We Are The Reds

Poor from Veart IMHO. The changes at the end were suitably attacking in general. But made the Adelaide attack comically one-dimensional. All short players with no aerial threat, all players that like to counterattack and/or have room to run at players. Victory could just sit back and never have to w...

3-0 probably a fair result.

Adelaide could have scored more but equally could have conceded multiple times but for terrible Mariners finishing. Angel Torres giving huge Brisbane Roar Marcinho energies .

I remember Bruce Djite attracting a $1m transfer fee to Gençlerbirliği.

Granted $1.2m is a much bigger deal for an older player than it is for a 20 year old with high resale potential. But it's interesting we still see fees in that ball park for Adelaide's very best players even after 15 years.

Training with Port would have been a good move. Darren Burgess (now at the Crows, but also had two stints at Liverpool) would have been in charge of fitness at Port Adelaide then. He was at one point going to part of the selection panel for assessing potential coaches for Adelaide (the one that even...

Not exactly a defensive formation or team that we played tonight though was it? Maybe on paper, but it looked to me like (after we got ripped apart for the first 5 minutes) we reverted to our usual formation, which I was much happier with. Sacrificed a striker for a general midfielder over last wee...

Another promising season ends wasted with a failed 12-dimensional chess move.

2022's "Keeping Ibusuki on the bench for the full 90 vs City" or 2023's "starting a defensive formation while down 1 on aggregate then not changing it all for 15 minutes after it became a 3 goal deficit"

Abysmal defending

Somehow Even worse.

Abysmal defending

Strange formation. Seemed like an attempt to balance attacking intent with a defensive set up. Kind of worked though... maybe?

Madanha looked very on it when he came on. He's been very underutilised in the latter half of the season for mine. It's also a bit disappointing that for all the talk of promoting young players and giving them game time. It seems exactly one of them (Irankunda) can be trusted to give any meaningful...

Madanha looked very on it when he came on. He's been very underutilised in the latter half of the season for mine. It's also a bit disappointing that for all the talk of promoting young players and giving them game time. It seems exactly one of them (Irankunda) can be trusted to give any meaningful...

Madanha looked very on it when he came on. He's been very underutilised in the latter half of the season for mine. It's also a bit disappointing that for all the talk of promoting young players and giving them game time. It seems exactly one of them (Irankunda) can be trusted to give any meaningful ...

Based on minutes played this season, Hiroshi scores every 214 minutes. George every 221 minutes. But George gets vilified and Hiro gets lionised. Perception is everything in football. I had the misfortune to sit next to an Adelaide 'fan' last week who was there with his young son and spent the enti...

I like this XI much more. Barnett in that role is a risk, but it's not a risk that leads to conceding four goals.

D'arrigo is the most advanced midfielder anyway

I like this XI much more. Barnett in that role is a risk, but it's not a risk that leads to conceding four goals.