Touch of the Fumbles
Our Fumbles correspondent returns to ponder the scant consolations of the Crows’ worst ever year (hint: they have a bit to do with Port Adelaide and Patrick Dangerfield).
Touch of the Fumbles
If your enemy’s enemy is truly your friend, then Friday night’s preliminary final between Port and Richmond is a tantalising quandary for long-suffering Crows supporters.
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A former Richmond best and fairest winner and recent campaigner against “toxic masculinity” has won the much-speculated role as the Adelaide Crows’ new ‘Leadership Development Manager’ – fulfilling a recommendation of the club’s high-profile post-season autopsy.
Let’s be honest, if you could distil the essence of a good weekend of AFL football in 2019, it would contain three basic ingredients: Adelaide winning, Port losing and Carlton consolidating their tenure at the bottom of the ladder.
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.
Normal service has been resumed. The AFL is back, and so is our myopic, moping Touch Of The Fumbles correspondent. Port’s new recruits powered them to a big win while the Crows blew a handy lead to give up four points on the road. It could be a long year…
Richmond have suspended defender Nathan Broad for three matches after identifying him as the Tigers player who distributed a photo of a topless woman without her permission following the 2017 Grand Final.
