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Article on Adelaide Now, I can’t post as I am reading it on Apple News.

Rankine playing midfield and high half forward.
Pedlar half forward.
Bond was following Laird around a bit in the middle.

Kicking was shit.
 

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AFL pre-season 2023: All the Adelaide Crows news, action and training standouts​

It’s almost time for the Christmas break, but the Crows went hard in a match-simulation session on Monday morning. These are the key takeouts from West Lakes.There’s only days left of the first part of pre-season but are the Crows giving away some positional changes for 2023?
Adelaide had plenty of match-sim at West Lakes on a blustery Monday morning.
Captain Rory Sloane was involved in some of it early on but the skipper took a back-seat when the action got intense as he recovers from his ACL injury.
Here’s what we saw at West Lakes on Monday.

Who’s where​

Izak Rankine was around the ball throughout the match-sim, playing a midfield/very high-half forward role.
The former Gold Coast Sun, who is still wearing a non-contact hat, did show that his recently operated shoulder is in good nick when applied a good bump on Sam Berry.
Rankine also had Harry Schoenberg on him at times as he floated a lot higher than he did during his time at the Suns.
Luke Pedlar was used mainly as a half-forward during the match-sim session.
He kicked a nice goal and looked impressive in the role ahead of what should be a big season for the former No. 11 draft pick, who has only played the five games for the Crows.

In the deep end​

The Crows new draftees were also in the thick of the action.
Father-son selection Max Michalanney had some good moments in defence, impressing with his intercept marking.
No. 43 pick Billy Dowling played in the midfield along with Hugh Bond, who also spent some time at half-back.
Bond, pick 50 in the national draft, ended up running with reigning Club Champion Rory Laird in what was a big task for the youngster.

Poor kicking is poor footy​

The wind was a factor but the Crows kicking left a lot to be desired.
Even before the match-sim the Crows were struggling to hit targets, and there were plenty of turnovers in the main part of the session.
Players usually solid by foot such as Jordan Dawson and Brodie Smith were guilty of some poor kicks that either went out of bounds or were easily intercepted.
It is still early days in the pre-season, and, as mentioned before, the wind was a factor at West Lakes.
But after the Crows’ skills came under so much scrutiny in 2022, Matthew Nicks will be hoping this doesn’t continue in 2023.

Dawson’s tackle​

Dawson might have had some not so good moments with his kicking on Monday, but he did provide one of the highlights of the training session.
Reilly O’Brien had Taylor Walker purring when he fended off fellow ruckman Kieran Strachan and took off, getting the ball to Schoenberg.
Schoenberg looked odds on to kick a goal before Dawson emerged and laid a fantastic chase-down tackle to stop the young midfielder in his tracks.
It’s why Dawson has become such a key player for the Crows since he moved from Sydney and is now being spoken about as a potential next captain of the club.

Tex is still kicking​

Walker’s late-career revival looks set to continue in 2023 with the Crows talisman looking in fine form this summer.
He took some impressive contested marks in match-sim, and still looks to be one of, if not the, most important Crows forward.
After the match-sim was done, Adelaide players who hadn’t done 1km time trials split off into two groups, one running around the oval and one running from one goal set to another on the surface.
Walker looked the strongest out of the latter group on every occasion in their reps.

Fog hurt but not wounded​

His partner in crime up forward Darcy Fogarty has also looked strong, especially with the way he is moving across the ground.

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But there was a mild scare when he looked to be limping after a tackle towards the end of match-sim.
However, luckily for the Crows, Fogarty looked to be fine and was doing extras after the match-sim had finished
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George Kramer said:
Article on Adelaide Now, I can’t post as I am reading it on Apple News.

Rankine playing midfield and high half forward.
Pedlar half forward.
Bond was following Laird around a bit in the middle.

Kicking was s**t.
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LeftyLuke said:
Scott Thompson vibes. At least he can help out the young blokes in the sanfl as long as he doesn't take their midfield minutes.
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HBF or HFF in SANFL and coach the young blokes onfield. That is what true leadership will entail for Rory this year I think.

