The Courier-Mail

1997: Adelaide Crows’ season of resilience

1 THE pivotal moment to the Crows 1997 premiership didn’t happen on grand final day, it didn’t take place on the MCG and it didn’t involve a ball being kicked or a goal being scored. It was the day, ...
The Daily Telegraph

On anniversary of Adelaide Crows’ first AFL premiership in 1997 we look back at effect on South Australia

ADELAIDE had seen nothing like it since The Beatles in 1964 – an estimated 120,000 fans crammed into the CBD to celebrate the Crows’ first AFL premiership, in 1997. On the 20th anniversary, Sports ...
The Daily Telegraph

After 1997 was called by some a fluke, successful defence of the AFL flag became Adelaide’s telling moment

THE critics called the Crows’ 1997 flag a fluke. There was only one way to silence them - win the 1998 Grand Final too. Michelangelo Rucci talks to Malcolm Blight and Mark Bickley about that dramatic ...
Gold Coast Sun

How the Australian Football Hall of Fame gives greater honour to Adelaide’s double-premiership run under Malcolm Blight

MALCOLM Blight’s Crows teams of 1997 and 1998 dominated the AFL finals. Now they also rule in the Australian Football Hall of Fame, writes Michelangelo Rucci. West Coast, Adelaide and Brisbane had ...