Speaker 1: Five double a football post match callers.
Speaker 2: As Obrian taps it down, this will be the final
Speaker 2: play for twenty twenty four for the Crows. It started
Speaker 2: with so much expectation and excitement and has ended with
Speaker 2: so much dissatisfaction and disappointment. The Swans will go into
Speaker 2: finals with a thirty one point win at home and
Speaker 2: the Crows will lick their wounds with a long, long
Speaker 2: off season.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll be the one to say, thank god that
Speaker 3: season's open. That was hard work.
Speaker 2: That's the full stop this game need that I think
Speaker 2: in the season really eight double two three double o
Speaker 2: double O. Let's let you put the full stop on
Speaker 2: the season as well, because it's been a grinding one
Speaker 2: for a lot of Crows fans. This is our after
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Speaker 2: Get on the phones, Crows fans. We'd love to hear
Speaker 2: from you on the back of what was the game
Speaker 2: to forget and maybe a season of forget as well.
Speaker 2: So much that just didn't quite go right in so
Speaker 2: many different ways.
Speaker 4: Camp.
Speaker 2: I would love your assessment quickly on this game, and
Speaker 2: then we'll talk about the years old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean they won the last quarter Adelaide,
Speaker 5: but I think Sydney pretty much put a Q in
Speaker 5: the rack.
Speaker 6: But Adelaide kept trying, which is all you can ask.
Speaker 5: I guess at the end of the day, for some
Speaker 5: little bit of respect, you know, ultimately the first you know,
Speaker 5: three quarters, Sydney were all over them.
Speaker 6: They couldn't defend them. They couldn't get it done around,
Speaker 6: particularly around the turnover game. They were too slick.
Speaker 5: With their ball movement and their handballs and particularly out
Speaker 5: of their back half. So I guess a couple of
Speaker 5: the highlights, Riley Philthorpe had eight mark seven of those
Speaker 5: are inside fifty kick three goals three, so.
Speaker 6: He looked, Yeah, he had no answer for him.
Speaker 5: The inside fifty for the Crows gamper they had what's
Speaker 5: that fifty for the night?
Speaker 3: So where would that sit? Says a bad average?
Speaker 6: They normally had average about forty nine, so.
Speaker 3: It's about average. It just feels like Riley phil Ford
Speaker 3: is at the point of his career where you know,
Speaker 3: Stardom beckons that's the most exciting thing about this list
Speaker 3: at the moment. They've got a guy there who has
Speaker 3: all the tools.
Speaker 5: You can build something around come hopefully you know, Folk
Speaker 5: can improve again. You know, I think he's he's improved
Speaker 5: this year. He's one of the players that have gone
Speaker 5: this year. Yeah forty yep, career best for himself. So
Speaker 5: that's that's two key forwards. And you throw your eyes
Speaker 5: at ranking in there as well. So they've they've got
Speaker 5: enough five power forward for mine. I think they've definitely
Speaker 5: got that. But you know it's it's still for me
Speaker 5: around the midfield. You know, they got showed up again today,
Speaker 5: you know, with class and run and carry and you
Speaker 5: know the highlight I guess you know, Bond goes to
Speaker 5: Gerrol Gordon, who we spoke wholly about at halftime. He
Speaker 5: only had five disposers after halftime. Who maybe if you
Speaker 5: go from that from the start, what does that change
Speaker 5: the result?
Speaker 6: I don't know. You know, hindsight's a.
Speaker 5: Wonderful thing in our game and you never get too
Speaker 5: many wrong in hindsight there.
Speaker 6: But ultimately, you know, that's a win.
Speaker 5: You know, we know what he can do now, they
Speaker 5: know that they've got that in the kit bag in
Speaker 5: terms of what he can do if that's what they
Speaker 5: want to potentially do.
Speaker 4: But they just.
Speaker 6: Controlled the gum.
Speaker 5: I mean after halftime Sydney had what's that seventy nine
Speaker 5: marks in a half, so they've just controlled the ball
Speaker 5: pretty much.
Speaker 6: On the back of that strategy of trying to shut.
Speaker 5: Down Goulden, they just gave Blaky kick two off half back.
Speaker 5: They had no answer for him Roberts, So the two
Speaker 5: actually the three highest possession getters at the end of
Speaker 5: the day, Nick Blakey with thirty two, Roberts with thirty one,
Speaker 5: and Mills for twenty seven.
Speaker 6: So they just controlled the game out of the back half.
Speaker 5: And if you talk about marks fourteen, ten and ten
Speaker 5: in the same order, so they're just controlling the game
Speaker 5: and you just couldn't get it back off from So
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, Sydney was far too good.
Speaker 6: We know that the top of the ladder for a reason.
Speaker 5: But from Adelaide perspective, you know, after the week they
Speaker 5: had with the showdown and the whole Joshua Shelley stuff
Speaker 5: and all that sort of thing got blown out of
Speaker 5: the water in three quarters to be honest, And what the.
Speaker 2: Best thing is I think for the Adelaide Crows going
Speaker 2: in the off season is you're only as good as
Speaker 2: your last game.
Speaker 4: We saw the gold club.
Speaker 2: That's the gold standard, that's the benchmark the Sydney Swans,
Speaker 2: and that's what the Crows would aspire to be in
Speaker 2: years to come.
Speaker 4: So they got to look at it tonight.
Speaker 2: They saw where they sat against that tonight and as
Speaker 2: you said, they.
Speaker 4: Put a score on the board. Ninety points isn't a
Speaker 4: bad score.
Speaker 2: Their forwards are doing the job when they get in there,
Speaker 2: but they don't get in there enough and Sydney they
Speaker 2: broke open the defenses. So we'd love your thoughts on
Speaker 2: the season and the game tonight. Eight double two three,
Speaker 2: double o, double over. I feel like the next week
Speaker 2: is probably going to be a bit of an exit
Speaker 2: review for the Crow's supporters as well, So let's start
Speaker 2: it off with John at West Croydon.
