Crows start tough run; farewell to a tough Dog; Tigers' thoughts turn ugly; Dustin Fletcher and the entire population of Australia
No home side is under greater pressure this week than ninth-placed Adelaide, who face Hawthorn in the lead-in to a number of tricky late-season assignments. That run towards September includes away missions against Collingwood, Brisbane (yes, Im calling that a curly one for the Crows) and North Melbourne, plus home games against West Coast, Richmond and St Kilda. The last of those fixtures is the only real certainty for the patchy Crows, so they will need to win games in which theyre a 50-50 proposition or worse. Against the Hawks, theyre far worse than a 50-50 proposition.
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No home side is under greater pressure this week than ninth-placed Adelaide, who face Hawthorn in the lead-in to a number of tricky late-season assignments. That run towards September includes away missions against Collingwood, Brisbane (yes, Im calling that a curly one for the Crows) and North Melbourne, plus home games against West Coast, Richmond and St Kilda. The last of those fixtures is the only real certainty for the patchy Crows, so they will need to win games in which theyre a 50-50 proposition or worse. Against the Hawks, theyre far worse than a 50-50 proposition.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 7 hours ago.