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You can cast aspersions, GreyCrow, but it was common knowledge at the time that the Great Eastern had a very poor selection of wines during that period, in spite of being a couple of spits from the Barossa Valley and barely a breath from a strong contingent of Germans at Hahndorf. I recall that...

This may only be a coincidence but back in the mid sixties Joseph Le Gauze was drafted into the Onkaparinga Valley Firsts during a tight grand final after three of Onka's forwards went down. As far as I can recall, Joseph was a member of the crowd for the first half. The club dragged him into...

You are out of date, Mr Moogle. Adelaide had an image problem at West Lakes which was, upon reflection, a s**t-hole of a venue – a suburban drag. But, if you talk to any of the interstate visitors to Adelaide Oval for Adelaide or Port games, they say that the footy experience at that venue is...

Josh Jenkins is not Joe the Goose. Yes, he's kicked many of his goals from the goal square and, thus, appears to be the happy ending of the team play. But, on most occasions, Josh works extremely hard to get into that position. He's deceptively fast for a big man; reads the play well and works...

No Dangerfield; no Geelong.

Excellent research, Marvin. A quality post. Later when Malcolm Blight went to St Kilda, there was an uncomfortable story that emerged when a young member of that squad went to his coach and asked him what he needed to do to get into the team. Malcolm said, more or less: "Go away and do the...

Let this moment be noted: Adelaide vs Melbourne, Round 3, 2015 at Adelaide Oval: Another lovely game by Cam Ellis-Yolmen, Adelaide’s emerging star in the NAB summer games, and good work in the first two rounds. He’s a tall indigenous player with silver trout attributes – acute football...

1. Adelaide now tackles as a group and their tackles stick. 2. The Adelaide game plan isn't centred around Patrick Dangerfield. For better or for worse, Bernie Vince put the heat on Dangerfield in Round 3 and restricted Patrick’s output to a relatively miserly 16 disposals but that left the...

Maths, please. Yes, well, but... I think Adelaide has already made all the statements it is capable of making for this season. Of course, Adelaide should approach Round 23 with the view of winning it and, if possible, win by enough to scrape into the eight with percentage but, let's get real...

Yeah, nah. Sack Wright Away. Bring in a new poster who has been sitting in the wings waiting for a moment to enter. That won't cost anything.

You are too clever for me. What does that post mean?

First, let's have a reality check. Adelaide started this season with severe injuries to key players – with flaws in its structure. Podsiadly and Betts were only going to be makeshift players, gaps in obvious holes until the main players returned. To their immense credit, they held a flimsy...

No team is destined for greatness unless you treat football as a form of religion which is always a dangerous thing to do. The good teams are the level-headed ones with level-headed coaches who set realistic targets for the players under their tutorage. They say things such as: "If you achieve...

Excellent photograph, Hank. It shows the sheer insanity of the modern game with seventeen players hovering around a bouncing ball. Unbelievable. That's nearly half of the players on the field in one tiny patch. That's worse than mini-league.

I went to the Sydney game at the SCG a fortnight ago and it was a thrilling encounter. It took Port three and a half quarters to reconstruct their game to suit that strange venue. They were cramped in the spine and prevented from moving forward. Sydney's defensive clamp was extraordinary. But...

1. The home-crowd factor at Adelaide Oval with 50,000+ at both of this year's showdowns has been incredibly important. The home-crowd applause for little things is noticed by the players and it enables each team to build and sustain a belief in themselves. I'm glad, in a South Australian footy...

Yes. It's driving me crazy. Does anyone know what is going on?

The age-old question... are rucks overrated? West Coast have the two best rucks going around in Cox and Naitanui but that doesn't mean they win games. Sandilands is the best tapman of them all, but the rest of his game fails to hurt the opposition most of the time. Carlton's Warnock gets a...

I'd like Dangerfield settled on the halfback flank, to create the turnover and mount the forward attack. But maybe that's an old way of looking at footy. As good as he and Rory Sloane are, both of them have the mentality that they have to do everything – all the time and all by themselves. I...

I think that the speed of the game has passed him by to some degree but I also think that he'll see out his contract just in case the club is riddled with backline injuries and still needs him. I doubt whether he will want to play on next year. He's had a superb career.

There's no need to overstate the case. We are the tenth least skillful team in the comp. And we can only get better.

And, moogerfooger, you are very good at maintaining a cynical sharp-edge view of nothing. Craig has been a servant of two AFL clubs and has performed sometimes difficult tasks to the maximum of his abilities. Obfuscating the issues? What do you mean? That he should dump on his players or dump on...

I still love Neil, too. or, rather, I still think he has much to give to the AFL. I wonder, though, whether his coaching options are running out. He could be a tagteam coach for Brisbane, maybe, with Simon Goodwin as his deputy with a one or two year passover. But I don't think that's likely...

By implication, you are saying that if you support one team you are thereby disqualified from commenting on any other team. Is that it, Grotto? Do you disqualify yourself, too?

Neil Craig coached at AAMI stadium for the first time in Round 14, 2004 as caretaker coach for the Adelaide Football Club. His opponent on that day was Melbourne and Craig’s men had a 72-point victory (22.13-10-13). Craig coached at AAMI Stadium for the last time on Saturday 24 August, 2013 as...

I tipped nine but I don't want the Whopper. I want a reward, not a punishment.

In another thread I wrote: In May, Adelaide face Hawthorn, the Giants, St Kilda and North Melbourne and could win three of those four games to be 5-4 by the end of the month… After going down to premiership favourite Hawthorn by a couple of kicks on Saturday in a quality contest, is anyone...

I posted this on the footyalmanac.com.au site tonight. It's a great sports forum but still Melbourne-centric: It’s a handy time to write Adelaide off for season 2013. They’ve lost their 2012 forward structure in the first five rounds. Taylor Walker (63 goals last year, knee reconstruction...

Crumbers? You think Adelaide needs opportunistic feeders who can skirt the packs and turn nothing into something? Talk about ignoring the bigger picture. Adelaide needs a forward structure and it needed a forward structure before Taylor Walker went down. Adelaide needs pack-busting marking or...

First, there is no one big problem except the observation that 2012 was all about the new coach. Was Brenton Sanderson good enough for the Adelaide Football Club and was the Adelaide Football Club good enough for Brenton Sanderson? That question was answered last year. This year, the question...