Taylor Walker - Adelaide's new Rising Star?

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Player Details - Taylor Walker
Team: Adelaide Crows
Height: 190cm
Weight: 87kg
DOB: 25-04-1989
NO: 13
State: Broken Hill North - NSW

Round 1 team vs Western Bulldogs


B: Michael Doughty - Nathan Bock - Brad Symes
HB: Brent Reilly - Brad Moran - Graham Johncock
C: Andrew McLeod - Tyson Edwards - Chris Knights
HF: Bernie Vince - Scott Stevens - Nathan VanBerlo
FF: Taylor Walker - Brett Burton - Jason Porplyzia
R: Kurt Tippett - Scott Thompson - Simon Goodwin
INT: Robert Shirley - Andy Otten - Trent Hentschel - Richard Douglas




Adelaide youngster Taylor Walker, will make his AFL debut against the Western Bulldogs at Ethiad Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Walker will line-up next to Brett Burton and Jason Porplyzia in the Adelaide forward line. Running in the pocket, being 190cm its going to be a hard match up for the Bulldogs defence to man up on. By the newspaper, Lindsay Gilbee has been given the job from Rocket Eade to man up on the youngster. Let's see how young Walker will fare in his first match for the Crows. It should be a good contest, and let's see what Walker can do in his first match. It will be a tough ask, as Walker will be playing against one of the league's, best defender in Lindsay Gilbee.​

 

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Crows Goals: Doughty -2, Porplyzia -2, Burton -2, Hentschel -1, Shirley -1, Tippett -1, Walker -1

Crows Best: Johncock, Doughty, Porplyzia, Symes, Bock, Tippett

Crows Disposals: Johncock -28, Bock -23, VanBerlo -23, Symes -22


Taylor Walkers Match

Kicks: 14
Handballs: 1
Marks: 4
Total Disposals: 15
Goals: 1
Behinds: 1
Tackles: 1
Inside 50: 3
Clearences: 3


Taylor Walker's first match up against the Western Bulldogs was a very good debut. Walker finished with 15 possesions and kicked a beautiful goal from 46 metres in a display which impressed Crows fans here today. Walker had been played down forward by coach Neil Craig, but he made most of his possesions around the midfield, and picking up 4 possesions in defence as well. A very agility Walker, ran through the centre and covered over 7.92km which is fantastic for a 190cm bloke. Walker took 4 marks for the match which all turned out to be unconctested, so that shows how free Walker got throughout the match. Walker only played 51 minutes of the match, so got plenty off the ball once he enterened the field.

 

[Covvy]

I think he needs to handball a bit more

 

[punterpupnroy]

Good start mate, as usual your presentation is fantastic and the write ups are well done.

 

[OffCutters]

Great Story so far mate, like how you are only focusing on one player. Great debut for Taylor Walker, could be Adelaide`s new key forward in a few years time. Did well against a more experienced player in Lindsay Gilbee. Good presentation and writing, well done mate. Love your stories.

 

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Round 2 Selection Line-up


B: Ben Rutten - Nathan Bock - Brad Symes
HB: Andrew McLeod - Scott Stevens - Graham Johncock
C: Brent Reilly - Chris Knights - Tyson Edwards
HF: Michael Doughty - Kurt Tippett - Nathan VanBerlo
FF: Taylor Walker - Brett Burton - Simon Goodwin
R: Jonathan Griffen - Scott Thompson - Jason Porplyzia
INT: Robert Shirley - Andy Otten - Trent Hentschel - Richard Douglas

IN: Ben Rutten - Jonathan Griffen
OUT: Bernie Vince (left quad muscle) - Brad Moran (omitted)
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The Adelaide Crows will take on the West Coast Eagles in their round 2 clash at Aami Stadium on Saturday afternoon. These 2 sides have a bit of a history against them two, when 2 years in a row, Adelaide and West Coast made it to the preliminary final. Both years the home match went to Adelaide, and both times, the Crows were defeated by the Eagles to secure a Grand Final spot.
So Adelaide will be looking for revenege when they take on the Eagles at Aami Stadium. Young Taylor Walker has again been named in the forward pocket for the Crows after a very solid debut match against the Bulldogs last week. Walker had 15 possesions and kicked a goal in his debut match. Adelaide have made 2 changes to the side that went down by a point to the Doggies last week, with All-Australian defender, Ben Rutten and Jonathan Giriffen coming into the side, while Bernie Vince will miss this week with a quad injury, and Brad Moran has been omitted back into the SANFL.

For the Eagles, they'll sorely miss their number 1 key forward in Quinten Lynch, as he will miss with a hamstring injury. But the Eagles still have a tall forward line with Adam Hunter, Josh Kennedy, Ashley Hansen, Brent Staker and the number 2 draft pick, Nicholas Naitanui being named in the half forward line. It shall be a cracker of a contest.

 

[Covvy]

We'll lose without the Big Q