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Danger loves Tex factor

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 16 Mei 2014 | 14.57

Taylor Walker leaves the ground after Adelaide's win over Collingwood at Adelaide Oval. Picture: Simon Cross Source: News Corp Australia

PATRICK Dangerfield admits he broke into a huge grin when he heard Taylor Walker's name called out over the PA system during warm ups at Adelaide Oval on Thursday night.

Dangerfield understands the importance of the key forward to the Crows' hopes of playing finals again this season and was thrilled to see him return after 12 months out with a knee injury.

"When they announced all the player's names before the game, I couldn't help but smile when they said his name. It's just awesome to have him back," Dangerfield said.

Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson fronts the media following the Crows' 21-point win over Collingwood on Thursday night.

Josh Jenkins, who thrived in Walker's return to the forward line kicking four goals, also welcomed the elite goalkicker back with open arms.

"It was great to have him back," Jenkins said.

"While he was a bit fumbly and he fatigued pretty quickly in the second half it was awesome to have him out there and you'd expect he's only going to improve from here."

And Walker enjoyed being back just as much.

"Amazing to be back out there with the boys. Some really (positive) signs and a big thanks to the Crows you were unreal," he tweeted.


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A great start, but better future

Port Adelaide Power coach Ken Hinkley and star Chad Wingard address the press following their side's win over Fremantle.

Port Adelaide's 2013 best and fairest. Chad Wingard. Source: News Limited

CHRIS Judd chose not to read the accolades that came with his first 50 AFL games — and the Brownlow Medal he wore after just 67 matches. Chad Wingard is simply not interested.

"That's where he keeps his clarity ... he is not absorbed by the suffocating world of AFL," says Port Adelaide premiership captain Warren Tredrea. "And as long as he can keep himself mentally fresh, the world is his oyster."

Wingard's 50th AFL game — a best-afield, five-goal return against Fremantle at Adelaide Oval on Saturday — is marked with reviews declaring he has made perhaps the best start to a Power player's career but possibly played the best first 50 games in the VFL-AFL.

WINGARD ALIVE IN WINNING TIME

Haydn Bunton senior, who won two Brownlow Medals before his 50th VFL game at Fitzroy, and John Coleman, who cracked the ton twice before his 50th at Essendon, probably have Wingard covered on the best 50 of all-time.

PRINCE OF POWER: CHAD WINGARD

But the debate does change if the field is restricted to the young guns who have emerged as the game's stars since the VFL expanded to a national AFL with the advent of the Crows in 1991.

Tredrea was the last wunderkind at Alberton. A member of the Power's inaugural AFL squad in 1997, Tredrea gained national attention in just his eighth AFL game when he was 19. His 17 marks, 8.4 and dislocated kneecap at Princes Park in the Power's 89-point win against Carlton on May 8, 1998 marked the arrival of a super star.

Chad Wingard marks against the Cats in Round 6. Picture Simon Cross Source: News Corp Australia

Tredrea was still developing his body when he tormented the Carlton defence. There had been other South Australians who had made their first 50 VFL games draw rave reviews at Princes Park, but Stephen Kernahan and Craig Bradley arrived with maturity in body and mind after serving the 100-game apprenticeship in the SANFL.

"Chad's still not in a man's body ... but he plays like a mature recruit," notes Tredrea. "His hand-to-foot speed under pressure is as good as I've ever seen."

Wingard already has All-Australian honours, earned in his second AFL season. At 20, he last year claimed the Port Adelaide best-and-fairest title — the youngest at Alberton since Bradley's triumph in 1982.

"He is a jet ... and he could go down as one of the greats of SA football," Tredrea said. "It is all up to him. He has the talent — and now he has to keep going."

Geelong and North Melbourne premiership forward Cam Mooney watched Wingard from the boundary on Saturday as a Fox Footy Channel commentator and notes: "Everytime the ball is in Port Adelaide's forward line Chad Wingard can do something special for his team. Those type of players do not come along very often."