Speaker 7: Hi, John, how are you going fellas?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Just touching on what Campo said about the slick ball
Speaker 7: movement of Sydney. Does anybody in their right mind actually
Speaker 7: think that the Crows in year five under the current
Speaker 7: tenure have improved that much from year one? And I'll
Speaker 7: tell you why. There's three pillars at this footy club
Speaker 7: that I laid this blame on Number one John Olsen,
Speaker 7: he was on your program ROWI interviewed him about the
Speaker 7: reappointment of Matthew Nicks and Rowe was asking why it
Speaker 7: was done so early, and John's response was why not? Well,
Speaker 7: what a magnificent measure of success that is?
Speaker 8: Why not?
Speaker 7: Well, why not my grandmother? Then we have Tim Silver's
Speaker 7: coming on here, continually backing up Matthew Nicks on the
Speaker 7: back of what you just have to look at his
Speaker 7: results to be thinking, hey, what is going on here?
Speaker 7: What are these guys actually thinking?
Speaker 9: We then had.
Speaker 7: Adam Kelly throw a talk about values and standards in
Speaker 7: the meantime, our leadership guys throw young Rachel under the bus.
Speaker 7: Now the boys on your program, I think it was
Speaker 7: probably yes or when the Rochelley things came up. The
Speaker 7: breakfast guys put it beautifully.
Speaker 9: We are year five.
Speaker 7: Values and standards in year five are the sum of
Speaker 7: what fifteenth on the premiership table and a crap footy club.
Speaker 7: And that's pretty much where we're at. Because urani as
Speaker 7: good as your results, and Urani as good as the
Speaker 7: leadership in your football club. And I don't rate John Olsen,
Speaker 7: I don't rate Tim Silvers. I don't rate Adam Kelly
Speaker 7: and I don't Matthewnique.
Speaker 3: Thank you, John, Which to your point about four years
Speaker 3: ago they improved, Well, here's the win the win titles
Speaker 3: seven eight last year eleven eight seven eight, eleven eight.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you chart that on a graph, you're
Speaker 3: not saying it's particularly exciting growth over that period.
Speaker 2: But let's just defend the board for one second in
Speaker 2: regards to the growth. So twenty twenty was when Matthewnics
Speaker 2: came in three wins. That was the beginning of a rebuild.
Speaker 2: The next two years were also classified as rebuild. They
Speaker 2: went and COVID, so they went three seven eight. That's growth,
Speaker 2: that's building, that's development, that's experience into players that they've recruited.
Speaker 2: Then you get twenty twenty three, which I think was
Speaker 2: somewhat one out of a box. They sat in the
Speaker 2: eight for pretty much the entire season and then they
Speaker 2: fell out right at the death. So with eleven wins,
Speaker 2: it could have been twelve if Butts and Kenny nuts.
Speaker 2: But for what we knew in the if Crow's fans
Speaker 2: over this summer, this last summer gone were predicting a
Speaker 2: season of this quality, I think they would be probably
Speaker 2: in the minority. There are a lot of fans with
Speaker 2: a lot of excitement heading into this year. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of fans thinking that Matthew Nicks had grown
Speaker 2: the team from when he began in terms.
Speaker 4: Of a win.
Speaker 2: Trend upward over those years, and I think a lot
Speaker 2: of the players had been putting experience into maybe fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty at this point were the right players and
Speaker 2: the wrong players. Who knows how that will all end up,
Speaker 2: but at this point I think the question around why
Speaker 2: did they sign him when they did. I think at
Speaker 2: the point in time that they had they had enough
Speaker 2: to say they can back him in. But if they
Speaker 2: had more information they definitely would have got a different answer,
Speaker 2: absolutely right. But in that moment, that's what it looked good.
Speaker 3: At that moment, they'd never had a period of footy
Speaker 3: with expectation. So at the end of last year, the
Speaker 3: leadership of the club havn't said rebuilds over. They said
Speaker 3: finals is the goal, and then one round in the expectation.
Speaker 6: The word expectation started coming in now.
Speaker 2: At the beginning of the downfall in a way, because
Speaker 2: that's when you put that into the player's mind that hey,
Speaker 2: we're ready to play fine.
Speaker 3: Just to round out that thought, though, it just strikes
Speaker 3: me as there would have been two questions. I would
Speaker 3: have thought that ninety percent of people not party the
Speaker 3: decision would have asked when it came to the resigned
Speaker 3: the coach. Question one, who are we bidding against you?
Speaker 3: Is there a danger going to lose the coach?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: It didn't seem like that was true. Haven't heard anything
Speaker 3: subsequent that would suggest there was any bidding war.
Speaker 4: Not at all.
Speaker 3: And the other one of us would can we just
Speaker 3: see what this looks like for a month or two
Speaker 3: months in a season we've got expectation, and then maybe
Speaker 3: round six you go, if it's going, then we say,
Speaker 3: let's so there's no chit chat or distraction or so forth.
Speaker 3: This is one of the most peculiar decisions, and.
Speaker 6: It happens, you know, not just in Adelaide. Does the
Speaker 6: AFO as a sport?
Speaker 5: When was the last time someone you know pulled the
Speaker 5: trigger from a club perspective? And you guys might be
Speaker 5: I've been trying to think about it as well and going,
Speaker 5: you know what, I know that coaches in the last
Speaker 5: year of his contract.
Speaker 6: But we'll just wait, We'll just wait.
Speaker 5: But first, for some reason, like in NBA or the NFL,
Speaker 5: they know that they just wait.
Speaker 6: They don't that's rightly.
