mason at least has a high potential ceiling and can backup ruck
Toast Tex Walker
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Very interesting..
Walker’s been poor this year (and to be fair, well below his best for the past few years), but he attracts criticism like practically no other player in the league.
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Cox is 29 and has played one good game in his career, I think he's reached his ceiling.
So why does he attract so much criticism? Doesn’t just happen by magic and it’s not happening because he stinks it up on the field week in and week out. Frankly he comes across very unlikeable and arrogant and lacks the emotional intelligence to play a straight bat, read the situation and respond to questions and situations in a more appropriate ‘leader-like’ manner.
Firmly believe the club is broken and until Tex (plus Roo and Chapman) is gone it cannot be fixed. Big personlaities; divisive characters doing more harm than good.
crows should be just thankful they have him.
Well that’s what roo reckon anyway , whist he let all those other “useless “ players walk
Well that’s what roo reckon anyway , whist he let all those other “useless “ players walk
These days, if anyone for Adelaide kicks two it's considered a day out.
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These days if Adelaide kick two it's considered a day out.
Not far off it, we've kicked 31 goals in 5 games so if anyone did kick 2 goals for us, that's a 3rd of our scoring right there...
As over the hump as Walker may be, right now there are very few key position forwards (or any forwards) that would thrive in our current system where when it does happen to come forward, you'd be lucky to get a 50/50 contest 8 times out of 10.
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So many posts in here ignore his footballing ability and go straight for his character/personal attacks which is reflective of much of social media.
Imagine being him putting up with all that personal s**t.
No doubt those same people would share images of anti-bullying messages and promote mental health awareness because they don't even understand hypocrisy.
This thread needs a huge cleanup.
It's not great to kick people when they/their club is up, but it is somewhat expected. The fact people still pile on when Tex is clearly past his best at a club at their lowest point is just insane.
Let it go and realise the bloke has had his fair share of off-field grief, he isn't a threat to anyone else's club/player missing out on anything(e.g. Premiership, Coleman etc) to get salty about so just give it a rest.
Imagine being him putting up with all that personal s**t.
No doubt those same people would share images of anti-bullying messages and promote mental health awareness because they don't even understand hypocrisy.
This thread needs a huge cleanup.
It's not great to kick people when they/their club is up, but it is somewhat expected. The fact people still pile on when Tex is clearly past his best at a club at their lowest point is just insane.
Let it go and realise the bloke has had his fair share of off-field grief, he isn't a threat to anyone else's club/player missing out on anything(e.g. Premiership, Coleman etc) to get salty about so just give it a rest.
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He says while defending a well-known bully. Speaking of not understanding hypocrisy ...
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It seems 100% a 'captain's call' to go ahead with that, regardless of where the idea originated. If the captain didn't want to do it, then it wouldn't have happened.
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I remember in 2018 he was horridly out of form and then he played a great game against us, we have them next week, I hope history does not repeat. 
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He has unfairly been made a scapegoat/maligned for the Crows 2017 Grand Final loss, in addition to his wife losing their first born in tragic circumstances, and the crap that followed the Crows since, I am inclined to give him a break/a lot of slack .
How people forget that it was Tex who helped the entire Crows club, players, coaching staff and fans together after the tragic murder of Phil Walsh.
He has been through enough emotional crap and trauma to last a lifetime, what gives us to sit here and judge him, given all the situations I mentioned ?
Frankly I think he needs a club/environment in which to flourish, could be actually be the type of player/forward the Demons or Bombers need.
Tex deserves better.
How people forget that it was Tex who helped the entire Crows club, players, coaching staff and fans together after the tragic murder of Phil Walsh.
He has been through enough emotional crap and trauma to last a lifetime, what gives us to sit here and judge him, given all the situations I mentioned ?
Frankly I think he needs a club/environment in which to flourish, could be actually be the type of player/forward the Demons or Bombers need.
Tex deserves better.
