Adelaide seeks new purpose to go with the pride
Clockwise from top left: Adelaide’s 1997 flag; disillusioned Andrew McLeod; current skipper Rory Sloane; the late Phil Walsh. This article is supported by the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas. Civil war ended in South Australia 30 years ago, or so the official records state. The VFL’s “divide and conquer” campaign did break the impasse with a dogmatic (or procrastinating) SANFL on Australian football’s awkward national expansion. The...