Adelaide's decline

[Jazny]

I think the Brighton Penguins team in the 1961 VFA Second Division might claim that prize, they went 0-18 with a percentage of 29, an average losing margin of 103 points, 5 games and close to 70% behind second bottom team Sunshine.

Did they do the power stance before every game though?

 

[PowerForGood]

This is the second time you have been smashed by 10 goals by a bottom side. You're legitimately that far off the next worst teams in the comp. I am not sure I would be puffing my chest out about a team that also smashed you by 10+ goals, that is currently on top of the ladder, about a time they made a grand final 13 years ago. Remember that time you choked in a grand final after your fans were carrying on all season, was so mentally beaten up by it that you got sent off to some voodoo mind fu** camp that was so f’ed up it completely destroyed your team and people still point and laugh at you 2 years on? I do. Everyone does.

Reminds me of 10 mins after the 2007 GF. Was working at a bottleshop when some 25 yr old, 6'4 shredded dude comes in with his port jumper on a bit under the weather. Some 5'7 fat 35 year old tosser with a Crows jumper on pulls up next and starts giving it to him. Now my workmate and I have to jump between the two of them so the Port supporter doesn't cave the fat lowlife's head in. All the while the fat small dicked Crows supporter is yelling 'come on, i'll smash ya' from behind the comfort of the two of us. Eventually the fat micropenis's GF/ wife/ significant other yells at him to get back in the car and they leave. This is the perfect allegory for your current situation. You should be hiding from social media utterly embarassed by your club's performance. You're a pile of sh*t. You don't have as many good young players as other clubs despite 'rebuilding'. You managed to pick the only duds in the top 20 of the 2018 draft. You traded 2 1st rounders to get a guy that hasn't been sighted since he joined the club. You have the most hated captain in the league, who is known for being a flakey dickhead with an IQ of about 50. One of your board members has repeatedly embarassed himself this year by taking potshots at former players, thereby making it even less likely you will get anyone who wants to come to Adelaide. Your fitness program is a joke. Your football department is full of nonames and former players so no wonder you are playing like the two-headed offspring that has come about from incest. Your club is as bad as any club has been in living memory and here you are thinking you're smart taking shots at your arch rival that is full of young talent, on top of the ladder, and took a dump on you when we played you last. You're the 5'7 fat old douche with a small dick strutting around like they're something.

Now that is some spray.
I'm imagining a John Kennedy type coach spraying his players like this at half time of a game they're getting smashed in.

 

[PowerForGood]

Did they do the power stance before every game though?

No. But this what the Crows need instead of the Crouch bros.....

 

[mightymouse75]

So who wants a crouch ?

 

[Gold Rocks]

So who wants a crouch ?

Who wants the skipper more like it? I see Rory to coming home.

 

[Toump Ass]

Feel for Nicks, needs a few more water bottles IMO.

 

[LFC2010]

This is the second time you have been smashed by 10 goals by a bottom side. You're legitimately that far off the next worst teams in the comp. I am not sure I would be puffing my chest out about a team that also smashed you by 10+ goals, that is currently on top of the ladder, about a time they made a grand final 13 years ago. Remember that time you choked in a grand final after your fans were carrying on all season, was so mentally beaten up by it that you got sent off to some voodoo mind fu** camp that was so f’ed up it completely destroyed your team and people still point and laugh at you 2 years on? I do. Everyone does.

Reminds me of 10 mins after the 2007 GF. Was working at a bottleshop when some 25 yr old, 6'4 shredded dude comes in with his port jumper on a bit under the weather. Some 5'7 fat 35 year old tosser with a Crows jumper on pulls up next and starts giving it to him. Now my workmate and I have to jump between the two of them so the Port supporter doesn't cave the fat lowlife's head in. All the while the fat small dicked Crows supporter is yelling 'come on, i'll smash ya' from behind the comfort of the two of us. Eventually the fat micropenis's GF/ wife/ significant other yells at him to get back in the car and they leave. This is the perfect allegory for your current situation. You should be hiding from social media utterly embarassed by your club's performance. You're a pile of sh*t. You don't have as many good young players as other clubs despite 'rebuilding'. You managed to pick the only duds in the top 20 of the 2018 draft. You traded 2 1st rounders to get a guy that hasn't been sighted since he joined the club. You have the most hated captain in the league, who is known for being a flakey dickhead with an IQ of about 50. One of your board members has repeatedly embarassed himself this year by taking potshots at former players, thereby making it even less likely you will get anyone who wants to come to Adelaide. Your fitness program is a joke. Your football department is full of nonames and former players so no wonder you are playing like the two-headed offspring that has come about from incest. Your club is as bad as any club has been in living memory and here you are thinking you're smart taking shots at your arch rival that is full of young talent, on top of the ladder, and took a dump on you when we played you last. You're the 5'7 fat old douche with a small dick strutting around like they're something.

