Clarkson rules out Blues coaching job

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.

Touch Of The Fumbles: End of days

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.

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Gibbs to farewell AFL against former club

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.

Touch Of The Fumbles: Goodbye to romance

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…

Touch Of The Fumbles: The ‘F’ Word

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.