Match Day Thread Rnd 22 Adelaide V Sydney. Adelaide Oval 19.50 pm. Or 19.20 ACST.

[liz]

Definitely have to get Heeney off Sloane. We need him to be making play.

3 quick goals to them and Betts having a shot. Phew he missed. (His goal earlier should have been in the back but he got away with it yet again).

We are fumbling heaps now. Can't handle the pressure. It started with Hayward and has spread to the others.

We need halftime to come!

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Yes, yes, yes and thankfully it's come.

The Betts goal was a replay of the winning goal he kicked against us in round 1 or 2 last season. Not a push but a clear hand in the back.

And yes, all our players are starting to fumble now.

On the positive side, we expended a lot of energy with our pressure in the first quarter but the Crows would have done the same in the second. Their pressure was superb in that quarter but the game is going to ebb and flow plenty more times yet tonight.

I really had no idea whether the team could match it with the Crows given they're a class above anything we've played recently (noting that the Giants and Cats were significantly weakened). They've shown that they deserve to be on the same page as the Crows in discussions about contenders, which is encouraging regardless of whether we get the four points tonight or not.

[Industrial Fan]

Fumbles and poor decisions from Hayward have cost us a couple of goals.

Need a better contest from him.

[Blue Sun]

We're winning the centre clearances for once! But they're smashing us in the free kicks, wonder what we can do about that?

It's blatant now, the AFL wants the Crows to win.

[Nico]

Hewitt to Sloane and Heeney set free......and the umpires take a good hard look at themselves! Free kick count 14-5.....WTF?

Grundy in the back, Jones high and Hewett in a sleeper hold all in the last couple of minutes.

[Foreign Legion]

Heeney forward - Hewitt on to Sloane. We are still in front - the umps may even up in the last half

[dejavoodoo44]

Starting to be reminded of some of the battles that we had in WA, against the Eagles in the mid-noughties. High pressure scrapping throughout the night, while being flogged in the free kick count, yet we would usually win the close ones.

[Billericay]

Worried Crows are going to run away with this

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Tippett about as mobile as a telephone box

[ASSASSIN]

Biggest choke ever

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[bloodbrother]

any chance of us ever getting a free for incorrect disposal ,they can do whatver they like..hed to mute sound sick of mcavaney gushing over the crows

[Daisi]

Yes I think we're going to get done...Not a choke.... just a coalition of umpires and playing a good team...So get on Sloane for the Brownlow...he's an umpire's pet...

[stevoswan]

Still early days but it looks like we just can't keep it going for the full game......struggling a bit. Some key moments in the second quarter (young Will) were pivotal to the momentum shift...... and then there was Buddy...

[Blue Sun]

18-5 free kicks. Beyond a joke now. 2016 GF all over again.

#armchairride

[Billericay]

Buddy!

[S.S. Bleeder]

Beautiful by Buddy. Even had a bad bounce.

[Billericay]

Sloane has his arm around Heeney's neck but not high