 

[PAFC66]

This clubs ****ed for years. They're not even rock bottom yet. That's next year.

 

[deanc]

This might be the start of more frequent blow outs if they're relying on inexperienced kids against much fitter teams as the season drags on.

Could feasibly go 0-17 and below 50%.

Or you could do a Roos, play all the kids and just flood your back-line to avoid blowouts - and while 0-17 is possible, luckily because of the shortened season, at least the Crows can't beat Fitzroy's 1964 0-18 season record...

 

[Duckimus Prime]

So who wants a crouch ?

I'm sure the Central Districts Bulldogs could use one.

Who wants the skipper more like it? I see Rory to coming home.

He's contracted until the end of 2023 on big money. I don't think anyone else would want to take that on.

 

[Atomboy]

Who wants the skipper more like it? I see Rory to coming home.

No aaaaaaand No

 

[stfan]

Or you could do a Roos, play all the kids and just flood your back-line to avoid blowouts - and while 0-17 is possible, luckily because of the shortened season, at least the Crows can't beat Fitzroy's 1964 0-18 season record...

Though Fitroy's % was %59.7 So the Crows are on track to be under that.

 

[CM9000]

This is the second time you have been smashed by 10 goals by a bottom side. You're legitimately that far off the next worst teams in the comp. I am not sure I would be puffing my chest out about a team that also smashed you by 10+ goals, that is currently on top of the ladder, about a time they made a grand final 13 years ago. Remember that time you choked in a grand final after your fans were carrying on all season, was so mentally beaten up by it that you got sent off to some voodoo mind fu** camp that was so f’ed up it completely destroyed your team and people still point and laugh at you 2 years on? I do. Everyone does.

Reminds me of 10 mins after the 2007 GF. Was working at a bottleshop when some 25 yr old, 6'4 shredded dude comes in with his port jumper on a bit under the weather. Some 5'7 fat 35 year old tosser with a Crows jumper on pulls up next and starts giving it to him. Now my workmate and I have to jump between the two of them so the Port supporter doesn't cave the fat lowlife's head in. All the while the fat small dicked Crows supporter is yelling 'come on, i'll smash ya' from behind the comfort of the two of us. Eventually the fat micropenis's GF/ wife/ significant other yells at him to get back in the car and they leave. This is the perfect allegory for your current situation. You should be hiding from social media utterly embarassed by your club's performance. You're a pile of sh*t. You don't have as many good young players as other clubs despite 'rebuilding'. You managed to pick the only duds in the top 20 of the 2018 draft. You traded 2 1st rounders to get a guy that hasn't been sighted since he joined the club. You have the most hated captain in the league, who is known for being a flakey dickhead with an IQ of about 50. One of your board members has repeatedly embarassed himself this year by taking potshots at former players, thereby making it even less likely you will get anyone who wants to come to Adelaide. Your fitness program is a joke. Your football department is full of nonames and former players so no wonder you are playing like the two-headed offspring that has come about from incest. Your club is as bad as any club has been in living memory and here you are thinking you're smart taking shots at your arch rival that is full of young talent, on top of the ladder, and took a dump on you when we played you last. You're the 5'7 fat old douche with a small dick strutting around like they're something.

Brilliant, but let’s not act as though your club is anything close to enviable.

Your club acts as though it has pretensions to greatness, despite the fact your highest achievement is a single premiership among years and years of choking and some of the most inconsistent football of all time. All your supporters act as though ”Port Adelaide” is synonymous with premierships, but the gap between the SANFL club and the AFL team is so wide, that to associate the two is bordering on being a pure joke. You act as though you have history, and yet these past 23 years have one highlight among two decades of failure and hilarity that no other team in the league matches.

