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200 episodes of @Crowject - a thread 🧵
I’ve written before on some of the things that helped forge all things Crowject. There are multiple things that came up almost in one hit.
I don’t know a lot of footy mad people in my friendship circle. Despite being a member, I didn’t have a circle of friends to talk footy.
I don’t know a lot of footy mad people in my friendship circle. Despite being a member, I didn’t have a circle of friends to talk footy.
A big part was @thecrowbarpod ending after 2017. Was one of my favourite listens, and it felt like just listening to some mates talking about a team I love.
Add to this me being an audiophile, and I knew I had at the very least a passion to make something. But with who?
Add to this me being an audiophile, and I knew I had at the very least a passion to make something. But with who?
I've spent some time analysing where things are going wrong for the Crows. School holidays means a bit of extra time. So, here goes:
Very long 🧵👇
cc: @Cornesy12 @GraemeGoodings @penbo @WGoodings @SensibleCrow @VardyMagic @timmy_silvers
#weflyasone #adelaidefc #gocrows
Very long 🧵👇
cc: @Cornesy12 @GraemeGoodings @penbo @WGoodings @SensibleCrow @VardyMagic @timmy_silvers
#weflyasone #adelaidefc #gocrows
I’ll start with the people in the jobs and then focus on some of the puzzling decisions made. None of this is personal in any way - it’s merely my observations of people making sub-par decisions or appointments and not getting called out for it.
I also acknowledge this is entirely an outsider’s view, albeit one formed in a time when the Club treated members with a level of contempt by telling us what they thought we needed to know rather than what we wanted to know.
On top of the inexperience in the Crows list the injury run for key players, accelerated season, COVID-interrupted pre-season and limited crowds has created perfect storm of disorganisation when a rebuilding club needs the exact opposite. Not the time to be pointing fingers.
It's a very difficult task to fit young players into a structure when that structure has been disrupted so completely by external factors.
If it were up to me I'd actually stop rotating so many young players in and out. The conventional wisdom of giving them game time doesn't apply when a chaotic season isn't meaningful preparation. Keep the youth in but give them more time to settle.
I get that people feel affinity for the players at their club, but Crows fans getting shirty about players leaving is so weird. If ever there was a season that sent a clear message that big changes are needed, we just had it. And you want big changes while keeping the same list?!
We need speed and youth. The last 2 years we tried to keep a window open by pushing on to maintain the list that made the 2017 GF. 2018 was cruelled by injury, which probably hid the fact that we were too slow to compete in the modern game in 2019.
Fans complained about Pyke's 2019 style, but it's all he could do. We had to play a possession, key position style. We couldn't have 30-year-olds in free-flowing midfield footraces with 20-year-olds over 4 quarters. These days, a lack of flexibility is too easily shut down.
