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Fulham, Crows, Cycling. "Once again, the tranquility of the setting, and the nature of the executioner, belied the nature of the threat. Losing at Fulham is a little like being mugged at an art gallery. It's so civilised you don't notice the blood on the carpet."
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Crows on 7 wins. 9 games to go. 13 wins get you playing finals (normally 12 + percentage.)
So Crows need 6 wins out of 9. 5 very winnable games, at home – Roos, Giants, Suns, Swans, and then Eagles away. They will need to beat one of: Bombers away, Dees away, Power home, Lions away.
Losing the battle of the birds will end Adelaide's season early
Not sure I would be. Ross Lyon’s coaching style is just now coming into effect. Which is why they now are struggling to score. Every Ross Lyon team has faced this problem.
Footy Fix: The science and the stats behind the Saints' slump
As a Crows supporter, can we rub MacKay out for the rest of the year? 😁
250+ game 30+ yo list clogger. Averages 12 touches a game over his career from a back flank or wing. Why are we wasting games on him when ANY kid on the squad can get 12 touches on the back flank while getting the miles in his legs to become a mid-fielder. We dropped Scholl for him. We dropped Millera last year for him.
The joke is that he must have incriminating photos of the coach – but he is now on his 7th coach! (including fill-ins)
Reckless play is not OK
Never bet on Freo away from Perth.
Never bet on Port (they have a history of letting you down when they should win).
AFL Round 5 betting preview
>It’s pretty clear that Pyke can coach.
Yes, and no. He has come up with some masterful tactics at West Coast, Crows & now at the Swans.
He had the Crows flying, but the trouble was that he had no plan B when teams started to work out his plan A.
He was probably a few small things away from winning that flag (Trent Cotchin should have missed the game thru suspension, the non-call for Eddie at one end and the head high fend-off down the other end and the Crows go into the 1st break 5 goals to 1 up.) Give him control of who he can hire and fire (and select on the team) and he is worth another shot.
Collingwood Round 4: Dreams of the green grass that is Don Pyke
>has Mackay seen the last of his footy with the Crows?
Please, please, please. Crows fans have been crying out for this for years! We can’t work out why we are wasting games on someone getting 12 possessions a game with no penetration from his kicks, can’t tackle, can’t mark – when it is a perfect role for a young mid-fielder learning the role/game.
AFL stock market Round 4
The formula to beat the crows hasn’t changed: Tag Sloane. Tag Brodie Smith. Stop Tex.
Tex ignites the Crows against the Gold Coast Suns
Just need Roo to go now. He was the idiot who hired his mate Burton, who had no experience in that role – and was the cause of the training program that caused all the hamstring injuries and the camp.
Crows sack two more in coaching cull
Who needs draft picks when you can get players like Lynch for nothing!!
Five talking points from Collingwood Magpies vs GWS Giants AFL preliminary final
Tex played 14 games in 2018 and probably 1/2 of those injured. And he still averaged a couple of goals a game. He won’t be double teamed from the outset and the in-the-back rules will also suit him. I would not write him off just yet.
2019 AFL season preview: Adelaide Crows
The Crows players from top 10 of the 2017 B&F missed 80 games combined.
That explains 2018.
The comprehensive end-of-year review: Adelaide Crows
Chis Judd cost a 1st rounder (pick 3), a 2nd rounder (20) AND JOSH KENNEDY (with pick 40 going back).
So Judd cost Carlton MORE than a #1 draft pick.
The stats say he is worth about pick 10-15. So the Crows would need to throw in one of their 1st round picks as well to get pick 1.
Mitch McGovern wants to fly the Crows' coop
1. Injury to Riewoldt
2. Injury to Rance
3. Injury to Dusty
Barring that I cannot see anyone beating them.
Three things to stop Richmond going back to back
You guys have no idea.
Tex has missed 1/3 of the season thru injury (like the rest of the Crows) and has played injured for another 1/3 and not been fully fit for the other 1/3. And he gets double teamed in most games. He has not been able to run or jump as he has in past years.
So the guy who has won the players ‘captain of the year’ for the last 2 years has an injured year and you are calling for his head? Crazy!
Changing of the guard for South Australia
There are some slow-motions of Duckwood from a couple of angles and he goes down like Naymar. There is minimal contact and he milks it for all it is worth.
Adelaide Crows vs Geelong Cats: AFL live scores, blog
6 Tigers in your team of the week? I wonder which team you support?
You do know the Tigers are not at the MCG? And you do know that they are playing interstate?
