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[Dave The Man]

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From the Adelaide Advertiser:

How ‘winning’ makes the Crows losers

Miles Kemp
The Advertiser
April 15, 2015


THERE is an inescapable secret to the Crows’ perennial failure.

And with a bit of luck they are well on the way again to a fantastic home and away season, which quenches the light thirst of an adoring public following them in their thousands, but only because they have the name Adelaide before their animal totem.

The secret to their failure simply is that they are the club that has already won a city, and doesn’t need to win on the field.

How else is it that a major team from one of Australia’s three AFL capital cities could not make a grand final in almost 20 years. Even the Demons have made a more recent appearance.

The Port Magpies have won a SANFL grand final more recently than the Crows have been in one.

The reason is that when the AFL calls full time on the last quarter of the last round, the winning Adelaide team is always the Crows business franchise.

They were invented to win; most members, most fans, most tickets, most money, most reach, most sponsors. The Crows are winners, year in, year out.

I make this point occasionally to Adelaide’s most famous Port-supporting media identity.

“The Crows have already won, and lack the killer instinct,” I say. “They lack the need to kill to survive’.

“Shhhhhh. Don’t tell anyone,” he says cheekily.

The Crows were invented to cash in on the parochial pride of a city.

They are the team the city fathers and mothers selected to represent them in the national competition.

Their only reason to exist was this, as well as the need to stop the so-called scrubbers from the Port representing our fair city in the competition.

At the end of the 2015 season the Adelaide Crows will have achieved their goals yet again. Game over, victory, who needs a flag?

[piedys]