A defence with two full backs who forget that they're not wingers and subsequently get caught out, fans who are turned away by drizzle one week after declaring Hindmarwh as the best stadium for football in the country, an attack that couldn't finish a wet dream, a CEO who boasts about having the capability and the funds to lure European stars before buying Mate Dugandzic and most importantly four dropped points in two games and just two points to show for their efforts.

Obviously these are early days and the club is adjusting to a new manager, but these are still arguably small problems that could turn into big ones. They may not be in crisis mode, but they aren't where they want to be and frankly should be.

Edited by salmonfc: 13/11/2015 07:28:10 PM

Partly just something to cope with the crushing disappointment, partly having a playful jab at the "Are X in trouble" craze, partly raising some genuine questions that should be answered.

They don't work with Adelaide fans because we're usually very pessimistic about our team.

To answer salmon's question. Yes we are.

Also I miss this man

Very much this.

Shit thread

We all do :cry:

We all miss that beautiful man.

At least I got to see him sprint onto the pitch when Adelaide beat Wellington in the flesh.

We're not actually in trouble yet, but we could be soon.

Also apparently Babalj did something to his foot. Definitely in trouble if he's out for next week.

why bother?
they have like 1 fan on this forum

Yeah there's a spark missing.

We're not in trouble in the 442 sense but there are some problems we need to fix and I'm not sure we'll fix them fast enough. Oh well nothing unusual :lol:

Well, you might as well join the MV brigade since you are still digging the boot into Adelaide. If you don't you will be banned for saying anything against the club without any reason given.

2 pages.

LOL

There is a reason I, an Adelaide fan, picked Adelaide to come tenth. It is quite clear the club has lost the plot both off and on the field. So many stupid decisions are being made and combined with the loss of Gombau makes things very bad. So the answer to the threads question is an undoubted yes

I'm out, what a joke of a club.

Adelaide fans are amongst the dumbest in the A-league. FIrst undefeated team to be awarding themselves the wooden spoon.
I think Adelaide needed to get an experienced center back because Malik is scatter brained, Dylan McGowan did a good job of covering for him but you would prefer someone who is able to stop Malik's errors rather than make list ditch tackles to compensate for them. if La Rocca was hired as a center back then they must be nutters, what was evident at WSW is how poor La Rocca was there. La Rocca is good in the midfield,he has the mobility to play in the midfield, and he can just run around and hack people there.
The other big issue is Babalj, I thought there were signs of an increased effort against Victory in the first half, but this match he went backwards. If your going to be relying on a high press then you need everyone to join in, they are doing what Brisbane Roar did last year with lazy strikers. If the money has been spent on La Rocca for center back and Babalj who might be this lazy for the whole season, then they might as well have tipped it down the drain. I suppose at least they can bench Babalj and start Djite.
The only positive for Adelaide is Dugandzic but Dugandzic's main quality is work rate and lasting for 90 minutes. Without Dugandzic against MV it would have probably been a 3-0 loss. Against WSW he wasn;t started and then others ran out of juice.

Wanderers were better in the final third its just that McGowan saved Adelaide multiple times.

Babalj was just dawdling around.

Adelaide has got 4 challenges imo:

(1) adapting to the loss of key players
(2) the loss of a great coach
(3) adapting to a new style of play under a new coach
(4) fitting Eli Babalj in

Looking at them last night they had flashes of their old quality so the ingredients are there, then there were some uncharacteristic lapses of misplaced passes. The biggest concern last night was perhaps the merge 7 shots generated which is un-Adelaide like and has perhaps been consistent in the last three games including the FFA Cup match. I think Babalj will be good for 7-8 goals this season but at the same time I think Adelaide will have to adapt their playing style (more high balls into the box?) to get that which may cost them an equivalent number of goals elsewhere.

Crisis? not yet, judge all the teams after 5 games when the patterns are clearer - Perth and Roar away then City at home offer 5-7 points if Adelaide can find their form, and their shooting boots ..

So this is what it feels like to be out sourced.

Val Migliaccio ‏@Val61 4h4 hours ago

Babalj potentially out for 6 matches due to a foot injury #AdelaideUnited

Only scored from an own goal and with both strikers out and Sanchez not fully fit, trouble is brewing.

