R9 vs Adelaide United | Sun 4 Dec | 9:00pm | SS2

Avoid the spoon

I hope we win

Adelaide hadn't won a game after 8 rounds last year. We seem to have a habbit of playing teams into form. We are going to get screwed.

Another late Sunday night

Possible towelling aside I am still amped for the game.Good weekend for footie

COYN

Last year revisited

cellar dweller hussle. COYN

Brideshead Revisited

3-0 Adelaide

Will be in attendance.. This fixture is always so unpredictable. We just need to have shots, as Galekovic isn't what he used to be. Still a good keeper, but he's not as reliable.

Adelaide boss Gui Amor given an extra week in the stands by the FFA, with a further two game suspension if he does it again…

— Kevin Airs (@KevinAirs442) November 29, 2016

They seem to play better when he's in the stands..

What's the Nix's record in Adelaide? It's obviously not very good but I'm assuming they must have won a few games there at some point.

Yeah so isn't great... http://www.ultimatealeague.com/club_detail.php?clu...

stats aren't good . 

If i was betting i'd bet on a draw , a win would be great tho .

I'm still amazed at how adelaide have fallen since last year i mean champions to dead last . 

Over the years WSW and Brisbane had similar horrors, but probably under different circumstances.

Looking forward to this one, probably my last ADL game before a return to the motherland. The BOM have it forecast at 34 with a chance of the cool change and associated thunderstorm coming late afternoon, will be tough for both teams.

A hattrick for Gui to cheer him up.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/alea...

we need to learn how to draw if we can't win..

34 degrees on Sunday might be a problem.

34 degrees on any day is difficult

34° will become thunderstorms that night, but whether the change comes in during the match or not is another question..

Dont worry, if they could, they would try.

Ummm. 

Correct me if I am wrong but it is summer, we play the majority of our matches in the summer season, and we play every second week in a country that is not known for its polar ice caps!

COYN

I think I have worked that one out. Was just mentioning it as you can't acclimatize overnight to the massive difference between Wellingtons 17 and Adelaide at  34

Hopefully they've been putting that otago university heat chamber to good use then.

But 34 isn't that hot.  If the team is fit enough they should handle it no worries. 

I agree that 'heat' is not a new thing but is an old excuse, one that should not be relevant for a professional football team.

"acclimatize overnight" is something amateurs would be worried about.

Anyway the Adelaide forecast today is a top of only 30 and down to around 26 at kickoff.

Maybe if they were playing in Outback QLD/NSW where it's in the mid 40's today, they may have something to complain about :)

But still I've played a squash tournament in 40 + deg with no air con. Heat is no worries for most, if one is fit.

Anything above mid 20s is too hot IMHO, it's all up to the individual, I've found that my ideal conditions are a dry 5 degrees.

Is this conversation starting to get heated?!

Point being that it's all up to the individual.

It also depends on humidity quite a lot.

Meh.

Played many pre-season friendlies in my youth in 40 deg heat at 6pm. 

Current NSW football policy is cancellation at 37 degrees for adults and 32C for U16s

Mid 90's Cancellation was when somebody died!

Don't even joke. Crumbed rubber pitches now increase heat conditions over and above ambient air temp. Miss GG played v Newcastle Jets U17 today on rubber at 32C with 1:30 kick off. Cloudy, still and humid in Sydney today. Oppressive.