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2018 Adelaide Crows Pre-season Camp
The 2018 Adelaide Crows pre-season camp was a summer camp undertaken by players of the Adelaide Football Club from January 29 to February 2 in the lead-up to the 2018 AFL season. Run by Collective Mind, a consultancy group based in Queensland, the camp was designed to strengthen the mental toughness of the players, a lack of which was blamed by Adelaide's Head of Football Brett Burton and coach Don Pyke for their loss in the 2017 AFL Grand Final. According to some reports, the camp was "cult-like", and ultimately caused the departure of many senior officials, including both Burton and Pyke. It was said to have had the opposite of its intended team building effect, and contributed to a rapid deterioration in Adelaide's onfield form. Information on the events of the camp was limited until a July 2020 article by journalist Sam McClure, who obtained details from various former Adelaide players. In February 2022, Nine Entertainment retracted McClure's July 2020 article and other cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Football Club
The Adelaide Crows (officially the Adelaide Football Club) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1990. The Crows has fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1991, and a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition since 2017. The club's offices and training facilities are located in the western Adelaide suburb of West Lakes, at the site of the club's former home ground Football Park. Since 2014 Adelaide have played home matches at the Adelaide Oval, a 53,500-seat stadium located a few hundred metres north of the Adelaide CBD. The Crows were formed in 1990 as the de facto state team representing South Australia in the AFL. They were originally owned by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), though they gained administrative independence in 2014. They played their first season in 1991 and finished in 9th place, the highest ranking of any expansion club in the AFL in a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Crouch (footballer)
Matt Crouch (born 21 April 1995) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by the Adelaide Football Club with pick 23 in the 2013 national draft. He is the younger brother and former teammate of Brad Crouch. AFL career Crouch made his AFL debut for the Crows in round 3 of the 2014 season, collecting 18 disposals in a heavy loss to . Crouch earned a nomination for the AFL Rising Star after having 28 disposals to three quarter time against , at which point he was substituted out of the game. In total Crouch played eight matches in his first year in the AFL, and averaged 33 possessions and 8 clearances in ten matches for Adelaide's reserves side, polling 12 votes in the Magarey Medal. Crouch had an interrupted 2015 pre-season due to an ankle injury suffered just prior to Christmas. He recovered to have a breakout year, playing 17 games including Adelaide's two finals and avera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald Sun
The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun'' primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and New South Wales South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday. The ''Herald Sun'' newspaper is the product of a merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid paper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' and the afternoon broadsheet paper '' The Herald''. It was first pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tipi
A tipi , often called a lodge in English, is a conical tent, historically made of animal hides or pelts, and in more recent generations of canvas, stretched on a framework of wooden poles. The word is Siouan languages, Siouan, and in use in Dakota language, Dakhótiyapi, Lakota language, Lakȟótiyapi, and as a loanword in US and Canadian English, where it is sometimes spelled phonetically as ''teepee'' and ''tepee'' (also pronounced ). Historically, the tipi has been used by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the Plains Indians, Plains in the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies of North America, notably Oceti Sakowin, the seven tribes of the Sioux, as well as among the Iowa people, the Otoe and Pawnee people, Pawnee, and among the Piegan Blackfeet, Blackfeet, Crow Nation, Crow, Assiniboines, Arapaho, and Plains Cree people, Plains Cree.Lewis H. Morgan, "I have seen it in use among seven or eight Dakota sub-tribes, among the Iowas, Otoes, and Pawnees, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brodie Smith (footballer)
Brodie Smith (born 14 January 1992) is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Smith participated in the Auskick program at West Lakes, South Australia. He played senior football for the Henley Football Club in the SAAFL and Woodville West Torrens Football Club in the South Australia National Football League. Smith was Adelaide's first selection in the 2010 National Draft at pick 14 overall. AFL career Smith made his debut in round 1 of his very first season, 2011, against . He played 14 games in his first season and showed plenty of maturity for a first-year player, averaging 13 disposals per game. He played 22 games including three finals in 2012 as a running defender, shutting down opposition forwards such as Steve Johnson and providing run off half-back, also becoming noted for kicking goals from long range. Despite fracturing his collarbone in the 2013 pre-season, Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Seedsman
Paul Seedsman (born 22 January 1992) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited by in the 2010 national draft, with pick 76, and traded to Adelaide at the end of the 2015 season. Seedsman grew up supporting Collingwood; his great-grandfather, Jim Sharp, played for and Collingwood, and was president of Collingwood for 12 years. Pre-AFL career Seedsman attended Heany Park Primary School and Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne and played junior football for the Rowville Football Club. AFL career Collingwood (2011–2015) After playing out 2011 in Collingwood's VFL side, averaging 17 disposals, Seedsman made his debut in round 1 of the 2012 season, against . He established himself in the team in 2013, playing 17 matches and averaging 18.9 disposals as a rebounding defender capable of pushing onto the wing and forward. During the same season, he was also at the heart of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtly Hampton
