How Crow Can You Go? An Adelaide Football Club Saga

[FootyGeek]

From this point right now.

Will we get better or will we get worse?

We have a very young list of very talented players, they will get better.

We have a small injury list of experienced players who will come back into the team over the next few weeks.

So will we get better or will we get worse?

Unless we have a disaster losing important players to injury we will get better.

Three games off top spot with 18 games to go, lets see what happens.

 

[Funk]

Are you feeling a little glum after our not so glorious start to the season?

Then go to the Crows board and read the thread “Time to Face facts - It’s the end of an era”

It will give you some perspective.

My personal favourite post:

“I've loved these players too (still do), but I agree that hard decisions will have to be made. Add to this Douglas 32, Mackay 31, & Otten 30 who will all surely be delisted/retired at the end of the year. Also, Gibbs (30) is past his best. I was all for getting him, but in retrospect, this is looking like a poor trade.”

 

[jezzajay]

From this point right now.

Will we get better or will we get worse?

We have a very young list of very talented players, they will get better.

We have a small injury list of experienced players who will come back into the team over the next few weeks.

So will we get better or will we get worse?

Unless we have a disaster losing important players to injury we will get better.

Three games off top spot with 18 games to go, lets see what happens.

I don’t see how we could possibly get any worse...well last year so far was worse but any joe blow can see there’s improvement so far if they look hard enough.
Crows on the other hand...they have room for getting worse...but also have plenty of scope for improvement - much like us.

 

[Robertio]

He gets a sticker every day ..

Following the Crows he's a sticker for punishment.

 

[Love the Drake]

Over the next few weeks, including Sunday, we will have Kennedy, kruez, Lang, JSOS, Phillips, Cuningham, Williamson, McReadie & Stocker available.

Competition for spots will ramp up and the team will get stronger. Not sure the ageing Crows can say the same thing.

 

[LemmingMaster]

Kruezer and Williamson are my two most important players off that list above.

Stocker showing some promise will be the icing on the cake.

 

[Arr0w]

Macreadie is the one I want up and about, think he could give us a real point of difference, together with players returning who have speed/run and carry and better disposal

 

[thylacine60]

come on, regardless of where both teams end up, respective supporters will some how spin it to look like their own club won the deal - it's what we do - this is bigfooty - no pace for comments like "ok, you got us, you win" just doesn't happen and it's why the cycle of arguments goes on and on and on........

 

[Opine]

come on, regardless of where both teams end up, respective supporters will some how spin it to look like their own club won the deal - it's what we do - this is bigfooty - no pace for comments like "ok, you got us, you win" just doesn't happen and it's why the cycle of arguments goes on and on and on........

...without which, wtf would we then do with our time? Supporting is a serious business.

 

[ET Sloane Home]

I don’t see how we could possibly get any worse...well last year so far was worse but any joe blow can see there’s improvement so far if they look hard enough.
Crows on the other hand...they have room for getting worse...but also have plenty of scope for improvement - much like us.

Think we can all agree that both our teams have been disappointing to start the season, just a question on whether either team can turn it around and start getting some wins on the board.

 

[jezzajay]

Think we can all agree that both our teams have been disappointing to start the season, just a question on whether either team can turn it around and start getting some wins on the board.

No doubt.

 

[El Topo]

Macreadie is the one I want up and about, think he could give us a real point of difference, together with players returning who have speed/run and carry and better disposal

The tall defenders are settled right now, where do you see him playing?

 

[Arr0w]

The tall defenders are settled right now, where do you see him playing?

Westoff type role, starting on a wing

 

[LemmingMaster]

Macreadie is the one I want up and about, think he could give us a real point of difference, together with players returning who have speed/run and carry and better disposal

Macreadie is fighting the Marchbank/Plowman types, it would be interesting to see which one he would replace. (Most people seem to dislike Plowman at the moment)

 

[agro]

Macreadie is fighting the Marchbank/Plowman types, it would be interesting to see which one he would replace. (Most people seem to dislike Plowman at the moment)

Macreadie is faster, taller, more mobile than Plowman and dare I say better in a one on one contest - it’s a no brainer.

