onto Josh.
"It looked nasty at real speed but I was always confident that I had nothing to answer for, once they looked at the footage."
Paartalu hoped his actions sent a message to teammates as they tried to turn their season around.
After nine rounds, Brisbane (3-1-5 win-draw-loss) are seventh in the 10-team league.
"We all need to stick together and stand up for each other," Paartalu said.
"There was no way I was going to let one of our players get bullied by someone else."
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