Adelaide’s chance to break streak of sadness is at hand in this year’s AFL finals | Geoff Lemon

Winning a premiership would not heal the hurt felt after the death of Phil Walsh 10 years ago but it would mean something to someDuring finals sign up for our free weekly AFL newsletterGiven how appealing humans find metric milestones and closure, there exists a nice thought about an awful story. Adelaide finished this year on top of the ladder, with a second shot at a preliminary final if they can get past Hawthorn this Friday night. Ten years since former coach Phil Walsh died in 2015, the Crows are a chance of a flag. It would not heal any principal hurts, but it would mean something to some.The mid-season death of a coach would have shaken the club whatever the circumstances, especially after losing assistant coach Dean Bailey to cancer the year before, but Walsh’s case was even harder to fathom given it came from a domestic tragedy: a father fatally injured while his son suffered a psychotic episode. Given that any coaching role has a parental aspect, such a tragedy within a family felt obscenely unfair on all involved. Continue reading...

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