Power coach Ken Hinkley has worked with some of the game's greatest young talent during his long tenure as an assistant coach — from Brownlow Medallist Gary Ablett at Geelong to Gold Coast, Joel Selwood and Steve Johnson at Kardinia Park and the prime draftees gathered by the Suns in Gold Coast's inaugural squad.

"Chad's a great player who's going to get better, I know he's going to get better — that's a given," he said. "I've been around some really talented players in my time and that's great that I've been able to experience that, only thing I will say is that if you drop off you won't get where you want to go.

"Chad won't drop off."

Chad Wingard in his 50th game. PIC SARAH REED. Source: News Corp Australia

And Hinkley will not let Wingard rest on his laurels in his next 50 games — nor rest at all. When Wingard sought to find refuge on the interchange bench in the third term on Saturday after kicking a goal, Hinkley sent him back to the field.

"He was exhausted, but I told Chad to suck it up and get back out there," Hinkley said reaffirming he does not play favourites at Alberton.

"One of Chad's great strengths is he can show his exhaustion pretty easily and the world can see it. Sometimes Chad has to learn to go harder and to go again. So I sent him back out there. He was a little upset for a moment."

Within the Power player group Wingard has gained respect for not putting himself above the team — and the team's needs and goals.

"Chad is a special player.," said Port defender-ruckman Jackson Trengove. "But he also is such a humble player. He always just wants to do what was asked of him whether that is to kick goals or put on defensive pressure he does. That is the impressive thing about him, it is not about Chad Wingard.

Brad Ebert, John McCarthy, Jarrad Redden and Chad Wingard celebrate a win in 2012. Source: News Limited

"If you ask him he is all about the team and what he can do to help us win. It is all about that winning feeling not individual things you get."

Football has a cruel graveyard of 50-game sensations whose stars burn out quickly. Gilbert McAdam at St Kilda. Allen Jakovich at Melbourne.

Wingard seems primed to make a stronger impression in his second 50 AFL games, if only by his preference to avoid the limelight, as Tredrea has noticed.

The opportunist forward — who still could emerge as a significant midfielder in the Power's deep-running engine — has a telling knack of imposing himself on a game when defenders think they can draw breath again. Wingard's second halves — in particular in the second Showdown last season and his four goals against the Dockers on Saturday — leave the impression of the Murray Bridge-Sturt recruit teasing the moment in a game.

"No, I don't think I wait for the moment," Wingard said. "I am trying to do whatever I can 100 per cent of the time — I'm not trying to slack off when the game is over. I am really trying 100 per cent of the time.

"There is always a moment when I can make a spoil or a tackle. But the whole team is doing that, not just me."


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ASADA needs more proof to charge Bombers

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 15 Mei 2014 | 14.58

Richard Hinds, Paul Kent and Todd Balym discuss the implications for NRL and AFL players as ASADA steps up its investigations into misuse of supplements.

Stephen Dank was guest speaker at a sportsman's lunch at Burleigh Sports Club. Pic by Luke Marsden. Source: News Corp Australia

ASADA must put up stronger evidence than is on the public record to make a charge of thymosin beta 4 use stick to Essendon players.

In the absence of a positive test, ASADA must build strands of evidence to show "use or attempted use" of a banned substance.

Evidence such as doctors' prescriptions, filled scripts from pharmacists, witness statements — possibly from the person who injected players — and any admission from an athlete or support person could add up to the smoking gun that was missing when the AFL and ASADA ceased their joint investigation last August.

Former Essendon sports scientist Stephen Dank stated yesterday that he did not administer thymosin beta 4 or any banned drug to Essendon players and he "looked forward to ASADA putting up its evidence".

PLAYERS FEELING STRAIN: SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST

The league used part of ASADA's interim report to build a circumstantial case of thymosin beta 4 use when charging Essendon for governance breaches in August.

But in a paper published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine published in March this year, AFL chief medico Peter Harcourt and integrity boss Brett Clothier admitted the league had not established which players were given which substances and in what doses.

ASADA has continued its investigations since then, and the Herald Sun yesterday reported Bombers players would be issued show-cause notices asking why they should not be put on the Register of Findings over alleged use of the peptide thymosin beta 4.

