Friday night football heads to South Australia, as the Adelaide Crows host the Collingwood Magpies. Join The Roar for live scores and coverage of the match from 7:50pm (AEST).
Adelaide are coming off a strong win against the Saints, sitting 2-1 – their only blight being their opening-round loss against Essendon.
Collingwood are 1-2, losses to the Hawks and Giants preceding their win against Carlton.
With Rory Sloane, Bryce Gibbs and Rory Laird in great form, Adelaide look solid around the ground, and the inclusion of talented youngster Darcy Fogarty – who’s booted four goals in the first two matches of his career – only adds to a formidable forward line.
Collingwood were unusually accurate last week, while looking generally strong elsewhere against the Blues. But Carlton are a very different team to the Crows, and they won’t have the home-ground advantage this time.
Both sides have made just the sole change, with Adelaide losing 19-year-old rookie Lachlan Murphy to injury, and including young forward Darcy Fogarty.
Collingwood, for their part, have lost Taylor Adams after the veteran injured his hamstring during training, and have selected Jordan De Goey for the first time after his off-season legal issue.
Prediction
Collingwood were impressive last week, but – you have to remember, with all due respect to the Blues – it was just Carlton. The Crows are a tough team at the best of times, even more so at home.
The hosts will win, and probably fairly comfortably.
Adelaide by 34 points.
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Pieman
Guest
I feel sorry for you Peter...this will be another average season ... Friday proved how ordinary Adelaide are without their midfielders and the pies can beat teams without mids because we have loads of them... get a team with a half decent midfield and we struggle. .you rattle off names that are missing some of which Bjckley wouldnt pick anyway...... you can gloat if pies reach the fials for the first time in years...but to be frank if most coaches were given 7 years to get any sort of success they would be further than buckley is now...something you cant reasonably admit of course.
Peter the Scribe
Roar Guru
Bretto, I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about those in power at the club knowing what they are doing. Their hard work is starting to pay off.
Bretto
Guest
Peter, not sure why I'm responding as you clearly don't listen to anyone. Blindly supporting the status quo in not actually supporting the club if it is going backwards. To suggest you are a better supporter because you don't criticize is just ignorant. I don't hate Buckley, but I do question his ability to coach, which is amply proven in the results to date. Is Buckley a better coach now than we he started? Of course he is, Anyone would get better at something after doing it for 6 years. You frequently embarrass yourself on this site with your simplistic cheer leading. You often make suggestion that you have some sort of "inside" knowledge, and us mere mortals just don't know what's going on. I look forward to further posts from you to remind us all of your cutting insight and wisdom.
Peter the Scribe
Roar Guru
Bretto is one of the worst type of Bucks haters, the ones claiming to support the club, there's plenty more around, where's your big mouth now Reservoir Animal? Regardless of ups and downs along the way some of us have faith in the professionals running the club. 1. Those of you querying who the hell Sam Murray was last November are pretty quiet now. 2. Those questioning letting Wellingham go , well that got us Grundy. 3. Those querying taking a kid with a heart complaint in the draft? He just kicked 5 in his 4th game. 4. Those calling Dunn a bizarre pick? Just killed the Adelaide forwards. 5. Those claiming Aish can't cut it? 6. Those slamming Treloar? 7. Those who claim Bucks can't coach? 8. Those writing off the season after 2 games? Perhaps next time defer to the people who know the club better than yourselves.
Knoxy
Guest
Exactly Bretto. Last night was a terrific win, one of the best of Buckley's coaching tenure. Unfortunately we've had great wins like this in recent seasons only to perform terribly the next few weeks. If we start performing like this on a consistent basis then I will start getting excited.
Joel Erickson
Roar Guru
For what it's worth, I'm expecting the Bombers to do a number on us. We don't play them well at Etihad for whatever reason. Doesn't mean I can't have a little fun watching the Crows get pummeled.
The Brazilian
Roar Rookie
Good win, Scribe. Goes to show ya', every dog has its day! Let's see the Pies back it up for a month or two before we get too excited young boy!
Bretto
Guest
Keep your pants on Peter - it's one game. No doubt one of the best games in Buckley's reign. If we play like that every week then we'll make the finals. The whole problem during Buckley's reign has been the inconsistency. Next week we may come out and play like the Bendigo over 45s C grade team.
Philby
Guest
70+ out for me.
Philby
Guest
I agree. They've got to sort out the 'advantage' rule - or at least its application by the umpires - otherwise, the team winning the free seems to be getting two bites of the cherry.
Philby
Guest
More than a few parallels to the GF, with the margin being the same (48 points), along with a 'kind of' fightback in the 3rd quarter. Similar too, that when the game is not played on their terms, the Crows seem to find it hard to turn things around - and I'm including losses to Demons and Kangaroos last year in that. Or, perhaps as Bolton would say, we shouldn't 'catastrophise', and instead say that all teams have bad weeks here and there, and this is just one of them.
Peter the Scribe
Roar Guru
Where are all you Bucks haters hiding now? Beat the grand finalists on their home deck by 8 goals with a 19 year old kicking 5 and still missing Elliott, Wells, Fasolo, Adams, Greenwood and Moore. Here come the Pies.
Liam Salter
Roar Guru
Aw, good ol' banter.
Liam Salter
Roar Guru
@Sammy Yeah, it's pretty rare for the Crows to perform like this. The Sydney game might be a challenge, if your boys perform anything like they did last night. @Matti I definitely enjoyed this one. Something about the underdog dominating against all odds was surprisingly good to watch. Maybe not a classic Friday night match, but good all the same. Made blogging fun, at least. @Macca Yup. Marquee games are more like the ANZAC Day/season opener games. Friday night games are about the ratings and the cash. Sounds cynical to say that, really, but getting 45,000 people into the stadium in the appalling weather last night really highlights it.
Sammy
Guest
Should be mob not job ..phone's predictive text at work here
Sammy
Guest
You want to hope your job show up against the bombers tonight as there will be plenty of crow supporters who will enjoy it if the bombers win and will have a nod in your direction
Geoff from Bruce Stadium
Guest
Well I'm not going to hold back. That performance from the Crows last night was soft. inept, and uncommitted. It was shades of the 2017 Grand Final. As a Crows supporter I was disgusted. The players should be ashamed and embarrassed. In the first minute you see they weren't up for the contest and nothing changed. Full credit to Collingwood who competed for the full 4 quarters but they didn't have much opposition from Crows. If the Crows continue to be prone to performances like that they are no chance for the flag this season.
Macca
Guest
Sammy - the point is that this game demonstrates how hard it is to predict what a"marquee" game is but it is very easy to predict a game that will draw a crowd and rate well - hencefriday nights are more about marketing than marquee
Matto
Guest
Oh i agree, his defensive pressure is great, you see opposition players feel his presence even when he isn't close enough to lay a tackle. I would take him as no.1 ruckman every day of the week if i was choosing a team. He isn't going to have a game where he gets 30 possesions tho
User
Roar Rookie
Was playing with the kids so only saw last quarter, after last week I was so thoroughly disappointed I decided only to dedicate time to Friday night matches that will entertain ;)