{"id":37868,"date":"2025-08-01T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37868\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:32:10","slug":"follow-afl-round-21-scores-results-odds-squads-and-start-time-from-adelaide-oval-in-adelaide-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37868\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow AFL round 21 scores, results, odds, squads and start time from Adelaide Oval in Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell bolted down from the box to the boundary to seek answers as to why 23 of the 28 goals were scored to the Cathedral end in his side\u2019s topsy-turvy, and at times bizarre, 14-point loss to Adelaide on Friday night.<\/p>\n

In a match punctuated by wild momentum swings, the Hawks burst spectacularly out of the blocks, were held to a total standstill in the second quarter, gained the upper hand in the third, and then were edged out down the stretch.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The victorious Crows march off Adelaide Oval.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Historians in years to come will assume a mid-winter gale was howling in from the south all evening, but the flags atop Adelaide Oval\u2019s heritage-listed scoreboard never budged.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually ran down to the bench to see if there was any breeze at all,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut no… no answers for why they were all kicked at one end.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very rare that one team has the momentum for the whole game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were a little bit cleaner and more clinical when it really mattered.\u201d <\/p>\n

Will Day was the key figure early, racking up more first-quarter clearances than the Crows\u2019 entire shell-shocked team, piloting Hawthorn to a 5.3 to 0.1 ambush which hushed the 50,654-strong crowd into stunned silence.<\/p>\n

It was easily Adelaide\u2019s worst quarter of the season. They responded with perhaps their best.<\/p>\n

With Jordan Dawson stepping up in the engine room and Riley Thilthorpe getting hold of Tom Barrass, the Crows suddenly started scoring at will out of their back half, keeping the Hawks scoreless while marching to a shock but spectacular 16-point half-time lead.<\/p>\n

Adelaide\u2019s run of goals was eight unanswered before Hawthorn\u2019s interceptors James Sicily, Jack Scrimshaw and Josh Battle ran amok behind the footy in the third term to get the visitors back on top.<\/p>\n

The home side\u2019s backline, conversely, was suddenly frazzled, both with and without the footy.<\/p>\n

Ex-Crow Jack Gunston\u2019s back-to-back fourth-quarter goals to the River end handed the Hawks the lead, before Izak Rankine and Taylor Walker \u2013 who split Adelaide\u2019s last four majors \u2013 sealed it for the top-two bound Crows.<\/p>\n

Cheeky Hawks antagonist Jack Ginnivan responded to some feedback from the fans as he walked down the visitors\u2019 race post-match by kissing his left middle finger and showing it to the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019ll be a pocket lightener,\u201d Alistair Nicholson said on Channel Seven.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt pretty much is always followed by a fine,\u201d co-commentator James Brayshaw said.<\/p>\n

Ginnivan had earlier gestured to the Adelaide crowd after booting a telling goal, and after the match replied to an Instagram post of vision of him flipping the bird as he walked down the race, commenting simply: \u201cbest coin spent\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack Ginnivan played the pantomime villain in Adelaide once again.Credit: Fox Footy<\/p>\n

Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks feels the ladder-leading Crows passed a stern finals-like test, the likes of which they appear destined to face deep into September.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo reset the way we did and the maturity our boys showed, led by Daws [Dawson] at quarter-time … to be able to bring the game to even keel at half-time, I thought was another way to win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother way in what was a finals atmosphere and our opposition were finals standard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicks was a picture of calmness during that quarter-time reset, such is the confidence he had in his players to be able to spin the contest around \u2013 which they did, emphatically.<\/p>\n

\"Taylor<\/p>\n

Taylor Walker was at his clutch best inside forward 50Credit: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

\u201cWe trust our playing group completely,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey trust us, so in that moment [quarter-time] there is no need for yelling and screaming.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou go back three or four years, you\u2019ll probably find me yelling and screaming at a quarter-time break.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look back on that I think that\u2019s me not necessarily trusting that we\u2019re all on the same page – and maybe then we weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took us time to get to that and show that maturity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Final: Adelaide 15.11 (101) def Hawthorn 13.9 (87)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell bolted down from the box to the boundary to seek answers as to why…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-37868","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\/37868","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=37868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}