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

[Ludwig]

We were outplayed for large periods of the game. We looked great in the 1st qtr, but faded out. It was a great victory against some atrocious umpiring. The karma bus helped us by their poor goal kicking.

Winning the game means less than what we learned from the game. The main points I take from it are that Towers, Hayward and Sinclair are not suitable for finals football. Newman and Aliir are the 2 obvious inclusions, but I'm not sure about the 3rd. Maybe Cunningham will be ready.

[S.S. Bleeder]

Fair dinkum, how good is our club?

After Round 4, I was hoping to fall into the eight by season's end.
After Round 5, I was hoping to pick up a few wins along the way.
After Round 6, I was hoping to avoid the wooden spoon.

Now, we're finals bound AGAIN! And we beat the top side AND the umps on their own turf to make a certainty of it.

LOVE. THIS. CLUB!

Go the mighty Bloods!!!!!!

I'll confess I'm one of those who suggested we should start tanking after the loss to Scumthorn. The effort by the club since then has been one for the record books. It's why I love this club; we have an integrity that can't be compared to any other club, our management structure is faultless and we have the AFL community against us.

[Auntie.Gerald]

14-28 free kicks
Hmmmmm

[mcs]

The free kick count 28/14 their way. You can't tell me that wasn't home town decision time. Mind you they get their own umpires unlike us. I still thought that buoyed by the umpiring they looked better. We were, after quarter time, just trying to manage the damage. We didn't look convincing. If we meet them or GWS in the finals it will be an exit.

It was very hard for us to get any momentum when we could get absolutely no reward for effort and the crows got an almighty hand up whenever required. We did amazingly well to hold on - just immense effort from the back 6.

With even umpiring it would of been a very different story tonight.

What frustrates me is the only comments we will hear about the.umpiring is the 50 call against bwuce's baby... which looked spot on to me.

[dimelb]

Adelaide were better in moving the ball - except when it came to a kick for goal.

We were better when we harassed and tackled as well as we are taught to do. The defence tonight really earned their money and the mids worked hard, while the forwards on the whole made the most of their chances.

As we said to Hawthorn fans after the 2012 GF, goal kicking is an important part of the game!

And I generally don't like bellyaching about umpires but that performance tonight needs to be looked at.

[stevoswan]

The free kick count 28/14 their way. You can't tell me that wasn't home town decision time. Mind you they get their own umpires unlike us. I still thought that buoyed by the umpiring they looked better. We were, after quarter time, just trying to manage the damage. We didn't look convincing. If we meet them or GWS in the finals it will be an exit.

Wow, bring the vibe down! If we are umpired fairly, we'll beat either of them!

[S.S. Bleeder]

And in a nice wrapup from Bruce etc: "never mind the free kick count, the real controversy was the 50m penalty against Eddie".

Yep. They were robbed.

LOL. My jaw dropped when he said that.

[Nico]

10 players under 10 stats.

[MattW]

We were outplayed for large periods of the game. We looked great in the 1st qtr, but faded out. It was a great victory against some atrocious umpiring. The karma bus helped us by their poor goal kicking.

Winning the game means less than what we learned from the game. The main points I take from it are that Towers, Hayward and Sinclair are not suitable for finals football. Newman and Aliir are the 2 obvious inclusions, but I'm not sure about the 3rd. Maybe Cunningham will be ready.

I've supported Hayward's selection all year, but agree with that. Newman for Towers (reckon that dropped chest mark late sealed it), Cunningham for Hayward. Realistically, it'll be Naismith for Sinclair (not Aliir), but only if he's fit enough next week

[Thunder Shaker]

Six of our players did not concede free kicks: Kennedy (31 disposals), Hannebery (28), Mills (14), Smith (10), Towers (6) and Hayward (6).

Nine Crows conceded free kicks.

From the match report on the AFL website:
"The topic of home-town umpiring will again be in the news after the Crows finished the game with 28 free kicks to 14.

Several of those went against Heeney in his over-zealous attempts to keep Sloane quiet."

[stevoswan]

This pic says it all......PAPLEY_ADELvSYD_2017.jpg

[ASSASSIN]

From choke to win in 30 mins. Woohoo

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[Nico]

Parkers last 5 minutes were fantastic.

[S.S. Bleeder]

How was that goal from Buddy? Almost identical to what he did several years ago against Hooker except that he's older and stuffed up a bounce. I think it's a better goal.

[annew]

It was very hard for us to get any momentum when we could get absolutely no reward for effort and the crows got an almighty hand up whenever required. We did amazingly well to hold on - just immense effort from the back 6.

With even umpiring it would of been a very different story tonight.

What frustrates me is the only comments we will hear about the.umpiring is the 50 call against bwuce's baby... which looked spot on to me.

Except thee will never be even umpiring not even in the GF