How Crow Can You Go? An Adelaide Football Club Saga

[BluesRule]

Just someones opinion...
https://www.theroar.com.au/2019/06/...SNLCg9K_J5_0T1erVdbCRQzXafA_Y4W7xDqR42-sYweJI

Love this line:

"Based on the list Carlton has as a whole, it has at least as good a chance as Adelaide of winning a premiership during Stocker’s career. In Weitering, Harry McKay and Ed Curnow it has some quality talls,..."

Ed has clearly risen

 

[Vin Catoggio]

Went through the ladder predictor twice. Once with my actual realistic selections, and once with best case scenario.

I had us finishing 15th. Sadly I had Adelaide finishing 4th.

My best case scenario (unrealistic to be honest) attempt had us finishing 9th. It had Adelaide finishing 11th.

I did that too. Had us winning the flag and Adelaide 12th. Maybe I was too optimistic....

 

[Robertio]

I did that too. Had us winning the flag and Adelaide 12th. Maybe I was too optimistic....

Maybe, but i love it.

 

[ajb72]

What is it with the cows and going off on stretchers with season ending injuries, only to be back playing a couple of weeks later?
Seedsman goes off like his career has ended and his cat has died, over a minor injury, and now Jenkins plays the same card.
What a wierd bunch.

 

[Dadda Dave]

What is it with the cows and going off on stretchers with season ending injuries, only to be back playing a couple of weeks later?
Seedsman goes off like his career has ended and his cat has died, over a minor injury, and now Jenkins plays the same card.
What a wierd bunch.

Soft as butter that lot ..

 

[LemmingMaster]

Soft as butter that lot ..

Yet they keep winning games, I hope Carlton learn to be soft like them and win.

 

[LFTWNG11]

If they manage to keep B.Crouch fit, they are going to finish top 4. He is their best player.

 

[BluesRule]

If they manage to keep B.Crouch fit, they are going to finish top 4. He is their best player.

RFA in 2020. Should we offer them Adelaides 2019 first round pick?

 

[Robertio]

Yet they keep winning games, I hope Carlton learn to be soft like them and win.

We want no praise for Crows in this thread please.

 

[Robertio]

If they manage to keep B.Crouch fit, they are going to finish top 4. He is their best player.

Got anything negative you want to say about them.

 

[Weiterbot23]

If they manage to keep B.Crouch fit, they are going to finish top 4. He is their best player.

Was he ever available cheaply?

We should have tried for a straight swap for Gibbs

 

[Faz 2000]

Cows are doing well, which is of course terrible news. But, good for them. They're getting the Ws we can only dream of. Le sigh.

 

[teknodeejay]

Don’t forget their last two wins were both at home. Richmond had their B team out there and GWS folded as they did in Tasmania.

Their win against a bad side in Melbourne had merit.
Who else have they really beaten ? They’ve had one of the softest draws in a long time and of course there’s a lot more soft to come.

Geelong will smack them.

Their only chance of glory is a home Prelim. They’re not much chop away from that stadium.

Still doesn’t excuse our trade as an absolute disaster that should never have happened.

 

[LFTWNG11]

Got anything negative you want to say about them.

They are a plastic corporation with no soul....

Was he ever available cheaply?

We should have tried for a straight swap for Gibbs

Unfortunately I have many Crow supporting mates who, if they are anything to go by, B.Crouch is rated extremely highly (think how we rate Cripps) and was never available for cheap. Watching him live last night, he really has the potential to be a top 5 player in the AFL, injuries permitting.

 

[CrowEater888]

They are a plastic corporation with no soul....



Unfortunately I have many Crow supporting mates who, if they are anything to go by, B.Crouch is rated extremely highly (think how we rate Cripps) and was never available for cheap. Watching him live last night, he really has the potential to be a top 5 player in the AFL, injuries permitting.

100% correct.

 

[LFTWNG11]

100% correct.

Especially the plastic corporation with no soul bit!!

 

[Robertio]

Especially the plastic corporation with no soul bit!!

By the way you are right about B Crouch.

 

[CrowEater888]

Especially the plastic corporation with no soul bit!!

You seem to think we are offended by this comment, but we aren't.

If being a plastic soulless corporation means we keep winning, have an excellent track record for finding and developing talent, are profitable, have no debt, sponsors up to our wazoo and thousands of loyal members. OK then, I guess we are.

The alternative, being broke and anchored to the bottom of the ladder for nearly 20 years? It doesn't seem all that palatable.

 

[Robertio]

You seem to think we are offended by this comment, but we aren't.

If being a plastic soulless corporation means we keep winning, have an excellent track record for finding and developing talent, are profitable, have no debt, sponsors up to our wazoo and thousands of loyal members. OK then, I guess we are.

The alternative, being broke and anchored to the bottom of the ladder for nearly 20 years, it doesn't seem all that palatable.

If your not offended, why did you bother to reply, oh i get it,s because you can.

 

[bigdog43]

Couldn't give a stuff about the pick swap, I love Stocker.

 

[Arr0w]

You seem to think we are offended by this comment, but we aren't.

If being a plastic soulless corporation means we keep winning, have an excellent track record for finding and developing talent, are profitable, have no debt, sponsors up to our wazoo and thousands of loyal members. OK then, I guess we are.

The alternative, being broke and anchored to the bottom of the ladder for nearly 20 years? It doesn't seem all that palatable.

A fair post and nothing that I would say wasn't factual of the last 15 odd years for both clubs.

Unfortunately you left out a few more facts

Crows, while admiring their talent identification and development, suffer with player retention and have not won anything of note, despite being in a position to nail a flag at least a couple times

Blues, had a poor culture and even worse list managers that never embraced the draft and or player development.

Now think about the changes or lack thereof, both clubs have made and what that future direction will look like in the coming years

 

[LFTWNG11]

You seem to think we are offended by this comment, but we aren't.

If being a plastic soulless corporation means we keep winning, have an excellent track record for finding and developing talent, are profitable, have no debt, sponsors up to our wazoo and thousands of loyal members. OK then, I guess we are.

The alternative, being broke and anchored to the bottom of the ladder for nearly 20 years? It doesn't seem all that palatable.

Ahhh, it was a facetious one-liner that you have responded back to with 3 paragraphs of dribble....

 

[Robertio]

Ahhh, it was a facetious one-liner that you have responded back to with 3 paragraphs of dribble....

But he wasn't offended

 

[Arr0w]

Unfortunately what Crow supporters and many of our own, continue to forget, from the start of the trade and until the upcoming trade period, it is a 2 for 1 deal, with no guarantees that any of the players selected will be busts and or better than the other

 

[Robertio]

Unfortunately what Crow supporters and many of our own, continue to forget, from the start of the trade and until the upcoming trade period, it is a 2 for 1 deal, with no guarantees that any of the players selected will be busts and or better than the other

Ours will be much better.