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Adelaide starts difficult process of preparing for life ahead
Adelaide has begun the difficult process of looking towards next week's game and the team's return to the field, following the tragic death of coach Phil Walsh.
The Crows' players gathered at the club on Saturday morning, having had dinner together on Friday night with each other and their partners.
Chief executive Andrew Fagan said the players were still grappling with the immediate emotions that their coach's death have prompted, but were looking after each other.
"They're doing OK. Yesterday there was a lot of shock and disbelief as you would expect. There's still a bit of that but I think we're moving through a range of emotions," Fagan said on Saturday morning.
He said the club would make some decisions about who would lead the team through the second half of the season in the next few days. FULL STORY
Police investigate ice link after Cy Walsh charged with Phil Walsh's murder: reports
Police are investigating if the drug ice was linked to the alleged stabbing murder of Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh, according to reports.
The Adelaide Advertiser is reporting detectives are probing if the highly-addictive drug played a part in the death. A photograph has emerged appearing to show some kind of smoking pipe was taken from the scene in an evidence bag by police.
Cy Walsh, who on Friday was charged with his father's murder, has been transferred from Flinders Medical Centre overnight to secure mental health facility James Nash House. FULL STORY
Phil Walsh's 'nomad' son spoke of father's iron will
The son and accused killer of AFL coach Phil Walsh has spent his young life travelling the world in search of deeper spiritual meaning and written of admiring his father's incredible work ethic, something he felt he could never match.
In a vast collection of online diaries, comments and videos spread across the internet and beginning when he was about 20 years old, Cy Walsh has little to say about his family, but speaks of how he couldn't keep up with his father's "iron will power" in everything he did.
"He can wake up incredibly early, own his 50 hour+ per week job, run every day, drop vices like it's no big deal (6 months no alcohol), and study Japanese on the side without flinching," Cy wrote in June 2013. FULL STORY
#putyourscarvesout
Fans are paying tribute to Phil Walsh, posting photos of supporter scarves on doors, in windows, around homes, businesses and sporting grounds.
Thousands of photos bearing the hashtag #putyourscarvesout have been posted across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter as the country comes together in mourning the Adelaide coach.
Phil Walsh remembered: A ‘Hamilton bogan’ who gave as good as he got
PHOTOS, VIDEO: Phil Walsh was just "a scrawny little kid" when the man who would become his early mentor, Paul Cranage, first saw him play football.
It was, however, all the break he needed – Cranage saw in young Phil Walsh an energy and an intelligence that would take the boy to the ranks of Australian Football League royalty. FULL STORY.
Coach's brutal honesty was a breath of fresh air
Few AFL coaches have delivered more in 12 senior games than the half-season Philip Walsh contributed to the sport he so adored.
Few football love affairs have been so passionate, no coaching career cut short so tragically and yet Walsh's contribution to Australian Rules football will be measured over decades and across several generations of young men.
Although it was one of the AFL's longer apprenticeships, once Walsh finally achieved the Adelaide coaching job he seemed born to it. And it is not a cliche to say he was a genuine one-off. The last time I spoke to him was four weeks ago exactly, in a public forum, immediately before Adelaide took on Carlton at the MCG. FULL STORY.
Online tributes flow
The Adelaide Football Club released this touching tribute to coach Phil Walsh on Saturday morning.
The Crows uploaded a montage of Walsh's playing and coaching career to the club's Youtube channel.
On the football field on Friday night, the Hawks toppled the Pies, but there were no celebrations.
You could have heard a pin drop at the MCG when Collingwood and Hawthorn players and coaching staff came together in a moving post-match huddle.
Touching messages are flowing in from right around Australia on our tribute wall.
"Devasting news to wake too. Heartfelt condolences to the entire Walsh Family. The entire football community will be touched by this tragedy. Just one man, but he has touched many. RIP," reader Gail posted.
"Such a tragedy, no family should have to go through such pain. Condolences to his family, friends, and the Adelaide and Port Adelaide football clubs," said reader Sharon.
You can leave your tribute to Phil Walsh here.
Phil Walsh honoured by Premier League giants Liverpool FC
English Premier League giants Liverpool FC have posted a message of condolence to the Adelaide Crows following the tragic death of coach Phil Walsh on Friday morning. Liverpool are set to head to the Crows' home ground, Adelaide Oval, to play A-League side Adelaide United in a pre-season friendly later this month.
Minute's silences in honour of Walsh were impeccably observed at both the AFL, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the NRL, at Pepper Stadium on Friday night. FULL STORY
'It's a call that you never want to get'
For Adelaide, everything changed at 3.30am. For the people who knew, loved and worked with Phil Walsh, football both meant nothing and was the one thing keeping them together early on Friday morning and all the way through the toughest of tough days. But 3.30am was when the Crows chairman received the phone call that still seemed impossible, unthinkable and inconceivable, long after the sun had come up. There's been a tragedy, the police told Rob Chapman, and it involves your coach. "It's a call," said Chapman, "that you never want to get." FULL STORY
A black day for Adelaide
There are no colours today. It's just all black, and to paraphrase Don McLean, this is the day football died.
In 42 years of writing football never has this game been dealt such a crushing blow that has been felt throughout every club and supporter base. People here are laying flowers in respect for Phil Walsh, who died of multiple knife wounds. FULL STORY