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OK, thanks. On that note, Good: --- Hatchard, Randall and Woodland (who has great goal sense) --- tackling, full-on all game. Bad: --- Melbourne murdered the Crows last night on the outside. Proof? Uncontested possessions, of which the Dees had 80-odd more. That means more kicking to players who...

GOOD: OK, a win is a win, is a win, but MEH. We beat (easily, in the end) the crappest side in the League and should have, but jeez they made hard work of it. Tex (keeping Nicks employed) and Fog (his don't-argue in the 4th was a thing of beauty, not to mention the goals). Dawson, silky class...

Collingwood: IN: Nathan Kreuger, Will Hoskin-Elliott OUT: Mason Cox (ankle), Trent Bianco (omitted) From the Collingwood website game preview: "Collingwood kicked over 100 points on Friday night for the first time since round two last year. McRae's attacking game style sees players run and...

https://www.afc.com.au/news/820614/tom-hurley-named-crows-football-operations-manager Does that rule out Balme now? Saunders leaving announced on Ch7 news just now. Are the Crows still shooting for Darren Burgess (ex-PA, ex-Arsenal, now with Melbourne; edited thanks to Magma )? Now, to be rid...

How'd they lose that by only 3 points? The Good: What little good (eg Seedsman goal near end Q3, Himmelberg contested mark in Q2) I saw was undone time and time again by ... The Bad and The Ugly: --- Seedsman miss on the run mid-Q3 --- Himmelberg dreadful kick for goal after that mark, above...

Read this morning a very interesting article (ABC online) about what makes a great (winning/successful) team: abc.net.au/news/2020-07-26/what-makes-a-great-sports-team-sam-walker/12454814 The author went into his 11 years of research expecting it to be the Coach, but decided that there was one...

Found this article today, although I think it misses several other reasons: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-25/how-adelaide-crows-went-from-afl-top-to-bottom-in-three-years/12387620?WT.ac=localnews_adelaide Especially interesting is this: "The introduction of 6-6-6 starting positions...

In another thread, I posted this: ""Best" is totally subjective, except maybe for Bradman who was head and shoulders the best batsman of all time. If I could time-travel, I'd go watch him bat.", which got me thinking about what other Crows' fans would do, footy-wise or other, if they could...

This started as a post/reply from another thread, but it's Richmond-specific and I'd like to know what other Crows' supporters (and others) think: I had commented re last night's Prelim: At one stage in the 3rd quarter, one of their blokes went up in a marking contest against THREE Cats, and...

From article in "The Advertiser" today, Chapman announces his (eventual) retirement. Good news: He's going! Oh Happy Day! Bad News (and a lot of it): --- he'll stick around long enough to make sure that 2020 is another dud, if not worse, year. --- he thinks Roo would make a wonderful Chairman...

Thread started to honour and celebrate Ash Barty's stunning, emphatic, brilliant win in the 2019 French Open. Australia's newest Grand Slam singles winner! (please reply to Poll above) When Barty made it to the quarter-final stage, I thought that was a major achievement, but her three wins...

It's been on the news and can be viewed here: http://www.afc.com.au/news/2018-05-08/showdown-shield-unveiled Personally, I'm not keen. I have nothing against the Bond brothers, but I doubt that players from both sides regard their opponents so affectionately, or happily. I'd say the rivalry is...

Reported today (News.com.au) and I'm surprised nobody else started a thread about it (if there is one, Mods please merge?): " ADELAIDE has joined the race for Geelong star Steven Motlop’s signature. The Crows have reportedly joined the scrap in a big way, offering the 26-year-old a rich deal. "...

I've been thinking about that amazing draw all week. The Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of the draw vs Collingwood didn't make sense on several levels. A team doesn't lose its ability to play well, then get it back after half-time. Since Brisbane's dominance and the most recent era where Hawthorn...

I received this comment: . Jim Parsons, the actor who plays Sheldon on THE BIG BANG THEORY, was once described as being like a huge human praying mantis on set. Indeed, he moves as if he's half-Thunderbirds-puppet and half-insect. I don't know if that's Parsons-being-Parsons, or very good...

Mods, I wasn't sure where to put this. I had a look at the general threads but as a Crows supporter I'd like to know what my peers think. If you want to move it, or consider it too contentious, no woz. These incidents have been hot topics online, on TV and in the Press, and have triggered a lot...

PICTURE THIS: A darkened auditorium. It's the 2017 Club Champion Night. Time for the Coach's speech, but for the first time in his career he has a surprise for us. A single slightly blue (for mood) spotlight hits the stage. Don Pyke walks into the spot, wearing an immaculate tux and bowtie, and...

This is an extension, or Part 2, to my previous thread: Blighty commented on congestion in the modern game only yesterday: ""When you get 36 players in an eighth of the ground — I don't reckon that was our game," he said. "We should keep our space. Space is what makes our game on the ground...

I'm not a fan of Patrick Smith or this article which attempts to explain 2017's upset results and Competition evenness, where he states that AFL footy has become so fast that it's little more than a comedy of errors (my emphasis in bold italics): "We mentioned this after the Queen’s Birthday...

As I type, Essendon are 8+ goals up (4th quarter) on Port Adelaide and look like scoring a strong win. PA had plenty to gain tonight and much to lose. This is the PA who had a 9.8 to 0.3 halftime advantage over the Hawks last week and whom I regarded (until tonight) as our biggest threat on the...

I got the idea for this from a post by mattymac in another thread. The blueprint ... *chook* ... the blueprint ... *chook* ... the blueprint ... *chook* ... is becoming the most irritating, least explained, most overrated broken record of the last 10 days. "The blueprint" is a media term...

It's been well-documented by the footy media that the Crows have had only 2 winning first quarters out of 9 games, with by far the worst against North Melbourne in Round 7 (I still have nightmares about that!). Even so, the Crows are 7-2 win-loss, so: --- does it matter all that much if the...

Before I address Adelaide's first six wins and two subsequent losses, I want to look at recent Flag-winning teams, how they play, their onfield manner/body language and the concept of MINDSET and pre-match expectations. Think about Hawthorn for a while. They've finished Top 4 in every one of...