Wingard: I’ve got no excuses
PORT Adelaide star Chad Wingard is making no excuses for his form slump, declaring “I’m not going to chuck any out there’’.
PORT Adelaide star Chad Wingard is making no excuses for his form slump, declaring “I’m not going to chuck any out there’’.
HE was the draft smoky with the basketball background who had to agonisingly wait three seasons to play an AFL game. Now Crow Tom Doedee is the AFL Rising Star favourite.
HUGH Greenwood and Cam Ellis-Yolmen are the unlikely midfield duo who might have saved the Crows’ season from spiralling into disaster. See how the unsung pair stack up against the AFL’s top contested possession-winning combinations.
JACK Macrae is the Western Bulldog with bite, leaving the Crows with plenty of thinking to do before their Adelaide Oval clash.
PATRICK Dangerfield says if he changes his game he won’t be the same player, but he is in danger of having his career ended prematurely.
GIVE a Hawk an opportunity in front of goal and the chances are he will make you pay the ultimate price.
GIVE a Hawk an opportunity in front of goal and the chances are he will make you pay the ultimate price.
PORT Adelaide’s surge from basket case to premiership contender has been sparked by the remarkable improvement in its second chance men.
AFTER overcoming a string of injuries, Power forward Robbie Gray is starting to show his prodigious talent.
BRODIE Smith is the Crows’ great metre eater. He averages 578m a game.
TURN the ball over against Port Adelaide and pay the ultimate price. No AFL team is better at punishing opposition mistakes than Power.
KEEP some up your sleeve. That’s the message from Power and the Crows as they come to grips with the new cap on interchange rotations.
WHEN Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson said he wanted to “flip the ball around a little bit more’’ this season he wasn’t kidding.
JUSTIN Westhoff is the AFL’s ultimate swingman. The Power gamebreaker has the ability to kick goals at one end and stop them at the other.
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