Football
The Crows and Port Adelaide will play a Saturday night Showdown at Adelaide Oval on June 13, as the AFL today announced fixture details of the 2020 season reboot.
Football
Adelaide can’t win the premiership this year according to one AFL great, while another has accused the Crows of surrendering to Port Adelaide and questioned Taylor Walker’s captaincy.
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It was the perfect Showdown finale: a contentious goal, a Crows win and Port throwing their toys out of the proverbial cot. For our long-suffering Fumbles correspondent, what loomed as a scant consolation for a wasted year has instead become the undisputed highlight of Adelaide’s season – one that could yet have a major bearing on Port’s 2018 fortunes.
Adelaide’s hierachy don’t know when key onballer Rory Sloane will be fit for AFL action after suffering another foot injury.
It wasn’t altogether easy, but you’ll be pleased to know that I have managed to find the single glaring negative to come out of the Crows’ Showdown mauling of an unaccountably insipid Port Adelaide.
Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley says arch rivals and ladder-leaders Adelaide are made of “really scary stuff”.
