Football
Power crush injury-ravaged Bulldogs
Port Adelaide have claimed a 57-point win over the Western Bulldogs, whose AFL injury crisis has deepened with six players sustaining injuries on a horror night.
Football
Port Adelaide have claimed a 57-point win over the Western Bulldogs, whose AFL injury crisis has deepened with six players sustaining injuries on a horror night.
Crows chairman Rob Chapman has conceded a controversial pre-season camp’s treatment of Adelaide’s indigenous players – including star forward Eddie Betts – “could have been done better”, as the issue continues to dog the struggling club.
Football
Veteran Adelaide midfielder Richard Douglas has signed a one-year contract extension with the club.
Soccer
With contemporary World Cup teams favouring more conservative play, InDaily’s Paul Marcuccitti, in Russia for the tournament, hopes for at least a few epic matches of the kind that once hooked a generation of young football fans.
Port Adelaide have dropped high-profile recruit Jack Watts for Thursday night’s AFL clash against the Western Bulldogs.
The Crows are in freefall, as the almost-champs of 2017 risk becoming the chumps of 2018. And, to add insult to considerable injury, Port have knocked off the reigning premiers and are primed for a dream run to September. It’s enough to summon our Fumbles correspondent back from his own mid-season malaise to find some consolation in retail therapy.
Richmond expect Brownlow Medallist Dustin Martin to only miss one AFL match with a calf injury – tomorrow night’s clash with Port Adelaide.
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has resigned, denying the sport’s recent ball-tampering crisis was the catalyst that ended his 17-year tenure.
The Crows almost drowned in a Friday downpour after the weather forecast turned out to be as reliable as their Injury Updates, but they still managed to keep their season afloat… while Port ground out a predictable win in one of the season’s more forgettable games – but luckily it was only seen by 10 million or so people. Your Fumbles correspondent ponders communist dictatorships, constitutional monarchies and other big questions of the round.
Former North Melbourne midfielder Sam Gibson will make his debut for Adelaide tonight as the Crows face a bigger-than-expected test against the in-form Western Bulldogs.
Adelaide’s injury crisis has worsened with captain Taylor Walker ruled out of AFL action in coming weeks.
Adelaide coach Don Pyke is accepting his AFL club’s spate of injuries as just a fact of football.
Adelaide has rejected speculation injury-plagued midfielder Brad Crouch will have season-ending groin surgery.
Soccer
Defender Bailey Wright and in-form Hibernian hitman Jamie Maclaren are the biggest names to be culled from Bert van Marwijk’s Socceroos squad for the World Cup.
It was the greatest finish to a Showdown ever. Except that it hadn’t finished yet. Yes, Robbie Gray, Steven Motlop and Co. combined to ruin what was shaping up to be a super Saturday, and your Fumbles correspondent seems to be taking things very hard.
Football
Adelaide have allayed injury concerns over captain Taylor Walker and Sam Jacobs, who could miss Friday night’s AFL game against Western Bulldogs to be at the birth of his first child.
Football
UPDATED | Fremantle president Dale Alcock says the club is fully behind Ross Lyon despite the sexual harassment storm that has engulfed the under-fire coach.
The Adelaide Crows believe their new high schools video gaming league will help players to improve their life skills and educational outcomes, as well as giving them the opportunity to compete in a serious national competition.
Adelaide’s hierachy don’t know when key onballer Rory Sloane will be fit for AFL action after suffering another foot injury.
Former Gold Coast player Joel Wilkinson has accused the AFL of “extreme racism” and is determined to take the matter to court.
India have declined to play a day-night Test in Adelaide on their tour this summer.
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