Sydney. Adelaide have too many injuries.

Go the CROWS!!!!

I tipped Adelaide is Rutten definitely going to play?

crows under 39.5pts , B.hall most goals

theres apparently only 286 tickets not sold, crowd prediction of 40,100 regardless of the amount of tickets sold

Port beat Collingwood.

Until the last 6 minutes if the 4th quarter it was 1pt between them.

and more importantly, The Bombers won by 5 goals today. :-)

Crows by 19.

Why is everyone convinced that the Crows will win? Sydney are a quality side while Adelaide are decimated by injury and, realistically, might have lost to Port had the Power been more accurate.

I may come to regret it, but I tipped the Swans.

I hope the crows win, but they won't.

Rutten IS playing which is good.

Sydney will be hard to stop and an average of 15 games between the team is just not enough experience and that is why i tipped the Swans.

History says that the Crows will win because Sydney have not won for six years in Adelaide against the Crows but i'm tipping the other way.

It's live on 10 isn't it?

Crows look the better team atm but cant break away on the scoreboard.

Crows G 5 B 5 35
Swans G 1 B 6 12
HALFTIME

Crows G 6 B 5 41
Swans G 1 B 6 12
HALFTIME

I'll put it out there. Sydney will comeback and win.

You were wrong

And i'm bloody happy about it!

Welldone Crows!!!

Not top 8 material Port Supporters???????????????????

Sydney
Bulldogs
Power


now for Freo...

17 points. Only 2 points off, woohoo.

Got the bloody roos worng though.

How good was the crows win, and the fact 123abc was wrong, again. A perfect day.

they ARE top 8 material..but they had better win the premiership this year..or else...will be a 10 year wait till next chance...PORT on the other hand...will make finals this year..and win in the next 3 :)

Crows have the most members in the AFL. Adelaide has alot of support which is good!

Go Crows!!!

It was the Crows followers showing their lack of support last week at the showdown.

The majority of the Port members were there. Yet the Crows fans were full of excuses.

* Its on a Saturday Afternoon
* We have to pay for a ticket
* We are scared of Port Supporters

Do you think when Collingwood have a home game against Richmond the tigers fan dont bother to go?

Too many of the Crows Members are their for the status, have a complete lack of knowledge on the game and constantly are a laughing stock to the rest of the league.

It doesnt matter whether they are wining or losing, 10 minutes to go at any game and the crowd is streaming out the gates.

The Crows constantly boast that they have 50,000 members. Yet they also constantly let the club down.
Qualifying Final last year against Fremantle. I went along in the hope of seeing a good game of football. I think there were 10,000 empty seats at AAMI. The excuses were flowing then as well. "Its on a Saturday Afternoon, We have our own sporting commitments on Saturdays" Yet the Crows had their biggest TV Ratings for the year to date. Obviously a lot of people seating on their couches at home.

Bet ya at the next showdown there are thousands for Port fans than the ammount of crows fan that showed up last week. Because (as much as I hate Port) the know their football and support their team more than just about any other team in the league.

They leave early so that they beat the traffic skip.

Most Crows supporters probably watched the match Live on Tv like me.


Port supporters aren't always that educated.

When Opposing team has the ball

* "HOLDING THE BALL!" "Get some glasses umpire!"

When Port has the ball

* "HOLDING ON!" "F@$%ing call it umpire!"

You are an idiot abc123, that 'joke' is old and anybody who brings it up is the person who in not educated.

ps i am a crows supporter

Bullsh*t D16.

"How good was the crows win, and the fact 123abc was wrong, again. A perfect day."

That is a really stupid thing to say.

Careful Skip - well thought out and accurate comments such as your last post will get you attacked from all angles by the same Crows members/supporters you make mention of!

123abc - the more you post the more obvious it is who is uneducated......keep up the great work!

Wow, what a suprise. A thread about the Crows and Sydney gets turned into to a stupid argument about which Adelaide club has the best supporters....

BTW, it's great to see McLeod in such great form this year, hopefully he can keep it up. Like Mark Bickley said this morning, he's probably got 9 Brownlow votes already.

130406, Port Power has a supporter base of approximately 34-36 thousand people, which means that at the last showdown most of their season ticket holders were at the game. If they have had all their supporters at the game, the power would need to top up the crowd by attracting either football supporters or crows supporters. Both clubs have made it clear over the past week they needed to do more to attract fans to the game, the crows and power's point of view is that the lack of crowd numbers did little to harm the power financially, but did harm the marketing credibility of both clubs. It is the only game of the year where both SA clubs play each other AND a large amount of tickets are able to be bought. (Less power supporters means more normal tickets, or whatever the general population can buy.)

In reference to my second post i am simply saying there is no need to degrade supporters of other clubs.

As for my 'lack of knowledge, insight and credibility' you have obviously put no thought into your previous post as you have ill formally backed up your argument and have conveniently posted as Anonymous.

This is a basketball forum so why not keep it as that.

130413 - How so?

D16 you continuous attacks on me isn't needed and is stupid. The bad thing about forums on the internet is that anyone can abuse other people for no reason. The civlised people wouldn't go around attacking people for no reason whatso ever. On the internet people should repect one another and insults should not be dispenced out of anger or disagreement. Grow up D16, type exactly the same as what you would say to me face to face.

