Analysis Unprecedented: should the Crows tank their qualifying final?

[Outtatym]

It would be very South Australian for them to go out in straight sets and then blame the AFL.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Rankine is one of Adelaide’s three best players and may hold the keys to success on grand final day.

Given he has now been suspended for 4 games, if Adelaide wins its qualifying final then Rankine will have no chance of playing in a grand final should they make it.

ON THE OTHER HAND, if Adelaide were to tank their qualifying final then Rankine would be able to play in the grand final.

Should the Crom tank their qualifying final?

It's a fascinating question isn't it.

I mean obviously the answer is no. But in reality, if they win their first final - they will be without their best player for the GF.

As crazy as it sounds, it really is a question that the Crows would have to at least consider I'd have thought.

You could make a case that losing in Week 1 gives them their best shot at winning the GF.

As I said, no club would ever tank a final - but it is a fascinating hypothetical

 

[Pies No 1]

It would be very South Australian for them to go out in straight sets and then blame the AFL.

the VIC BIAS posts will go crazy if Adelaide go out in straight sets

 

[Cursed Cat]

Your team won flags in 1997-8 without Modra. Crows will be fine.

I remember Mark Bickley punching a Port defender late in the 2002 season.

It was a 3 or 4 week suspension.

Crows finished 3rd or 4th that year. Lost the qualifying final, won the semi final and lost the preliminary final vs magpies.

Had crows made the 2002 grand final vs Brisbane, Mark Bickley was available to play

Crows won in 1997 without Modra and Mark Ricciuto

 

[Dark Eagle 9]

Collingwoods gonna get spanked by the Crows.

 

[Pies No 1]

Collingwoods gonna get spanked by the Crows.

the same crows that almost lost to your rabble?

 

[Outtatym]

Collingwoods gonna get spanked by the Crows.

Collingwood have always travelled well to Adelaide. I think they're up to their eyeballs in it if it happens

 

[Pies No 1]

Collingwood have always travelled well to Adelaide. I think they're up to their eyeballs in it if it happens

rather play Adelaide in Adelaide than Geelong in Melbourne... our record against Geelong is much worse. I'd even be more worried about the Hawks.. For some reason we play better against interstate teams on home ground than VIC teams in Melbourne.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Yeah sure.

 

[Soggy2112]

This is a joke question right?

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

This is a joke question right?

No. Just no.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Wayne weideman
Tregenza

 

[kirky]

Why in god’s name would we tank a final and then play an away Preliminary Final without one of your top 5 players?

Seriously dumb.

You beat Collingwood, then either Brisbane/Hawks/Geelong in a Prelim then onto the GF.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Groom
Tasker
Rouvray
Viska
Hall
Schwerdt
Bond
McGuiness
McDermott

 

[kirky]

Groom
Tasker
Rouvray
Viska
Hall
Schwerdt
Bond
McGuiness
McDermott

A few spuds in that lot.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Wellman
Robran
Rehn
Hart
Smart

 

[caveman72]

Just make the Grand Final, draw it then request the replay at Adelaide Oval.

Be a bit hard considering there is no longer a replay only extra time

 

[ray_purchase]

Hope one of the Adelaide boys knock Quaynor out cold in the first final. Or he does his achilles.

 

[randyzany]

Hope one of the Adelaide boys knock Quaynor out cold in the first final. Or he does his achilles.

I heard that the dibber dobber was Darcy Moore. That dude has a very strangely shaped androgynous body, wouldn't surprise if he swung both ways and why he told on Rankine.

 

[Go the Guts]

To those comparing our side of 2025 to 1997-8, we had a midfield of McLeod, Ricciuto (98), Goodwin, Edwards back then.
There’s no comparison.

 

[ray_purchase]

I heard that the dibber dobber was Darcy Moore. That dude has a very strangely shaped androgynous body, wouldn't surprise if he swung both ways and why he told on Rankine.

Makes more sense that its Darcy Moore. His missus is a lunatic feminazi and hes dumb as dog shit and easily radicalized.

 

[Elixuh]

Makes more sense that its Darcy Moore. His missus is a lunatic feminazi and hes dumb as dog shit and easily radicalized.

He sounds more intelligent than 99.9% of the people on this website. 100% if you include me.

 

[Freomaniac]

Crows won in 1997 without Modra and Mark Ricciuto

I know that. Modra did his knee, Roo did his groin

 

[Cursed Cat]

I know that. Modra did his knee, Roo did his groin

well why mention one without mentioning the other, Mr I Freakin KNOW THAT!

 

[Dirty Bird]

To those comparing our side of 2025 to 1997-8, we had a midfield of McLeod, Ricciuto (98), Goodwin, Edwards back then.
There’s no comparison.

Just because they became Hall of Famers doesn't mean they were stars then

97 GF

McLeod's 60th game. He had 4 games with 20+ disposals before this date, and 1 career brownlow vote
Edwards' 46th game. He had 1 game with 20+ disposals before this date, and was still 2 years before his first Brownlow vote
Goodwin's 10th game. He had yet to even reach 18 disposals before this date, and was still 3 years before his first Brownlow vote

Peatling right now is every bit of McLeod's résumé in 1997
Curtin right now is every bit of Edwards' résumé in 1997
And heck, Cook right now is every bit of Goodwin's résumé in 1997