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.
THIS time there can be no excuses. The Crows’ top four hopes are over before their mid-season bye and their finals hopes are in serious jeopardy after an unforgivable loss to the youngest Fremantle side coach Ross Lyon has ever fielded.
CHAD Wingard says Port Adelaide ‘can’t pinpoint’ why it is such a bad kicking team. But the numbers don’t paint a pretty picture.
PORT Adelaide star Chad Wingard is making no excuses for his form slump, declaring “I’m not going to chuck any out there’’.
Despite their tender years — Wingard and Wines — the two W’s have been instrumental in the Power’s astonishing rise up the ladder.
ADELAIDE Crows football manager Phil Harper says he expects the battle for the gold jacket to be close.
TALK of the Essendon’s on-field demise and the possibility of facing years in the football wilderness has been greatly exaggerated.
A MONTH ago Gary Ablett was considered such a certainty to win this year’s Brownlow Medal that some betting agencies paid out on him.
WHEN legendary coach David Parkin this month labelled Adelaide as the worst tackling team he had seen, the alarm bells started ringing at West Lakes.
PORT Adelaide small forward Angus Monfries has kicked more close-range goals than any other player in the AFL this season.
CROW Scott Thompson last year joked that he wasn’t an umpires’ favourite. Now there’s evidence to back it up.
MAYBE Adelaide’s silent assassin, Rory Laird, needs to make more noise.
POWER skipper Travis Boak is calling on his team’s defensive mantra to win the last Showdown at AAMI Stadium.
ADELAIDE is, for the first time, in danger of going through an entire AFL season without beating a finals combatant.
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