Curtly Hampton (born 10 March 1993) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was originally recruited by incoming AFL club with one of their Northern Territory zone selections in 2010. He was traded to Adelaide at the end of 2015, after 51 matches in four AFL seasons for Greater Western Sydney. Hampton is originally from Alice Springs, and is the son of former politician Karl Hampton. AFL career Greater Western Sydney (2012–2015) Hampton was one of the first players to be recruited by the Giants, using one of their Northern Territory zone selections in 2010. He had captained the Australian Institute of Sport academy team and was likened to former star Andrew McLeod. In February 2011, Hampton had the distinction of kicking Greater Western Sydney's first ever goal, in a match against an AFL Sydney under 21s side. Hampton made his AFL debut in Greater Western Sydney's firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch McGovern
Mitchell McGovern (born 11 October 1994) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted with the forty-third selection in the 2014 national draft by the Adelaide Football Club from West Australian Football League (WAFL) club Claremont. AFL career In 2015, McGovern's first season at AFL level was interrupted by injuries, but he showed promise in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), kicking 15 goals in 11 games for Adelaide's reserves side. He made his AFL debut in round 1, 2016 against North Melbourne. During the last quarter of the Round 3 Showdown in 2017, McGovern injured his hamstring and had to leave the ground for the rest of the match. In Round 19 2017, McGovern took a large pack mark with approximately two seconds left in the last quarter and goaled after the final siren to draw with despite his team at one stage being 50 points down during the match. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Talia
Daniel Talia (born 2 October 1991) is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted with selection 13 in the 2009 National Draft from the Calder Cannons. In 2012 he won the AFL Rising Star award as the best young player in the league. Talia is the great-grandson of former player Arthur Stevens, and the grandson of Harvey Stevens who played in Footscray's 1954 VFL Grand Final victory. His younger brother, Michael Talia, played for the before being traded to the Sydney Swans after the 2015 season. Pre-AFL career Talia played junior football for Greenvale and Assumption College in Kilmore, which boasts a strong football history. He played centre-half forward for the Calder Cannons and in defence for Victoria Metro in the 2009 AFL Under-18 Championships, for which he was selected in the U18 All-Australian team. He missed the second half of the 2009 season due to a ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory Sloane
Rory Sloane (born 17 March 1990) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Sloane is a dual Malcolm Blight Medallist and was selected in the All-Australian team in 2016. He also won a Showdown Medal in 2017. Sloane served as Adelaide co-captain in 2019, and has served as the sole captain since the 2020 season. Early life Originally from Victoria, Sloane was first part of TAC Cup side Eastern Ranges under-18 side when he was only 16, and went on to captain Eastern Ranges in 2008. He was drafted by Adelaide with pick 44 in the 2008 AFL draft. Growing up, Sloane supported the St Kilda Football Club. AFL career Sloane strained a medial ligament in his knee prior to the start of the 2009 season but upon returning quickly forced his way into the seniors in the SANFL and showed strong form, prompting Adelaide coach Neil Craig to comment, "He'll be an exciting player for us in the future…our sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Lynch (Australian Footballer, Born 1990)
Thomas Lynch (born 15 September 1990) is a former professional Australian rules football player who last played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having previously played for and . He was recruited by from Sandringham Dragons Under 18 TAC Cup team with pick 13 in the 2008 National Draft. Lynch who had not played a game for North Melbourne since signing with the club prior to the 2022 season announced his retirement from North Melbourne on 31 May 2022 to make space for the mid season draft. He played a 158 games at senior level predominantly for the Adelaide Crows where he played. Prior to that he had played six senior games for St Kilda. Lynch was then traded to Adelaide following the 2011 season. AFL career St Kilda (2009–2011) St Kilda's first pick in the 2008 draft, Lynch did not play senior football in 2009. He made his AFL debut in round 18 of the 2010 season against . He had five disposals and was dropped for the follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Jenkins
Joshua Jenkins (born 8 February 1989) is a former professional Australian rules footballer. He last played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Adelaide Football Club from 2012 to 2019 and was on the Essendon Football Club's list in 2011 without playing a senior game. Basketball career As a junior Jenkins mainly played basketball and was a development player with the Townsville Crocodiles in the Australian National Basketball League (Australasia), National Basketball League. He had previously played with the Townsville Heat and Mackay Meteors in the QABL, a second tier league within Australia. As a shooting guard, he attended Townsville State High School and led the team to 7th place at the State titles. In 2007 he toured the United States with the Australian junior team. AFL career Essendon (2011) In 2010 he was invited to attend a training camp for the Australian rules football expansion team, , after switching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