 

[LemmingMaster]

Macreadie is faster, taller, more mobile than Plowman and dare I say better in a one on one contest - it’s a no brainer.

You might have seen more of him than me, but I don't remember him being that quick and mobile.

 

[Arr0w]

Macreadie is fighting the Marchbank/Plowman types, it would be interesting to see which one he would replace. (Most people seem to dislike Plowman at the moment)

I would play Macreadie on the wing

 

[agro]

You might have seen more of him than me, but I don't remember him being that quick and mobile.

I’m comparing him to Plowman not Chris Judd.

 

[Eiffel 65]

Think we can all agree that both our teams have been disappointing to start the season, just a question on whether either team can turn it around and start getting some wins on the board.

Adelaide will turn it around. The lowest they'll finish is 9th or 10th and still have a strong chance of making finals.

However, it will be interesting to see what you do with pick 1. Does Rankine want to go back to South Australia? Maybe.

Do Adelaide want to draft a kid with strong connections to the Hawthorn Football Club? Wouldn't have thought so.

I'll give you the tip, if Josh Kelly's family had any connection with Hawthorn, he'd already be back in Victoria.

Once a player like that gets traded, you're facing an uphill battle to get the equivalent of pick 1 in the draft.

 

[Brutalitops]

Adelaide will turn it around. The lowest they'll finish is 9th or 10th and still have a strong chance of making finals.

However, it will be interesting to see what you do with pick 1. Does Rankine want to go back to South Australia? Maybe.

Do Adelaide want to draft a kid with strong connections to the Hawthorn Football Club? Wouldn't have thought so.

I'll give you the tip, if Josh Kelly's family had any connection with Hawthorn, he'd already be back in Victoria.

Once a player like that gets traded, you're facing an uphill battle to get the equivalent of pick 1 in the draft.

Really beginning to question your colours mate

 

[Eiffel 65]

Really beginning to question your colours mate

Do you reckon Adelaide are a bottom 6 side?

 

[LemmingMaster]

The next three weeks will give a great insight to where Adelaide sit. They have an easier run of games and would be looking to win them all.

 

[Brutalitops]

Do you reckon Adelaide are a bottom 6 side?

Its not that one post, more the ongoing anti-Carlton theme. Ive been on this site for a few years and have seen negative posters come and go but Ive never doubted them. I guess what makes me doubt is your lack of passion while gleefully consigning us a wooden spoon after four rounds.

Something just doesnt sit right.

 

[Aphrodite]

Adelaide will turn it around. The lowest they'll finish is 9th or 10th and still have a strong chance of making finals.

However, it will be interesting to see what you do with pick 1. Does Rankine want to go back to South Australia? Maybe.

Do Adelaide want to draft a kid with strong connections to the Hawthorn Football Club? Wouldn't have thought so.

I'll give you the tip, if Josh Kelly's family had any connection with Hawthorn, he'd already be back in Victoria.

Once a player like that gets traded, you're facing an uphill battle to get the equivalent of pick 1 in the draft.

Pick 1 ....... it’s only Rnd 5.

It’s a long season.


Good lord!

 

[Eiffel 65]

Its not that one post, more the ongoing anti-Carlton theme. Ive been on this site for a few years and have seen negative posters come and go but Ive never doubted them. I guess what makes me doubt is your lack of passion while gleefully consigning us a wooden spoon after four rounds.

Something just doesnt sit right.

That's a fair opinion to have. Definitely not anti-Carlton. I just view things as an impartial observer and compare relative to the competition as a whole.

Don't think my posting is negative, but it may come across that way given this is the Carlton board.

Don't really know any people in industry that would have us finishing higher than 16th this year, and many would have us anchored to the bottom of the ladder after that loss to GC.

If my opinion aligns with industry expectations, I see it as a consensus view, not a negative view.