\n Tex highlights a young Crow having a big impact and gives an update on Dan Curtin\u2019s recovery\n <\/p>\n
Adelaide\u2019s all-time leading goalkicker Taylor Walker says young teammate Max Michalanney is on an exciting trajectory, after recommitting to the Club for another four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old defender has become a mainstay in the Crows\u2019 senior side across his first three seasons of AFL football, playing 66 games and been tasked with curtailing many of the competition\u2019s premier goal-sneaks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking to Roo, Ditts and Loz on Triple M Adelaide Breakfast, Walker explained the influence Michalanney had on the group since arriving at West Lakes with pick No.17 in the 2022 AFL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI absolutely love Maxy, he\u2019s an A-grade human and one of the guys that when he runs on the field you never have to worry about him – because he just gets it done,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI reckon he has the potential to be our next Skipper of the footy Club whenever Daws finishes up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just oozes leadership, he sets a high standard in training and in-games, he gets his stuff done, everybody loves him and he builds great relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just a great young kid.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Along with singing the praises of Michalanney, Walker provided a brief update on how Dan Curtin was recovering from knee surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said the 20-year-old was in good spirits and diligently attacking his rehabilitation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDC (Dan Curtin) is going really well at the moment, he\u2019s got his knee brace to 90 degrees at the moment, and when he first had his surgery they had it locked so he couldn\u2019t bend it,\u201d Walker said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the fact he\u2019s got it to 90 degrees now is promising, he said next week he\u2019ll get it bent even more – he\u2019s doing some leg weights and things like that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a big horse, DC, and it\u2019s going to be scary when we get him back in about 10 weeks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Preparations for Walker\u2019s 19th AFL season ramped last Friday, as he featured in the Crows\u2019 19-point match simulation win against Port Adelaide at Alberton.<\/p>\n
He said the squad took a lot out of the match sim, and was happy to be out there competing against an opposition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very good hit-out, it\u2019s always good to get that first one out of the way to blow out the cobwebs,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut no matter how much pre-season you do, that first five minutes when you face opposition for the first time, geez you feel unfit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYour lungs blow up, you get lactic (acid) in the quads and hammies, but overall it was a good night, we got through unscathed and got to practice a few things we\u2019d been working on in the pre-season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we look forward to heading over to Perth and taking on Freo and having one more solid hit-out before the real stuff starts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adelaide\u2019s pre-season campaign continues this Saturday, as it travels to Mandurah in Western Australia to take on Fremantle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The match will begin at 5.40pm (ACDT), with fans able to catch all the action live on Kayo and Fox Footy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tex highlights a young Crow having a big impact and gives an update on Dan Curtin\u2019s recovery Adelaide\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-501643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501643","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=501643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}