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7NEWS
10 hours ago
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- 7NEWS
Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera's AFL decision down to two as Adelaide ruled out
South Australian-born St Kilda superstar Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera will not play for the Adelaide Crows if he is to request a trade home at the end of the 2025 AFL season. That's according to The Agenda Setters' Caroline Wilson, who revealed on Monday night that the in-demand Indigenous defender would be uncomfortable at the Crows after a racism incident that dates back to 2021. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: St Kilda star rules out one Adelaide-based club ahead of contract decision. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Former Adelaide captain Taylor Walker was slapped with a six-game ban and fined $20,000 in 2021 for a racist slur he made towards then-North Adelaide SANFL player Robbie Young. Wilson says that still burns in the mind of Wanganeen-Milera, who is yet to commit to the Saints beyond this year and has strong interest from both Adelaide-based clubs. 'My understanding is that if Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera does leave St Kilda — and that's not certain, and Stephen Silvagni (Saints list manager) and Ben Williams (Wanganeen-Milera's manager) are speaking on almost a weekly basis — he won't be going to the Adelaide Football Club,' she said on The Agenda Setters. 'And one of the reasons he won't be going to the Adelaide Football Club is that he has concerns about an incident that happened back in 2021, an infamous incident that happened involving Taylor Walker and Robbie Young. 'Now, I'm making no comment about the club's handling of that incident, because my memory is that Matthew Nicks, the coach, was shattered by that incident, and the club did everything they could to get around Robbie Young. 'But Wanganeen-Milera has asked, clarified, that Matthew Nicks was the coach at the time, and has indicated that he doesn't want to go to the Adelaide Football Club.' Walker has since completed training and education programs to help better himself in the wake of the incident, which threatened to derail his career at the time. As it turned out, Walker bounced back from his disgrace to re-establish himself as a leader within the Adelaide and AFL communities, and has played some of the best footy of his career in recent years. He was asked about the incident in a TV interview on Nine during Gather Round earlier this year, after which he was applauded for 'walking through hell', as host Eddie McGuire described it. 'I made a mistake, and one that I've got to live with for the rest of my life,' Walker said in April. 'But I suppose, when you make mistakes, you get a choice whether you look at it as: you can dwell on it, or you can learn about it. 'I'm very grateful for the support I had around me and I feel like I've learnt a lot, and I'm enjoying my football.' Wilson said 'a lot of Wanganeen-Milera's friends' and members of 'the South Australian Indigenous community' remain irked that Walker, in that interview — though by no means through any fault of his own necessarily — was painted somewhat as a victim. 'I can't speak to the work that Taylor has done behind the scenes with Robbie Young and the South Australian and footy's Indigenous community, and he didn't set up those questions and that interview — but there was a view from Indigenous leaders across footy that it portrayed Taylor Walker as more of a victim than Robbie Young,' Wilson said. 'And it's just a small thing, but it wasn't a small thing to others who were still badly (hurt) by what happened back in 2021. 'So, for a variety of reasons, but specifically Wanganeen-Milera's issues with Taylor Walker and what happened back then, the view from Port Adelaide and from others in the footy community is that if he does leave, he will be going to Port Adelaide.' Asked where she thinks Wanganeen-Milera will be playing next year, Wilson said she remains unsure. 'I'm really struggling to call it, I really am,' she said. 'I do know, that although St Kilda say they're confident, that he has some real issues with life in Melbourne and is very keen to return to home to Port.'
The Guardian
29-03-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
South Australia break Sheffield Shield drought with record chase against Queensland
South Australia have captured the Sheffield Shield for the first time in 29 years, defeating Queensland by four wickets with a record run chase in a final. Set 270 runs to win, Jason Sangha and Alex Carey scored centuries as SA posted 270-6 for a drought-breaking victory on day four of the decider in Adelaide. SA's feat is the highest successful run chase in a Shield final, eclipsing Victoria's 239-2 against NSW in 1990-91. The South Australians now hold the Shield and the one-day trophy in the same season for the first time, having downed Victoria in the 50-over final on 1 March. On Saturday, Sangha and Carey produced a brilliant 202-run partnership after SA stumbled to 28 for 3 at Karen Rolton Oval. Sangha, in his first season since leaving NSW, scored a classy unbeaten 126 and Carey – one of only two South Australian-born players in the Shield champion team, with Conor McInerney – struck a superb 105. Their match-winning union followed earlier heroics from SA paceman Brendan Doggett, who returned the best-ever match figures in a Shield final. Doggett, a former Queenslander, took 11 for 140, including 6 for 31 when the Bulls were skittled for 95 in their first innings – the lowest total of any state batting first in a Shield decider. SA, powered by Jake Lehmann's 102, replied with 271 all out. A championship-defining century, what a performance from Jason Sangha! #SheffieldShield Queensland appeared down and out when 221 for 6, just 45 runs ahead, in their second innings at lunch on day three. But tons from Jack Wildermuth (111) and Jack Clayton (100) triggered a revival and the visitors made 445, a 269-run lead. That target seemed secure when SA lost three wickets inside the first hour of Saturday's play. And it could have worse for the success-starved hosts: Sangha, on 13 and the score 37 for 3, was dropped by Ben McDermott at second slip from the bowling of Mark Steketee (3-40). Sign up to The Spin Subscribe to our cricket newsletter for our writers' thoughts on the biggest stories and a review of the week's action after newsletter promotion The elegant right-hander then flourished, reaching his century from 158 balls and hitting 16 fours and two sixes overall. Two overs later, Carey saluted an increasingly raucous home crowd on completing his fourth ton in five Shield matches this season. Carey's stellar 132-ball knock ended soon after when bowled by a Steketee slower ball with 40 runs still required for victory. First-innings century-maker Lehmann, the son of SA great Darren Lehmann who played in the state's last Shield triumph in 1995-96, was bowled for eight, and Liam Scott was dismissed for a duck. That left Sangha, fittingly, to score the winning runs through midwicket with a stroke that instantly entered SA sporting folklore.
