Football
A major exhibition of South Australian football will open next week at the State Library. Preserving the game’s history is the passion of a local who hadn’t even heard of the Magarey Medal until she met a legend, as Michelangelo Rucci explains.
Football
Adelaide winger Paul Seedsman’s AFL season has been written off as he continues to battle ongoing effects from concussion.
Adelaide United has booked a semi-final clash with Melbourne City after a thrilling 3-1 elimination final victory over Central Coast Mariners at Coopers Stadium on Sunday.
Andrew Daniels has guided Adelaide Oval through a massive refit, a hotel controversy, a Parliamentary inquiry, food and drink cost complaints and a pandemic. But he’s never watched a Showdown from the old scoreboard, says Michelangelo Rucci.
The Reds are in the finals and Spiro Karanikos-Mimis is happy – and happy to admit that some earlier criticism was offside.
Leon Cameron will coach Greater Western Sydney for the last time this Sunday, after quitting with the club in 15th spot on the AFL ladder.
Touch of the Fumbles
There’s a certain symbolism to playing Carlton and discovering that, as a yardstick, we are some considerable way off the mark.
In today’s Notes On Adelaide column: if you’ve ever had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at the office – spare a thought for this young Crow.
Football
Gillon McLachlan’s “parting gift” to the AFL would be a new television-broadcast rights deal that quickly fills in the financial hole left by the COVID pandemic. But will the fans be better off?
Football
UPDATED | Adelaide Crows mentor Matthew Nicks joins the growing list of AFL coaches forced to miss a game this year after contracting COVID, with senior assistant Scott Burns to lead the 12th-placed team for its weekend match against Carlton.
Australia’s national rugby team will play in South Australia later this year for the first time since 2004, with Adelaide Oval a surprise inclusion in this year’s international Test calendar.
After weeks of telling ourselves not to get ahead of ourselves whilst simultaneously getting ahead of ourselves, Crows supporters came back to earth with the force of a misjudged Brodie Smith landing on the weekend. Between that and Port’s emerging renaissance, our Fumbles correspondent has judged his return impeccably.
Port Adelaide’s AFLW raid on crosstown rival Adelaide continues with foundation Crows premiership player Ange Foley signing up for the Power’s debut season in the women’s competition.
Umpires like it, but has a crackdown on disputing decisions gone too far? Michelangelo Rucci reports.