Constantly underachieving, can't win the league but try to make up for it with cup wins, bottle it against the big rivals, perennial injury woes, strikers are shit and top goal scorer is Own Goal.

This can only mean one thing...

We're Arsenal! \:d/

Four shots in total across the first two games, both strikers are injured, main goalkeeper is out injured, the is proration and motivation from Gombau is gone, tickets for regular season matches are more expensive than tickets for UEFA Champions League matches and two of the four signings made during the off-season are out with long term foot injuries. All the while Greg Griffin lies and talks shit to the fans, whinges about transfers and salaries, claims he could sign big stars like Luca Toni or Steven Gerrard, works his loyal employees so hard that they have to resign due to health problems and take up less stressful jobs with other A-League clubs and drunkedly tried to hit on the Travel SuperStore girls he hired.

Looks like they are doing a Brisbane Roar from the Coffee Club days with ticket prices.
That would explain the attendances plus poor membership numbers.

Kick them out. SMFC in.

Glad you've finally stopped fearing the big bad violent wogs

Kindy time over junior.

Someone's gotta pay the franchise running costs,

After an offseason of grief, sounds like Griffin et al are running short on patience

If you want to sell the club or find investment give away free tickets and pack the stadium.
Norhern SPirit used that tactic and they even got Slater and Arnold to fall for it.

Title should be "Is Adelaide United in trouble?"

How can something Singular be United ?

Because its a title/Proper Noun. If your mum is a lowie and she called you Michaels it doesnt mean there is 2 of you.

Well there you go,

I guess no-one can be a Wanderer then ?

Yep

If we dont score tonight i may need a few drinks.

salmonfc remember when you were gonna cop it if your team lost this one....

...perhaps you should start on that drink.

Wot

I'm too delirious from this cold and too grumpy from being served up this shitty display to go with it to understand what you meant.

:lol: Just got one from the fridge.

Don't worry Salmon you still have Melbourne Victory.

So this is how it feels to be the joke of the A-League.

You don't know what it feels like unless you supported us in the Coolen era, although the football we are playing is reminiscent of it.

No, 6-0 and Archie Thompson sauntering off with that shit eating grin on his face is what feels like that.

This is more like how it feels being Perth for the last 10 years.

Still 24 games left to go but the way we are playing really is a joke.

Edited by FunkMasterFlex: 25/10/2015 08:31:16 PM

W-w-we're not going to go back to those times, a-are we?

I never supported AU during those dark times, but apparently the club almost folded during that era.

Out of all the trouble threads, this one is the most true

Meh, we weren't folding. Nobody was buying us.

Stfu and go support Victory already ffs

Still haven't scored with their own players.

The only thing worse than Salmons posts is the football being played by Adelaide. Fucking yuck.
MacLaren is scoring a hatrick next week - get onto Sportsbet now before the odds blow out.

Shit i forget we are playing roar next week, we are going to get raped.

Classy comment: thats why theres no females on this message board/ supports soccer in Australia

:roll:

Yea because its only ever females that get raped.

What?

-PB

Jesus, when did I piss in your cornflakes :lol:

:lol:

great job adelaide.

2h2 hours ago
Stuart Randall ‏@SJR1978
Big Trouble in Little Adelaide.

2h2 hours ago
Kate Cohen ‏@KateCohenKCS
@SJR1978 did you guys have the first hint with Elrich on TWG after the FFA Cup?

2h2 hours ago
Stuart Randall ‏@SJR1978
@KateCohenKCS yep! Tarek said a lot that day that is coming to fruition.

2h2 hours ago
Vince Rugari ‏@VinceRugari
@SJR1978 @KateCohenKCS link?

Kate Cohen – ‏@KateCohenKCS

@VinceRugari @SJR1978 doubt it's still up but he said the senior players confronted Amor after FFA Cuo loss. Not happy with his approach
3:22 AM - 25 Oct 2015




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2h2 hours ago
Vince Rugari ‏@VinceRugari
@KateCohenKCS @SJR1978 oh wow. Must have missed that. There's been a nasty stench since Gombau left

I'll add the second Kossie walk out and the Eugene and Cassio being offered invites to board meetings as another low point.

If this really is another one of our infamous pissant implosions, we're not even close to hitting the bottom of it yet.

You PC too, brah?

