Adelaide's decline

[demondavey]

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.

This is huge

 

[Walsh Bay]

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 embarrassed 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 embarrassed 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.

See, this is what the ALP needs.

 

[Lindsay_Gilbee]

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

When full game time comes back next year we could see a 200+ point loss. Just a horrible footy club. I feel sorry for Nicks.

 

[gingernuts]

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.

 

[Jbudds]

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.

Bit harsh on Sloane I would have thought.

 

[Duckenthusiast]

Apparently you don't have paragraphs though.

It's not my fault you can't read 8 lines of text without white space. Maybe I could include some pop-up pictures and that might be about your level. Imagine correcting grammar on an AFL forum where the most common topic of discussion is a) to hang shit on some team you don't like, or b) to lump false praise on some team you don't like in the hope that they fail and you can sink the boot in. **** me.

 

[PAFC_1870]

Bit harsh on Sloane I would have thought.

Probably referring to previous captain.

 

[Duckenthusiast]

Bit harsh on Sloane I would have thought.

Apparently you're such a non entity I forgot that Tex isn't captain any more. I don't mind Sloan, but performance wise he appears to have dive bombed into a woodchipper this year. Hopefully comes good. Seems a good bloke.

 

[Jbudds]

Apparently you're such a non entity I forgot that Tex isn't captain any more. I don't mind Sloan, but performance wise he appears to have dive bombed into a woodchipper this year. Hopefully comes good. Seems a good bloke.

At the moment, we are a complete laughing stock (and have been on that trajectory since that dark day in 2017). No question. Big mistakes have been made and we are at the lowest point in the clubs history. Hopefully in a few years time we will be back in contention and respected again.

 

[Duckenthusiast]

At the moment, we are a complete laughing stock (and have been on that trajectory since that dark day in 2017). No question. Big mistakes have been made and we are at the lowest point in the clubs history. Hopefully in a few years time we will be back in contention and respected again.

You need to march pretty much the entire board out of the club and if anyone so much as looks back at the building, jam a cattle prod into their chest.

 

[Ron The Bear]

Grand Final to wooden spoon

Years	Club	Year	Finish	Year	Finish
2	Syd	1936	2nd	1938	12th/12
2	Haw	1963	2nd	1965	12th/12
3	Syd	1935	2nd	1938	12th/12
3	Melb	1948	1st	1951	12th/12
3	St.K	1997	2nd	2000	16th/16
3	Carl	1999	2nd	2002	16th/16
3*	Adel	2017	2nd	2020	18th/18*

 

[drcollossimo]

At the moment, we are a complete laughing stock (and have been on that trajectory since that dark day in 2017). No question. Big mistakes have been made and we are at the lowest point in the clubs history. Hopefully in a few years time we will be back in contention and respected again.

I don’t think you quite understand next season and maybe the one after will likely be worse
Dmac
Sloanne
Ted
Lynch
Gibbs
Smith

all 30 or close to it, in decline and a solid chunk of your best 22

you’ll need to replace the quality of these guys in the draft just to stand still

if you’re including losses of BCrouch into the bargain the free fall isn’t over

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

The Crows sorely need decent admin and off field staff/personal to help with their rebuild (this point is crucial) but the trouble is, no sane and qualified person would want to work under Chairman Chapman and Boys Club Cartel led by Riccuito.

This is where the supporter/member angst of The Crows kicks in, those mugs (esp Roo) are too blindsided by their egos and arrogance, they are too thick to understand the AFC cannot start to heal and embark on a proper rebuild until they are gone

Heck Brett Burton would atill be there if he wasn't given the pink slip.

Mark Riccuito is very close to damaging his legacy at the Crows, like Hird did at the Bombers.

 

[Jbudds]

I don’t think you quite understand next season and maybe the one after will likely be worse
Dmac
Sloanne
Ted
Lynch
Gibbs
Smith

all 30 or close to it, in decline and a solid chunk of your best 22

you’ll need to replace the quality of these guys in the draft just to stand still

if you’re including losses of BCrouch into the bargain the free fall isn’t over

Oh I understand. Hopefully that will be offset by improvement in skills, preseasons, game-plan etc. But you can't rebuild the side in 12 months obviously. Even 3 years - if you made finals you would be happy with that I would have thought.

 

[Foucault1989]

Oh I understand. Hopefully that will be offset by improvement in skills, preseasons, game-plan etc. But you can't rebuild the side in 12 months obviously. Even 3 years - if you made finals you would be happy with that I would have thought.

A rebuild takes 7 years. Take it from me....when you don't have a core of talent like the Crows, it takes a least 7 years and that's with everything going right. Carlton managed to hang onto guys from the early 2010s, Murphy, Simpson, Kreuzer, Curnow, as experience and still our list was that cooked that it has taken ages, and we aren't even close yet. We absolutely sold the farm to get in bulk high picks, some have worked, others haven't.

Don't be as delusional as us Carlton supporters were with this fantasy of a "66 game rebuild ". You should never let your list get to the point where nothing short of a complete gutting is required. Young Reid has to go...surely. For years, Adelaide fans mocked and jeered at Carlton here...well, whose laughing now...

