Touch of the Fumbles
Our Touch Of The Fumbles correspondent returns to the field for an AFL season postscript as the Crows unusually walk away from a 2021 contest with a win – albeit at the trade table.
Touch of the Fumbles
While the Crows mop up after another inauspicious season, the Power are on the charge. Our Fumbles correspondent is still looking for a bright side – but he’s running out of ideas.
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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.
In these pandemic times, I sometimes lie awake at night pondering the big issues of the age.
It was a weekend sporting extravaganza that started so well, with Port losing to yet another top four side. But things went quickly downhill for our one-eyed Fumbles correspondent as the Crows slumped to a new low.
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.
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.
