Vidmar stunned the media conference with his frank and often bizarre take on the reasons behind Adelaide's 4-0 loss to Melbourne and said that club politics had crippled the Reds both on the field and off the field.

The United coach said: "It's a disgrace, absolute disgrace. We owe the world an apology, a performance like that is a disgrace.

"Politics is what I put it down to. There's too many people in this club with hidden agendas. That's the problem. That 4-0 result tonight was politics, nothing else, whether you are involved directly or indirectly, you have an effect on everyone. That 4-0 result was because of that."

Vidmar even turned on his own town, saying that the small-minded nature of the City of Churches had made his job impossible over the past few weeks.

He said: "Because of a piss-ant town this club will never win anything until you get rid of that crap. The battle was lost weeks ago.

"Things change very quickly in football clubs, very quickly. If you are around football clubs for a while, you'll understand. If someone's not happy with something, they will do will whatever they can to fracture it, that's what they do. Whether it's jealousy or whatever, whether it's ego, it smacks of all that at our club at this time."

"I'm not gonna name names, everyone's involved. Everyone's involved very heavily," he said.

He said he still wanted to coach the club, but didn't care what ramifications his comments would have for his future.

He said: "I couldn't give a damn to be honest. As I said, this club will not win anything until we get rid of it," he said. "I want to be the coach, but you need to work in a happy environment and this was a happy place until a few weeks ago."

He also prevented Travis Dodd from answering questions from the media about the issue, but admitted the divisiveness in the club had affected the players.

"You don't just forget how to play football overnight," he said. "There mind is not fresh, there's a lot of s..t in your mind, that's what it is, you can't play football, you can't do anything."

Vidmar said he would confront the issues on Monday morning, in what is sure to be an explosive resolution of the issue one way or another, considering Adelaide is still in the title hunt and has a Preliminary Final against Queensland next week.

"You either have balls or you don't have balls. So Monday we'll see who has them and who hasn't. Then we need to come out on Saturday and show that we've got them," he said.

Vidmar then stormed out of the press conference after less than six minutes.