Adelaide chief executive Andrew Fagan has backed the Club’s key football department staff while promising fans a thorough review of the team’s 2018 season.
The injury toll has been a talking point for much of the year but Fagan said there were a number of contributing factors.
“We’ve had a bunch of injuries — collision-based injuries — we just haven’t been able to put the same team on the park,” he said on Triple M radio on Sunday.
“But we’ve acknowledged there have been some misses on our part, and players have acknowledged some misses on their part as well, so it’s something that will form part of our learnings for the year and we’ll continue to push and strive to get better.”
Fagan also pointed out that like all clubs, Adelaide is constantly reviewing its operations to ensure it kept pace with the changing face of a competitive AFL landscape.
“We don’t just stay internal and the thing about reviews is you don’t just do one at the end of the year, we review constantly, you’re actually reviewing things on a week-to-week basis,” he said.
“We bring in external people to do that as well, we’ve had leading
He said Adelaide’s struggles in 2018 could not be put down to one individual.
“We’re pretty sure we know what we did right and wrong throughout the course of the year and maybe some things that just worked against us, and people like to identify one individual but rarely is that actually the case,” he said.
“On top of the continuous reviews they’ve done throughout the course of the season they will take the opportunity
