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Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
Every time port kicks a goal next season I’m going to watch to make sure they wait for the goal umpire to call it a goal before they celebrate! Otherwise they’ll have you to answer to!!
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
Why would he wait 3 seconds? He saw it go through. It’s a goal. You celebrate. What more do you want me to say? Who else waits when they know they’ve kicked a goal? I’m waiting…!
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
Agree with your first two points! Well said. Not your last point – Adelaide did enough to win the game – it’s up to them how they win.
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
No. Not the same result as both should have been reviewed – and both weren’t. Port were given proper process – Adelaide not. We are talking about process not results.
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
I think when you kick the goal to keep your finals chances alive you are entitled to a little celebration. It’s not his fault the umpire wasn’t up to scratch. Keays did his part and shouldn’t be criticised for it. You know when you’ve kicked a goal (if you’ve played footy).
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
This article points out some failings in Adelaide’s game, and they are correct. However it misses the point that Adelaide did enough to win the game – and it is their prerogative how they win. That they conceded a big lead in the first half and made some mistakes along the way is irrelevant in the end. You’re talking about the win/loss narrative. They lost in the score book ‘and this is why’ etc. Had Adelaide been correctly awarded the lead with a minute to play – the narrative would likely be how sydney blew an enormous lead.
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
Great comment this nails it.
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
I’m sorry are we not allowed to celebrate goals now? Better tell Durrsma!
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
It was reviewed.
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame
It’s a good article Ryan and one that, generally, i agree with. My only concern is that you appear to give this #Wewantanswers thing a bit of legitimacy at the beginning, when it could well (more than likely?) be a port supporter taking the piss. The other thing is, yes they have a strong draft hand already and i’m sure they wouldn’t WANT to strengthen it futher (i.e. they would want to keep sloane and lynch), but what if sloane and lynch force their hand? Why not ‘load up’ then? It would be making the best of a bad situation. At any rate, I’m confident that they’ve prepared for everything, just like they were when they lost Tippett (drafted Jenkins as cover), when they lost Gunston (brought in T Lynch as the lead-up), when they lost Danger (re modelled midfield with the crouches, seedsman, milera), and when they lost Lever (Doedee ready-made). As you say, this is a well-organised club that has a terrible problem with injuries in season 2018. cheers
Should the downtrodden Adelaide rebuild? What an idiotic line of thought
Have to take issue with this bogus comment:
Josh Jenkins will get out the back and fill his boots against the weaker sides, but otherwise get paid for doing little of consequence against decent opposition.
Your analysis on this player is really disappointing and unfortunately lazy (but you’re not the only one that falls into the trap). A player at 200cm who’s kicked at least 40 goals in each of the last four seasons, and who can run quickly (so quick in fact, that it invokes the somewhat lazy analysis that ‘he just runs out the back’) and relieve the ruckman for crucial minutes each game. In your heart of hearts would you not want him in your team?
Other. Yes Tex was rubbish in the GF. I seem to remember one W.Carey had a crap game in the 1998 GF. Crap player? No. It would be cherry picking to say so. I recall finals (2012 semi against Freo, 2015 Elim against Bulldogs) when Tex won the match off his own boot. One might say that he was greater than the sum of his parts on those occasions (again, you’re not the only one to fall into the trap. You just don’t watch him closely enough, probably watching your own team, fair enough).
That’s the main gripe i have. You make some other good points. Except i don’t really understand what point you’re trying to make about the GF. Of course they were confident of winning. So were Richmond. Someone has to lose on GF day Cameron! Despite your comments, they are unlike no other vanquished GF team; no other. You seem to imply that they were different. Your comment about a seat for the cup is a bit weird – it’s something Victorians have been saying. Noone knows if it’s true or not. I guess it’s just another thing that only non-victorian clubs have to do with (Richmond could never have been accused of such, getting to play the GF at their home ground and all).
All the Best!
AFL preview series: Adelaide Crows - 2nd
This is a great article well done! You hit the nail on the head with this point: “That Melbourne may win a premiership before the Crows is not the point” As far as Tex is concerned, Lever walked out on the chance to sacrifice himself ($) for a crack at team success. Tex is far from a wordsmith but it is clear this is what he meant. Everyone getting caught up on bartel’s comments and the fact that melbourne might be good next year is missing the point.
