Put delicately, Adelaide Crows are rebuilding. Put bluntly, they are a club in crisis, and it’s anyone’s guess how far they will plummet before turning the corner
At half-time of the 2017 AFL grand final Richmond led Adelaide by nine points but it might as well have been 900. The Tigers looked at an opponent unravelling and knew the premiership trophy was theirs for the taking. “They’re squabbling, they’re arguing, they’ve lost their connection,” Richmond players conferred, before resurfacing for the second half and pounding the Crows into the MCG turf. Almost three years have passed, and the connection at the Adelaide Football Club is still nowhere to be found.
Put delicately, the Crows are rebuilding. Put bluntly, they are a club in crisis. Either way, the rest of the competition is observing the erosion of an institution as one might watch a Donald Trump news conference: unsure whether to laugh or cry, but certain that you feel pity. It’s said you have to go there to come back, but on the evidence of Sunday’s soulless loss to Fremantle it’s anyone’s guess how far the Crows will plummet before turning the corner.
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