Touch of the Fumbles
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.
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High-flying marks, strange industrial-grey guernseys and another injury that may or may not rhyme with "jam spring"... As the Showdown looms, our Fumbles correspondent ponders whether the Crows might actually be building to something here - or merely marking time before more September sorrow.
Few gave the Crows any chance to win this one, least of all our Fumbles correspondent. But in the end, a narrow against-the-odds win on the road – led by a four-goal captain’s haul – felt like a little bit of history repeating. Much like yet another Port loss to Geelong.
Port bombing out to the Bombers and a Jake Lever shocker slightly redeemed the weekend, but there's no papering over how poor the Crows were on Friday night. Our Fumbles correspondent ponders curfews, baby blues and the end of the premiership dream.
I’ve never really disliked St Kilda as much as I probably should.
If there’s a single feeling in football sweeter than winning a Grand Final rematch, I can’t think of it.
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It wasn’t altogether easy, but you’ll be pleased to know that I have managed to find the single glaring negative to come out of the Crows’ Showdown mauling of an unaccountably insipid Port Adelaide.
So where do we start? Adelaide's crazy comeback draw? Port's insane hijack win? The perpetual annoyance that is Paddy Dangerfield? Ahead of a ladder-shaping Showdown, this was a weekend that captured the best and the worst of both the Crows and the Power - which somehow leaves our Fumbles correspondent none the wiser.
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This could have been a Crows supporter's ultimate football weekend: Adelaide won, Port lost and Richmond obligingly put a two-game break between us and the decreasingly-ominous GWS, while also bundling the Power out of the top four. Only an unexpected bout of appendicitis could stop us now...
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The Crows are at the top end of the ladder after a visit to the Top End, but we're all starting to get that familiar pre-break-up feeling again. But never fear. Our Fumbles correspondent is taking matters into his own hands, and he's making Lever and McGovern an offer they can't refuse.
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It's a noisy place to belong - on the Crows' bandwagon, where the revellers sing and the hamstrings 'ping'. But even more frightening for our Fumbles correspondent than a burgeoning injury list and Rory Atkins' hair is the ominous prospect that Port Adelaide appear finals-bound...
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This is going to get fairly tedious fairly quickly if things keep going as they are.
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There's plenty of good things our Fumbles correspondent could say about the weekend's Showdown win, but there's also plenty of reasons not to say them. After all, we've been here before... haven't we?
Amid all the April Fools Day tomfoolery, a casual observer could have been forgiven for laughing off a match report of the Crows' drought-breaking win over Hawthorn as yet another piece of fake news.
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The footy's back, the Crows won - twice - and Port impressed against Sydney. But, hey: two out of three ain't bad, as Touch Of The Fumbles returns for another season.
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The footy is back - but not as we know it. Touch Of The Fumbles columnist Tom Richardson celebrates a history-making weekend and the novelty of a Crows win in the summer rain, as he ponders the future prospects of AFLW.
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Of all the recollections of our enduring 300-game veteran Scott Thompson that suggested themselves this week, the one that reappeared to me from some long-banished recess of my subconscious occurred before he’d even pulled the boots on for Adelaide.
This was quite possibly the worst week ever.
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Ok Port. Tom Richardson doesn't like you very much, but you'd be doing him a huge favour if you could somehow win your next three games. And that's all. Thanks.
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A special Friday edition of Tom Richardson's regular football rant, with much to rant about - in particular the worst goalkicking performance in Adelaide's history and the eternal spectre of the one who got away.
As the Prime Minister might say, there's never been a more exciting time to play Fremantle. Yes, despite a heart-stopping loss, Tom Richardson is upbeat this week. But as the Divinyls (and Don Pyke) might say, there's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Or not such a fine line, if you're Port Adelaide.
We’ve been avoiding it for a couple of weeks now.
Richmond is the South Australian Liberal Party of the AFL. Discuss.
The Crows won, Port lost - and both at the same time. And Paddy Dangerfield's Cats went cold to boot. Who said a week wasn't a long time in football? Certainly not Tom Richardson.
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