Darje has said that the team is underprepared and underdone, I wouldn't take the pre-season form as anything other than an indication that we're likely to be slow out of the gate.
Fortunately the A-League is all about who's in form in the second half of the season, you just need to be near the top 6 and hit a bit of form and can do quite well, heck if you're Adelaide you can be sitting dead last almost a third of the way through the season, outside the six half way through the season, and still end up being both Premeirs and Champions.