AFL: West Coast’s hopes of causing an upset have been helped with one of Adelaide’s key targets reportedly withdrawn before the bounce.
Crows forward Riley Thilthorpe is a late out in a boost for an Eagles defence that has been under siege.
The Eagles will hope they can muster a response to a poor Carlton showing in a rare Friday night fixture.
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Dawson playing a blinder
Breaks the tag to move into the hole in front of goal to give the Crows their ninth.
He’s havign an awesome night with 10 touches three clearances and now a goal.
ADE 9.3 (57) WCE 2.4 (16)
Waterman stops the bleeding
Good work by Oli Francou who’s been a rare positive for the Eagles today as Milan Murdock then takes a great contested mark.
Jake Waterman gets space to lead in and takes a strong mark and more importantly kicks truly.
ADE 8.3 (51) WCE 2.4 (16)
Laughable from the Eagles
Tylar Young drops the intercept mark uncontested.
Marcus Herbert slips over and Alex Neal-Bullen runs into a goal square.
There’s no dew out there and Will Schofield says it’s a ‘mindset issue.’
Fogarty kicks a fourth from the square as Adelaide win another centre bounce through Jordan Dawson.
ADE 8.3 (51) WCE 1.3 (9)
Second quarter underway
Adelaide continue their clearance dominance and Jack Williams drops an intercept mark virtually uncontested.
Bailey Williams is getting a bath in the ruck.
END of Q1 ADE 6.2 (38) WCE 1.3 (9)
Booos ring out at Optus Stadium with the fans not happy with the umpiring but on kids night the Eagles were made to look like children by Adelaide.
It was ominous signs when the Crows kicked their first inside 20 seconds and it didn’t really get much better from there.
Bo Allan about the only Eagle who can hold his head high after that quarter.
Not hard enough, not strong enough and simply not good enough. Big quarter-time speech needed from McQualter.
Dan Curtin breaks the deadlock
There’s about six Eagles around the ball and but Curtin is the only one with any pace as he burns all of them runs inside 50 and kicks the Crows sixth.
Shocking stuff from West Coast
ADE 6.1 (37) WCE 1.3 (9)
Eagles missing chances
Harley Reid misses from around the corner and Bo Allan misses badly from the 45.
They’ve generated four scoring shots from five inside 50s but they’ve kicked 1.3
Instant response as Fogarty has three
Izak Rankine delightful out the middle and Bazzo is not strong enough as Fogarty just throws him to the ground as he has three goals inside the first 20 minutes.
Three of Adelaide’s five goals has come from centre clearances.
ADE 5.0 (30) WCE 1.1 (7)
Williams responds for the Eagles
Started down in defence but Jack Williams is the first on the scoreboard for the Eagles after winning a holding free kick in the ruck.
Much needed for West Coast but they need to fix their work around the contest.
ADE 4.0 (24) WCE 1.1 (7)
Eagles already in save the game mode
Jobe Shanahan have gone behind the ball and Willem Duursma is sitting at full forward for some reason.
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