The 2015 SANFL Crows thread.

[BACCS]

Lowden lacks intensity.

Is that really surprising after having little to no pre-season, and a niggling Achilles injury? Will take a while to get his confidence and match fitness back, I'm not sure why people are judging him so harshly.

 

[Scorpus]

Walshy specifically mentioned Osborn's name in his PC today, said his name would come up in match committee. Very happy with his form.

That's great news for a non-AFL rookie that looked so far away from selection the last few years. Seems like he's really improved recently.

 

[BACCS]

That's great news for a non-AFL rookie that looked so far away from selection the last few years. Seems like he's really improved recently.

Yeah, he really tapered off last year after showing promise, always good to build ruck depth!

 

[Bob Neil]

Good to see Porps named in the SA state squad - great that he's kicked on in SANFL and hopefully enjoying some injury free footy.

 

[DJ75]

Good to see Porps named in the SA state squad - great that he's kicked on in SANFL and hopefully enjoying some injury free footy.

Rookie pick?

 

[DJ75]

Was very interesting listening to Walsh's press conference. He mentioned Osborn and how impressed he was. No doubt in my mind it was more about suggesting to JJ and Lowden that there are other options and pressure is mounting.

i was also really interested to watch Walsh when asked about Riley Knight's performance. There looked to be a little smirk in his face when he discussed Knight and how he had caught his eye.

It might just be his normal smirk, but I got the impression he was pretty happy with Knight and will be watching closely.

Isn't it great that the coach would actually go to Balaklava to watch the SANFL....

 

[spenze]

I'm surprised anyone hated West Torrens.

I'm not, they were the Saint Kilda of the SANFL. Thebarton oval was awful to walk into it was like a time warp, the ground was always a bog and the food cold and beer room temperature and the supporters were all bad willed and no teethed. Now, compare that to Woodville oval and it was like opposite ends of the spectrum, the supporters were just happy to have you in the ground, everything was fun and the food hot and beers cold. It was like the Bay of the Western suburbs where Thebarton oval and its inhabitants made Alberton look positively upmarket.

 

[Paladin]

Was very interesting listening to Walsh's press conference. He mentioned Osborn and how impressed he was. No doubt in my mind it was more about suggesting to JJ and Lowden that there are other options and pressure is mounting.

i was also really interested to watch Walsh when asked about Riley Knight's performance. There looked to be a little smirk in his face when he discussed Knight and how he had caught his eye.

It might just be his normal smirk, but I got the impression he was pretty happy with Knight and will be watching closely.

Isn't it great that the coach would actually go to Balaklava to watch the SANFL....

Knight was earmarked to play in the preseason was very disappointing he got injured. Exciting prospect I expect we will see him later this year in the AFL.

 

[chazwazza]

I'm not, they were the Saint Kilda of the SANFL. Thebarton oval was awful to walk into it was like a time warp, the ground was always a bog and the food cold and beer room temperature and the supporters were all bad willed and no teethed. Now, compare that to Woodville oval and it was like opposite ends of the spectrum, the supporters were just happy to have you in the ground, everything was fun and the food hot and beers cold. It was like the Bay of the Western suburbs where Thebarton oval and its inhabitants made Alberton look positively upmarket.

They were the days

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Knight was earmarked to play in the preseason was very disappointing he got injured. Exciting prospect I expect we will see him later this year in the AFL.

He looks like the perfect player to put heat on matty wright ...a forward line of Betts , Cameron and Knight would definitely help our game plan in locking the ball in our forward line ...2017 looks exciting , how many years can betts keep up this form? ....will be the last year of his contract ... Ha - give him another 4 but pay him more !

 

[Bicks]

I see the Sandgropers flogged the Croweaters over in Perth earlier 18.13 to 11.10....

 

[chazwazza]

Yep, poor effort.

 

[Mike Smyth]

I see the Sandgropers flogged the Croweaters over in Perth earlier 18.13 to 11.10....

The who gives a rats cup.

 

[Captain Morgan]

I blame cornes, wasn't he coaching ?

 

[Red mist]

I blame cornes, wasn't he coaching ?

Oh god yes.

 

[Captain Morgan]

Well that makes sense then. All the players switched to MMM during the breaks, couldn't stand him telling them how dank is a good bloke

 

[brucetiki]

I blame cornes, wasn't he coaching ?

Correct, Rowe was Chairman of Selectors, and given collectively they've seen about 10 minutes of SANFL action this year the side was picked largely on reputation.

 

[dylan123]

Noticed Beech played in that, how has he been going this SANFL season? Seemed like we were quite keen on him in the end but just didn't have the space to fit him in.

 

[*PAF]

That would suck having your team merge with a foe! - I never would've thought West Torrens would have been hated, but that's because I was too young to actually remember them as seperate entities...

Infact, I remember my Mum managing to track down a copy of the 1st Crows' Year Book (complete with Scott Hodges on the front cover) but in 1993 or 1994 - I had collected all of them until then but hadn't got the first. I was going through it and it had all the player bios and I couldn't rack my head around why some players had 'Woodville' as their SANFL team and others had 'West Torrens' - I had a bit of a rage and pointed it out to Mum and said this book is broken and wrong, they're not even calling the Eagles 'Woodville-West Torrens'...

That's when Mum told me about the merge that I had no idea had existed... I guess I was only 8 or 9 and the merge had happened when I was 6 when I wasn't quite aware of it all yet....

You'd think the hypen may have given me a clue....

Michael Long played for West Torrens before going to Essendon.

 

[headache1]

Correct, Rowe was Chairman of Selectors, and given collectively they've seen about 10 minutes of SANFL action this year the side was picked largely on reputation.

Integrity.

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Adelaide’s SANFL team is:

B: Sam Shaw (34), Kyle Hartigan (15), Luke Carey (59)
HB: Harrison Wigg (35), James Podsiadly (1), Sam Pfeiffer (61)
C: Riley Knight (39), Charlie Molyneux (56), Rory Atkins (21)
HF: Matthew Spencely (50), Keenan Ramsey (46), Mitch McGovern (41)
F: Nick Mott (58), Jack Osborn (30), Anthony Wilson (42)
FOL: Reilly O’Brien (43), Brodie Martin (36), Ian Callinan (37)

INT (from): Dylan Schoenmakers (55), Matthew Johncock (60), Brock Castree (54), Josh Wittwer (48), Dale Armstrong (57)

IN: Shaw, Hartigan, Atkins, McGovern, Mott, Castree
Out: Kerridge (ankle), Sutcliffe (hamstring), Lowden (Achilles/illness), Siggins (glute)

 

[Scorpus]

For Saturday versus Central Districts

IN: Shaw, Hartigan, Atkins, McGovern, Mott, Castree
Out: Kerridge (ankle), Sutcliffe (hamstring), Lowden (Achilles/illness), Siggins (glute)

 

[Dandy_GO]

Glad to see Atkins back. I'm pretty excited to see what he can produce. Looked really good the last couple of times I saw him play.

 

[whattagun07]

Carn the RAT!

Hope Siggo isn't out for too long

 

[earlsta]

Hopefully the Rat pushes VB out of the team, we need pace and skills badly, GO RAT!