{"id":443208,"date":"2026-01-28T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443208\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:45:30","slug":"the-special-person-already-making-waves-at-the-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443208\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘special person’ already making waves at the Crows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Adelaide’s big acquisition Cal Ah Chee is already garnering the admiration of his teammates\n <\/p>\n

Callum Ah Chee at Adelaide training on December 1, 2025. Picture: Adelaide FC<\/p>\n

DUAL premiership player Callum Ah Chee has slotted seamlessly into Adelaide, with his new teammates feeling “blessed” to have the former Brisbane star.<\/p>\n

Ah Chee is in the midst of his first pre-season with the Crows after leaving the Lions following their back-to-back premierships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He’s a really special person,” Crows utility Mitch Hinge told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“He’s got a wise head on him and he just comes with a wealth of experience.<\/p>\n

“We know how good he can be on the field – in training especially, he’s brought a little bit of that knowledge of what’s important to keep helping our teammates when we don’t have the ball.<\/p>\n

“And I just love his selflessness … we’re so blessed to have him choose to come over here and help, and I think he’s going to be a big, big help for where we want to get to this year.”<\/p>\n

Callum Ah Chee celebrates a goal during the round two match between Brisbane and West Coast at The Gabba, on March 23, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

Last year the Crows won the minor premiership but were then bundled out of the finals with consecutive losses.<\/p>\n

And the club’s pre-season hit one substantial hurdle when young gun Dan Curtin dislocated his left kneecap<\/a> in a wrestling drill on January 19.<\/p>\n

Curtin, who had been rated among the standout pre-season performers, had surgery and will be sidelined until at least round seven of the premiership season.<\/p>\n

Dan Curtin celebrates a goal during Adelaide’s clash against Collingwood in round 23, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

The injury was a blow for the West Australian-born 20-year-old, who was runner-up to Fremantle’s Murphy Reid in last year’s Rising Star Award – and also for his Crows teammates.<\/p>\n

“He has been dominating on the track and he’s had a little bit of a setback obviously,” Hinge said.<\/p>\n

“It’s really disappointing not just from a performance and team point of view, but he’s such a well-natured kid … he’s such a lovely person, we love having him around.<\/p>\n

“He has been in (the club) the last couple of days and it has been really good to see him because he definitely brings a lot of energy to the boys and brings a smile … he’s an absolute ripper.”<\/p>\n

Hinge said he expected Curtin to “attack his rehab with a vengeance and come out and just get after it again”.<\/p>\n

Mitch Hinge celebrates a win with fans during round six, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

“Knowing him and knowing how he gets to work, you know he’ll be back in no time and it will be business as usual,” Hinge said.<\/p>\n

“You can look at it two ways: you can dwell on it – and there’s probably a little bit of a time for that – but it’s probably about minimising that as much as possible.<\/p>\n

“He’s got an opportunity to really spin this – as hard as it is, can he turn this into a positive?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide’s big acquisition Cal Ah Chee is already garnering the admiration of his teammates Callum Ah Chee at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-443208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443208","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=443208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}