Touch Of The Fumbles: Fumbleland

Between keeping track of the Crows rescuing their season from the brink, Port’s continually-annoying rise, Carlton’s questionable tanking and Paddy Dangerfield’s Brownlow-baiting, our Fumbles correspondent is losing sight of what constitutes ‘normal’ football-watching behaviour.

Touch Of The Fumbles: The resurrection

It’s worth remembering that on the original Easter weekend everything seemed to be going pretty shithouse on Friday night, but by Sunday everything had turned out great.

Touch Of The Fumbles: Reality bites

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.

Touch Of The Fumbles: These things take time

Two seasons ended this past weekend: Autumn and the troubled 2018 campaign of the Adelaide Crows.

Touch Of The Fumbles: The worst moment

There are moments that have always stuck in my mind from the Crows’ 2006 preliminary final loss to West Coast, which still ranks as the worst defeat I’ve endured as an Adelaide supporter.

Touch Of The Fumbles: A beautiful set of numbers

When you actually stop and think about it, Port’s heartbreaking exit after an epic draw-into-extra-time elimination final wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t put in such a relatively half-arsed effort against the Eagles in Round 23.

Touch Of The Fumbles: A potential state of sunshine

This is going to get fairly tedious fairly quickly if things keep going as they are.

Touch Of The Fumbles: Living in La La Land

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?

Touch Of The Fumbles: Being Corey Enright

The Crows’ winning streak is over, cruelled by a lacklustre third term and a sea of Corey Enrights. But Tom Richardson is looking on the bright side. After all, it could be worse. We could be Port Adelaide.

Touch Of The Fumbles: 309 or bust

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.

Touch Of The Fumbles: the post-Paddy era

The Crows lost, Port won and Paddy Dangerfield played a personal best against the reigning premiers. That sounds like a cue for Tom Richardson to return for another season of grumbles – and Fumbles.

What becomes of the broken-hearted?

Our AFL column Touch Of The Fumbles makes a surprise return to say Howdy to Doedee, ponder cardiology and explain the surprisingly simple academy bidding process.

The loss we had to have

Raining on the Dees' parade