Predicted team of the week for AFL Round 17
He is down in the article as a Richmond player. His game WAS so bad that he was more help to Richmond than Adelaide, but unfortunately he spent 83% of the time on the ground in a Crows jumper doing a great impersonation of a witches hat 🙁
I have it calculated at the 2nd worst game by an Adelaide player ever, and the 9th worst game for the last 20 years in the AFL. (based on possessions and less than 10 Super Coach points.
Team of underperformers from Round 16
“Considering most teams would wilt if they lost 4 players who they build their structures around wce did fantastic today”
Betts, Lynch, McGovern – that is 1/2 of the Crows forward line. Add in Brodie Smith and Brad Crouch – that is 5 of the best 10 players in the team.
Tex inspires Crow turnaround 88-78
Australia can’t keep a clean sheet. If we go thru we will need to score at least 2 goals, so we would go thru on more goals scored. Still a very long shot.
How can the Socceroos qualify for the World Cup Round of 16?
No way would it have been overturned by VAR 🙁
Lucas Neill went down (a big slide) in the box. Our world cup was over then. Grosso could have gone right and be one-on-one with the keeper. But he did the ‘professional’ thing, he put the ball behind Neill, so he had to go over him, and he did so trailing his leg. Always has been a penalty, always will be.
On this day in sports history: A penalty denies the Socceroos in Kaiserslautern
The Crows were without: (# indicate 2017 B&F finish)
Rory Sloane (2nd) – All Australian
Brad Crouch (8th)
Rory Laird (3rd) – All Australian
Tom Lynch (7th) – All Australian squad last year
Brodie Smith (10th) – All Australian
McGovern (22nd – only played about 1/2 of the games)
Brown (14th)
Knight (20th)
+playing injured:
Walker (6th) – multiple all Australian squads
Jacobs (4th) – multiple all Australian squads
Matt Crouch (1st) – All Australian
+lost Lever & Cameron
Yes. The fitness guys need to go (Burton and Hass), yes, the Mindfulness crew need to go, yes, some assistant coaches need to go. But add those 8 to Carlton and they will make top 4. Work out what the equivalent outs for your team would be and ask how your team would go.
Six questions to come from Round 13
I too was there and boo’ed loud and proud 🙂 I also went to all the Australian games in Germany (and boo’ed Fabio Grosso every time he got near the ball when Juventus played Fulham at Craven Cottage).
I have heard Aloisi talk about the penalty and he says that he knew where the ball was going, the keeper knew where the ball was going (as they had been team mates and practiced hundreds of penalties) and the keeper knew he could not stop it. So Aloisi said he knew Australia were going to the World Cup before he put the ball down on the spot!
John Aloisi's penalty is the greatest moment in Australian footballing history
A number of great memories from the day:
– We were driving to the stadium and had no idea what to expect. We were stopped at a traffic light with the windows open and our scarves hanging out. A train came past, obviously full of Aussies, went bananas waving and cheering us as they went by. We knew then that the day would be pretty special.
– Getting to the main square of Kaiserslautern. Down Under was playing. A sea of Gold was singing, jumping with dozens of inflatable balls/kangaroos/crocodiles/beer being flung into the air. There was such joy and excitement just to finally be at a world cup again.
– 1 nil down, with about 15 minutes to go. One mate says ‘we are gone’. Another says to us ‘No, it is Timmy time’. 15 minutes later is history.
Why Australian football fans will never forget Kaiserslautern
The Chromecast device displays in the resolution of the source. So you don’t need the 4k version for the World Cup. You might want it for Netflix as they have/will have 4k content – amusing you have a 4k tv.
I quite like chromecast. You find the content from your phone/ipad (netflix, plex, youtube, Fulham TV) and you cast it. It offloads the content and you can turn the phone/ipad off (or give it to a child so you can watch in peace).
Watching the World Cup? Welcome to streaming
I was at the game with my GWS supporting kids, standing on the wing with a pretty vocal Dogs crowd. After the first goal (against the wind) the crowd was booing Greene and giving him abuse. By the 4th (with a hand-off as well) the crowd were either quiet or applauding him, with a few OMG’s and ‘wish he were ours!’
I have never seen a crowd ‘won’ over like that. Toby took that game by the scruff of the neck and made his team win.
Make him AA Captain.
Six Points: Port's concussion farce, an all time MCG classic, and a day of upsets flips the season on its head