Speaker 5: They wait and they go, well, let's see how it goes,
Speaker 5: and ultimately, if that coach wants to leave, will get
Speaker 5: a better offer.
Speaker 6: Well, okay, I've.
Speaker 3: Got a theory on that camp. And it's a bigger
Speaker 3: sport where it's probably a good sport topic. But you've
Speaker 3: got soccer around the world. You've always got the threat
Speaker 3: of relegation. There's a real danger if things don't turn around,
Speaker 3: you just slip into irrelevance. Your club disappears off the map.
Speaker 3: In America, every franchise is run by a billionaire with
Speaker 3: an ego that's bigger than his bank account, and you
Speaker 3: don't get results. He says, I don't get on pain out.
Speaker 3: I'm sacking him. I'm hiring in footy. And the Crows
Speaker 3: are in the most precarious position here. When you've got
Speaker 3: a membership base, it's huge. They're never going to get
Speaker 3: seventeen thousand people there. Yeah, and they want to be good,
Speaker 3: but there's no real there's a you can't I said
Speaker 3: this earlier in the week. You can't fake desperate fighting
Speaker 3: for your life, for your existence. Today you can afford
Speaker 3: to you like a guy and you think someone's good
Speaker 3: and ever around the club's on the same page. It's good.
Speaker 3: We can afford to be a bit more pay. We're
Speaker 3: going to afford to go into year six next year
Speaker 3: with the coach who's got a winning record about thirty
Speaker 3: five percent. Now, I know it's not the whole picture,
Speaker 3: but I just I've got I've heard the arm that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of evidence. Ken an ingle Farm, what
Speaker 3: do you think?
Speaker 10: I think what that last boat said was absolutely perfect
Speaker 10: spot on. I'm right behind him and I'm discussing in
Speaker 10: the craws, mate. I mean then players tonight.
Speaker 11: I mean you talk about dropping Rochelley dropped himself, Josh,
Speaker 11: don't give a crap what John Olson and Tim Silver's.
Speaker 11: If I was you, mate, I'll be telling them now.
Speaker 9: I said, you're lucky.
Speaker 11: I want to play for you next year, mate. I mean,
Speaker 11: you're making me feel bad about doing what I've done.
Speaker 11: I'm on there trying me guts out. He's a young player. Now,
Speaker 11: you look at some of these coaches that are playing
Speaker 11: in these in the Victorian teams. They don't win five
Speaker 11: CI scumes in a row and they're gone, mate, They're gone. Right.
Speaker 11: How many times have we watched this going on for
Speaker 11: ten fifteen years?
Speaker 3: Mate?
Speaker 11: And another thing the Crows we won two premierships and
Speaker 11: then from that time on we've been just garbage, not garbage.
Speaker 11: But you know we just haven't been. We just haven't.
Speaker 11: And we're supposed to have been the team for South Australia. Mate,
Speaker 11: We've had all these teams to pick from, We've had
Speaker 11: all the money bought as far as I'm concerned, mate,
Speaker 11: they've come in and they've proven to be better at
Speaker 11: selections than us. I mean we're at Joe, I mean
Speaker 11: fair weather supporters. I mean, look at that teen mate,
Speaker 11: I'd be saying to him, what are you doing back
Speaker 11: to Ireland for? We want you to play this last game?
Speaker 9: Mate.
Speaker 11: This is what it's about. It's a team game. And
Speaker 11: as you just said, you said the right thing. They're
Speaker 11: getting too much money here, right, there's four teams too
Speaker 11: many in this competition and when Tasmania coming in an
Speaker 11: orbit territory, it's just going to be an absolute joke.
Speaker 11: It's not going to be back and watching this senfil
Speaker 11: when there's only three or four teams winning premierships for
Speaker 11: the fifteen twenty bloody years. I mean, I can't get
Speaker 11: over mate. I'm sick of watching it and the mistakes
Speaker 11: that some of our players were making tonight. I've been
Speaker 11: that leg kicking the ball in. I mean even Taylor
Speaker 11: Walker doing what he done right and other players that
Speaker 11: Jordan that the captain, I mean, isn't he's supposed to
Speaker 11: be in the middle of the park. What's he doing
Speaker 11: on the blood Yeah, he went back on that defender.
Speaker 11: They put him on the bloody back line.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, Ken, thank you for your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Mate.
Speaker 3: We have a lot of people, a lot of Crows
Speaker 3: fans want to have there say though, but we appreciate
Speaker 3: you and your passion. Mark and Freeling. What do you think.
Speaker 8: I got to disagree with a lot of what I'm
Speaker 8: hearing at the start of the year. If they two
Speaker 8: thought about all years text didn't pay until well he
Speaker 8: was on one leg when he came. You take those two,
Speaker 8: your best three forwards out of any team, especially in
Speaker 8: the developing team. He's going to struggle. The only two
Speaker 8: things that Nick's I think, well, one thing he's done
Speaker 8: wrong and one thing he's probably sort of done right.
Speaker 8: He's got to put some of these young guys through
Speaker 8: the middle. Is you're never going to find your next
Speaker 8: for Tracker or Bonton Pelly. But Ricelle could be one
Speaker 8: of those guys that his role. He comes into the
Speaker 8: team based on a half forward planks, roll up to
Speaker 8: the contest as an extra midfielder. The ball gets kicked
Speaker 8: in on our forward line and it's one verse three
Speaker 8: week in, week out. The guy needs to wake up
Speaker 8: for that. The other thing he probably if I could
Speaker 8: give him some advice they start looking at is when
Speaker 8: we're kicking the ball in defense, just go you know
Speaker 8: what I mean? Pretty much mucking around, But now myself
Speaker 8: in the train of thom.
