Football
Sam Jacobs leaves Crows
Veteran Crows ruckman Sam Jacobs is leaving the club, saying he plans to exercise his free-agency rights.
Football
Veteran Crows ruckman Sam Jacobs is leaving the club, saying he plans to exercise his free-agency rights.
Manton St Tales
With a new mentor and game style, Adelaide United will give its supporters a close look tonight at the Reds’ new era. The next step, writes Spiro Karanikos-Mimis, will be finalising recruitment for the season-proper.
Crows chairman Rob Chapman says the club’s board is aware of his business history with former Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich, including that he has co-owned a racehorse called ‘Go The Knuckle’ with one of the four men contracted to conduct an external review of Adelaide’s football operations.
Adelaide’s football director Mark Ricciuto says he’ll stand down if an external review finds he’s a cause of the AFL club’s problems.
Onfield malaise and off-field chaos: it’s fair to say 2019 didn’t quite pan out as our Fumbles correspondent had hoped, as we say a not-so-fond farewell to another wasted season.
Ben Stokes has once again made the unprecedented and unbelievable look easy, reeling in a record-breaking target of 359 to win the third Test by one wicket and rock Australia’s hopes of retaining the Ashes.
A 95-year-old sports club in Adelaide’s inner north is appealing to the wider community for financial support in a last-ditch attempt to stay afloat.
Football
Veteran Crow Richard Douglas has announced his retirement ahead of his 246th game when Adelaide clashes with the Western Bulldogs on Sunday.
Fremantle coach Ross Lyon has been sacked ahead of Sunday’s Round 23 clash with Port Adelaide, whose coach Ken Hinkley says will lose his own job if the Power miss the finals this and next season.
Touch of the Fumbles
So this is the way the season ends – not with a bang… but an utterly shiteful embarrassment of a home-ground capitulation, made only slightly less apocalyptic by Port Adelaide’s own subsequent annihilation. Good times.
Cricket
Nathan Lyon feels sheepish sitting alongside Dennis Lillee on Australia’s list of all-time Test wicket-takers, having declared the best is still to come after celebrating his 355th scalp.
The State Government did not contact the Crows, Port Adelaide or the AFL before ruling out Adelaide Oval as a venue for Australia’s FIFA Women’s World Cup bid, instead relying on “representations” from the Stadium Management Authority that staging the event in the city would be a commercial “disaster” for the SMA.
Editor’s note: Due to a technical breakdown, a significant portion of Adelaide Football Club senior coach Don Pyke’s post-match press conference after the Crows’ loss to West Coast last night never went to air. Here is a transcript of the lost broadcast.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has attacked a Cricket Australia decision to allow transgender and gender-diverse people to play the sport the highest level as “heavy-handed” and “mystifying”.
The prospect of South Australia taking part in a national bid for the 2023 Women’s World Cup is back on the table, with Premier Steven Marshall suggesting Football Federation Australia was open to revising its conditions for involvement.