Hahahahahaha :lol:

mcjules, that is gold :) Let us know how they fair :D

I'd like to see that! :d

I'd like to see Eugene get a run up front for 15 minutes if we are desperate

I swear he'd score :lol:

Bout the only thing he hasn't done for our team

Exactly. Even if we are without all of Cassio, van Dijk, Boogaard, Levchenko and Vidosic on Friday night, we still have a very good starting XI, with minimal need to play people out of position.


------------Djite

---Ramsay---Ricardo----Caravella

------Pancho----Barbiero

Susak---Mckain--Malik---Dilevski

-----------Eugene

Bench: Mullen, Watson, Golec


(I like the idea of standing Malik next to Mckain, maybe some of Osama's calm and composed nature will rub off on his skipper.)

Malik is a very composed young man isn't he?

He almost got on the end of one in that ACL game vs Jeonbuk :)

I'll let you know how my team go :lol:

Seems the Pissant Town mentality is still around, Val has hinted (well put strongly) that Coolen is a very unhappy chappy at the moment. More info to come later from local news.

The tweet in question by Val

Rini Coolen fires a rocket at the press conference referring to 'misleading information and personal agendas.'

Aha surely Val should get in trouble from his employers and have to apologise for breaking news in his own name rather than that of the Advertiser...

val has certainly never had a personal agenda with any of the coaches of Adelaide United in the past has he?




:lol:

'ere we go. Pissant Mk II coming to a press conference near you.

Won't help Rini's cause though with public perception if he DID have a go like that.

We don't take kindly to outsiders in this 'ere town now *best spaghetti western villain impression

Thanks for the lengthy update Stephen.

Good to hear he has that sort of hunger.

If it’s true that Coopers are trying to crack the overseas market then we could see a reasonable sponsorship come from then. I also thought of Stratco… being in the steel business I can only assume they have many partners in Asia and they too could benefit from sponsoring us through our ACL campaign.

What was Glenn’s reason why this has not gone through yet?

Glad to hear they are committed to Hindmarsh. I think it’s a beautiful ground in a pretty good location. What options and ideas does the club think will make the Hindmarsh experience better. Whatever it is, I sincerely hope it includes a roof!!

We went from the most expensively administered club to now the leanest. And I’d have to say, the club is being run better than ever before.

Shit happens, but at least it’s not as depressing as season 09/10 where we had a disastrous season AND no owners/no direction/no strategy.

What? You mean to tell me the FFA are going to allow this seeing as THEY’RE the ones who have ruled these sort of “fan made” things out in the past? I’m angry and happy reading this. Bitter-sweet as they say.

Agree. The Fans Committee is a brilliant initiative.

appalling what can i say Adelaide does not even look like they want to be playing yes injuries have hit us bad but 3-0 at half time. at least when we finished last the people we had ont he field looked like they wanted to play and tried. This Adelaide united team atm i do not like MCKAIN wtf trying to dribble out you opponent in the box idiot.

Fucking disgrace

Rini could enter his team in the women's league they may even win there.

I could tell at the warm up CCM were going to shit on us. They were sharper, quicker and bigger.
BTW having the opposing team warm up in front of the Red army has worked wonders for Rini hasn't it.

Was always a bit concerned when the Reds hired a man who had fucked up a winning team in Holland before being sacked.

Phil Stub........oh hold on! Joe Mull.......... I s'pose we could try to lure Zoran out of retirement

I'd say even Damian Mori but i think he hates Adelaide United

I said it over a month ago with my “diagram”, we have no strategy through the middle of the pitch. NONE. It’s a souless vacuum. A grand canyon. An empty space.

I have zero confidence when McKain is one on one with an attacker.

When we had a full squad we still only ever lumped it up front to Serg anyway. What’s he going to do? Win the header, bring it down to his feet, and take on the 3 players that have just swarmed on him because there’s no one else to mark? Rubbish.

I sat in the West stand for the first time in ages, and I’ve never seen the crowd so disconnected from the field. There were jokes flying round, taunts, booing, laughter.

I saw people leaving just before half time, but the real exit happened around the 70th min. they were just apathetic to it all. I seriously considered leaving too. I was cold and just questioned why the hell am I here putting myself through this shit??

What a shame that for the most part we’ve turned our administration department completely around into a successful model, yet once again we’re let down by our football department.

So much to pick over that is so wrong but just wondering if anyone else has picked this up.

Out warm up's before the game are a joke.

I know no one wants an injury in the warm-ups but our 'low intensity' approach is pathetic. There doesn't seem to be any coaches out there running them through drills etc. It got that bad that I saw Bruce orgainising the attackers in a crossing drill on Friday night. There wasn't a coach in sight. Now I know Bruce was playing the lone striker and therefore needs to get the communication happening but the fact he started this and got it organised without a coach initiating or driving this was a worry. What was worse was the midfielders were doing there passing drill and kept losing the ball and it was flying into the attackers when they were trying to do there thing. In other words no bloddy organisation. Half of the half wasn't even been used

To top it off a couple of people in suits (presume injured players) where out there just wandering around having a joke with the players warming up.