Calm down, you're not playing the Wanderers again for a while yet.

100% this.

Alarm bells should be ringing.

They look toothless in the front third & look nothing like the United of last year with tempo.

Ahh, the memories. Remember when Griffen and Kossie got involved in that media dispute which ended up with Griffen embarrassing himself by posting "statements" through the club's media outlets? ](*,)

Am I right , in saying that this is Amor first senior gig as coach... some slack needs to be cut here for him
and that the players should know this..

However i think the real problem , is the people running the club... Gombau and Petrillo have left the club, due to their own reasons ,but surely there is more to it.
As Griffin and co have balanced the books, and made the club financially stable ( although occassionally griffin opens his mouth ) , from a football dept, there is rumblings and those need to be addressed now, as on the weekend, we saw the impact it has on the playing team

Perth win at home, like thats never happened, must say though, Adelaide never really looked the goods of the past.

I can't help but feel it's a typical Adelaide fan reaction - we lose, and all of a sudden it's the end of the world. I won't deny it, I think there are some pretty obvious signs that things aren't quite as they should be, but it's Amor's first year and we're three rounds in..

The worrying sign is not that they are losing, its that they haven't scored a goal from open play except 2 own goals. They hold the ball well enough but cant do anything with it.

Same goes for Victory lol.

-PB

Fuck

Amor's lost the dressing room. #gone

Fuckity fuck

What's the record for a team not scoring? Must be close now.

This is the first time Adelaide have gone the first four games without a goal.

cull these license squatters ASAP

Record breakers! \:d/

Always a silver lining.

If Mabil was still there I think things would have been a lot different

Also start playing George Mells along side Carrusca

I think Adelaide are being careful with George Mells as its a long season, and the Spanish players are prone to injury. He will make a big difference when he gets good game time.

From memory WSW took forever to score a goal in their first season.

-PB

yeah first goal was against us.....round 5 I think

Adelaide United are officially bottom of the league

Confirmed. Bottom of the table with no goals and next to no chance of winning at home against City on Thursday.

Thanks Griffin for forcing Gombau out, over working Petrillo and calling all the players greedy.

Answer not good start but not in trouble. We Dutch believe Amor is Top

put some effort into your multi or retire it

Got our first goal and win in Round 4 our first season.

I'd rather be an Adelaide supporter than a Glory supporter.

Although I missed this weeks game i honestly think the Reds could be spoon contenders this year :shock:

Melbourne City comes to town this week. Willing and ready to serve you up your first win.

I'm owning up to some egg on face here. I really really rated Adelaide pre season.

If Adelaide still haven't won by December, the season is well and truly over.

Griffin is backing Amor in the media, but I wouldn't put it past him to stab him in the back at the end of the season despite the club's #TrustInAmor pre-season social media campaign and hire JVS when he gets sacked by City.

Fuck it, put money on it.

Well that's a shock!!

Is there any doubt?

Will they EVER win a game?

Joke of a club.

Carrusca was invisible today. Why?

New Zealand Knights - 6 matches.
http://www.aleaguestats.com/ALeagueStats_14StreaksNewZealandKnights.html#ScorelessStreak

What is the longest winless streak to start a season?

Wanderers are in for a good shout.

Well he's not getting much help from the rest of the midfield, but he hasn't looked that great all season. Brilliant player technically, but suffers the same problem most of our team does - they're mentally fragile. As soon as they're up against it they don't have the resolve to dig their heels in, do some dirty work and get back into the game. They just drop their heads.

Melbourne City had 14 non-wins at the start of the 2013/14 season.

We should be safe

Carrusca did start on the bench and only came on for Mells at about the 65th minute. Having said that he still didn't do much..

Edited by GrandPappyOfFunk: 13/11/2015 09:28:21 PM

Amor was reportedly given three games to turn things around after the loss to City.

The first of those games Amor's team lost 4-2 (again) to the Phoenix. Next game is at home to Newcastle before travelling to the Etihad to face Melbourne Victory.

Doesn't look great for Guillermo Amor.

Where was the three game limit stated?

-PB

Three game limit has isn't true. Dom Rinaldo said that he thinks Amor will have 3 games on DFS during the week and people thought he meant that Amor has so little time. I will try and find a link so you can see what I mean.

After the loss to City...

lol