New Adelaide United recruit Ryan Griffiths set to make an immediate impact New Reds recruit Ryan Griffiths at training. RYAN Griffiths has been given licence to start in Adelaide United's precarious clash with table topping Brisbane Roar at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday. Griffiths signed with the Reds this week, answering an SOS after Adelaide had been hit with an injury crisis which has ruled out forwards Sergio Cirio (hamstring) and Bruce Djite (groin) with Fabio Ferreira (groin) in doubt for the Roar clash. The former Newcastle Jets forward had been training with his old club in Newcastle since ending his stint with Chinese second tier club Beijing Baxy. The club played its last official clash on November 2. Griffiths is destined to make his debut and will become the second Griffiths to have played for the Reds after his older brother Adam featured during Adelaide's 2010 AFC Champions League campaign. "It seems that way (I'll play) there's a lot of injuries at the moment," Griffiths said. Josep (Gombau) wants to put me straight in but in all honesty I'm not sure where I'm at in terms of match fitness I haven't played for two months. So it will be nice to ease my way in but it might not be that way. Griffiths, 32, is destined to start on the left wing. He was training with Jets until Monday when Adelaide made him an offer too good to refuse after coach Gombau last month declared the club wouldn't be delving into the FIFA January transfer window. "My conditioning is not too bad," Griffiths said. But when you go into a game at full speed it's completely different and Brisbane Roar being the team that they are, are really fast and furious to so speak. It's going to be tough I'm not sure where I'll be at. Jeronimo Neumann is poised to win his No. 9 spot back after serving a one-match ban during Adelaide's 2-2 draw with Sydney FC at Coopers Stadium last week while Awer Mabil is looming to replace Ferreira on the right wing if the Portuguese fails to regain fitness. Marcelo Carrusca has seemingly recovered from a groin problem and appears destined to slot into the creative midfielder's role after he too missed the Sydney clash.