Touch of the Fumbles
Adelaide had one of their biggest-ever comebacks, while Port lost at home to another top eight side. But while there’s plenty to crow about this week, our Fumbles correspondent has still found cause for annoyance.
Touch of the Fumbles
The football’s back – and just like that, it’s gone again. Our Fumbles correspondent tries to make sense of a predictable Crows loss – amid the game’s most unpredictable predicament.
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In a final farewell to a less-than-stellar season from our Fumbles correspondent, we reveal exclusive, fly-on-the-wall details from a mid-season Adelaide Football Club crisis meeting.*
Disappointingly, the Crows had a win yesterday, potentially derailing their 2018 strategy of chasing high draft picks. But our Fumbles correspondent is mightily consoled by the curious case of Port Adelaide, whose swift fall from flag fancy to flop has quickly become the season’s great feelgood story.
The Crows lost, Port won and Paddy Dangerfield played a personal best against the reigning premiers. That sounds like a cue for Tom Richardson to return for another season of grumbles – and Fumbles.
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