Rumour 2024 Rumours and Speculation (Rumours total 25, last 28th August)

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Didn't they end up leaving the club, because they spent their weekends driving to play with Centrals in Elizabeth?

Repeated weekends

Over and over and over

While the senior team stunk it up

With poor performing mid-range players undroppable even in late season dead rubbers

 

[texanmike]

He tried to prove his fitness so he could play each week after the injury. He obviously still feels his body is up to playing nearly all games and still capable of carrying a fair degree of injury.

lets be real, tex carrying an injury into games will still give more than a gollant or burgess. thats the issue.. he is irreplacable with the little quality depth we have. Until the point of thilthorpe is back and when Welsh comes in next year, we just have to play tex to be competitive. If Tex can prove his body is up to it, he definitely deserves another year in 2025 - the guy has carried us for a good 10 years.. he wont play every game next year but i feel he still has a role to play.

 

[MRB37]

It’s not a matter of “letting”, he’s already backgrounding media about moving clubs if we don’t offer him an extension.

“Happens on repeat”: Cornes believes Tex’s management is pressuring Crows on contract call

“Adelaide would be crazy to be pressured into signing Taylor Walker (right now)...”

www.sen.com.au

 

[1970crow]

lets be real, tex carrying an injury into games will still give more than a gollant or burgess. thats the issue.. he is irreplacable with the little quality depth we have. Until the point of thilthorpe is back and when Welsh comes in next year, we just have to play tex to be competitive. If Tex can prove his body is up to it, he definitely deserves another year in 2025 - the guy has carried us for a good 10 years.. he wont play every game next year but i feel he still has a role to play.

That’s definitely how we roll. But reality is that Tex shouldn’t be extended. If he wants to play on, he can test the market.

 

[FR0GGY]

I thought this was McAsey

Probably be better than Mcasey and we didn’t piss away pick 6 on him.

 

[Jirkago75]

Interested to know how are Port and Adelaide are being hindered by development of their players in the SANFL?

Would it not be too up players not being up to it. That’s what is destroying the development. If the top ups are continually letting our players down by poor disposal and decision making, it will make it hard for them to improve their own performances


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[Freshj]

Of all players, you give Tex another year if he wants to play on. When Tex plays, he still provides leadership, structure and most of his possessions are super effective. Personally I would vomit seeing him in another guernsey. I think What he adds on and off the field is invaluable to a young group.

 

[Redline]

He just needs to be a filter for our ideas

Hey Balmey...? You like Luke Pedlar as a forward tagger on Tom Stewart?

Nup.

Balmey...? Dan Curtin deep in defence on a gorilla?

Nup. Oh, and you're fired.

Should be on any recruitment panels and sit on list management as well as an advisor.

 

[1970crow]

Would it not be too up players not being up to it. That’s what is destroying the development. If the top ups are continually letting our players down by poor disposal and decision making, it will make it hard for them to improve their own performances


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Why don’t we get more young vic country kids that just missed getting drafted?

 

[1970crow]

Of all players, you give Tex another year if he wants to play on. When Tex plays, he still provides leadership, structure and most of his possessions are super effective. Personally I would vomit seeing him in another guernsey. I think What he adds on and off the field is invaluable to a young group.

Nope, that’s wrong. You either deserve your spot based on your offensive and defensive actions or you are in the 2s. Tex has still scored ok this year, but he causes a lot of pressureless rebound when he doesn’t win or even create a contest.

 

[Freshj]

Nope, that’s wrong. You either deserve your spot based on your offensive and defensive actions or you are in the 2s. Tex has still scored ok this year, but he causes a lot of pressureless rebound when he doesn’t win or even create a contest.

Nope, that's wrong.

Tex has still been by far our most effective forward when playing. Not only does he direct our forward line, he brings everyone in the game and kicks goals.

I do agree though he will need to be managed throughout the year. I know we have a tendency to hold onto players too long, but when Tex is playing, we are a better team. Pressure is more of an issue with our smalls.

 

[1970crow]

Nope, that's wrong.

Tex has still been by far our most effective forward when playing. Not only does he direct our forward line, he brings everyone in the game and kicks goals.