Speaker 3: Can make a lot of sense. And I think a
Speaker 3: lot of listeners would have seen this. Certainly did the
Speaker 3: rounds on social media the last week, given how will
Speaker 3: Hawthorne have played when they finished that clear? But I
Speaker 3: think you guys might have played it on the sports
Speaker 3: show Did You Wear? I heard it somewhere where where
Speaker 3: Tom Mitchell was being ripped apart by Caro and Maddie Lloyd.
Speaker 3: It was on the Couch or one of those one
Speaker 3: of those shows and for this was about two years
Speaker 3: ago for his decisions to ditch Tom Mitchell and the
Speaker 3: Agro Mirror. And they were saying, you've gone too hard,
Speaker 3: your kids aren't ready, your teams think and he said,
Speaker 3: and he'd just been to visit Angeposta Coglo was itself
Speaker 3: theright time, and he went and saw him and he said, yeah,
Speaker 3: but if I have Tom Mitchell, I'm not playing. This
Speaker 3: is exact quoting I'm not playing Will Day in the middle.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 3: And so that now the difference that's come out now
Speaker 3: and people and again, as you said, Kebo hindsight, it's
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, but he was a bloke getting ripped apart
Speaker 3: for those decisions. And I just don't feel and I think,
Speaker 3: what's Marcus saying that the Adelaide Football Club mode those
Speaker 3: sorts of decisions.
Speaker 2: Well, the Crows for a long time were saying we
Speaker 2: need experience alongside the youngsters to give them someone to
Speaker 2: learn in a mentor. But is that still taking away
Speaker 2: from other players? I suppose that's a question right now, Campo,
Speaker 2: if you were in the position of Matthew Nicks, would
Speaker 2: you be doing it any differently?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 3: What's happened, it may well be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's an interesting one because I think you know,
Speaker 5: you talk about if you use your example will will Day,
Speaker 5: He's picked twelve and he's a star.
Speaker 6: You play that, So ultimately whose Adelaide's Will Day?
Speaker 3: Well, Luke Pedlers picked twelve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yep, and they played him at a position, they
Speaker 5: played forward.
Speaker 3: That was the different experience that he may never be
Speaker 3: Will Day right now, I take that point. But just
Speaker 3: in terms of how the two sides approach the same task,
Speaker 3: it's dramatically different, totally different.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I guess that, well, once again, that's a
Speaker 5: that's a list management discussion and where they see, you know,
Speaker 5: and it's also a coach.
Speaker 3: You know, what do I need?
Speaker 6: What do I want?
Speaker 5: You can see the team that they played tonight. They're
Speaker 5: good decision makers, they're good kicks, they're.
Speaker 6: Hard, they're tough, they.
Speaker 5: Run, you know, they've got all those attributes. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's a combination. For me, it's not just
Speaker 5: one thing, you know that needs to be fixed that
Speaker 5: My worry is is is it gonna what's the upside?
Speaker 5: Where's it going to come from? They're going to go,
Speaker 5: They're going to get an early pick. They're going to
Speaker 5: get an early pick this year pick in a talented draft,
Speaker 5: a midfielders draft. They need to nail this one. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know they do, there's no question about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, clutch time is now absolutely get it right.
Speaker 3: There was two Jordan's out there tonight, James and Dawson
Speaker 3: and now there's Jordan on the line from Coramanda East. Jordan.
Speaker 3: Good evening to you can boys.
Speaker 12: I just think it was a real failure of the year.
Speaker 12: We had some really good performances, but that's an absolutely
Speaker 12: disgraceful performances. And to say that we're moving forward when
Speaker 12: we can't even not even make the finals on the
Speaker 12: Matthew Knicks absolutely stupid.
Speaker 8: I think something really needs the off season.
Speaker 3: Thank you gone to Jordan, Thank you mate.
Speaker 2: So some interesting ones. So Carlton Away from Home was
Speaker 2: a great win I think for the Crows. That was
Speaker 2: early in the season. That was their first one of
Speaker 2: the year. Can I preface that though, And I was
Speaker 2: really strong on this. If you remember when on Tuesday
Speaker 2: they went back.
Speaker 6: But they got away with that right Carlton kicked themselves
Speaker 6: out of that. It was too fair.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they had they led in like sixty entries
Speaker 5: or whatever. And because I remember.
Speaker 6: Rowe got on their back. I go, mate, they're not back.
Speaker 5: But that that was a fifty to fifty one to
Speaker 5: say the least.
Speaker 2: Then they had Port Adelaide by five goals. There are
Speaker 2: the wins where they beat up on North Melbourne, West
Speaker 2: Coast and Saint Kilda. But then I went against the
Speaker 2: Giants at home, which at the time was significant because
Speaker 2: the Giants were well, they were on a bit of
Speaker 2: a slope, but still there aquality side and we'll play
Speaker 2: strong finals foot, isn't it. At the time away from
Speaker 2: home at Dye had with a Marvel rather by two points.
Speaker 2: Was it was a thrilling win. And then the Western
Speaker 2: Bulldogs at home. But other than that, that's their season.
Speaker 6: And they drew against Brisbane of course, and that was
Speaker 6: the other one.
Speaker 4: So that's it. Yeah, that's not that's all they got
Speaker 4: to hang their head on.
Speaker 5: It's not a great, you know, set of numbers. Hence
Speaker 5: why you finished fifteenth. I mean, ultimately that's what it is.
Speaker 4: Thanks Jordan, let's got a giant nord by guys.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's pretty It was pretty ordinary night. The guys
Speaker 9: like Joanes and borle Ace. They're not up to stand it.
Speaker 9: But you've got to be honest. Jones, how long has
Speaker 9: he been in and oupisode? No, I don't want to
Speaker 9: sound like I'm be negative, but that was very ordinary
Speaker 9: e for tonight and sign Walker up. What story he's
Speaker 9: going to use a lot we've all got to use
Speaker 9: by day in sport, you've got to be honest. He's
Speaker 9: not very honest if he's going to put his hand
Speaker 9: up and go again, look at his performance tonight. No,
Speaker 9: Chase no legs speed. At this level, you've got to
Speaker 9: have legs speed, and that's how we need him in
Speaker 9: the forward line.
