2020 Non-Crows AFL Discussion

[TubbsFarquhar]

Seeing Melbourne over the last 2 weeks has me thinking they are the only other club we could maybe beat this season, they’re fairly average for a team people had high expectations on.

I'd give us a sneaky chance against North if we draw them at AO. They're rubbish and the winner of our fixtures with them is determined by the home team. North haven't beaten us in Adelaide since 2003 and we've won 1 out of our last 8 away games against them.

 

[jackster83]

Seeing Melbourne over the last 2 weeks has me thinking they are the only other club we could maybe beat this season, they’re fairly average for a team people had high expectations on.

Except they turn into the Harlem Globetrotters every time we play them. Even when we were 16 ladder positions above them...

I'd give us a chance against Carlton, assuming it's not at the MCG.

 

[finn]

Not when they keep losing

And keep on kicking the ball to North players standing by themselves..

 

[1970crow]

I've seen enough to definitively say that shorter quarters are absolutely garbage and should be reverted back immediately

What was reasoning in the first place?

 

[hey shorty]

What was reasoning in the first place?

The prospect of multiple games in a week

 

[radiojake]

What was reasoning in the first place?

incase the AFL needed to squeeze in multiple games in a week, the theory is the players would have less workload to fit the games in

 

[TRP1996]

I'd give us a sneaky chance against North if we draw them at AO. They're rubbish and the winner of our fixtures with them is determined by the home team. North haven't beaten us in Adelaide since 2003 and we've won 1 out of our last 8 away games against them.

If we play them away we just need to leave Murphy in the side because he, as the ''new Petrenko'', is guaranteed to soccer a goal in the closing seconds to give us the win.

 

[ams4crows]

The only way we are winning a game is if the other team loses it for us.

Some of these Melbourne teams in 6 weeks who been living away from home and aren't really going to play finals that have to fly in and out the same day as the game aren't going to be motivated to win.

 

[aabp1978]

We arent winning a game unless it is pouring with rain, the other side has travelled that day and has key players out, and somehow a score of 4.19 wins it. Amazing to think we played a GF three years ago.....

 

[Thetrader15]

We arent winning a game unless it is pouring with rain, the other side has travelled that day and has key players out, and somehow a score of 4.19 wins it. Amazing to think we played a GF three years ago.....

Time to start looking forward, not back to 2017.

The club is doing that, and we should be happy they aren't saying "we played in the GF 3 years ago, our best is good enough, we just aren't playing it for long enough"

 

[aabp1978]

Dont disagree with that...all about the future. Sadly, the future is increasingly bleak unless drastic action is taken....

 

[Thetrader15]

Dont disagree with that...all about the future. Sadly, the future is increasingly bleak unless drastic action is taken....

What do you think we did at the end of last year? If that wasn't drastic, please elaborate!

Removed the head coach (effectively), senior assistant, Footy Ops manager, traded out about 1000 games of experience and goals, brought in a new coach, and are now playing kids ahead of senior players.

You're not hard to please!

 

[aabp1978]

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Drastic action is more than just changing the deck chairs...it is changing the culture and philosophy of the club. Lets face facts, it is a club that has accepted mediocrity for 20 years, acts as a total boys club in terms of appointments, and is never prepared to challenge the AFL against glaring unfairness and hypocrisy. Until any of that changes, I stand by my comments

 

[skam85]

acts as a total boys club in terms of appointments

I must have missed those 200 games Nicks, Kelly and Dan Jackson played for us.

 

[aabp1978]

Reily
Hart
Matner
Clarke
Roo
Jamo....

 

[aabp1978]

and on the boys club, look who is being proposed for the board...mates of mates in Adelaide....

 

[chazwazza]

RIP Mark Naley, absolute gun footballer.

 

[MatthewB]

RIP Mark Naley, absolute gun footballer.

Shit

 

[GameofSloanes]

He'll get continuity in the 2s

He'll refuse to play

 

[Mutineer]

RIP Mark Naley, absolute gun footballer.

Yes sir, as an old Panthers tragic he along with Peter Darley were the best 2 Panther players I saw in the years I followed them, the equal of the best "small" men to ever play the game, absolute star. You could probably add Mark Coombe to those 2 whose career was over almost before it started with a career ending shoulder injury.

R.I.P. Mark Naley.

Vale Mark Naley

SOUTH ADELAIDE CHAMPION PASSES AWAY. The South Adelaide Football Club is saddened to learn of the passing of Hall of Famer Mark Naley. A revered figure at Sout

www.safc.com.au

 

[kirky]

I'd give us a sneaky chance against North if we draw them at AO. They're rubbish and the winner of our fixtures with them is determined by the home team. North haven't beaten us in Adelaide since 2003 and we've won 1 out of our last 8 away games against them.

And remember that game well - the Petrenko goal. There won’t be any games in Melbourne for the rest of the season - possibly finals but unlikely.

Except they turn into the Harlem Globetrotters every time we play them. Even when we were 16 ladder positions above them...

I'd give us a chance against Carlton, assuming it's not at the MCG.

It will either be neutral or Adelaide Oval. No games at the “G”.

 

[brucetiki]

RIP Mark Naley, absolute gun footballer.

His call of Stewie Dew's goal from outside 50 in the 2000 SANFL Grand Final is legendary.

Oh no
Oh no
Oh noooooooooooooooooo

 

[GROTTO]

Was Mark Naley ever considered a chance to be in the Crows squad back in 1990 when first formed? I know there was plenty of 30+ year olds in the squad at the time?

 

[Mego Red]

and on the boys club, look who is being proposed for the board...mates of mates in Adelaide....

There's only one degree of seperation in Adelaide. They all would have crossed paths. I like the fact they have a great love for the club. We need some passion.

 

[Mego Red]

Reily
Hart
Matner
Clarke
Roo
Jamo....

Roo probably deserved his board spot as he's a champion footballer who's been very successful at business - even if his time has now passed.

Jammo? Bloody celebrity member vote.

And the rest are virtually volunteers, with bugger all influence.

If we keep the same assistant coaches next year, you might have a point. But reality shows that every significant recent appointment ha been from outside the club.