What Happened to the Adelaide Crows - AFL

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It's all good, Jake Soligo will lead the resurgence. Go Crom.

[outlawrip-offartist]

I tipped the crows in 2017 to win the premiership, and I look like a genius, until Richmond happen.

[mrw]

Great video Jagger!

As a Crows supporter it was pretty hard watching the club go through all those awful years. As if the death of Walsh in 2015 (and Dean Baily in 2014) wasn't emotionally damaging enough on the players. It feels like the accumulation of those things, the loss of a GF and then the camp finally tipped the club over.

In the pursuit of greatness, the crows failed to do good...

[MrAGame]

Can’t wait for part 2. I think a lot of player exodus can be attributed to other factors, such as players wanting more security with longer contracts that weren’t given and others wanting to go home, but it is true that the past few years have been particularly rough. Having said that… Go Crom forever. ✊🏼

[dimenitalarcher]

I'm still so heartbroken over what has happened to my crows since the grand final it's been so so so frustrating seeing a team that was once so strong now where they are currently

[lukechill]

no matter how much i hear about this camp i still think its been used as a scapegoat, i guess we'll never know unless we were there. nice video

[dyslexicmyasre]

"Adelaide were building the strongest team the club had held since their premiership run in the late 90's."
I would have to disagree with this. Neil Craig's teams in the mid noughties were formidable and for a bit of luck in the finals and maybe "Matthew Pavlich" might have won 1 or 2 premierships.
Good teams that fail to win premierships are quickly forgotten and this is a good example I think.
Otherwise excellent content

[samhedditch]

I really like your content Jagger ; it's a good objective look at deeper AFL footy history and gives a fresh insight into things not explored by mainstream media and fox sports. Keep it up !

[stalinmao]

Fantastic video jagger. As a crom fan its been a really tough few years, ever since half time in late september. Why the crows played their worse match of the season in their most important match in almost 20 years still baffles me to this day. looking forward to part 2

[aussiedamo]

My favourite Adelaide crows team was Neil Craig’s Crows they might not be a powerhouse but was a strong steam

[Bubba__Sawyer]

Stellar work as usual mate. I'm amazed this channel hasn't aught on with more folks yet.

[stoinkydoinky]

TLDR; stuck in mediocrity for many years that didn’t let us have access to top talent in draft and the introduction of expansion teams screwed us up along with tippett saga


a major issue for us throughout the 2010s was that we were stuck in mediocrity, always finished mid table and never too low and then we shot up the table in the latter years, meaning we didn’t have access to high draft picks and also the tippet saga, we’re only now picking up gems in the draft which is something we haven’t had in ages

for instance from 2008 draft to 2018 draft we only had 2 top 10 picks, Phil davis (who left us for GWS) and Chayce Jones (who is a dud) so we’ve had to rely on picking from the lower tier players and hoping they turn out alright, and it’s only been the last 3 drafts where we have managed to have the chance to pick the top players in the country, it still haunts me to this day that we messed up the 2018 “super draft” two times in the first round, but jones and mchenry are still only 21, so plenty of time to grow

[PeteTheElit]

I think this video missed the mark quite a bit on the Crows in certain spots. Really you needed to start at 2012 to get the full picture as well, covering the Tippet saga and lost draft picks, as well as being one team heavily raided by the expansion teams, losing Bock & Davis. The camp wasn't the reason 2018 was a failure, we started that year on fire but injuries got on top, by the time 2019 rolled around - to many of our senior players were on their last legs or cooked. Charlie, Lever & McGovern left for bigger contracts, with some of them traded whilst under contract. The Tippet sanctions & continual loss of gun players like Danger and Gunston hit us here, where we should have had another 2 or 3 gun players entering their prime, we had barely anyone. Having seen the writing on the wall, we swiftly began the clubs first rebuild. Senior players were moved on, as they were holding back young talent or were pretty much cooked.

I reckon that most players endured the camp and moved on and forgot about it. Players were hounded about it in interviews over and over and barely looked interested. Undoubtedly, the AFC handled it terribly. They let gutter journalists twist and makeup rumours to fit their narrative and refused to defend themselves. It was like this on most issues in the media during the 2010's. Rarely would the AFC come out and defend itself when someone said something negative about them or spreaded a rumour. Journalists would post a headline from a 'source' and sheep will believe it, AFC would be silent.

The story of the AFC in the 2010's is Draft sanctions, unparalleled loss of quality players, a murdered coach, a premiership window that opened and closed into a rebuild.

[LrdIrving]

i was one of the few people i knew supporting the crows in 2017 GF, sad when they didn’t win

[cameronpeachey]

Incredible Jagger, wish you made more of these

[bossleonie]

I only ever heard the tip of the iceberg of what happened (the Richmond song). This is nuts 😐. Thanks for the upload. Real eye opener

[Brandon-vpre]

You are a blessing to the AFL community

[MarkingtonXIV]

This is the most solid piece of reportage on this story. Fucking excellent work, man.

[LachlanKellett]

I have been a Carlton supporter my Entire life but only started following the AFL fully engaged into every Game I think it was late 2019 more so from 2020. So, I had never heared anything about this but it explains why Eddie came back to the Baggers and why everyone left. Very down days for the Crows, hopefully there is a lift soon!

[shaz]

Most of the Crows who departed, left because they wanted longer contracts and more money than the Crows were prepared to offer.
Players like Lever, Keith, Greenwood, Ellis Yomen, Jenkins all said they wanted to stay. If the Crows had agreed to what they wanted, they would have happily stayed.
Betts wanted to see out the final year of his contract but was told that he would be playing some games in the SANFL, so he looked elsewhere
As for McGovern, it was well known that he suddenly wasn’t happy about his contract that he’d only signed mid year, and his manager was shopping him around before the camp even happened.
The only player who seemed to genuinely want to go was Charlie Cameron, when he went to Brisbane. And who knows why that was because he kept giving a different reason for leaving. Starting with he wanted to be with family (who were actually in WA!)

[harryruffin]

Please keep making these videos, they are so amazing.