Speaker 2: That nah, who is thirty five years of age going
Speaker 2: into next year in April.
Speaker 5: It's for me, you know, you go through If you're
Speaker 5: comparing the two teams tonight, and we're comparing the top
Speaker 5: of the tree at the moment to now, the class
Speaker 5: difference is for me at this point in time, now,
Speaker 5: whether those guys can take it to the next level.
Speaker 5: I mean, all these guys like Gordon and all those
Speaker 5: you know they took you know that he's played almost
Speaker 5: one hundred games. But if you're comparing Chase Jones, for example,
Speaker 5: now I think that's a little unfair tonight on the
Speaker 5: basis that he was a sub.
Speaker 6: So that's that's a pretty hard But.
Speaker 5: If you're comparing two players at ninety games apiece, Errol
Speaker 5: Gordon's clearly a step above what Chase in the same
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if they were in the same draft.
Speaker 6: Tuggers I can't remember. Might be able to chase it
Speaker 6: up quickly.
Speaker 3: But he's younger, yeah.
Speaker 5: Maybe, yeah, he may have played more foot. You're right, well,
Speaker 5: I think you're probably right. He's probably in a later
Speaker 5: draft on the back of that. But you sit there
Speaker 5: and you go, you know, that's the difference. That's what
Speaker 5: you're talking about. Chad Warner the same.
Speaker 2: Like he's Gordon's twenty two, he's younger than Jonesfield Thorpe's age.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah he was draft So you're sitting there going on,
Speaker 5: you know the class pick thirty two, Yeah, the class
Speaker 5: of Nick Blakey of halfback. That was I guess our
Speaker 5: Brodie Smith back in the day. Will you know on
Speaker 5: all Australian half back penetrating kickoff half back?
Speaker 6: Who's that now? Is it Nan Curvis? Is it Warrel
Speaker 6: is it? You know? Who is it? Off the back?
Speaker 4: Of that.
Speaker 3: Now, that's the thing Campo as well. I think a
Speaker 3: lot of fans go, well, it's young team and they're
Speaker 3: coming through. Well, you're all Goodin's twenty one, he's not
Speaker 3: going anywhere Chad Warner's twenty three. Like we often compare
Speaker 3: to port Adelaid because of the two team town thing.
Speaker 3: Oh they've got this young super midfield. Well, a lot
Speaker 3: of teams have got really young, gun talented players in
Speaker 3: the midfield. Hawthorne, Sydney, Hawthorne, You're well, you're coming from
Speaker 3: a long way back, so even after five.
Speaker 5: So the question is then will is it is it
Speaker 5: development or is it game style?
Speaker 3: Well? Can it?
Speaker 4: Can it be a combination? Like you said earlier?
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, I feel like it is because if you're
Speaker 5: picking players that don't suit your game style, you're in
Speaker 5: massive troubles.
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you a question on the other
Speaker 2: side of this break and we'll get back to your
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Speaker 4: Hey, there you going, good mate, mate.
Speaker 13: So the first thing I just wanted to stay is
Speaker 13: the young guys that we've got Billy. Billy is going
Speaker 13: to be a great player. I've brung up a couple
Speaker 13: of times and mentioned Rory. He's been an absolute soldier
Speaker 13: as we've discussed many times. But I think it's time
Speaker 13: to him to spend a bit more safe time. Obviously
Speaker 13: a few eerrors tonight that were one of them passed
Speaker 13: us a goal, and then there was obviously there's a
Speaker 13: few turnovers. Dan Curtain never to play Standford again. I
Speaker 13: think he's a definite player that will be a full
Speaker 13: ready next season and with another pre season under his belt,
Speaker 13: and I think he showed signs that he's ready to
Speaker 13: take that step, and with another preseason under his belt,
Speaker 13: I think midfield would be great for him. I just
Speaker 13: want to know what your thoughts are and that.
Speaker 4: What were Curtain's numbers tonight in him in front of yep?
Speaker 5: I do he had the ten disposals, had four marks,
Speaker 5: four contested positions, goal kicked, the goal, had force score involvements.
Speaker 6: So you know, as I said, he looked look better
Speaker 6: forward if you took a body of work.
Speaker 5: Once again, he's play a little a bit at half
Speaker 5: back early when he came in, he looked a little
Speaker 5: bit off at that point in time. I think that
Speaker 5: knee for me doesn't look right like I watched him
Speaker 5: in the warm up.
Speaker 6: Well you wouldn't have seen.
Speaker 5: It at the ground live, but he comes out in
Speaker 5: the warm up and look it's just his gate.
Speaker 6: Boy, it may well be.
Speaker 5: I mean, Riley O'Brien's got an interesting gate as well,
Speaker 5: so maybe that is the case.
Speaker 3: But good, he's a good talking point. I reckon if
Speaker 3: if you're critical of the way in which the club
Speaker 3: has in this this last five years, integrated high draft
Speaker 3: picks because he came in initially playing as a key defender,
Speaker 3: which felt odd. He hadn't played that way as a
Speaker 3: as a junior, as he said, he played half back
Speaker 3: mid yeh. Then he comes and starts playing a few
Speaker 3: center bouncers, plays as a sub repeatedly, very little exposure
Speaker 3: in game time, and then ends the season sort of
Speaker 3: playing as a third tall forward, sort of a general
Speaker 3: forward sort, which I think they found us. They certainly
Speaker 3: found a spot for him, but that felt like a
Speaker 3: I didn't feel like there was an overarching plan about
Speaker 3: how to get in involved, how to integrate him, and
Speaker 3: where to make him feel comfortable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he sort of got squeezed out of
Speaker 5: the back a bit, you know, with Warrel and Nan
Speaker 5: Curvis going on, and then Murray came back in, and
Speaker 5: then Keen obviously had been pretty good up until that stage,
Speaker 5: so he was sort of behind those guys. And so
Speaker 5: that's where I guess he went back and played mid
Speaker 5: at the Samfall level and started to get.
