The final margin stated this was a 61-point win to the Adelaide Crows, but this win meant a hell of a lot more than just a ten-goal win.
This was a game where one side flexed their muscles and the other side learnt their place in the 2025 premiership race.
In games like this, you can focus on one of two things.
You either zero in on how good the Adelaide Crows were in this game, or you opt to focus on how poor the Gold Coast Suns were. I’ll be trying to do more of the first whilst not ignoring the second. Wwhile many will look to bash the Suns, I believe it was more the Crows that made them look that way than just a poor day out from the visitors.
This is also the type of game where we can basically ignore just about everything that occurred after halftime.
The contest was dead and buried as the teams left the park at the main break, with the Suns held goalless by the maniacally pressuring, and unrelenting Crows. Whether it was the pressure in the midfield, the half-forwards locking the ball inside 50, or the back six completely dominating the Suns forwards, this was a game controlled by the strength and consistency of the Adelaide TEAM.
It was not one player. Not one star. Not one section of the ground performing above and beyond – all aspects of the Crows unit were clicking. A well-oiled machine dismantling the clunker that was the travelling Gold Coast Suns.
This was a team operating at its optimum, and if you’re an opposition coach watching this game and doing some homework, my guess is you’d be thinking that it is about time to start putting some serious work into how to counter this mob.
Make no mistake, this was a statement game from the Crows. This was the Adelaide team looking the Suns dead in the eye and telling them, “we remember what happened back in Round Four.”
It wasn’t going to happen again.
Let’s jump into The Mongrel’s Big Questions from this domination.
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