Touch Of The Fumbles: The Dark Side rises

While the Crows mop up after another inauspicious season, the Power are on the charge. Our Fumbles correspondent is still looking for a bright side – but he’s running out of ideas.

Touch Of The Fumbles: The new guard

There was something quite symbolic about the final game of the final round of the AFL season, in which the Adelaide Football Club farewelled the past and ushered in the future in a spectacle that was sometimes dazzling, sometimes frustrating and at all times of precisely zero interest or relevance to almost everyone else.

Crows supporters preparing for Friday night. Photo: Dave Hunt / AAP

Touch Of The Fumbles: My enemy's enemy

If your enemy’s enemy is truly your friend, then Friday night’s preliminary final between Port and Richmond is a tantalising quandary for long-suffering Crows supporters.

Touch Of The Fumbles: The COVID Cup

A Crows drugs scandal, an unwanted anniversary and a Port finals win, all in the same week? That sounds like grounds for our Fumbles correspondent to make a rare Friday appearance.

Bruised Hawks can repeat history, says McEvoy

A bruising loss to Richmond confirmed plenty of fears about Hawthorn but ruckman Ben McEvoy insists the Hawks have what it takes to avoid a straight-sets AFL finals exit.