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Sunday, December 08

Touch Of The Fumbles: The law of Average

Are we having fun yet? Our Touch Of The Fumbles correspondent certainly isn’t – as he returns for a season he was sure would see the Crows fly and the Power fail… to find that things haven’t quite followed the script.

Touch Of The Fumbles: Clearing the mechanism

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.*

Sure, we haven't made the finals, but let's not start losing our heads. Photo: Michael Errey / InDaily

Touch Of The Fumbles: Power outage

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.

Touch Of The Fumbles: the post-Paddy era

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.

What becomes of the broken-hearted?

Our AFL column Touch Of The Fumbles makes a surprise return to say Howdy to Doedee, ponder cardiology and explain the surprisingly simple academy bidding process.