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Expert Opinion
Crows must re-sign Sanderson
ADELAIDE should tear up Brenton Sanderson’s old contract and hand him a new three-year deal.
Reality check could bite Crows
TAKE a second to picture what it would be like to have a Crows reserves team playing in the amateur league next year.
Koch can’t stop Magpies’ wind-up
POWER’S decision to “go to war” to keep all of the Magpies in the SANFL and to create an AFL reserves team is a battle lost before it begins.
Drugs issue may hit every club
THE Essendon drugs scandal could hit every club in the AFL when it comes to sponsorship dollars.
AAMI era will end with Port win
IT’S hard not to fancy Port Adelaide’s chances on Sunday in the final AAMI Stadium Showdown.
How Sando keeps it in perspective
IF you see Adelaide Crows coach Brenton Sanderson dancing through the main streets of Rio in a G-string, don’t be surprised.
History in making inspires sell-out
ON Thursday afternoon Crows CEO Steven Trigg received a most encouraging phone call – Showdown XXXV had sold out.
Nothing new in Weapon’s claims
FORMER Essendon fitness guru Dean Robinson may have poured his heart out on TV, but much of it was irrelevant to the drugs debate.
Laird omission is bewildering
MAYBE Adelaide’s silent assassin, Rory Laird, needs to make more noise.
Distant justice has its virtues
REMEMBER when David Koch had to contend with the question of how he could be the Power’s president while based in Sydney?
Defence will decide Showdown
POWER skipper Travis Boak is calling on his team’s defensive mantra to win the last Showdown at AAMI Stadium.
Men who have shaped Showdowns
PLAYERS’ reputations are made and broken in big games and Showdowns are the biggest matches outside of finals for the Crows and Port.
Reserves plan is hard to swallow
THERE are points in the SA Football Commission’s plans for a Crows reserves team that can’t be accepted by league directors.
Big ticket items are dragging on
THERE are three big-ticket items on the SANFL’s agenda that are dragging on.
Port must target September action
IT is time for the Power to say the F word. Let’s see how Ken Hinkley’s playing group handles the pressure.
Embrace the club’s culture
IT was as a teenager in the early ’80s on one of Port’s traditional post grand final crabbing days, that I saw it at its most brutal.
We’re too quick to condemn
EVERYONE makes mistakes and none of us are perfect, but many are quick to condemn champion cyclist Stuart O’Grady.
Power of choice in Port’s hands
PORT was prepared to compromise its nickname (from Magpies to Power) and its famous black-and-white jumper just to enter the national AFL in 1997.
Sad reaction to a brave action
FOOTBALL has moved against racism over the past 20 years on the field, but it is far from complete on the terraces.
Match review panel needs repair
THE AFL match review panel system is a joke. Fans are up in arms, the game is on the nose and I’ve had enough.
Reserves debate may extend to 2014
IT took WA two years to resolve the reserves debate, don’t expect SA to do the same in just two months.
VB’s the man to lead the Crows
VOICES from the terraces have been laying into Nathan van Berlo but to question his captaincy at this stage is a bag of nonsense.
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