Albert Bruce
Debutant
Well done Adelaide .. Crouch looked half cooked in the SANFL when he did play. Culture is everything .. the club has another hard 2 seasons to go through and we need to be in a financial position to participate in trades when we need to. Crouch now has 2 years to set himself up for going back to Melbourne, we can drop him off when we need to in the second year if he is not up to scratch. We have made our mistakes but this time the club got it right, the group is very young so strap yourself in and support your club in rebuilding a culture that will survive in the long term which includes not paying overs which would result in us going nowhere, we have a skeleton left of experience and the only way out of this is building a winning culture with a group of people committed to the club - I love the way Adelaide supporters are getting behind the club understanding that there will be no quick fix to a cultural rebuild. Both Crouches have shown their hand, the coaching staff are under no illusions. We are not winning any premierships with the remnants of 2017, that group imploded from within and with a heavily loaded performance based contract Crouch can make his choices just like the club have just done.