The reason why Adelaide don't have 8-11,000 people a game when the stadium is soldout is because not all members can go to every match. It is hard to organise to give you tickets to someone else because they have to give it back to you after.

If they were to come up with a way to print out a ticket for a single game out of the season ticket and give it someone else when you cannot go then 50,000 would turn up to every game.

You wouldn't have to lend your season ticket and worry about getting it back by the next home game that way. A bigger stadium would be great for the Adelaide Crows because they could easily get 60,000 people a game.

Saying that Crows supporters don't support their team as well as Port supporters do is stupid Skip. There would be a lot of Crows supporters who turn up to every game and support while Port supporters will leave games early and won't come if they are losing and vice-versa.

Not everyone is the same so don't make a statement about 100,000 crows supporters when you are only talking about a few thousand.

Every team in the AFL is club within a state, but yours is "the club for all South Australians"

That's okay because Adelaide Crows includes "Adelaide" The main city in South Australia. "Port" Adelaide is a small area. Remember the Crows were for seven years "The club for all South Australians"

123abc

I am not going to bother arguing with you when you continue to make stupid statements with no substance to back them up.

Well said skip but i will say one thing to abc, What right do you have to say that Power supporters leave early or do not turn up, how would you know, you don't even go to games!! 60 000 person stadium? you just said that not everyone can attend at the moment but then say the Crows can fill 60 000 stadium!! There is no logic in your argument. I am with skip, would like to have a debate with someone who has actual facts not useless statements.

FFS!

Skip i am telling you not to stereo type on all Crows supporters. You cannot say that ALL Crows supporters don't support their team asmuch as ALL Power supporters. Some Port supporters are more loyal than Crows supporters and VICE-VERA

What kind of substance do i need for you Skip ????

In the Know, you have totally misunderstood my post! I have seen Power supporters leave before the game is finished but i wasn't referring to that! If you didn't understand my post than surely now you get what i mean!


"The reason why Adelaide don't have 8-11,000 people a game when the stadium is soldout is because not all members can go to every match."

What don't you get there?

People are rejected from the gates due to sell outs, people can't even book days before the game because it is usually sold out. Not all members can go! People can't buy the members tickets at the gate! How do you not get this?

If the people being rejected can go and than Adeide could infact fill an 80,000 seat stadium with 60,000 going and 8-11,000 members not going.

Right now, the problem with lack of people there are with the Adelaide Crows members. All other tickets are sold out. So nobody can buy tickets because it is soldout. If the members sold there tickets back to the Crows for the one match (if unavailable to go) then the Crows get a bigger crowd and the member get's his/her money back from that game.

Do you get it now????

As you can see i am not debating anything! I am telling Skip not to judge a all supporters by a few people and i am stating that the problem with the turnouts to Crows home games are the members who don't turn up.

Simple as that!

Apologies for the bad spelling and grammar.

hehehehehe - I did warn you skip!

Keep posting 123abc - your arguments while being quite ridiculous - are at the very least highly ammusing

I find it amusing that you say the Crows could fill a stadium with say 60 000 people because there are 20 000 people wanting to go to the games. Why then do the games not sell out within the hour if tickets are so hot. What you are saying is that the mighty Crows would get higher crowd numbers than say the big Melbourne clubs in a city approximately a 3rd the size of Victoria?

Of course I am not saying every single supporter you little twit.

But, more than any other team, the crows have a larger percentage of bandwagoners than anyone else.

First to leave the game win or lose.
First to come up with any excuse they possibly can when they lose.
First to jump off their team at the first sign of trouble.

If they are such great supporters how come only 15% of the crows members bothered to go and see them last week at the Showdown?

80,000!!! There were still seats available yesterday at the gate? So I dont know where you are pulling this 80,000 from. Perhaps if both Port and Adelaide met in a Prelim final you might get 60,000 with the help of all the Port fans.

BTW, When did you last go and see them 123abc?

I would think he last saw them on TV yesterday as he does evry week!

now that we know 123abc is sixers33 you see it in the moronic arguments he puts forward, its like a kid trying to justify not stealing the cookie whilst the hand is in the jar

What's your damn problem with me than Skip, In The Know???

I said not too judge all supporters by a few.

I said that Crows have alot of people who can't go to games.

What else do you want from me?

Thomo, people judge, i don't care but civilised people will not judge on previous stupidity.

previous stupidity is being out done by current stupidity

bullsh*t thommo.

I'm finished you.

Can you please be finished with me too!!??

i thought i was a while ago

im finished you, wtf does that mean

are you that numa numa kid floating around on you tube ??

"are you that numa numa kid floating around on you tube ??"

???

"im finished you, wtf does that mean"

Stop being an arse, i am finished with you bashing me.

hehe, obviously not tho. :-)

First to leave the game win or lose.
First to come up with any excuse they possibly can when they lose.
First to jump off their team at the first sign of trouble.

Absolutely.

and I'd like to thank the fantastic hard working folk at AC Neilson.

anon 130465
STUFF PORT. GO THE CROWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!