Touch of the Fumbles
Having spent the entire season being despondent despite Adelaide's sparkling form, our Fumbles correspondent is today perversely upbeat about the weekend's loss to Sydney. For now, at least.
Touch of the Fumbles
The Crows have sewn up a top two berth: the fabled Premiership primer of a home final and double chance. Our slightly worse-for-wear Fumbles correspondent would say nothing could go wrong from here... but for the fact that it usually does.
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.
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...
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.
Despite fluctuating form, the Crows are somehow back on top of the ladder and widely expected to stay thereabouts by season's end. Which, for some reason, has our Fumbles correspondent preoccupied with casual vandalism, late-night tequila binges and trawling through canine faeces, as the ghost of his least favourite season ever returns to haunt him.
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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?
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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.
Touch of the Fumbles
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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It wasn’t all beer, skittles and premierships in 1997.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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