hers hoping au turn up to play its gonna be a great game.. heres hoping there still tickets left by tuesday(stupid football fmaily i just got home so didnt get any presales tickets)

Thanks heaps Blue - I dont really want to thing about next week, I just want to enjoy tonight and the win and the ACL qualification

So stoked right now very happy for the boys and really really really happy for Viddie

We worked our backsides off all year with the ACL and the CWC and its payed off

Haha, thanks Blue. Obviously, we know Melbourne are red-hot favourites (pardon the pun) for next week, but again, it's football and anything can happen in 90 minutes. And if it doesn't there's always extra time and penalties... haha

Congratulations I am pleased for you and your coach. Your board can go screw themselves, but the rest of you deserved this.

FUCK YEAH! :D

He is a tough warrior and he will play 100%

I am going to watch both games today!
It is nice to be living in Adelaide

looks like jammo is fit to play \:d/

great news :D

GO U REDS!!!!!!!!

UNITED WE STAND!
GO YOU MIGHTY REDS ALL THE WAY!
REDS TO WIN 2 : 0

Cassio is a tool! Just made your job a lot harder than it already was!

Hate to bring this up again, but you gotta love Cassio...

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I know a lot has been said, but haven't followed it, but can someone please tell me all this "internal politics" stuff that has been blurted out, other then player dealings, I can't see how Krijoz went around throwing such shit without putting forward why (aka blaming the Italians).

TBH, it would be better for Australian Football if Queensland win.

there is alot riding on this - ACL qualification for starters. And if we can prove we can be there constantly, it will make us more attractive to buyers and sponsors

if you believe what you read he is refusing to play...

Edited by UnitedGal: 20/2/2009 07:41:59 PM

straight from the adelaide united web site

Adelaide United Squad
20.Eugene GALEKOVIC (gk), 2.Robert CORNTHWAITE, 3.ALEMAO, 4.Angelo COSTANZO, 5.Michael VALKANIS, 7.Lucas PANTELIS, 9.Paul AGOSTINO, 10.CRISTIANO, 13.Travis DODD (capt.), 14.Scott JAMIESON, 15.Jonas SALLEY, 16.Daniel MULLEN, 18.Fabian BARBIERO, 19.Sasa OGNENOVSKI, 24.Paul REID, 27.Michael MARRONE, 28.Rostyn GRIFFITHS, 30.Mark BIRIGHITTI (gk)
* two to be omitted

no diego!

thats a good plan

Short term shut him down, long term buy him.

I used to enjoy Val's articles, but he definately is just interested in pushing his own agenda.

As for how we beat MV... not sure - nothing we try seems to work. The obvious answer is shutting down Hernandez.

we have now figured out who out of the two has more class (not that we didnt know that already) He cant see it but when Viddie's three years is up you will see why hes the best thing that happend to AU. That is a guarentee

Edited by UnitedGal: 20/2/2009 12:08:01 PM

That article was probably a new low for Val. The guy is just a first class cant IMO.

There are a lot of bull s@#t story's flying around lil old adelaide at the moment. Val is the conductor of most of them, I dont believe anything I read from this bloke anymore. Viddie comes out and apologises then val writes some stupid article of what viddie said and what he thinks it means.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25065773-12428,00.html

Val is Just a trouble maker.

They were cut from the match day squad so its probably not the biggest fallacy he has ever printed

It was a rolled ankle at training - no big deal. Val is just making a noice to try and push Ange back in

Same with his headling saying we were'recalling' three players who were in the squad last week

Same day, Different s----t

Dont know whether anyone else has seen or heard this, but fox say Jamieson is in doubt for tomorrow night
(dubious reliabilty as written by Val):

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25081435-5000940,00.html?from=public_rss

After all the club as done for the code in this state it disgust me to see people want to undermind AU. Ive been saying with my mates for weeks the club needed a good old fashioned rocket up the backside - Viddie has provided it.

Now can we transfer that onto the field is another question. We have a good record against them and hopefully that can continue. Jammo rolled his ankle and will test it today...who would replace him?

