2025: A West Lakes Odyssey
With Adelaide out of premiership mode, regeneration and the development of young talent is now of the utmost importance to the club’s future, writes Mark Bickley.
Expert Opinion
The Tackle: How Dusty’s grandma almost missed GF
The winning Grand Final rooms are a footy mosh pit, and Dustin Martin’s grandmother Lois found herself in the middle of it on Saturday. She found time to talk to Mark Robinson about her famous grandson.
Bays win pure joy for Prouds, Virgins
Glenelg’s drought-breaking premiership win completed a grand double for the Virgin and Proud families. These and more in this week’s wrap of local sport with Ben Hook.
Too desperate, too tough, too efficient. Tigers just too good
Richmond epitomises brilliant coaching, player performance, management, list management and leadership. It’s no wonder the Tigers are premiers again, writes Warren Tredrea.
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Below their best: Bone rates the Power, Crows
PORT Adelaide won, but it wasn’t the manner they should be winning, and Adelaide should start planning for the future as its season is over, writes Chris McDermott. See his fast fives and player ratings for Round 16.
‘Give the bloke a break’: Why Ken jumped in for Jack
PORT Adelaide only laid five tackles in the first quarter against St Kilda but finished with 69 and a six-goal win, with Jack Watts among the players spurring the turnaround. See why coach Ken Hinkley leapt to his defence in this week’s Power Rankings.
Fans entitled to Sloane decision
ADELAIDE Crows need an answer from Rory Sloane now so the club can plan for the future, writes 2004 Port Adelaide AFL premiership midfielder Kane Cornes.
Who will challenge Richmond? It’s in lap of footy gods
RICHMOND is the AFL pacesetter – and the wait for a team to step into the daylight behind the Tigers is being challenged by football’s injury curse.
Beware the AFL’s haunted house
CROWEATERS stars Izak Rankine and Jack Lukosius could be forced to go to the Gold Coast at the 2018 AFL draft – but why should they go when the clubs captains are allowed to walk away, asks Dwayne Russell.
Time to throw caution to wind
THE Crows must stop playing with fear and show some run and aggression if they are any hope of making the AFL finals in 2018, says Chris McDermott.
Malthouse: the torment of missing out
IN late 1982 MICK MALTHOUSE dislocated his shoulder and missed the Grand Final. The AFL great knows the mental anguish being felt by Lynden Dunn and Reece Conca who must now watch from the sidelines as their clubs chase premiership glory.
The worst decision of 2018: Robbo
WITHOUT doubt it is the most mind-boggling, frustrating and unfair change introduced by the AFL since the farcical sub rule. MARK ROBINSON is not a fan of the contentious protected area.
Finals or bust for mentally fragile Demons: Lloyd
IT IS finals or bust for Melbourne in 2018 after going from a likely top-four team to a team in disarray over the past month and building greater mental resolve remains the Demons’ greatest challenge, writes MATTHEW LLOYD.
Could Cyril make a comeback?
IT MIGHT be a longshot but AFL recruiters should get Cyril Rioli’s phone number, save it and keep in contact with the retired champion in case he ever gets the hunger back to play AFL again, Jay Clark writes.
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