Football
Tomorrow, the Adelaide and Port Adelaide football clubs meet for a landmark 50th clash. After decades of on and off-field battle, what does South Australia’s greatest modern rivalry represent? Michelangelo Rucci reports.
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In the penultimate list of 50 best Showdown moments, Rooch and Fumbles get feisty for 20-11.
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AFL club membership figures will be audited from Monday, and the race to be South Australia’s Number One club is as fierce as a Showdown. Michelangelo Rucci reports.
In the second instalment of the top 50 Showdown moments – from 40 to 31 – South Australia’s best football journalist, Michelangelo Rucci, and the state’s favourite grumpy Crows columnist, Touch of the Fumbles (aka Tom Richardson) debate the pressing issues.
Port Adelaide Football Club won’t challenge a four-match suspension handed to ruckman Scott Lycett for a sling tackle that concussed Adelaide’s Ned McHenry during Saturday night’s Showdown.
Adelaide Oval’s capacity will be increased to 100 per cent in time for the Showdown, with the decision announced as the state records nine new COVID-19 cases in hotel quarantine and chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier admits she is “on edge”.