No other B22 in league history has lost to a team after the siren, twice, consecutively, on the same ground. No other club in history has destroyed themselves purely on the basis of a single game, had to go through a five year rebuild with the worst team it has ever seen, in either the state league it comes from or the elite one it finds itself in now, and come out the other side with nothing to show for it. You may be on top of the ladder now, but as history shows, and the coach you should’ve sacked two years ago will prove again, this is a false dawn with nothing at the end of it.

The AFL club called “Port Adelaide“ is an insult to the SANFL club that still exists, and the expansion into the AFL has resulted in a two decade long premiership draught that is one of the worst in PA (SANFL) history.

I prefer Fremantle to you, hell, I prefer Richmond to you, and I hate them more than anything else in this godforsaken league.

So when you go hanging shit on a club that finds itself in the same situation you were in 8 years ago, let’s not forget the embarrassment your club has been to both the 150 year old SANFL powerhouse that you share your name with, and to South Australian football as a whole.

 

[Duckenthusiast]

Brilliant, but let’s not act as though you’re club is anything close to enviable.

Your club acts as though it has pretensions to greatness, despite the fact you‘re highest achievement is a single premiership among years and years of choking and some of the most inconsistent football of all time. All your supporters act as though ”Port Adelaide” is synonymous with premierships, but the gap between the SANFL club and the AFL team is so wide, that to associate the two is bordering on being a pure joke. You act as though you have history, and yet these past 23 years have one highlight among two decades of failure and hilarity that no other team in the league matches.

No other team in league history has lost to a team after the siren, twice, consecutively, on the same ground. No other team in history has destroyed themselves purely on the basis of a single game, had to go through a five year rebuild with the worst team it has ever seen, in either the state league it comes from or the elite one it finds itself in now, and come out the other side with nothing to show for it. You may be on top of the ladder now, but as history shows, and the coach you should’ve sacked two years ago will prove again, this is a false dawn with nothing at the end of it.

The AFL club called “Port Adelaide“ is an insult to the SANFL club that still exists, and the expansion into the AFL has resulted in a two decade long premiership draught that is one of the worst in PA (SANFL) history.

I prefer Fremantle to you, hell, I prefer Richmond to you, and I hate them more than anything else in this godforsaken league.

So when you go hanging sh*t on a club that finds itself in the same situation you were in 8 years ago, let’s not forget the embarrassment your club has been to both the 150 year old SANFL powerhouse that you share your name with, and to South Australian football as a whole.

So you want some to apparently. We all remember you bringing up Jonas' elbowing Gaff into another dimension every time we played you. 'oooh such a dog hit, we would never do anything like that'. Gaff coward punches a teenager and geez didn't you have an about face on the topic of 'one off out of character acts'. Bunch of cowards the lot of you. Half your team was on the gear during the mid 2000s, which isn't surprising given half your state is on the gear now. Your crowds are a pimple on the arse of the AFL. Your plastic franchise club is a pimple on the arseh*le of the AFL. Literally noone likes you. It usually wouldn't mean much because pretty much noone in the AFL likes anyone else but all 17 clubs legitimately despise your club. We're the weird cousin that people don't know whether they hate or not. Your the Crazy alcoholic Uncle that's seen the inside of a jail cell that everyone hates but sort of has to put up with because your 'family'. Nothing good has ever come out of Western Australia. Australia only exists because the English landed somewhere other than WA. The Dutch left because WA is shit. We have world class wineries as far as the eye can see, a foody culture, and cheap housing. You have a bunch of holes in the ground and a collapsing housing market where some 3 bedroom house in some shithole 6hrs drive from anywhere costs 700k.

If we lose an AFL game, the sun we still rise tomorrow. If you win 1000 games in a row, you will still have to live in WA, and that is a punishment worse than death.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Jesus...

 

[Duckenthusiast]

Jesus...

 

[Duckenthusiast]

On a side note. My fiancee was in hospital emergency tonight and still found time to hang shit on Adelaide's performance on social media. Not necessarily relevant, but just thought I would share that.