Speaker 6: His game going, and then they gave him.
Speaker 5: You know, played four minutes and you know, go through
Speaker 5: that scenario. But then he went forward, and even that
Speaker 5: game when he went forward and kicked two you know
Speaker 5: against the book, it.
Speaker 4: Was like it was junk time.
Speaker 5: Well, it was, and he had only had three possessions
Speaker 5: up until at a time he would have been the
Speaker 5: obvious one, but text got a poke in the eye
Speaker 5: and so he stayed on. So yeah, it's an interesting
Speaker 5: one because as a coach you's sitting in there, go wait.
Speaker 5: Players need continuity, they need to feel comfortable in their
Speaker 5: environment to perform. So we've sing that with Jakes Lego.
Speaker 5: I think he's a perfect example. He played wing play
Speaker 5: a little bit forward and then all of a sudden
Speaker 5: he got his opportunity and now he feels like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm at the level I understand the game and I
Speaker 5: can play to my strengths and that's that does take
Speaker 5: some time. And once again, when you're playing in a
Speaker 5: team that's fifteenth, it's difficult. It's difficult with your development
Speaker 5: because you're not playing clearly well enough to win games
Speaker 5: of footy and feel good and be on top of it
Speaker 5: and you get another layer of energy and sort of
Speaker 5: those things. So it's a tougher one. You look at
Speaker 5: the young players to say Geelong and Brisbane that get
Speaker 5: incorporated into their teams. As an example where even Sydney,
Speaker 5: you know, like Caden Cleary, he comes.
Speaker 3: In but sell six games and he's.
Speaker 5: Not expected to do you know, he's expected to learn
Speaker 5: his game, fit into the system, get some confidence, and
Speaker 5: then next year you'll see him explode.
Speaker 6: Did you see this kid go?
Speaker 5: And once again that comes back to a list management
Speaker 5: thing as well, like you know, and Adelaide sort of
Speaker 5: did tip out a fair few and slowly retired and
Speaker 5: Texas you know, on the way out. So there's there's
Speaker 5: reasons for But I think it's really important for clubs
Speaker 5: when you're introducing them they have clearly it'd be nice
Speaker 5: that you're in good form because they don't have to
Speaker 5: carry the load.
Speaker 6: You know, it can be.
Speaker 4: Hard, keep taking your calls. It's got a hectorvillehimax.
Speaker 14: Yeah, look, I think they should get Ken from Ingle
Speaker 14: Farm to me a motivational speaker really well, I mean yeah,
Speaker 14: I mean obviously I'm not a Crow supporter, I must admit,
Speaker 14: but I think their midfield is pretty wopal let's be honest,
Speaker 14: because they'll certainly have to start recruiting pretty well, won't they.
Speaker 14: I mean, I think, you know, maybe the Crows afl
Speaker 14: W might be better off. They're really struggling. I mean,
Speaker 14: but they're just you know, like it's getting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry man, grahams at Tennyson high Graham, Yeah.
Speaker 15: Good boys, Just a rumor I've heard on now it's
Speaker 15: totally a rumor. Taylor Walker has not signed up for
Speaker 15: the Crows. Thinks to you at this point that correct, So.
Speaker 4: At this point contract is not official known.
Speaker 15: Okay, apparently I've heard a rumor and I could be
Speaker 15: totally actually wrong. The poort adelaideur age. Shouldn't Taylor the
Speaker 15: walk for one year contract?
Speaker 4: I can't imagine Taylor. Someone's pulling your leg I reckon Graham.
Speaker 3: Well, they need a bit of helping the forward line.
Speaker 3: You know, it's pretty thin up there outside it.
Speaker 5: Georgiady's well, I'm not sure they're going to I mean,
Speaker 5: once again, if you talk about and his text going
Speaker 5: across the.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure they're going.
Speaker 5: To play text in front of Olli Laud and those
Speaker 5: guys moving forward in terms of their list, demographic, moving
Speaker 5: them forward.
Speaker 6: Once again, we're talking about what Hawthorne did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Taylor Walker, as good as he is, that would
Speaker 5: be an interesting show.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't it. That'd be a great storyline.
Speaker 2: Good you imagine so camp, maybe we go around the
Speaker 2: table with this So with no contract officially signed at
Speaker 2: this point that we know of at least, and the
Speaker 2: Crows have left it clearly till postseason to make this
Speaker 2: decision or at least make an announcement if nothing has
Speaker 2: been signed at this point, are you signing Taylor Walker
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: After tonight's performance, I'm sitting there going is he physically
Speaker 5: able to get for another preseason and play at what
Speaker 5: the game asks you to play at? You know, so
Speaker 5: that that worried. That worries me a little bit. From
Speaker 5: a leadership person around the footy club.
Speaker 6: I think he helps Foggity. I think he helps Phil Thorpe.
Speaker 6: I think he helps Glant. I think he helps those guys.
Speaker 3: And not just forwards.
Speaker 5: I think he knowing Taylor Water very well, He's a
Speaker 5: wonderful leader internally Monday to game day and what he's
Speaker 5: been able to do over his career is do that
Speaker 5: and perform on the weekend. Now the question is he's
Speaker 5: clearly going to get a clip in terms of his money,
Speaker 5: but I don't think that's important to text and.
Speaker 3: There's no salary cap pressure with the adeot Football clumber.
