The players embrace graciously after the siren while your Fumbles correspondent celebrates smugly. Photo: Michael Errey / InDaily

Touch of the Fumbles

Touch Of The Fumbles: Not bad at all

An unusual AFL season has thrown up the most unlikely of scenarios: after a Showdown win, another Carlton loss and the Crows’ mad scramble up the ladder, for the first time in a long time our Fumbles correspondent has nothing whatsoever to complain about.

Touch of the Fumbles

Touch Of The Fumbles: Glass Half Full

It may not have been pretty… in fact, it was hideously, egregiously ugly. But for the first time this season, the Crows have won in the same round that Port have lost – an event so long coming it’s almost worth raising a glass, if only our Fumbles correspondent could.

Touch of the Fumbles

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

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.

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Jenkins ponders axe over Crows' horror season start

Struggling Adelaide forward Josh Jenkins says he’s among a dozen Crows wondering if they’ll be axed amid the club’s horror start to the AFL season.