Adelaide Crows coach Brenton Sanderson says his side is 'not getting it done where it counts'.
Crows coach Brenton Sanderson runs off the ground with injured forward Taylor Walker on crutches behind him. Picture: Wayne Ludbey. Source: Herald Sun
ADELAIDE coach Brenton Sanderson was filthy yesterday as he came to terms with one of club's greatest strengths - contested football - had become a liability.
The headline from the Melbourne Cricket Ground match yesterday was key forward Taylor Walker hurting his right knee in a marking contest as the Crows sunk to a 32-point loss to Carlton.
The diagnosis on Walker will not be handed down until he has scans tomorrow on what looked to experts as a torn or ruptured posterior cruciate ligament.
But the diagnosis on the Crows' poor form yesterday was evident by the numbers and Sanderson didn't mince words: they were beaten everywhere.
"The damning stuff for me is the contested ball one," Sanderson said. "Because that's something that this club's really proud about.
"We were the No.1 contested ball club in 2012; I'm not sure where we sit now in 2013.
"But minus 41 (41 fewer contested possessions than the opposition) in a game where that's our strength show that we were badly beaten inside the contest. That's probably the area, thinking out loud, where we really need to knuckle down.
"Nothing much went right for us today, unfortunately.
"We did see that the writing was on the wall before the injuries (Luke Brown also came off after being concussed).
"Nothing went our way. We made fundamental errors. We got beaten inside the contest and outside the contest. You know, minus 41 contested ball, minus, 33 or whatever it was, uncontested ball. So we got beat inside and outside.
"We gave them a five-goal head start.
"We gave them too much space at times. That's what they wanted; they wanted space over the back, to empty out their forward line and we gave that to them too often.
"(Jeff) Garlett kicks four, (Chris) Yarran three. That's what we didn't want; we didn't want those boys to pop up.
"We gave up 65 inside 50s. We're not getting it done at the moment.
Sanderson was not in a position to provide any further detail over Walker's injury last night as the key forward hobbled around the change rooms on crutches.
Speculation has varied widely, and the Crows last night sent out a briefing to media outlet all they were certain of was that he had sustained a right knee injury and would provide an update after he had his scans.
But Sanderson did concede the early injuries had caused a headache to the coach's box, which was forced to shuffle the magnets around and found six goals from regular defenders Andy Otten and Matthew Jaensch.
"I'm not sure," Sanderson said of the Walker injury. "The doctors still won't know until he has scans.
"There's speculation, I know, in our change room and the media too. Things will be a bit clearer for us on Monday.
"Fingers crossed that it's not long term."
"But it's difficult. You lose a player who's pivotal to your forward structure early. We did our very best to change our structure forward of the ball and it wasn't until after half time that we started to get that structure back again.
"I don't think (Sam) Jacobs and (Josh) Jenkins came off the ground after half-time. We just did them forward and ruck and rotated.
"When we do our `what-if' meetings ... we don't like it when we lose a key forward. That becomes pretty much panic stations and we got that today early."
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