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Cox only good game was against a Tigers backline suffering gastro, nothing to write home about.
edit: he played a good game against Melbourne in a Queens birthday the same year, but its Melbourne lol
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The club has lost a lot of goalkickers in the last 2 or 3 years. Betts, Cameron,Jenkins, Mcgovern, Greenwood popped up, and I don't think Lynch is going all that well.
So the focus is on him as there is not much support.
So the focus is on him as there is not much support.
And what has all that got to do with the lack of effort, urgency and heart that is so obviously when watching that’s last couple of years? I’m not saying it’s right that anyone gets abuse but that’s what happens when someone plays without ‘character‘. Also Tex liked to play ‘Mind games’ such as the power stance being a classic example. He should have left all that s**t away from the game and just run hard, bumped and tackled fiercely, jumpEd high, catchEd and collected clean and contribute to the team.
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Pick 75 in the 2007 AFL draft.
He slowly developed under the Neil Craig years of 2008-2011. Neil Craig let him rot in the SANFL to work on his defensive side of his game. Also rumours he was going to join GWS.
Neil Craig gets sacked and Under a New coach in Brenton Sanderson, Kicked 63 goals in 2012.
Did his ACL. Kicked 34 goals from 15 games in 2014.
59 goals from 23 games in 2015 was Impressive for any Key Forward.
He kicks 47 goals and 37 behinds in 2016. Again, should of kicked 50 goals.
In 2017, he kicks 54 goals from 23 games and crows make the Grand final.
In 2018 he kicks 26 goals from 14 games. Season hurt with injury.
In 2019 he kicks 43 goals from 22 games. Not exactly as good as his 2012-17 years but still solid numbers.
Thats true.Isn’t he contracted on bignext season ?
Why would he walk away from that ...
The bloke only turned 30 on ANZAC day.
He deserves to cop some critism. Mainly with his performance.
I agree with this. If you hurl abuse at people, you are going to get it back.
Matthew Pavlich played 16-17 years for the Dockers. How many People Abuse him on Social Media? Exactly.
You dont see Pav go on drunken Tirades on social media like Facebook or Twitter.
Mark Riccuito has made himself look like a clown hurling abuse at past crows players.
Thats crap and you know it. Taylor walker had a few Good seasons of kicking 50-60 goals each year.
Its Like me Saying that Jay Schulz was a Horrible forward at Port Adelaide Power from 2010-16. Which is False as he kicked 272 games from 122 goals.
he was captain, whether it was his ‘idea’ or not he lead it and could have been the person to say “No, lets NOT do that and just worry about the Getting the football and put our head over the ball”
How's McGovern doing? Earning that 800k?
GWS the only team not allowed to criticise Crows for GF shitness. K? K.
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Walker kicked 43 goals last year and has 5 so far this year. Josh Kennedy kicked 49 and has 6.
The only chat about Kennedy is that he's 33 this year and has been on a bit of a decline for 2-3 years. This will probably be his last year and his form so far hasn't been great. He's been a star and I'll take a couple 40-50 goal seasons from a player that has been kicking 60+ for half a dozen years.
As above there was nothing negative directed at Pavlich even though he probably should have retired after 2014. No one roasted Jarryd Roughead for hanging around and playing in the reserves last year. Etc.
Tex cops more criticism than other comparable players because of how he carries himself. He's a bit of a bell end off the field and can look half arsed on it. People love to jump on that.
The only chat about Kennedy is that he's 33 this year and has been on a bit of a decline for 2-3 years. This will probably be his last year and his form so far hasn't been great. He's been a star and I'll take a couple 40-50 goal seasons from a player that has been kicking 60+ for half a dozen years.
As above there was nothing negative directed at Pavlich even though he probably should have retired after 2014. No one roasted Jarryd Roughead for hanging around and playing in the reserves last year. Etc.
Tex cops more criticism than other comparable players because of how he carries himself. He's a bit of a bell end off the field and can look half arsed on it. People love to jump on that.
Which actaully made him 1oth in goals for 2019. Not that bad.
