R17 vs Adelaide United | Sun 29th Jan | 7:00pm | Coopers Stadium

It was hot yes but it was hot for both teams . Not just ours . 

The heat is just an excuse . We dont need excuses , just keep training hard and eventually results will come .

We can beat any team this season and we have showed that 

 COYN

Sorry Chef....

The conditions may of been the same, but conditioning no. Adelaide train in that heat and are use to the toll it takes on the body, where as our players are currently enjoying the worst summer I can remember... with little sun and plenty of wind.

Playing in conditions 20 degrees warmer than you are use to with intensity is the definition of hard.

We were out played, but I think the biggest contributing factor to that had to be the weather... did Adelaide have players throwing up at half time like we did?

Adelaide players would be living and training in temps much closer to that on a regular basis, you would expect them to not be as effected. Though it is still dangerous to both sets of players.

The game got quite stretched and lots of space. Finkler is better with players closer to play shorts passes and one-twos, when it gets a bit stretched his poor work rate negatively affects the team - Isaias was able to dictate play better once Roly was gone as Finkler was not able to put pressure on him.

If it had been Victory v WSW the FFA would have either delayed the game 2 hours or postponed it.

Probably. FFA's own heat policy states that "a match may be delayed or postponed when the WBGT reaches 28 degrees Celsius"

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/article/ffa-he...

Apparently the Nix asked for the game to be delayed according to news reports. I'm guessing Adelaide didn't ask.

Does anyone know what the temperature, as measured by the WBGT was?

It was to hot to do anything! They got sick after 45 min, it's dangerous, does not help the game. The outcry will be big after the first player collapse. They should have gone on strike, fudge the points!

Bosnich said No!

At 39 degrees air temp, with the humidity around 50% then WBGT is calculated at just under 33 degrees (according to google).

I don't think the bench lesson was leant from last time out either..mix was still wrong unless we are really bereft of defensive cover.

Just figured out what they really needed was the 12Th Man and his "Scrotom-meter" to measure the player comfort level.

If athletes are vomiting, and spectators are fainting, then your measurement for hotness is crud.

Thought Greenacre spoke well on Australian media regarding the heat factor.

While it is Australia in the summer and one would expect some hot conditions 38c is getting up there.

Seems clear to all that  newscorpse runs the show.

After seeing that the Nix were getting heat stroke, a 2-2 draw is an oustanding result.

Unless you are a climate change denier, I guess we need to get used to these conditions.

We may do well at the WC 2022 in Qatar ...

So you can't state facts without making excuses?

Bosnich is the Trump of the Aleague

Considering you can die from heat stroke, that is a terrible treshold to defend your actions

None of the people making these decisions had to run around a pitch for 97 minutes.  Feels like a coverup

'Slip slop and slap' is what this sounds like, but not in the sun protection way.

The standards are slipping, FFA rules are sloppy and we end up with a slap in the chops. 

Symptoms are 'Nausea and vomiting' so if players really vomited after 45min they should have take off the field.

I could clearly see the following symptoms 'Behavioral changes such as confusion, disorientation, or staggering' Just look at some of the passes to the opposite players...

Mind you bad passing and gifting the opposition the ball has been a most notable habit with the Phoenix over the years.

Clearly a sign that we've been running hot since day one

Nice that they departed from Policy whilst being.4 of a degree away from making a decision that drink breaks "should be implemented"

Let's not underestimate what this is having on Finkler's current form (and attitude?) In my experience Brazilians are pretty shallow when it comes to the weather.

So basically, what I gather from this is: Greenie lied, no one was close to dying. Nothing will occur thank you very much.

Greenie is obviously not a medical professional, the players were probably suffering from heat exhaustion or minor heat stroke and he used the term, I doubt he was lying.

If anyone had heat stroke they wouldn't have played the second half.

Technically 100 minutes... You didn't add the first half extra time!

That was including the drinks break.

Pretty sure most of us would call someone in good shape, running in the heat, then vomiting heat stroke.  So at the time (pre-medical assessment to give the FFA a technicality) Greenie had no reason to think he was wrong.

The FFA  are such muppets.  Advertisement for coming down to 'Straya to play in the A-League: "Come play in the A League.  Sometimes you may play a game where its so hot we need extra drinks breaks and you might throw up from the vicious heat we make you play in, but don't worry, we will have your back.  We will deny any wrong doing because despite the heat causing you physical problems, its not heatstroke.  So where the bloody hell are ya?"

They want good players, how does a) this, and b) pretending this isnt bad despite what it did to players good for that goal? idiots

Symptoms of Heat Stroke

The hallmark symptom of heat stroke is a core body temperature above 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). But fainting may be the first sign.

Other symptoms may include:

• Throbbing headache
• Dizziness and light-headedness
• Lack of sweating despite the heat
• Red, hot, and dry skin
• Muscle weakness or cramps
• Nausea and vomiting
• Rapid heartbeat, which may be either strong or weak
• Rapid, shallow breathing
• Behavioral changes such as confusion, disorientation, or staggering
• Seizures
• Unconsciousness

http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/heat-stroke-sym...

How hot is too hot for football?

If you ask the Wellington Phoenix, an ambient temperature of 39 degrees Celsius in Adelaide on Sunday for their 2-2 draw against Adelaide United, in which one of their players vomited at halftime, is too hot.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/a-league/888...

Considering the temperature reached 39, players are running around and the radiated heat from the sun as well it would not be unreasonable to think the body could reach 40 degrees C. 

BBC have an article on their website about Australians dying from heatstroke, and there's a quote from a union boss saying if it's over 38 degrees and you have an outdoor job they can't legally make you work. That might be specific agreement with that union or something though. But still....

Pretty much my symptoms on a match day first half of this season.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/a-league/88984925/outdated-measurement-method-used-to-give-phoenixs-adelaide-scorcher-the-goahead

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/football/a-lea...

I agree with comments, but 93% means zip if they only surveyed 10 players.

This implies that asked all players. 

“In reviewing the match with the players (from that clash), 93 per cent of players wanted the game delayed last week,