2nds The Adelaide Crows Reserves - sponsored by Bendigo Bank

[Bailey01]

Grigg is out of sorts

 

[Crow-eater]

Crows down by a goal 20min into the 1st qtr.

Graham and Smack the scorers. Otten looks to be the travelling emergency.

 

[Paladin]

Smack with our first. Did anyone make the journey down?

 

[mcday]

ANGUS GRAHAM - POWER FORWARD

 

[Paladin]

ANGUS GRAHAM - POWER FORWARD

2 goals in the first pushing for an AFC debut!

 

[Bailey01]

Grigg didn't touch the ball in the 1st quarter and gave away 2 frees.

 

[Hinkstuff]

Grigg didn't touch the ball in the 1st quarter and gave away 2 frees.

And 1 tackle!

Osborn 1 free against and no tackles.

 

[Huntercrow]

I think you need some of the earlier posts regarding top up players as what you have posted is not quite correct, also this is the first year and it's way too early to know what the best long term arrangements will be.

The Crows are getting clobbered atm but I doubt that has to do with the top up players as you only have so many playing at once. Why your fringe players aren't performing is more the question you need to ask. Not too long ago you had players dominating the SANFL and ours were stuck in SANFL reserves.

We need to be careful that we do not react to something that may not be the norm long term, no different to renegotiating an agreement at AO based on novelty inflated crowd numbers.

Wrt Magpies and Port, yeah it is different now and cannot be compared to last year.

For mine the AFL teams will have great reserves whenever they have a number of players that are "too good for the SANFL" but are unable ro reproduce that form at AFL level, however once they are not longer on tge AFL list they will end up at another SANFL club.
That is the sort of long term effect we need to see before going down the knee jerk reaction path.

Atm Port are going better than expected and the Crows worse than expected and who knows it is quite possible for that to reverse even before the end of the year.

6 were named 2 were dropped leaving 4 top ups.

Omalley
Davis-Neal
Paynter
Robinson

Those are the numbers for today's game.

How many amateurs played for Port this weekend?

 

[Bailey01]

And 1 tackle!

Osborn 1 free against and no tackles.

Something isn't quite right for Grigg at the moment

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Reilly off to a strong start (stats wise, not at the game)

Pushing for selection next week for his 200th.

 

[mcday]

And just like that Grigg is back in the game, up to 5 touches now.

 

[mcday]

Reilly off to a strong start (stats wise, not at the game)

Pushing for selection next week for his 200th.

It's one of those awkward situations where he's clearly too good for the SANFL but not quite good enough at AFL level to demand selection, like Symes or Martin.

 

[Bailey01]

Knight has 9 disposals and 5 marks so far and Crouch has 8.

 

[Huntercrow]

46 marks to 14!!

 

[mcday]

Davis-Neale 2 goals in a minute

 

[Huntercrow]

Davis-Neale!!

 

[Hinkstuff]

Osborn 1 disposal, 1 goal.

 

[Huntercrow]

Osborne....scores level

 

[AdelaideFan14]

Anyone at the game? Is the Rat having an impact with his touches?

 

[Hinkstuff]

McKernan possible bleeding in the eye.

 

[Ravenous Crow]

Maybe our top up players are starting to come good?

 

[Hinkstuff]

Robinson goals, Ravens by 5.

 

[Huntercrow]

Robinson goal....top ups doing well!

 

[AdelaideFan14]

Doing alright in the tackle count.

 

[*PAF]

6 were named 2 were dropped leaving 4 top ups.

Omalley
Davis-Neal
Paynter
Robinson

Those are the numbers for today's game.

How many amateurs played for Port this weekend?

So does that mean you have 17 AFL players?
If you lose it is because of them or the top ups?