Well it should...
 
StickerMan said:
HBF or HFF in SANFL and coach the young blokes onfield. That is what true leadership will entail for Rory this year I think.

Well it should...
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It's not about leadership.

How many of us would take a demotion to help out the employer who wants to demote us now and cut us at the end of our current contract? Sloane should be looking to play as much AFL as possible to try and earn another contract. His family needs to be more of a priority than his employer. Besides, how is giving up without a fight good leadership?

It's up to the Club to make the hard call and play the kids ahead of him. It's only him, Tex and Smith left for the over 30's and he's about third in line for importance from that group.
 


I guess it fits here. Kind of... pre-season and media
The Cold War between former Adelaide captain Taylor Walker and commentator Kane Cornes has erupted again.
An abusive text message sent from Walker’s phone on Friday night shocked Cornes and his children who were in the car with him when it arrived at 8.51pm.
The Port Adelaide premiership player was returning home with his three boys after watching the NBL game between the Adelaide 36ers and Perth Wildcats, and had just pulled into the McDonalds drive-thru when his phone beeped.
“My phone beeped, it was sitting in the car holder. We looked at it and it read: ‘You are a weak c***’,” Cornes said.
“I was like, ‘My goodness what have I done now?’ I get prank calls a lot, usually from private numbers as people are smart enough to hide their identity.
“I thought I’m going to call it and the boys thought it was hilarious so I did.”

The call wasn’t answered, instead it went through to Walker’s message bank. Cornes has since checked the number and confirmed it definitely belonged to the Crows full-forward.

Walker and Cornes have been warring for years with ‘Tex’ regularly going on social media or radio to criticise Cornes who has consistently questioned some of the veteran’s behaviour on and off the field.

Back in 2019 Walker said: “I can’t stand him . . . and not many other people can either.”


Cornes said Walker and his mates had pranked him before but hadn’t left such an obvious trail.

“He has pranked me before but he was smart enough to hide his number,” Cornes told SEN. “I don’t know what I have done (this time).

“I would have thought at his age he may have been more mature than that, particularly with the record he has had recently but clearly on Saturday night Taylor Walker was busy on the phone.”


Walker posted a photo on Instagram at the weekend of a wedding he was attending at Port Elliot in South Australia.

Walker has been contacted for comment.
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Big Dub said:
It's not about leadership.

How many of us would take a demotion to help out the employer who wants to demote us now and cut us at the end of our current contract? Sloane should be looking to play as much AFL as possible to try and earn another contract. His family needs to be more of a priority than his employer. Besides, how is giving up without a fight good leadership?

It's up to the Club to make the hard call and play the kids ahead of him. It's only him, Tex and Smith left for the over 30's and he's about third in line for importance from that group.
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100% it is up to the Club to make the hard call, and I went looking for Rory's quote recently, and have to admit that he has been misrepresented a little bit in here.

From this article: Adelaide skipper Rory Sloane hopeful of retaining Crows captaincy

It suggests that Adelaide skipper Rory Sloane will put his hand up to captain the Crows in 2023 should he be given the green light by the club and players.

There is no direct quote him saying this, however the only quote attributed to him was this:

“I've always said it will be about what is best for the footy club,” Sloane told media.

“It has been a privilege to lead this footy club and I'm just looking forward to being able to do that on the field next year.”
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The article suggests that he is lobbying for the captaincy, and this was my angle in my criticism of Rory, however when you look at that quote, it is more a team first approach. So looks like I've got that wrong.

So, yes, of course he should be trying his best to play AFL however realistically his best spot this year, for mine, is in the SANFL mentoring the kids, ala Scotty Thompson in is last year.
 
Mostyn said:
Look, I don't think this qualifies.

Tex has drunk mates who look up a famous name in his phone and text them s**t when they're nine drinks in at a wedding.

Or Tex does himself. Either way, it's not a massive issue.
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A former captain texting a member of the media calling them a campaigner is definitely grounds to qualify as a part of the club doing something stupid.
 

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