Football
Port Adelaide fans wore “In Ken We Trust” T-shirts when “outsider” coach Ken Hinkley saved their football club’s AFL licence in 2013-14. But the wait for another premiership is testing the relationship, writes Michelangelo Rucci.
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In the second instalment of the top 50 Showdown moments – from 40 to 31 – South Australia’s best football journalist, Michelangelo Rucci, and the state’s favourite grumpy Crows columnist, Touch of the Fumbles (aka Tom Richardson) debate the pressing issues.
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It’s a pivotal part of AFL, but goalkicking stats are just about evenly split between six points and disappointment. Michelangelo Rucci asks three greats of the game why conversion rates haven’t increased in a professional league.
It was a weekend sporting extravaganza that started so well, with Port losing to yet another top four side. But things went quickly downhill for our one-eyed Fumbles correspondent as the Crows slumped to a new low.
Lockdowns, crowd caps and disrupted schedules have pushed more AFL fans into a TV-watching comfort zone. Getting them back into stadiums could be an issue, writes Michelangelo Rucci.
Some people might see this as a bad thing. Very bad, even.