The club has stated its confidence that players were given the permissible thymomodulin, and not the banned substance.

ESSENDON SUPPORT STAFF IN ASADA'S SIGHTS

Dank has not cooperated with ASADA and player interviews were completed during the time the AFL was active in the investigation.

As an annexure to the governance charges against Essendon, the AFL released a 34-point document that refers to a series of text and email exchanges between Dank and "Dr Ageless" Shane Charter, as well emailed instructions from Charter to compounding pharmacist Nima Alavi and Dank on how to prepare and use thymosin beta 4.

Thymosin was also listed on consent forms signed by Bombers players in 2012, but the variant of the peptide to be given was not specified.

The National Anti-Doping Scheme which deals with "use or attempted use" reads: " It is each athlete's personal duty to ensure that no prohibited substance enters his or her body. Accordingly, it is not necessary that intent, fault, negligence or knowing use on the athlete's part be demonstrated in order to establish an anti-doping violation for use of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method.

"The success or failure of the use or attempted use of a prohibited substance or prohibited method is not material. It is sufficient that the prohibited substance or prohibited method was used or attempted to be used for an anti-doping rule violation to be committed."


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Crows primed for Oval night battle with Pies

Adelaide star Taylor Walker takes it all in his stride at training. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: News Corp Australia

Adelaide skipper will lead Crows' first night match at Adelaide Oval on Thursday against Collingwood. Picture: SARAH REED. Source: News Corp Australia

ADELAIDE will unveil a forward line it believes will become the envy of the competition as Taylor Walker returns and upgraded rookie Charlie Cameron makes his debut.

The moves come after a busy selection meeting, which left veteran Brent Reilly stranded on 199 games and having to fight his way back through the SANFL.

Sitting on a 3-4 record and coming off a loss to the battling Melbourne, coach Brenton Sanderson finally has the attack he had envisioned when he planned for the season over summer.

He believes it is the springboard for a Crows revival as it hunts a finals spot.

"We've had some challenges this last 12 months,'' Sanderson said. "We've had some very different-looking forward lines and we've had some different players going through there.

"But I think our forward line now would have to be the envy of a lot of clubs. When you look at (Josh) Jenkins, (James) Podsiadly, (Eddie) Betts — unfortunately Tommy Lynch is out with a broken jaw but that forward line looks pretty dangerous..

"If we can get the ball in there often enough and if we can get it in with a bit of time and space, I think that will give the opposition a few headaches.''

The obvious boost to the side is Walker, who has been among the club's best players in his two games for the Crows' SANFL side, after 12 months on the sidelines after a knee reconstruction from Round 5 against Carlton at the MCG last season.

Charlie Cameron training with the Crows at Adelaide Oval. PIC SARAH REED. Source: News Corp Australia

Sanderson said Walker would bring an enormous emotional boost to the side and also expected him to be at his best after his rehabilitation work and matches in the SANFL.

"It's great to get `Tex' back; it's been a long 12 months for our fans,'' Sanderson said. ``And also, too, for us internally. He's the spirit of our football team, Tex, and it's a credit to him ... he hasn't put a foot wrong in his rehab and his recovery process and I'm really looking forward to seeing the No. 13 run out for us.

"There's going to be an enormous noise here anyway with a sellout crowd here for Collingwood on a Thursday night but the fact that `Tex' is going to run back out for us after being out for more than 12 months is just going to be awesome for our fans. We can't wait to see him back out there.

"He's a real spark for us. As I said, he's the spirit of our football team and when he's up and about, when he's playing well, we typically play well as a football team.

"What we've seen in the state league has been really promising and really exciting. He's stronger, he looks fitter than before he got injured. But we have to wait and see.

"I'm sure he's going to kick some goals for us at some point during the night. Hopefully that's early in the game and that can really get us rolling.

"Now that we're playing him he has to play as if it's any other game. We can't afford now to have him in cotton wool as he prepares to play. The shackles are off, no more time restrictions. Now it's time to play and perform.''


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Danger holds no fears of Magpie’s tag

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