cheers
Halt the hysteria, Tex Walker was just being honest
Hi Josh,
I think the headline in your article is misleading given that within the article you counter a lot of the popular cannon fodder being hurled at Adelaide at the moment! This is a competitive sport (on and off-field) so of course Adelaide isn’t going to pretend to be happy about Lever leaving: they consequently expressed this disappointment – but traded him with minimal fuss. As for port ‘showing them up’, no. Adelaide don’t recruit for the sake of recruiting – hence the lack of interest in Rockliff and Watts. They could have put a claim in for these players, but are more concerned with other things than just ‘looking better than port’. Yes they were interested in Motlop but came in after port had already put in the hard yards. Of course Motlop’s deal with port was comparable to Adelaide’s, he’s not silly, he wouldn’t turn down $150K to live in the same city – you rightly picked up on this. As for the Cameron deal, well, he’ll probably still be traded, but i can assure you the supporters of the club are very happy that they are keeping their cards close to their chest on this – they’ve got to get maximum value for a player that they discovered and developed all on their own – and one that could still inject a hell of a lot of upside into his final year at the club (if not adequately compensated). It’s up to Brisbane to get this deal done (like Adelaide last year RE Gibbs) – i’m not sure why all the focus is on Adelaide here.
FWIW, I think a lot of the frustration with Adelaide is that they’re such a closed book – they don’t let anyone in. Examples in recent years: Fagan’s appointment, Walsh’s appointment, McGovern’s re-signing. The media don’t like this, and wider AFL community calls it whinging and whining , when all they’ve done, largely, is not comment.
Port Adelaide's classy Motlop moves leave the Crows looking silly
Congratulations to you and your team but your assertions about Adelaide Football Club are unfair. All throughout the week Adelaide was giving Richmond the credit it deserved from Adelaide: (generalising) “Richmond are more than just dusty and we have to watch all of their players (they got asked this question a lot), we will have to be at our best to beat Richmond, you don’t make the grand final unless you’re a very good football team, etc”. Maybe it felt like the Adelaide Football Club were more hollow and shattered than a normal grand final loser because it was your team that inflicted it upon them? Something to consider? Also, of course one expresses confidence as they enter a Grand Final. I remember Andrew Mackie being interviewed before the prelim on 5aa and they asked him about ‘what if’ he loses and it’s his last game? He said ‘he hadn’t even considered losing’. This is a normal thing to say, i think one has to expect to win going into finals, any finals. I’m not sure about the premiership cup plane seat one (sounds a bit far-fetched to me), but anyway, the implication that the Adelaide Crows thought the 2017 Premiership was a lay down misere is false. Again, congratulations on your win just be careful not to cast aspersions about the vanquished. Cheers.
Ten unheralded heroes who took Richmond to the premiership
Nice take Ryan. I don’t think Harrison Himmelberg is a South Australian by the way – Adelaide liked him and bid for him at the draft but were overruled by GWS’ academy rights to him. The Crows then drafted his brother the following year (who for some reason wasn’t bound to the GWS academy).
Sloane is too important to Adelaide – so his missing changes my tip to the Giants. However, if Adelaide DO get up – they mean serious business this finals series.
GWS 12 pts.
Adelaide Crows vs GWS Giants: AFL Finals Forecast
Dear Jacko, have a read of my comment again, particularly this: “One has 15 seconds to review a decision. How then would one have time to wait for the dressing room to view a replay (the timing of which the dressing room has no control over) and communicate a yes or no to the batsman concerned on whether to review?”
Jacko, in your heart of hearts, is Steve Smith a cheat? Check yourself.
cheers
Steve Smith's "brain fade" was cheating that should be punished
Cheat is a strong word. In this case it’s not cheating because no unfair advantage was gained. One has 15 seconds to review a decision. How then would one have time to wait for the dressing room to view a replay (the timing of which the dressing room has no control over) and communicate a yes or no to the batsman concerned on whether to review? What is then the difference between asking your non-striker partner and asking the dressing room? Not much, in fact, probably less is to be gained. No advantage here.
Also, how do you control where the batsmen turn his head when reviewing a decision? What if the change rooms are directly behind the umpire and non-striker (as a lot of change rooms are). If every batsman who looks toward the umpire or non-striker then a cheat because the change rooms are behind them?
‘Cheat’ is a strong word.
Steve Smith's "brain fade" was cheating that should be punished
Yes, great points Tana Mir.
Steve Smith's "brain fade" was cheating that should be punished
If ‘turned to $#%@’ means making the finals and winning one I’m sure Crows supporters would take that every time…
Patrick who? Crows’ strong start a sign of things to come
Hi Ryan, you’ve given crows supporters hope… but, you also gave them hope when you wrote: “Make no mistake, Adelaide will remain Danger’s field!”, ha ha. In all seriousness though, this is well researched and backed up so you deserve to be right and I hope you are! cheers
No Danger, no matter for Adelaide
This is a great article! The main point for mine: “stop forever comparing sportswomen to sportsmen”. Unfortunately some of the other comments in relation to your article still can do nothing but compare the two – but at least the ball is rolling now, so to speak…
Don't let laziness keep you from loving women's sport
Oh man it would have been great to play finals! They would have done us so proud – just like port! Oh wait…
Footy Fix: The Crows were stone cold robbed... but they've only got themselves to blame