IF we meet MV we need somthing totaly out of the box to beat them! Any ideas?

Edited by UnitedGal: 20/2/2009 10:09:38 AM

Sorry to have been m.i.a. for the last few days, caught gastro from my son and have been having a 'great' time of it. Never had gastro before and never ever ever want to have it again.

Hopefully we can hold out QR and meet MV in the GF again, quite frankly I think we have needed to have Viddie get fired up - have been waiting for this all year.

We need to have Diego & Salley back in the team for finals. Salley especially has the right mindset for a final and is always willing to sacrifice his game for the betterment of the team. Barbiero is a good player but still hasn't learnt when he needs to just stop his opponent from having a good game.

lol its been a hell of a week

Ange and Diago are in - whiest I hate that those who are trying to undermind Viddie are still apart of the club I think we shouldnt cut our noses to spite our face. Besides whiest they are there its better to keep the peace - keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Once again Viddie is putting the club infront of himself.

Ive said this before and I will say it here - it took guts to say what he did, and hopefully it will shock everyone into action!

as for 4-4-2 well we did that last two games and look where it got us - we should get back to the formation that has won us games. no one gives a feck about the scoreline when you win a final.

hoope its a sellout - I certaintly will be there supporting Viddie and the boys!

Does anyone thing they'll go to a 4-4-2 this week ??? OR possibly a 4-5-1 with Dodd able to go higher ???
I guess the result is all that matters so they may play it a safe with an attacking minded opposition.
Adelaide does play the counter attack well.
May the best team win ... I'll be there - look out for me - I'll have a red top on !!!!

Oh mate, I've missed your long and informative posts.

Well, you go away for a couple of weeks and the whole bloody thing blows up, eh? I've been on the other side of the world with very limited internet access and haven't been able to keep up with all the drama - hence I haven't blogged this week. Still, it seems everyone's been having plenty to say anyway - even Gaz of the GC has blogged on us this week. We should count how many Adelaide blogs have been written by other bloggers this year. :)

So, I missed a plane yesterday and have a day off and have found a connection that works a bit and have been reading all your comments. Useful thread this is for those of us needing to catch up quickly.

I didn't see the last game but I heard and even thousands of miles away I was gutted. But this week's a new one and we can beat the Roar. It'd be good to see Diego back in the team (I hope) at least for some time. If we put up a good fight and send Qld packing the confidence will build and the GF is just one game.....

It's such a bugger to read about all the politics. Stupid, childish behaviour from a bunch of players and admin people who should know better - and who should respect the team and the fans more than they've shown. People get left out of teams; players don't always agree with the coach; back-room money-men always know better. Get over it and remember that the whole Adelaide United dream is one built on the fans who care about the team. I can support a team that loses - even to Victory - but no-one's going to hang around if the whole thing self-destructs and the players don't show us that they care about the badge more than their egos. I don't give a shit who's causing the problems and I don't want to place blame anywhere. I just want to see (or read about) some players who go out there and play the best game they can - with heart and brain - for the people who pay their wages and spend the year hoping, hoping, hoping...

I think Qld are a good team and we'll do well to get past them. If we do I want to be back in Australia to enjoy us dismantling the Victory. No question they have the wood on us, no question they're playing the best football in the country, no question they're the odds on Champions. But this is football. Strange and beautiful game that it is.

Step at a time though. Viddie and the players brains back in the right place first. Get the tactics and the toughness right to beat the Roar. Set up a final where we can unroll a banner that says, "Adelaide United - Champions of Australia"

Everything that has happened says it can't be done. But it can.

Oh, and sign that Japanese man. He can find the net.

Go the mighty REDS!!!!

...........GALAKA............
MULLEN...COSTANZO...OG...JAMO
...........REID..............
DODD...BARBIERO...DIEGO..GRIFFITHS
..........CRISTIANO..........

or for something a little more attacking

...........GALAKA............
MULLEN...OG...JAMO
......REID...SALLEY....
DODD...DIEGO..GRIFFITHS
.....CRISTIANO...YOUNIS.....