Queensland Roar coach Frank Farina is remaining positive and sees a bright future at the club despite losing another preliminary final. The Roar lost last year's preliminary final to go with this year's misfortune but Farina can see the positives for next year and beyond.

"If we can keep this squad together it will happen, we'll get to Asia and we'll get to a grand final," he said.

"This side will largely stay intact and obviously be very hungry.

"We will recruit, obviously you've got to look at recruiting, we'll lose a few players but the nucleus of the side will stay on," he added.

"We'll try and strengthen positions, young Tahj Minniecon is leaving but I think we certainly need another defender for next year because we'll have Luke DeVere away quite a bit with the (Under) 20s, Josh McCloughan we've got to see how he comes back from his injury, and we'll certainly be looking at another centre half and possibly another attacking player.

"Elsewhere on the park I think we are pretty right, we've got a good mix, we are not losing players that we desperately wanted to keep; Tahj was probably the only one."

About the game, Farina admitted the Roar had plenty of chances.

"We certainly had our chances. After that, Adelaide sat back and defended and to their credit they defended very well, worked very hard for each other," he said.

" "In football you are going to have a lot of low points, most probably more than you'll have really high parts of your career, or things that you win, so they've just got to learn that.

"Again it's experience you can't give to people or you can't tell them about it, you've got to live it."