 

[Ceehook]

Is that true on Lever?

it got splashed into the media at the time and didnt seem to be denied,
they were arguing with themselves walking off at half time in the GF and the game was hardly over, that sort of stuff can easily be mis interpreted ,
but it wasnt a good look and their body language after half time would support something wasnt right , some Crows fans might be able to elaborate

it only takes a couple people with a negative mindset to affect a group
Richmond had our well documented troubles in 2016 and there was a mini clean out of players and assistant coaches

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

A rebuild takes 7 years. Take it from me....when you don't have a core of talent like the Crows, it takes a least 7 years and that's with everything going right. Carlton managed to hang onto guys from the early 2010s, Murphy, Simpson, Kreuzer, Curnow, as experience and still our list was that cooked that it has taken ages, and we aren't even close yet. We absolutely sold the farm to get in bulk high picks, some have worked, others haven't.

Don't be as delusional as us Carlton supporters were with this fantasy of a "66 game rebuild ". You should never let your list get to the point where nothing short of a complete gutting is required. Young Reid has to go...surely. For years, Adelaide fans mocked and jeered at Carlton here...well, whose laughing now...

What about that Hamish Oglivie bloke? Some of his selections (esp first rounders) in recent years have not been great.

 

[Foucault1989]

What about that Hamish Oglivie bloke? Some of his selections (esp first rounders) in recent years have not been great.

Sure, why not. Sack them all

 

[Ron The Bear]

I don’t think you quite understand next season and maybe the one after will likely be worse
Dmac
Sloanne
Ted
Lynch
Gibbs
Smith

all 30 or close to it, in decline and a solid chunk of your best 22

you’ll need to replace the quality of these guys in the draft just to stand still

if you’re including losses of BCrouch into the bargain the free fall isn’t over

Think this is correct. I don't expect Adelaide to improve next year, and they may even get worse.

Nicks needs four years (or most of it) to know whether or not he's the man to bring Adelaide through this.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Think this is correct. I don't expect Adelaide to improve next year, and they may even get worse.

Nicks needs four years (or most of it) to know whether or not he's the man to bring Adelaide through this.

How can they possibly get any worse next year lol?

 

[Gordon Farkas]

The Crows sorely need decent admin and off field staff/personal to help with their rebuild (this point is crucial) but the trouble is, no sane and qualified person would want to work under Chairman Chapman and Boys Club Cartel led by Riccuito.

Mark Riccuito is very close to damaging his legacy at the Crows, like Hird did at the Bombers.

Like Hird?
He’s more like Dank in terms of the carnage he has inflicted.
Though unlike Dank, he didn’t need any illegal substances in order to lay waste to a club.

 

[Ron The Bear]

How can they possibly get any worse next year lol?

Because of the experience that they need to shed in order to get better. They're not an especially young team at the moment. Don't think they've bottomed out yet.

Look at how their scoring has dropped away with the shorter quarters, but scores against have remained constant. They struggle at both ends.

Walker struggles for 7-8 touches a game and Lynch is playing as though he doesn't want to be there, but they command the two best defenders from the opposition. Take them out and they need to construct a forward line from rock bottom.

Sloane is 31 before next season starts, and Crouch's mooted departure leaves them very thin in the middle.

At least in defence they have Talia and Doedee as anchors, with Smith and Laird as competent runners.

They might need to focus on improving a couple of key indicators crucial to the coach's philosophy over the remaining seven games. They did at least win the tackle count yesterday. How much more time is invested in Gibbs/Mackay/Hartigan will be interesting.

Year	Ladder	Avg Age	Age Rank	Avg Gms	Gms Rank	Avg Score	Score Rank	Avg Against	Against Rank
2004	12th	25.04	5th	94.7	7th	88.6	10th	92.7	9th
2005	4th	25.61	2nd	102.6	6th	94.1	8th	69.0	1st
2006	3rd	26.08	1st	114.7	2nd	106.0	2nd	74.5	2nd
2007	8th	26.07	2nd	106.5	5th	85.5	15th	77.8	3rd
2008	7th	25.59	3rd	98.8	7th	91.7	13th	83.5	2nd
2009	5th	25.04	6th	96.4	7th	95.6	6th	81.3	3rd
2010	11th	24.93	5th	91.9	7th	80.1	14th	85.0	7th
2011	14th	23.98	14th	72.3	14th	79.2	15th	99.7	11th
2012	3rd	25.01	6th	83.8	10th	110.4	2nd	83.3	6th
2013	11th	24.43	14th	77.9	14th	93.8	9th	86.8	7th
2014	10th	24.96	11th	82.7	14th	98.9	3rd	86.7	11th
2015	6th	24.76	11th	85.3	10th	100.3	3rd	86.7	10th
2016	6th	25.14	10th	91.6	9th	112.9	1st	81.6	6th
2017	2nd	25.36	5th	95.4	8th	109.8	1st	80.7	4th
2018	12th	25.90	2nd	102.3	6th	88.2	8th	84.8	12th
2019	11th	26.43	2nd	111.8	4th	80.7	10th	80.0	11th
2020	18th	25.06	13th	81.2	13th	45.0	18th	81.7	18th

 

[Tadpole]

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

Wouldn’t be surprised if we get pumped by 119 or more when we play Richmond or other similarly decent side in the remainder of this disastrous season.

 

[TryAnHit]

What about that Hamish Oglivie bloke? Some of his selections (esp first rounders) in recent years have not been great.

I would be more worried about blues drafting... with 5 years down the bottom and some of the guys you have picked.....


Adel well and truly is a basket case... entire coaching pannel is C grade

 

[PowerForGood]

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.

Yeah nah. Very limp effort. Esp when you can't work out the difference between "teams" and "clubs"