I do agree though he will need to be managed throughout the year. I know we have a tendency to hold onto players too long, but when Tex is playing, we are a better team. Pressure is more of an issue with our smalls.

That last sentence makes clear an actual problem with Tex. he directs players away from him and has near 50% of ball directed to him. Despite playing injured, the largest % of any player in the league. How can our supposed ‘pressure forwards’ do that job if they’re directed to get out to clear space for Tex? If Tex doesn’t win the ball, it’s his job to pressure who does. Same with every other forward.

 

[Sanders]

Interested to know how are Port and Adelaide are being hindered by development of their players in the SANFL?

Fixturing and restrictions on the quality of top ups affecting the standard of players in the team they’re playing with and next to

INTERVIEW: Caroline Wilson - 20 June 2024 - The FIVEAA Sports Show

omny.fm

 

[Sanders]

Would it not be too up players not being up to it. That’s what is destroying the development. If the top ups are continually letting our players down by poor disposal and decision making, it will make it hard for them to improve their own performances


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Correct

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Give Tex another year, he deserves it after all the sh*t he's copped and what he's done for the club.

Just play him Full Forward and tell him NOT to leave the F50.

He will be still too crafty and strong for 80% of most AFL backmen.

 

[1970crow]

Give Tex another year, he deserves it after all the sh*t he's copped and what he's done for the club.

Just play him Full Forward and tell him NOT to leave the F50.

He will be still too crafty and strong for 80% of most AFL backmen.

This is what a loser club would do. He hasn’t come close to proving he deserves another year yet. Got a few games to do it though.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

This is what a loser club would do. He hasn’t come close to proving he deserves another year yet. Got a few games to do it though.

Tex really is the least of our problems though. If we are talking about the likes of Laird and Smith I totally agree with your first point.

AA last year and without him we literally had to rely on Borlase playing forward...

Fogarty still hasn't stepped up to grab the number 1 KPF role yet and TT is still an unknown quantity coming back from injury. Combine that with EH likely to go and Welsh being extremely raw, we really have nothing else to go with forward.

 

[maxlilly]

Nope, that’s wrong. You either deserve your spot based on your offensive and defensive actions or you are in the 2s. Tex has still scored ok this year, but he causes a lot of pressureless rebound when he doesn’t win or even create a contest.

There's been plenty of games this year when his opponent has been close to BOG
He is struggling to get on the park this year.
I think he retires at the end of the year

Although he probably saw Rory get another contract and not play a game for the whole year so his management would be negligent in not asking the question

 

[LoBu]

Good thing that Rucci is always wrong. When did he say that?

Radio Thursday afternoon, he seemed to imply Adelaide were so pissed that Balmey didn't come last year that the bridge was burnt

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[BACCS]

Tex really is the least of our problems though. If we are talking about the likes of Laird and Smith I totally agree with your first point.

AA last year and without him we literally had to rely on Borlase playing forward...

Fogarty still hasn't stepped up to grab the number 1 KPF role yet and TT is still an unknown quantity coming back from injury. Combine that with EH likely to go and Welsh being extremely raw, we really have nothing else to go with forward.

Fog is the 7th rated key forward in the comp this year, he’s doing just fine.

 

[BACCS]

People wanted Tex to retire in 2020, they were wrong then and they are wrong now. He can choose when to retire.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Fog is the 7th rated key forward in the comp this year, he’s doing just fine.

Stunned by that Stat... Fogarty to me has been an 'almost' player this year.... Had some OK games but never grabbed a game by the scruff of the neck.

At 25 yo and nearly 100 games It would be good to at least see him once in every 7 or 8 games have 20 odd touches and kick 5~ goals.....

 

[Jirkago75]

Why don’t we get more young vic country kids that just missed getting drafted?

Just any player up to the level, that’s hindering the whole team. SANFL love to take our money but make BS rules to make us lose games and let’s not mention the free kicks per game


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[1970crow]

People wanted Tex to retire in 2020, they were wrong then and they are wrong now. He can choose when to retire.

No, players only play on if the club wants them to, it’s not their choice. No matter how great they’ve been. And even Tex said he was probably lucky he had a contract for 2021 because if he didn’t he reckoned one might not have been offered.

 

[LoBu]

Should be on any recruitment panels and sit on list management as well as an advisor.

And selection panel

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