Speaker 5: And ultimately, at the end of the day, it's what
Speaker 5: does Taylor want to do, because I think that's really
Speaker 5: important because he has to be totally engaged, because it's
Speaker 5: not easy, like the life of an a for football
Speaker 5: is not easy.
Speaker 4: He said publicly he wants to play on next year.
Speaker 6: So I would imagine that that would be the case. Now,
Speaker 6: there'd be a couple of waivers to that.
Speaker 5: In terms of you need to make sure that you're
Speaker 5: at the level you know, and there's GPS, there's those
Speaker 5: sort of things measures around that, and it might be
Speaker 5: that he plays a certain amounting.
Speaker 4: So you think the good outweighs the bad, you'd sign
Speaker 4: him next for next year?
Speaker 3: I would, yes, okay, well, I would sign him on
Speaker 3: two provido two provisos. One, he is if fit, prepared
Speaker 3: to play a lot of sampful football.
Speaker 4: I agree with you completely.
Speaker 3: Now if you look at him and I say, text
Speaker 3: is the roality of the situation, mate, If you can
Speaker 3: be a mentor, but you can know you might play
Speaker 3: fifty percent of the season the sandful, and he says,
Speaker 3: I'm up for it, I signed him. The second proviso
Speaker 3: is the coach as the minerals to look a fully
Speaker 3: fit Taylor walk in the eyes say, mate, you're playing sandful.
Speaker 3: If both of those things can be satisfied, I'd sign
Speaker 3: him because I think to Campo's point, the guy's a
Speaker 3: legend of the club. His leadership is well established. That's
Speaker 3: an asset.
Speaker 2: Still, I think can you deserve the right I think
Speaker 2: at this point, if you're Taylor Walker to be sent
Speaker 2: off the right way and treated the right way by
Speaker 2: foota club, I agree with you, Will. I would suggest
Speaker 2: that they were to sign him, they'd.
Speaker 4: Play him the twos. But if they were to.
Speaker 2: I think at this point Darcy Foggerty and Riley Thilford
Speaker 2: quite clearly in the back half of this year proven
Speaker 2: that they are ready to own this forward line of
Speaker 2: the other football club going forward.
Speaker 4: They don't need text there anymore.
Speaker 6: It's good, it's a it's a really good question, Will,
Speaker 6: because I hadn't probably thought about that.
Speaker 5: You know, when you say the ten or twelve games,
Speaker 5: there's clearly what happens after that.
Speaker 6: Does he not play or does he play?
Speaker 5: Sample It's a good it's a really good question because
Speaker 5: I mean everyone's got an ego to a certain extent,
Speaker 5: is that the way he wants to finish his career.
Speaker 3: I think it has to be Look, you know, because
Speaker 3: he can't end his career like what we just saw.
Speaker 4: That's right, he's lasting that. No one knew what was
Speaker 4: going on. You can't end that.
Speaker 3: You think fans are unhappy now and he don't want
Speaker 3: and that's it's one of my I actually don't lie,
Speaker 3: you know, when you're getting to that end.
Speaker 5: You know, I went through with a great made of
Speaker 5: mine who I loved coaching Scott Thompson. He fell off
Speaker 5: very quickly, you know, and it broke my heart not
Speaker 5: to play him in two seventeen in the Grand Vinal.
Speaker 6: He didn't play.
Speaker 5: Because he he's an absolute warrior for that footy club.
Speaker 5: He could not have asked a better person, a better
Speaker 5: mentor player that gave you absolutely everything on the weekend,
Speaker 5: great role model during the week as a coach, you
Speaker 5: could go to him get honest feedback. There was no
Speaker 5: you know, it was black and white. But in the
Speaker 5: end it was Tommy think the game's just gone.
Speaker 4: Past him the end.
Speaker 5: And as much as he used to argue, you know,
Speaker 5: he used to be my tom like have a look
Speaker 5: at have a look like, this is not me, It's
Speaker 5: not I'm not trying to retire you but look at this,
Speaker 5: you know, and that's the hardest part of your coaching it.
Speaker 5: Then you know, you get great excitement from developing players
Speaker 5: and that's the bit I miss.
Speaker 6: You develop these young players and you see.
Speaker 5: Him progress through to become great two hundred game players
Speaker 5: of your footay club. Rory saw perfect example, you know,
Speaker 5: like you see those guys, but then when it comes
Speaker 5: to the end of there gone, you know, even with
Speaker 5: slowin he's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: Mate?
Speaker 6: Like your eye like you've got the rest of your life.
Speaker 5: But when you're so invested and those guys have got
Speaker 5: to a certain.
Speaker 6: Peak and they love the club and they want it
Speaker 6: to they don't want.
Speaker 4: To leave it the way it is.
Speaker 6: They want to leave the legacy when it comes to that.
Speaker 6: So it's a bloody tough conversation to have.
Speaker 4: Thank you for the insight on that.
Speaker 2: That is the real side of football, isn't it that
Speaker 2: we don't see I suppose as supporters a lot of
Speaker 2: the time and media we are just about out of
Speaker 2: time tonight, So thank you so much for your calls.
Speaker 2: We'll continue with the Sunday Roast tomorrow when the Drive
Speaker 2: Show and the Bricky Show of course during the week.
Speaker 4: But we have to get to our awards for the
Speaker 4: last time.
Speaker 3: You've forgot the awards.
Speaker 2: No, no, I just wanted to think profession because there's
Speaker 2: a lot of our callers I wish that wanted to
Speaker 2: get on there tonight and just haven't been able to
Speaker 2: get on to We have it under control, so let's
Speaker 2: get to our injury report. Nothing to report here for
Speaker 2: Calver Audelaide emergency ed tonight?
Speaker 6: Well was what was warrior?
