List Mgmt. Walker, Smith must retire or be retired. Immediately.

[Jeffcrowe]

There's no doubt that injury/age is impacting the power of his leg. Not making the distance from 50 is a sure sign that he's not quite right.

Yep back , and therefore hammies etc

 

[rabidcrow]

I'd have Tex go round for one more.

Welsh won't be ready to play Year 1 and guys like Gollant don't look up to it, so he's not keeping an up and comer out of the team.

Whereas Smith's retention actively prevents Curtin or Ryan being selected, not to mention the option of ushering in New Pick 4 Mid at half back.

And there’s the answer. No walk up replacement in the Sanfl

But Curtin and Ryan need to be playing. As does our pick 4 mid. And if we get either of Cumming or Perryman…so Smith needs to go - we also need the list spot in deep draft

And then Crouch, Laird and Berry. At least one of them must go but 2 shouldn’t be out of the question.




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[Magma]

i'd give tex another year if he wants it. basically just becomes an on field forward line coach. maybe he just plays home games or something. we have bigger concerns.

 

[1970crow]

i'd give tex another year if he wants it. basically just becomes an on field forward line coach. maybe he just plays home games or something. we have bigger concerns.

Do you really reckon that Fog and TT need an onfield coach? Our major concern has been wallpapering over cracks, holding on to Tex hoping for a good year and keeping us near the 8 would be an excellent example of it.

 

[Magma]

Do you really reckon that Fog and TT need an onfield coach? Our major concern has been wallpapering over cracks, holding on to Tex hoping for a good year and keeping us near the 8 would be an excellent example of it.

probably not for fog, but moreso rt and if welsh plays up there from day 1. i dont think we lose anything by having him on our list at the very least next season.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

We could turf both but we don't have many senior players who are on top of their game.

Smith struggling
Walker struggling with age/fitness
Laird struggling to go head-to-head with the best midfielders
Murphy tries hard but has minimal impact
ROB is just okay
Jones struggling to make the team
McHenry looking destined for SANFL
Milera permanently injured
Himmelberg a back up option at best

That leaves Dawson, Keays, Hinge Rankine, Fogarty... not nearly enough senior quality to build a functioning team around / develop young players around.

Crouch maybe?

Not sure Sholl falls into that category.

 

[jenny61_99]

There's no doubt that injury/age is impacting the power of his leg. Not making the distance from 50 is a sure sign that he's not quite right.

That’s his back.

 

[Redline]

Do you really reckon that Fog and TT need an onfield coach? Our major concern has been wallpapering over cracks, holding on to Tex hoping for a good year and keeping us near the 8 would be an excellent example of it.

Agree, surely after more than seven years Tex can't teach Fog much more.

 

[PCORF]

Walker has been a great player since way back in 2009 with his best overall season 2017 (most disposals, tackles and goal assists). But all things need to come to an end.

I expect Brodie to retire as well.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

We could turf both but we don't have many senior players who are on top of their game.

Smith struggling
Walker struggling with age/fitness
Laird struggling to go head-to-head with the best midfielders
Murphy tries hard but has minimal impact
ROB is just okay
Jones struggling to make the team
McHenry looking destined for SANFL
Milera permanently injured
Himmelberg a back up option at best

That leaves Dawson, Keays, Hinge Rankine, Fogarty... not nearly enough senior quality to build a functioning team around / develop young players around.

Crouch maybe?

Not sure Sholl falls into that category.

Yep we can’t afford to ditch one of our only senior players who is capable of performing still if Tex finishes off year well

Also be careful what you wish for , if we decide we want to keep one of Tex , Himmelberg and Burgess as our tall forward to add to TT, Fog, Welsh which one are you choosing ? Might come down to that for next year

 

[SellarStardom]

Smith and Laird are the two to be discussed. Tex still performing and not keeping others out of the team. He stays close to goal, Thilthorp and FOG roaming.

Smith is preventing Ryan, Hamill, Curtin because our coach has a pea brain.

Laird is actually the worst of the lot. He takes possession and hurts the team with ineffective disposal. Although possessions are high he actually prevents team run and scoring and is keeping the likes of dowling out of centre.

Conversations need to be had about Smith and Laird

 

[1990crow]

We could turf both but we don't have many senior players who are on top of their game.

Smith struggling
Walker struggling with age/fitness
Laird struggling to go head-to-head with the best midfielders
Murphy tries hard but has minimal impact
ROB is just okay
Jones struggling to make the team
McHenry looking destined for SANFL
Milera permanently injured
Himmelberg a back up option at best

That leaves Dawson, Keays, Hinge Rankine, Fogarty... not nearly enough senior quality to build a functioning team around / develop young players around.

Crouch maybe?

Not sure Sholl falls into that category.

It's pretty dire. That's what our 2015 to 2018 drafting performance has done.
Compounded by losing Lever, McGovern and Cameron.

 

[1970crow]

Walker has been a great player since way back in 2009 with his best overall season 2017 (most disposals, tackles and goal assists). But all things need to come to an end.

I expect Brodie to retire as well.

All signs point to Brodie hitting a trigger though. So we'd have to delist him and pay him his contract in this year's cap.

