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News.com.au
24-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Adelaide v West Coast AFL Round 11: Live updates, SuperCoach scores, teams
Adelaide returns to home comforts to take on West Coast, a game in which the Crows' faithful will be expecting a win on Sunday. And with good reason, because once again the Crows are a much stronger side at Adelaide Oval than it is on the road. Matthew Nicks' squad lost no fans in their 10-point loss to Collingwood at the MCG last week, but it did not do anything to dispel one of the big knocks on the Crows in recent years – they struggle away. Through the first 10 games of 2025, the Crows are 1-3, with the sole win a convincing one over Essendon at the MCG. Last year it was 3-7 with wins over Carlton, North Melbourne and the Bombers outside of Adelaide, while in 2023 it was 2-8 with wins over Hawthorn and the Eagles. Defender Mitch Hinge said he did not think the travel was contributing to the close losses away from home, including by one point to Gold Coast in round 4. 'It is probably a funny one, we look at this year and we had that really close one against Gold Coast and we see the quality of opposition they are at the moment so that's one we would have loved to steal,' he said. 'On the weekend you look at Collingwood, who are such a good side. 'Trends exist but I don't look too far back with how our form has been on the road.' But for some Crows, the drop-off in form out of South Australia compared to games at Adelaide Oval is becoming stark. Max Michalanney's discrepancy between home and away Champion Data rating points is 47 per cent, Alex Neal-Bullen and Mark Keane's is 30 per cent. Isaac Cumming's rating points for away games is 28 per cent less than his ones at home, Josh Rachele 27 per cent and Rory Laird 20 per cent. For the Crows to end their finals drought, they will be hoping these discrepancies are shortened in their away games to come. After the Eagles on Sunday, the Crows take on Sydney at the SCG where they haven't won since 2019. Other away games to come include Hawthorn in Launceston, Richmond at the MCG, the Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium, the Eagles at Optus Stadium and North Melbourne at Marvel. The Crows have a good opportunity to change the perception around them. 'I think we are a different side,' Hinge said. 'We are looking to win more games and I think we are in the spot to win these games, whether or not it is the away stuff I am not too sure. 'It is something we talk about, Nicksy is big on us being over there for a job and to get the four points and what are the things that you are doing personally at home or what can we do as a group to set us up well to win these games.'
ABC News
17-05-2025
- Sport
- ABC News
AFL Live: Collingwood vs Adelaide, Port Adelaide vs Geelong round 10
There's a cracking start to Saturday football at the MCG, with Collingwood and Adelaide set for the latest in a string of close encounters as the Pies look to take top spot on the ladder. Then a pair of twilight games will begin, with Port Adelaide hosting Geelong at Adelaide Oval, and GWS taking on Fremantle at Giants Stadium in Sydney. Finally the spotlight turns to Docklands tonight, where the action under lights will see the in-form Western Bulldogs face Essendon in a battle of rivals for the top eight. Follow the live blog below, keep up to date with all the latest stats in our ScoreCentre, and tune in to our live radio coverage.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Port, Hawks set for fiery re-match to end Gather Round
The likelihood of Port Adelaide's clash with Hawthorn being incident-free is in the same neighbourhood as the AFL refunding Ken Hinkley his $20,000 fine. In other words, those chances look to be nil. The AFL may well be guilty of hypocrisy, by sanctioning Hinkley for his taunting of Jack Ginnivan and then making the Power-Hawks re-match the feature game of Gather Round. But it's also a marketing no-brainer. Even as last year's epic Adelaide Oval semi-final was ending - and probably around the same time that Hawks captain James Sicily was looking daggers at Hinkley - SA Premier Peter Malinauskas and AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon were discussing the 2025 Gather Round schedule. And they quickly agreed it had to feature this re-match as the centrepiece. Ginnivan, always the provocative small forward, had posted on social media before the semi-final he would see Sydney ruckman Brodie Grundy "in 14 days", meaning the preliminary final. Immediately after Port's three-point win, there was drama on the field as Hinkley gestured to Ginnivan he was flying nowhere. Sicily, the Hawks captain and a player notorious for his white-line fever, then let Hinkley know his thoughts and for a brief moment it looked like tempers might boil over. Hinkley quickly apologised in the Port rooms and Hawks coach Sam Mitchell strongly defended Ginnivan at his post-game media conference. And here we are. Hawthorn, clearly, will start favourites even without star midfielder Will Day, who is injured again. They have kicked on from last year's barnstorming run and are unbeaten after four games. Port, by contrast, are spluttering and lost last week despite Essendon kicking a wasteful 9.18. Few people know more about hype than AFL commentator Nathan Buckley given his extensive Collingwood history, and he summed up the scenario neatly. "The only way they (Hawthorn) lose is if they get caught up in all that other 'b......t," he said this week at a Gather Round function. If - and privately Port people concede it's a big "if" - their gun midfielders Zak Butters, Connor Rozee and Jason Horne-Francis all fire together, then they're a chance. It's more likely that whatever drama happens, especially early in the game, Butters will be in the thick of it. Put simply, too much has to go right for Port Adelaide. But they will not die wondering given the obvious motivations and the Power are well-known for rising to the occasion in the Adelaide Oval cauldron. As Buckley notes it is a matter of how well Sicily, Ginnivan and their teammates deal with the occcasion. Whatever happens the AFL are on a winner that is worth far more than Hinkley's $20,000 fine.