The way we start games is terrible. We seem half-asleep with really basic errors (control, short passes not reaching there man etc). I know it's not a silver bullet but a concentrated warm up focussing on quick reaction skills and some professional intensity would make them a lot more focussed for Rini's pre-game talk, keep that momentum going onto the pitch and BOOM were in the right zone. At the moment we wander out, have a kick around and then dribble into the rooms before kick off.

Seeing CCM warm up it wasdisciplined, organised and at a high enough intensity to get the focus on the pitch right. It just looked professional where as we looked like my kids U9 warm up.

I know there's a lot wrong but just some basics might start to help get in the right direction.

When Stubbins was around he was always in the thick of the warm-ups, I honestly think him leaving has been the major problem.

You reckon he'd come back as a caretaker for the season with an extension offer?

Saw this on twitter
Pretty funny if a little lame

http://sackrini.com/

Also saw the banner the FC Twente fans made for him in my sig

Translation ; rini,fuck off.

Some of the chatter on their internet forum from the time was revealing even with google translate

Things like fearful, coward coach. promised attacking football but plays boring defensive crap. cant score goals etc etc

Dearie me
I am sad

maybe there's still a split between the old Adelaide that are still there and the new Adelaide. Maybe we need more of a clean out of the old Adelaide City contingent....?

Who are the players and/or staff from Adelaide City that you think should be cleaned out?

yeah, sounds familiar.

Same from Adelaide fans in the east stand:
'Malik get off', 'c'mon central coast put another one past em', 'aahhh McKain you've fucked it again' etc etc

As a fan, it really hurts to hear taunts coming from the alleged supporters around you. Cant blame them for being angry, but it makes the atmosphere pretty toxic. Not the sort of night out people are going to bring their kids/ partner back to. I wonder if we will see 10k again at Hindmarsh this year?

A guy at the pub was trying to sell his season ticket for 40 bucks. I havent seen it this grim, in the past people took losing a bit better because we had a cheaper no-name squad or we lacked owners and sponsors, or you hated the coach but at least you liked 9 out of 11 players. But this year expectation was very high, and the love is fading fast.

As an ordinary fan, I can only speculate on the extent to which the factors commonly mentioned contribute to our failings, ie fitness, attitude, recruitment, on-field strategy, injuries and luck etc.
What hit me in face on Friday night though is how much money and goodwill Adelaide United FC is going to lose this season if it doesnt get things right soon.

:(

Reid interview:
http://www.fiveaa.com.au/audio_paul-reid-has-a-crack-at-adelaide-united_103834

Val tweeted that the FFA have finally confirmed that we will be playing off for the ACL next year.

wow so many people over reacting it is kind of pathetic sorry it is my opinion.
I love this club i sit and watch them stand and cheer them every week but some of the crap supporters say and yes on this forum to is crap.
Have we played the most brilliant free flowing football we wanted ? no
how many games have we started with out first 11
? 2 maby

how many times has the team had to be changed ? nearly every game always 1 or 2 people

yes 2 bad losses but also 4 games undefeated and 3 of them we gave away

McCain should not be captain though he is not even playing the quality of armature football again and again he tried to dribble out of the box i think he is mentally retarded.Slot Mullen and boogard in.

people saying want coolen out yet last year he was THE MAN and that is what makes me laugh about everyone now they want him gone ???

we are not even half way through this season yet 2 wins and we will be 4th or higher

once we hit 3 quarters of the way or at the end of the season asses how things are if they are not better and worse then we decide what should happen next.

we cant help the crowd and we cant help what people decide to do. yes loosing like we do with he big losses is bad but that is more down to the players on the field then the coach we all know that

just my opinion im not saying anyone has to agree with me.

This discussion from the ACL watch thread - Roar website:


Not a troll! - have you guys heard anything about Liaoning and/or Jayapura pulling out of the ACL play-offs?

Edited by Roon: 5/12/2011 07:31:50 PM

Yeah FoxSports tweeted it earlier that Indonesia and China had pulled their representative teams out of the play-offs. Still waiting on official confirmation from the AFC though - which I doubt will happen until the draw tomorrow night.

I still don't know how the play-off will be structured. Maybe they will still draw the Indonesian and Chinese clubs into the draw, and then have them forfeit the competition, allowing a free pass to whoever was drawn against them.

We've played Pohang Steelers on 4 prior occasions and remain undefeated against them. The Thai FA Cup winners are an unknown quantity so it might be a bit harder to navigate them. And now that we don't have the same football department staff and players as before, we can't use prior experience to go by.

It's going to be tough. No doubt about it.