Touch of the Fumbles
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.
Touch of the Fumbles
A big week for the Crows – the women’s team made another Grand Final, while the men somehow managed not to lose to the worst team in the AFL. Which, given the recent history of both, was probably the more surprising of the two.
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Sure, the Crows look a shadow of their former selves and played so poorly we can’t even really revel much in Port’s shock loss or Carlton’s last-gasp bid to give us pick one in the draft… but our Fumbles correspondent is still scratching for positives.
Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley says looking at the AFL ladder is futile ahead of his finals-bound team’s danger game against lowly North Melbourne.
The AFL will immediately act to crack down on the jumper punch, rather than wait until the season’s end.
Ruckman Todd Goldstein has welcomed the prospect of North Melbourne luring Richmond star Dustin Martin to Arden Street on a massive AFL contract.
Normal service was resumed on the weekend, as the Crows reverted to type by failing spectacularly to live up to the hype. Fortunately, so did almost every other contender – including Port. And despite the crushing disappointment, our Fumbles correspondent is, perversely, looking on the bright side.
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