Speaker 3: Was he subbed out? I don't believe was so.
Speaker 6: I hadn't seen anything that says that he was. You
Speaker 6: would have thought that was.
Speaker 3: An injury or that Crows tweeted tactical.
Speaker 4: That's the official that was that was him.
Speaker 6: He was the only concern.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was goal of the day thanks to Beechwood Homes,
Speaker 2: the real custom home builders.
Speaker 5: Well, they weren't spectacular to be but I went purely
Speaker 5: on way to numbers.
Speaker 6: This is my easy app I.
Speaker 5: Went Riley Phil for I thought he was the most
Speaker 5: dangerous and I love you know, he could have had
Speaker 5: a night out in a not a great performance.
Speaker 6: In the end, he probably should end up with five.
Speaker 4: I wonder if he wins in the game. Real estate
Speaker 4: market the night as well as it a few of them, well.
Speaker 6: He did, but I went, I went sideways. I went
Speaker 6: Riley O'Brien.
Speaker 5: I thought that contested late the game, we've always has
Speaker 5: had a great year in that part of his game.
Speaker 5: His rockwork, I think has been pretty good. And I
Speaker 5: thought he had a really good battle with Grundy to
Speaker 5: be honest, over the night, So I gave it to him.
Speaker 2: If you're selling the advisory of the game again in
Speaker 2: real estate now for unique home style foods our match
Speaker 2: winner of the night, you're three two one Campo.
Speaker 6: Well, it was tough. I ended up going one vote.
Speaker 6: Jake Saliga. I thought he his back half was pretty good.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you have a look at you had twenty.
Speaker 5: Five, had eight ground balls, eight contested possessions and eight
Speaker 5: score involvements, which is the highest on the ground. So
Speaker 5: pretty hard to go past that, you know, from that perspective.
Speaker 5: Two votes. I gave this Captain Jordan Dawson. I thought
Speaker 5: he'd tried his title off. I mean, he had a
Speaker 5: bad one in the end there, but he plays midfield,
Speaker 5: he plays forward, he plays back, He got tagged and
Speaker 5: still had an influence on the game and three votes
Speaker 5: I gave Riley Philthorpe. I thought that was a nice
Speaker 5: way to finish the game. I mean he was I
Speaker 5: thought he was great. Sixteen disposals, he had eight marks,
Speaker 5: seven of those were inside.
Speaker 6: Fifty, which is what you can what we're looking for him,
Speaker 6: and nine score involvements. So he was probably the most influential.
Speaker 3: When your head hits the pillow tonight as a Crow's
Speaker 3: fan and you want something nice to think about, you
Speaker 3: just think about Riley Philthorpe finished the season getting being
Speaker 3: best on ground and I get to watch him for
Speaker 3: the next ten years. Yeah, that's something to be exciting.
Speaker 2: Remember the start of the year and we thought he
Speaker 2: was going to change everything about the Crow season. Then
Speaker 2: we lost him. Well that's what you get to see
Speaker 2: hopefully next year from round one. That's certainly a positive.
Speaker 2: The Crow season ends in fifteenth eight wins, fourteen losses,
Speaker 2: one draw. That is it for twenty twenty four for
Speaker 2: the Adelaide Football Club. Mario calls during the week on
Speaker 2: this topic, thank you so much for joining us this evening.
Speaker 2: It's the Sidney Swans who took it out of the
Speaker 2: SCG by thirty one points, one hundred and twenty one
Speaker 2: to ninety will take you out. Andrew Reimer to join
Speaker 2: your next on five double.
Speaker 3: A dribbles it towards Walker who delayed the head order curtain.
Speaker 6: Who's going to run in and jickies first without the.
Speaker 2: Evening as Blakie Young contested to go straight to him.
Speaker 2: He skipped your lad out, put it through. He should
Speaker 2: he looks for the goals. He pins him back and
Speaker 2: he does Campo nostra to NuBus.
Speaker 4: Blake.
Speaker 2: Hee's got himself a goal, cutting him up through the
Speaker 2: middle and as a mark fifty out from goal Campbell
Speaker 2: he's got a loose man and the goal spore to
Speaker 2: be marked and it'll go straight through and it's man
Speaker 2: McDonald who has had a dirty nine. Gets a little
Speaker 2: bit of polish on it. Dawson can anble four now
Speaker 2: for Zach Taylor, who just tucks it under the wing,
Speaker 2: charges to thirty, kicks a goal.
Speaker 4: And nails it.
Speaker 3: So Blake he'll just open up the angle and make
Speaker 3: magnificent contact.
Speaker 2: He's kicked he second, he's pretty straight, but kick looks
Speaker 2: like it has the journey. He hasn't got the accuracy
Speaker 2: Eyn does. It's in the row Sea and that's a goal.
Speaker 4: Taylor Walker with his second goal tonight.
Speaker 3: So Zach Taylor will drive it straight through the middle.
Speaker 3: The youngster hees tick two in this game.
Speaker 2: She'll be able to nail this one. McDonald and does.
Speaker 2: That's his bread and butter. He's got three on the
Speaker 2: evening for Sydney. They finally register one after three quarter time.
Speaker 2: Walks in off the fence line. He's thirty meters.
Speaker 4: Out in the tough angle on the pocket. That'll be
Speaker 4: a great goal.
Speaker 2: It sneaks in, brilliant goal to Zach Taylor directly in front.
Speaker 3: He made great contact, He's kicked the goal. It's third
Speaker 3: world un Riley filter.
Speaker 2: It started with so much expectation and excitement and has
Speaker 2: ended with so much dissatisfaction and disappointment. The Swans will
Speaker 2: go into finals with a thirty one point win at
Speaker 2: home and the Crows will lick their wounds with a long,
Speaker 2: long offseason.
Speaker 4: It's fine.
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