Honestly we had the chance to stop Collingwood’s momentum there after McRae made a number of changes and started out coaching Nicks yet again, but Maley who everyone knows sucks makes an inexplicable error leading to a goal. Shades of ROB against Freo.

Edit: any chance we can turn this downvotes to upvotes guys?

Holy shit the commentary is disgusting. The booing is disgusting.

"Who cares if it's in or out. Collingwood have kicked a goal, move on". What the fuck is that.

It was disgraceful then and it's disgraceful now. My expectations were already low but I held out hope. What a stain on our club, and I do hold the club accountable for doing nothing about it at the time.

I’ve been gifted this ball and I’m trying to place a year on it based of the signatures. Some are obvious like Bickley’s but some I have no idea about. Can anyone help?

Anyone else feeling a slight (measured) pang of excitement about September? I am, but I don’t want to jinx things however this is what I’m hoping goes down:

Starting tomorrow night, statement game win, >6 goals on an ascendant Collingwood. We finish the season 2nd/4th and then it’s on.

That’s my call, what’s yours with five rounds to go?

Well golly gee gosh, you'd never have picked this out. One Victorian team in the top 7.

Thoughts? I reckon it’s probably the way they’ll go. Notable players missing out are Cumming, Taylor, Butts and T Murray.

I think Nankervis, Cumming and Taylor are all vying for the same spot. Nankervis has been in ripping form and is probably a bit more versatile at the moment compared to the others. But I don’t think I’d mind either way.

T Murray might be a horses for courses selection with Tex depending on who they are playing.

Butts is still coming back from injury but I’m getting the feeling he might have been benched by the club with the knowledge that he’s leaving end of this year anyway.

Really gutted for him.

Adelaide forward Darcy Fogarty will miss the next three weeks after his three-game ban for striking was upheld by the AFL Tribunal.

Fogarty was charged with striking Sydney Swans defender Harry Cunningham in the second quarter of Friday night’s game at the SCG.

The incident was graded careless conduct, severe impact and high contact.

Fogarty and his legal counsel, Nicholas Baum, argued the incident was a genuine attempt at a tackle that unfortunately made high contact.

“There was certainly no malice from Darcy in that moment and what we considered a tackling attempt unfortunately caused injury to Harry,” Adelaide Executive General Manager Football Adam Kelly said.

“We will not be pursuing this further.”

Anyone else notice in the last 5-6 weeks (except the showdown obv) how much his defensive running and support has improved, his class going both ways against Sydney was unreal. Winning the ball in the defensive half and hitting tough kicks to create great opportunities, of course his clutch tackle on Heeney. Then also when we are attacking his crumbing is just about the best in the league. I pray his body holds up as a Mid because I think he is improving out of sight!

Adelaide will challenge the Match Review Officer’s decision to hand key forward Darcy Fogarty a three-match ban.

Fogarty was cited for striking Sydney’s Harry Cunningham during the second quarter of the Crows’ clash against the Swans at the SCG on Friday night.

The MRO graded the incident as careless conduct, severe impact and high contact, resulting in Fogarty being offered a three-match ban.

The date and timing of the hearing will be determined shortly.

I've just started to think about this game and I'm getting similar vibes to the Port game. We have a pretty big rivallry with Collingwood now and I sense they will be treating this like their Grand Final. Hopefully I'm wrong...

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It took so long to get to this point that the narrative seemed to be around the club just needing somewhere. But now it is about to be operational, will this take the club to a new level in terms of performance, player attraction/retention, supporter engagement and financial status - Ultimately leading to premierships?