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Matt Turner is a sports reporter for The Advertiser and CODE Sports who covers mainly AFL and basketball. He has been with News Corp for more than a decade, starting at The Messenger, where he was sports editor for two years. Matt isn’t to be confused with Matt Turner, the award-winning Advertiser photographer, who also shares the same middle name (James).

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Woodville Warriors Brodie Nathan getting to the basket. Picture: Rod Patterson

Undefeated Flames put out by Warriors

The SA Premier League basketball season is heating up but Woodville doused the Flames on Saturday night in the upset of the year so far. Messenger’s wrap of every round six match.

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SANFL - North v West at Prospect Oval Saturday April 6, 2019 Norths Mitchell Harvey into the back of Wests Murray Waite - pic AAP/MIKE BURTON

Roosters unfurl premiership flag, open win account

North Adelaide celebrated the unfurling of its 2018 premiership flag and began its climb back into a positive points total with a comfortable win over West Adelaide at Prospect Oval on Saturday.

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Can another SFL club knock Falcons off their perch?

Can Flagstaff Hill win four flags in a row? How big a boost can Terry Milera and Josh Thewlis give Noarlunga? Will Morphett Vale bounce back? Messenger Community News has spoken to coaches from all nine Southern Football League clubs ahead of the competition’s opening round this weekend.

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GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA - FEBRUARY 11: England captain Joe Root talks to the media after Day Three of the Third Test match between the West Indies and England at Darren Sammy Cricket Ground on February 11, 2019 in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images,)

Adelaide coach to run Australian arm of Joe Root’s academy

A veteran SA cricket coach has become high-performance director of England captain Joe Root’s academy and will run its Australian arm, calling his role a “once-in-lifetime opportunity”.

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An exhausted Tea Tree Gully and West Adelaide player slump to theground after the final whistle of their FFA Cup clash. Picture: Adam Butler

Players ‘didn’t really want to be there’: West coach

West Adelaide soccer coach Steve De Giovanniello reckons he saw Sunday’s shock FFA Cup loss to amateur side Tea Tree Gully “coming a mile away” because it felt like the team “didn’t really want to be there”.

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Jubilant Tea Tree Gully players celebrate their shock win over West Adelaide in the FFA Cup SA. Photo: Adam Butler

Amateur club shocks Carrusca’s West Adelaide

Amateur club Tea Tree Gully has produced a massive FFA Cup SA shock, knocking out former National Soccer League champion West Adelaide in the first round with a thrilling home win.

Recruits, game-plan tweaks have Dogs primed

Central District missed the finals last season for just the second time since Roy Laird took over as coach ahead of the 2003 campaign. Now the Bulldogs are primed to bounce back, buoyed by a swag of new recruits and tweaks to the club’s game plan.

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Kensington celebrate after winning the grade cricket two day grand final over Adelaide at Glenelg Oval on Sunday, March 24 2019. Picture: SA Cricket Association (supplied)

Not quite a Brownwash but Kensi wins three flags

Kensington almost completed a brownwash across it’s four men’s grade grand finals, a side dismissed for 66 prevails, a No.10 gets his team over the line in a semi-final and more in this week’s edition of Thrash Talk.

The young guns and draft hopefuls to watch in 2019

Last year much of the talk about SA’s under-18 squad surrounded Jack Lukosius and Izak Rankine. They are now in the AFL but SA coach Tony Bamford says there is plenty of talent in this year’s program and some names to watch.

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Is this the year of the Tiger?

Glenelg fans have had to endure an impatient for finals action, but is this the year of the Tigers? Our SANFL writers make their predictions for season 2019.

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