 

[Collingwood 4 eternity]

This clubs f’ed for years. They're not even rock bottom yet. That's next year.

Crowvid -20 / Crowvid -21

 

[master bate]

They started the resumption of the season as poorly a defensive effort side as I've seen in a long long time. Just witches hats.

They've improved on that a fair bit at the end of their time in the hub and since coming home.

They can still put out a pretty good backline and a decent enough midfield if they can maintain some better health and fitness. That should mean getting a bit of field position and also winning it back in decent spots.

Unfortunately the forward line is all kinds of bad and it's hard to see where the improvement will come from. They had every possible chance against the Saints and Dons and both times just couldn't find a winner up forward. At this stage I'd predict they're in at least 1, possibly 2 or 3 games before the end of the year but it's hard to see who can get them over the line.

 

[Jakksynn]

At some point this year, a side is going to get ahold of this crows team and absolutely put them to the sword. It will not be pretty and the only thing saving them is the shortened quarters.

I can’t wait

 

[Southseas]

So you want some to apparently. We all remember you bringing up Jonas' elbowing Gaff into another dimension every time we played you. 'oooh such a dog hit, we would never do anything like that'. Gaff coward punches a teenager and geez didn't you have an about face on the topic of 'one off out of character acts'. Bunch of cowards the lot of you. Half your team was on the gear during the mid 2000s, which isn't surprising given half your state is on the gear now. Your crowds are a pimple on the arse of the AFL. Your plastic franchise club is a pimple on the a-hole of the AFL. Literally noone likes you. It usually wouldn't mean much because pretty much noone in the AFL likes anyone else but all 17 clubs legitimately despise your club. We're the weird cousin that people don't know whether they hate or not. Your the Crazy alcoholic Uncle that's seen the inside of a jail cell that everyone hates but sort of has to put up with because your 'family'. Nothing good has ever come out of Western Australia. Australia only exists because the English landed somewhere other than WA. The Dutch left because WA is sh*t. We have world class wineries as far as the eye can see, a foody culture, and cheap housing. You have a bunch of holes in the ground and a collapsing housing market where some 3 bedroom house in some shithole 6hrs drive from anywhere costs 700k.

If we lose an AFL game, the sun we still rise tomorrow. If you win 1000 games in a row, you will still have to live in WA, and that is a punishment worse than death.

Apparently you don't have paragraphs though.

 

[Mayes2Gray]

This is the negative of controlling the media with so many sponsors, spokespeople etc etc. You control the agenda.

Having the lion share of the supporters too just allows them to fall back on numbers and sh*t.

I've said this for years.

I'd love to know if WCE has similar influence in the media....

Yes, they get their behinds kissed daily from memory

 

[t_94]

We have won more premierships in the last few years than you have won in your existence.

Youll learn soon, every AFL club has a down period, what counts if you can add to the premiership tally when you are up and about. And Richmond certainly have, you blokes? History of choking in the big leagues.

memo to Richmond supporters: you have nothing to do with your clubs success. Goes for about 80 percent of all posters on big footy

 

[Tzatziki_Man]

memo to Richmond supporters: you have nothing to do with your clubs success. Goes for about 80 percent of all posters on big footy

Truthfully we've all acruslly lost.

Spent hundreds of memberships with no legitimate benefit from the purchase

 

[The Passenger]

They can always find another club to support ...

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One of my favourite non Eagles, and when the inevitable Buckley/Hird/Voss questions got thrown up I always thought he was every bit as good.

But it's been clearly demonstrated running a football club and playing football are two very different skill sets. Ricciuto is not the only one to fall foul of this mantra.

The Eagles - which was in real danger of becoming a bit of an old boys club around 2012/13 - took a bold step in bringing in Adam Simpson as an outsider when there was a lot of pressure to go with a former great and someone who was a bit more of a known quantity in Peter Sumich*. Simpson has been the best recruitment the club has made since Chris Judd. The Crows could do with taking a solid look at that lesson.

*FTR, I believe if given a chance Sumich will make a genuinely good head coach, but at the time we needed someone from outside the Eagles sphere to come in and give a new perspective on things because things had gone very stale.