PORT Adelaide says top-two Melbourne draft picks Jack Watts and Jack Trengove have the form on the board to earn a fairytale reunion against their former club at Adelaide Oval on Friday night. But who do they replace?
SOUTH Adelaide’s dynamic midfield duo ran riot as the understrength Crows were humiliated in a record SANFL defeat at Noarlunga Oval.
SOUTH Australia yesterday fought back from 16 points behind to beat Vic Country and stay on track for its first AFL under-18 division one championship title since 2014.
FORMER Kangaroo Lindsay Thomas copped a big suspension in his Port Adelaide debut, but his second game in Power colours went smoothly as he played a significant role in the win over the Bulldogs.
ADELAIDE’S ruck ironman Sam Jacobs has admitted he is playing with a sore back but has refused to use it as an excuse for his form struggles.
PORT Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has hailed exciting young forward Todd Marshall’s resilience, revealing he was so “desperate’’ to play AFL again following the death of his father that he played through injury in the SANFL to push his case for a recall.
SQUADS win premierships, not individuals. That is a key philosophy of the injury-ravaged Adelaide Football Club, as lead ruckman Sam Jacobs writes in his The Advertiser column.
A YEAR ago it wasn’t a matter of how many goals Adelaide would kick but who would kick them. Now the Crows are having trouble scoring at all. See how drastically the goals have dried up up in this week’s Number Crunch.
IT has been labelled an AFL ‘superdraft’ where SA could have its greatest haul of top-10 picks. And the boys lived up to the hype in the opening round of the national AFL under-18 championships. Andrew Capel follows their progress in his Road to the Draft.
NORTH Adelaide coach Josh Carr hailed his team’s resilience after it held off a strong challenge from a desperate Glenelg to move back to the top of the SANFL ladder.
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