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UPDATED | Adelaide Crows mentor Matthew Nicks joins the growing list of AFL coaches forced to miss a game this year after contracting COVID, with senior assistant Scott Burns to lead the 12th-placed team for its weekend match against Carlton.
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Four-time Hawthorn premiership coach Alastair Clarkson has confirmed he is not open to coaching Carlton in the 2022 AFL season, leaving a Port Adelaide assistant as the frontrunner for the role.
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It hasn’t been a good year: the world has gone to hell in a handbasket and the Crows are once again down the bottom of the ladder – albeit not quite bad enough to snare the best young SA talent of his generation. All this, though, our Fumbles correspondent can handle – but there’s one looming prospect he can’t abide.
Bryce Gibbs, one of the Adelaide Crows’ most scrutinised and criticised trade gambits, will finish his career against his former club Carlton on Sunday after announcing his retirement with a year left on his contract.
A final Fumbles farewell for a year that promised fun and flags, but delivered yet more folly, failure and fetid fallout. Some of the Crows’ biggest names have gone, and a new era awaits – under a former Port mentor, no less. So, an uneventful few weeks then…
The Crows built up their season with constant reference to ‘the F-word’ – fun. But after their miserable 2019 campaign hit its lowest ebb on Saturday, your Fumbles correspondent can think of another F-word to better describe where they’re at.
I’m just gonna go out on a limb and say it: I reckon we’re losing to Carlton this week.
Touch of the Fumbles
Touch of the Fumbles
Touch of the Fumbles
Touch of the Fumbles
