{"id":130684,"date":"2025-09-09T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:07:10","slug":"adelaide-crows-riley-thilthorpe-questioned-for-poor-moments-v-collingwood-by-matthew-lloyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130684\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Crows’ Riley Thilthorpe questioned for poor moments v Collingwood by Matthew Lloyd"},"content":{"rendered":"

All-Australian key forward Riley Thilthorpe had multiple forgettable moments during Adelaide’s<\/a> qualifying final loss to Collingwood<\/a>. and Matthew Lloyd thinks he would have “stared at the ceiling all night” afterwards wondering how it all went so badly wrong.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old kicked two goals and took five marks, but made a crucial error where he handballed off what could have been a simple shot for goal.<\/p>\n

Lloyd also pointed out multiple contests where Thilthorpe either timed his jump poorly or pulled out late. <\/p>\n

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Riley Thilthorpe of Adelaide.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I’m a fan of Riley Thilthorpe, and most are, because he was an All-Australian player, but he’s someone that would have stared at the ceiling all night saying ‘what happened … how did I get to this point’,” Lloyd told Nine’s Footy Classified.<\/p>\n

“He’s better than this. We saw him pull out of a contest, we saw him not take a shot and then pull out a second time. He’s one that will want to work hard (this week).”<\/p>\n

Thilthorpe had a great season, kicking 57 goals and helping lead the Crows to the minor premiership.<\/p>\n

Adelaide’s three pronged tall forward line of Thilthorpe, Taylor Walker and Darcy Fogarty has been a key feature of their side this year, but stats show that key forwards tend to struggle to dominate finals.<\/p>\n

A key forward has only kicked five or more goals in a final three times in the last five years – a Jesse Hogan performance for GWS in 2024.<\/p>\n

“This is about 40 games of football where there’s only been three key forwards who have kicked five goals or more,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It happens because the game becomes more defensive, it becomes harder, there are more numbers back.<\/p>\n

“But Thilthorpe, I can’t wait to see his first contest against the Hawks on Friday night after what he would have had to sit through during the review.”<\/p>\n

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Riley Thilthorpe of the Crows marks in front of Billy Frampton of the Magpies.\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

For the Crows, the Collingwood clash was their first finals appearance since 2017, and the lack of big-game experience showed.<\/p>\n

Lloyd was scathing on Adelaide’s performance overall, pointing out how few stood up on the big stage.<\/p>\n

“There was just non-contributors everywhere for Adelaide. You cannot win a final if you have this many blokes not touching the football,” Lloyd said.<\/p>\n

“Their best didn’t play well, but look how many others … more than half their team had 12 disposals or less.<\/p>\n

“Jordan Dawson was off, Thilthorpe was off, Darcy Fogarty was off, but then the rest didn’t contribute much either.”<\/p>\n

They’ll be hoping to avoid a straight-sets exit from finals when they face Hawthorn at Adelaide Oval on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Hawks, and their trio of key defenders in Tom Barrass, Josh Battle and James Sicily will likely match up well on Adelaide’s key forward trio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Australian key forward Riley Thilthorpe had multiple forgettable moments during Adelaide’s qualifying final loss to Collingwood. and Matthew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-130684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130684","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=130684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}