It's the end of 2017 2025. After finishing top using a game plan that emphasised the strength of our forward line and defence, and largely ignored how consistently our midfield was beaten by just working around it, we have lost the grand final been unceremoniously kicked out of the finals in...
It's the end of August 2023 2024. 5 6 years into our 3 year rebuild and Laird, Crouch, and Sloane are 3 2 of our 4 main starting mids in a game to stay in finals contention dead rubber to finish bottom 4, which they lost.
The more things change, the more they stay the same!
At least Rankine...
It's the end of August 2023. 5 years into our 3 year rebuild and Laird, Crouch, and Sloane are 3 of our 4 main starting mids in a game to stay in finals contention, which they lost. We have just finished the season with a demoralising low quality win against the bottom side, which kicked our...
Due to dreadfully toxic and incompetent management I've changed jobs again, I've been triple vaxed and haven't caught the rone, I've travelled to Ireland for a wedding, home ownership has gotten further away somehow, but like a steady rock the Crows still suck the big one on and off the field...
*record scratch* Yep, that's me. You might be wondering how I got here. Since the end of the 2020 season I've changed jobs, we had a draft with lots of early picks, a preseason full of PBs, and the COVID vaccines have hit to stamp out a virus already under control.
Fast forward to now, I still...
In the words of one of our better Prime Ministers in the early 90s, "It's the development year that Adelaide had to have." Just wish he'd gone on to talk about the two global pandemics, COVID-19 and fascism, so we'd been able to make alternative arrangements in advance.
2020 Trade and Coaching...
Salt and ash. The fires are long gone, and all that remain are salt and ash.
2019/2020 Trade/Delist/Re-sign predictions/opinions
Rumour thread - NO DISCUSSION!
2019 Rumour File (rumour discussion thread)
DEATH RIDE 2: A TEAGUE OF THEIR OWN! (Picks 3 and 21)
2019 Draft Watch
Uncontracted
FA...
Hey, I got to start it early this year! :poo: With finals now gone, I expect players looking for send off games are going to start announcing retirements, and maybe some players will have their retirement announced for them. Besides, I got annoyed and typed it all out, so I'm not throwing it...
Fitfh year running, this year with an extra shot of bitters just for Drugs Are Bad Mackay? because I know it's both our favourite
Grand Final autopsy
2017 Trade/FA thread part 2
Jake Lever thread
Bryce Gibbs thread
2017 Draft thread
Uncontracted
FA Eligible
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Non-FA
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Departures
Senior...
Hawthorn
Adelaide
Result
Will the plucky Adelaide rebellion end any chance of the completion of a new Fourthorn? Will Imperial Hawthorn crush the rebellion, and be fully operational when Taylor's friends arrive?
I say the rebellion by 48, party with the Ewoks after the game
Tanks is a new game from Gale Force 9. Depending on where you're coming from, it's either World of Tanks on the tabletop, or X-Wing for those who prefer historicals to scifi. Either way, it's meant to be an entrance point to the full sized miniatures wargame Flames of War, as well as a...
Fourth year running, leave a post when there's a club confirmation of a signing/departure/other change and I'll put it on the master list. Otherwise, plenty of discussion threads already:
2016 Season Autopsy
2016 Trade/FA thread part 2
2016 Trade/FA thread part 3
2016 Trade/FA period open
2016...
You know the drill, leave a post when there's a club confirmation of a signing/departure/other change and I'll put it on the master list. Otherwise, plenty of discussion threads already:
2015 Trade Target thread
2015 Delistings chat
2016 Coach chat
Departures
Senior List (to)
Patrick...
Everyone gets a special bonus this week, entirely because you deserve it and nothing to do with my poor time management: a combined FaceOff and Game Day thread!
Did someone get the name of that wharfie?
The purple haze are... floating.. about? this season, topping the table undefeated after...
Where the game was lost:
This game was entirely lost because our team could not hit a target to save themselves; notable guilty parties include Patrick Clangerfield, Tom Lynch, Ricky Henderson. Work rate was there, systems were mostly there, skills were almost completely absent.
Key...
So I'm apparently travelling to watch the Crows play for the first time, round 2 against Collingwood at the G Etihad.
My question is where is the best place to get GA tickets, ie what end? And is it really as close to sold out as Ticketmaster says it is or do they have unreleased tickets?
Once again, a summary of all our incomings, outgoings, and other list and football department changes, sadly once again able to be posted before the finals begin.
As ever, there are and will be respective threads to discuss who we want in trade, FA and at each draft selection. Use those and...
http://www.manticgames.com/
Does anyone here play any of the games made by Mantic? They're a company of Games Workshop refugees pushed out by the rotten corporate culture over the years; they started out making very low cost alternative miniatures for Warhammer 40k and Warhammer fantasy, but...
The ancient enemy is upon us once more. Four thousand runes I have scried, seeking our path through torment and war, death and salvation. The younger races are as nothing before us; the stars once lived and died at our command, but even now, at the nadir of our power, they still dance to our...
Season is over as far as finals are concerned, and I expect any more retirements to start trickling out soon, so here's the thread for the third year running, go to source for all changes to the playing list over the break.
Nobody goes on the list until there's at least an official club...
This is getting more difficult
OUT: Dangerfield (inj), Jaensch
IN: Grigg, ???, Profit
No really. Plenty of others were really ordinary (hello Otten, Wright and Mackay) but we're starting to run out of options. Petrenko for Jaensch probably, but we really ought to be bringing in a useful...
Two certain outs this week, one unfortunate, one stupid.
OUT: Riley (inj), McKernan (Susp), Jaensch
IN: Grigg, Graham, Tambling or Lyons
Unless anyone can think of someone better than Graham to bring in? We could always elevate Dowdell.
Unless the SANFL site is busted, Mackay didn't even...
The already suspect legacy of Jim Stynes has now been permanently and irrevocably tarnished, despite the AFL trying desperately to punish everyone but Stynes and his link man, Schwabb.
With their supposed inspiration now in tatters, where can Melbourne go from here? Obviously with the AFL...
Season is now officially over for us - I made this thread last year, doing it again this year. Simple collection of finalised departures, draft picks and arrivals. Nobody goes on the list until there's at least an official club statement, no rumours. Draft order taken from the current order...
The AA awards are on tonight, and already news is leaking out - Pavlich held a press conference this morning, where he informed people he hadn't been invited. I had him as FF and Captain as the most certain thing in the world, so as you can see the selectors are already off to a rubbish start...
Re: First whisper of good news on Tippett
Davis studies Law, or at the very least he had ambitions to be a Lawyer after his football career.
A degree in Law from Adelaide University, in the professional world, is looked down on like a TAFE Diploma in legal studies compared to most other...