Adelaide vs Collingwood live scores, stats and updates<\/a><\/p>\nCollingwood has also made a selection statement, picking 211cm giant Mason Cox for the first time since Round 19, for just his ninth AFL game this season. Category B rookie Wil Parker also comes in, with a sore Dan McStay and injured Jeremy Howe making way.<\/p>\n
The First Qualifying Final will play host to a number of milestones, none bigger than former Adelaide captain Taylor Walker, who will play AFL game number 300 tonight.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old is the Crows\u2019 all-time leading goalkicker, with over 200 more than the next closest in Tony Modra. The 2023 All-Australian has continued to defy select criticism over his ability to perform week-in, week-out in the twilight of his career, but Ricciuto says he couldn\u2019t be prouder of the Broken Hill product.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing what Tex has been able to do over the last four or five years. He was on the ropes a while ago, and his body aching coincided with the start of a rebuild,\u201d Ricciuto continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat can be mentally and physically challenging. But he has matured, grown up, developed and embraced all of the above \u2014 and he has played some of the best footy of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s arguably been more important to the Adelaide Football Club over the last few years, than he has the rest of his career (prior).<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been more important to the Crows than anyone in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crows weigh up best plan for Rankine | 03:15<\/p>\n
Crows recruit Alex Neal-Bullen will celebrate AFL game 200, Magpies star Josh Daicos will bring up match 150, while Mark Keane will run out for his 50th match as a Crow, ironically against his old side.<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s winner will host one of Geelong, Brisbane, Fremantle or Gold Coast in the First Preliminary Final in two weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s loser will host either GWS or Hawthorn in the First Semi Final next week.<\/p>\n
This match gets underway at 7:40pm AEST from Adelaide Oval, with the substitutes and final teams for each side to be confirmed an hour beforehand.<\/p>\n
Watch it live on Fox Footy (channel 504), and stream it on Kayo, from 6:30pm AEST.<\/p>\n
Follow our coverage of Adelaide v Collingwood in the First Qualifying Final live below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the greatest rise up the ladder in footy history, Adelaide returns to the finals with a tense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[9126,638,45693,64,63,689,55,639,54886,10133,49773,83255,73533,80718,83256,83254,2105,2485,4517,54902,83257,24270,10132,45746,11234,31708,13126,673,677,6082,80394,701,57754,27720,1124,85,16702,56650],"class_list":["post-117631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adelaide-crows","tag-afl","tag-all-time-leading-goalkicker","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-broken-hill","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-dan-mcstay","tag-daunting-reality","tag-finals-fixture","tag-finals-preview","tag-footy-history","tag-game-number","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gold-coast","tag-hamstring-injury","tag-home-finals","tag-home-prelim","tag-home-side","tag-jeremy-howe","tag-josh-rachele","tag-mark-keane","tag-mark-ricciuto","tag-mason-cox","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-port-adelaide","tag-qualifying-final-blockbuster","tag-queensland","tag-ruck-contest","tag-selection-statement","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-taylor-walker","tag-wil-parker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}