He can be a guest player, but can't play in the last 4 matches of the season anyway. Viddie doesn't want to risk injuring him before the ACL starts.

Sorry for your injury Stephen, an act of " she'll be right mate " only to discover you're not young, 10ft tall and bulletproof anymore.

Onto a totally different patch of grass, saw Flores last night on teev and he just exudes this aura of good playmaker - even via an electronic gizmo.
Can anyone tell me why he can't play out the season in A-League? - Even if he could Viddie would probably play him out of position with no-one to pass to except Eugene or Jamo!

Ta General, it's not so much what Gaz says anymore as what happens when he says anything. It sets up a pattern of behaviour from others and then the actual debate gets lost. I don't like contributing to that pattern or being part of allowing more abuse of Gaz. But, hey, it's a forum....I can't control it but I end up feeling responsible for it.

In the end I wrote about the Smeltz tackle because there was so little else to focus on. We played well but we couldn't finish. Basically that's been happening all season. Sometimes we play well for 15, 25, 35, 45, 65 or (you name it) minutes. We create chances. We miss them. We still have no owner. We still seem to have a bizarre, 'pull the names out of a hat' selection policy. We let good players go and play bad players. We won't give the leading YT scorer a chance in the seniors.

As a blogger I just hope that we have a bloody brilliant win this week and I can have short, sweet gloat. It's been a while. :)

Has anyone else seen the Advertiser this morning. Two Reds linked reports. One suggests Marrone's contract offer was withdrawn before he went to NQ!! One suggesting we know about Allsopp being available but we haven't given it much thought!!!

I hope it's just stirring (again) but if it's true you just have to wonder what is - and has been - going on.

At the end of the day, i had this kid in my fantasy AU line up, even when Aureckmal Vidullah wasn't playing him. He's always had my vote. It's obvious how good he is. It leaves me gob-smacked and shell-shocked how our club does business.

This is the problem we are not doing business. and only a new owner will change this all the time was spent on getting flores from argentina which is great. Unfortunantly we lost sight of things at home Marrone is a great player we would be building a great young team of the future with the likes of leckie, marrone, shin , mullen, monty , brigitti

interesting to see that owusu earnt a penalty for the youth team only for the captain mullen to take the shot shows alot of character from him but would be good to have owusu on the score board

[size=9]Baby Reds push for ACL berth[/size]
[size=4]Jai Bednall[/size]

A TRIO of Adelaide United Youth League players have begun training with the Reds’ senior squad in the hope of pressing their claims for an Asian Champions League (ACL) contract.

Matthew Mullen (Wynn Vale), Perry Mitris (Hyde Park) and Liam Wooding (Moana) were called up by coach Aurelio Vidmar a month ago after a string of strong performances in the Youth League.

They have joined Canberra recruit Dane Milovanovic, who has been training with the seniors for most of the season.

Vidmar is able to expand his squad from 23 to 30 players for the ACL, opening the door for the young charges to push for a berth.

Baby Reds coach Joe Mullen, who had four players Michael Marrone, Francesco Monterosso, Joe Costa and Osama Malik from his team offered A-League contracts last season, said the trio deserved their chance.

"They’re training a minimum of twice a week," Mullen said.

"They’ll be joined by others soon. Joel Allwright (Craigmore) has had a good season and performed well in the practice match we had with the A-League (last week)."

"Those five (Mullen, Mitris, Wooding, Milovanovic and Allwright) will all come under consideration for an ACL contract."

Others to have impressed Mullen this season include Allenby Gardens striker Evan Kostopoulos, defenders Alex Sunasky (Golden Grove) and Michael Doyle (Hillbank) and midfielder Andrew Ciarla (Fulham Gardens).

"Although Evan hasn’t started a game - mainly because we’ve had Monterosso and Lloyd Owusu dropping back from the A-League almost every week - he’s taken his chances."

"Alex Sunasky and Michael Doyle have been very steady for us, those two are certainly asking the question, and Andrew Ciarla I think has stepped up this year and is playing a lot more consistent football."

"He’s injured at the moment so he might be a few weeks off but he’s asking the question as well."

Mullen said the standard of the Youth League had risen markedly this season and that it wasn’t only Adelaide United that was scouting his players.

"The players are realising it’s not as great a gap as they think."

"I’ve got no doubt other A-League clubs are looking at all Youth League players. We had Malik go to North Queensland last year for example."

Hey guys new here just adding a comment and question we had Michael Baird here for a trial and Vidmar said he was in for a contract and earlier on in the season he was talking about being interested in Mario Karlovic.. So what is happening here?

Happy with the signings of Boogard and Flores.. What do u guys think of Milanovic? Also I wouldnt mind keeping Owusu for the ACL and getting rid of Christiano.. Will they keep Alemao?

Thanks RU.. Yeh i hope Cassio stays at the moment.. Just hoping Flores lives upto expectations and that Boogard goes well for us too.. Wish we didnt get rid of Sasa but hopefully we can find someone in the same stature or if he decides to come back.

I see that Peter Elefthrakis is playing for Adelaide City just wondering how he is going? Would he be a shot of getting a contract?

I'm pretty sure that anyone from Adelaide City will be warned off of Adelaide United, remember Mori & Pezos signed for interstate clubs in front of choosing United.

Starting to get excited about tommorrow nights game.

I think we hae a very good chance of getting the 3 points - I would love to experience that rare feeling of walking out of the gates at Hindmarsh having witnessed a convincig and well fought win. You know the round 11 vs SFC feeling.:d

Where is Reid at with injuries now???

But were they ever approached by Adelaide United?

D'Ottavi has sold City players to AU before.

You're probably way closer to actuality than me RER, but wasn't Mori approached and United would not, or maybe could not, pay the price that Bob D'Ottavi asked.
Of course I may be off the mark, because I couldn't get my head around the pissing contest as I didn't know any real facts.