 

[1970crow]

Yep we can’t afford to ditch one of our only senior players who is capable of performing still if Tex finishes off year well

Also be careful what you wish for , if we decide we want to keep one of Tex , Himmelberg and Burgess as our tall forward to add to TT, Fog, Welsh which one are you choosing ? Might come down to that for next year

Toby Murray has been going ok in the 2s, he's probably not going to be a lesser backup than Berg. He won't be able to cover the same ground, but he'd probably provide not much less impact. I think we could go with TT & Fog as our expected best 22 with Murray and an athletic type project ruck as backup. If it goes pear shaped, who cares, let's finish down near the bottom and get a top 4 pick again. What's the point in putting all the eggs in the finishing 10th basket? We're not contending next year.

 

[texanmike]

Walker has been a great player since way back in 2009 with his best overall season 2017 (most disposals, tackles and goal assists). But all things need to come to an end.

I expect Brodie to retire as well.

Lol you expect Brodie to retire? Hes our future he won’t retire, he will milk the club for every extra contract they are willing to throw at him

 

[budget]

Respectfully disagree

He’s just alot smarter than most forwards so knows how to get scoring opportunities despite lacking speed these days

Spot on


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[119others]

How Taylor Walker's late-career performances stack up against the best

Take a look at the numbers behind Taylor Walker's late career renaissance.

www.afc.com.au

tex likely to play on again next year. still clearly our second best forward and such leadership presence. some loud critics, not so much adelaidecrows, wanted him gone YEARS ago but the great man keeps performing and nobody in our history deserves a flag more than the texan


The Adelaide veteran turns 36 on Saturday. He was supposed to be done last year. And the year before that.

But after slotting five goals in Saturday night’s one-point win over St Kilda at Adelaide Oval, Walker is the third oldest player in Champion Data history to kick five goals in a game at 35.98 years old.

Matthew Lloyd retired at 31. Injuries ended Jonthan Brown's career by 32. Wayne Carey called time just after his 33rd birthday. Not many hold on past then.

But Walker has now kicked 262 goals since turning 30, sitting among some of the greatest goalkickers in VFL/AFL history.

Walker has played 306 games across 18 seasons at West Lakes, but produced a career year in 2023 when he kicked 76 goals at the age of 33 to be named in the All-Australian team for the first time in his career.

The former skipper kicked 39 goals last year and played his 300th game in the qualifying final loss to Collingwood, before signing a one-year contract extension for 2026 – the fourth one-year extension in a row.

Despite the rise of Riley Thilthorpe over the past 18 months, Walker is still Adelaide's most reliable target inside 50, converting a goal 29.6 per cent of the time the Crows target him.

 

[Cromulant]

Long way to go yet before we make the "he'll play again next year" call.

Appropriate management is key.

 

[NSolis]

It's a trend across sport in general that players are performing better for longer and careers are being extended. LeBron probably being the most notable example. Injury recovery and conditioning improvements, I suppose. Nice to have one of them on our team.

 

[cmndstab]

I didn't realise Lloyd had retired so early.

I guess bending down to pluck a tuft of grass each time did a number on his back!

 

[dogs105]

How Taylor Walker's late-career performances stack up against the best

Take a look at the numbers behind Taylor Walker's late career renaissance.

www.afc.com.au

tex likely to play on again next year. still clearly our second best forward and such leadership presence. some loud critics, not so much adelaidecrows, wanted him gone YEARS ago but the great man keeps performing and nobody in our history deserves a flag more than the texan


The Adelaide veteran turns 36 on Saturday. He was supposed to be done last year. And the year before that.

But after slotting five goals in Saturday night’s one-point win over St Kilda at Adelaide Oval, Walker is the third oldest player in Champion Data history to kick five goals in a game at 35.98 years old.

Matthew Lloyd retired at 31. Injuries ended Jonthan Brown's career by 32. Wayne Carey called time just after his 33rd birthday. Not many hold on past then.

But Walker has now kicked 262 goals since turning 30, sitting among some of the greatest goalkickers in VFL/AFL history.

Walker has played 306 games across 18 seasons at West Lakes, but produced a career year in 2023 when he kicked 76 goals at the age of 33 to be named in the All-Australian team for the first time in his career.

The former skipper kicked 39 goals last year and played his 300th game in the qualifying final loss to Collingwood, before signing a one-year contract extension for 2026 – the fourth one-year extension in a row.

Despite the rise of Riley Thilthorpe over the past 18 months, Walker is still Adelaide's most reliable target inside 50, converting a goal 29.6 per cent of the time the Crows target him.

How dumb would a club have to be to trade for Carey when he was nearly 32???

 

[cmndstab]

How dumb would a club have to be to trade for Carey when he was nearly 32???

It's okay, I'm sure a player of that advanced age would have been traded for a packet of chips.

Oh, pick four two, you say?

 

[Pea Nut]

How dumb would a club have to be to trade for Carey when he was nearly 32???

There was plenty of talk over the past few years that clubs that need a key forward should go hard for Tex and have him finish his career elsewhere. Imagine if a club had gone hard for him and got him to sign. Their list management team would be getting plenty of accolades, especially if they were in Melbourne. And Tex was over the age of 32.

 

[dogs105]

It's okay, I'm sure a player of that advanced age would have been traded for a packet of chips.

Oh, pick four two, you say?

Sad react

 

[NSolis]

There was plenty of talk over the past few years that clubs that need a key forward should go hard for Tex and have him finish his career elsewhere. Imagine if a club had gone hard for him and got him to sign. Their list management team would be getting plenty of accolades, especially if they were in Melbourne. And Tex was over the age of 32.

Would have been terrific somewhere like Collingwood. Glad we kept him.