{"id":11087,"date":"2018-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/don-pyke-backs-adelaide-crows-captain-taylor-walker-2\/"},"modified":"2018-08-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:00:00","slug":"don-pyke-backs-adelaide-crows-captain-taylor-walker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/don-pyke-backs-adelaide-crows-captain-taylor-walker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Pyke Backs Adelaide Crows Captain Taylor Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Crows coach Don Pyke has expressed his \u201cadmiration\u201d for club captain Taylor Walker and says a call on the leadership will be made at the usual time.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn fairness to Tex he has soldiered on really bravely under a lack of a pre-season,\u201d Pyke said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care who you are, if you don\u2019t get that solid base under you the game is too difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am full of admiration for what he has done for the team, the care he has showed to put himself out there continually and lead the way he has.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of the decision around all those sort of things, the leadership group, that will happen in the next pre-season.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pyke also said the club would not revisit the contentious mind training style of camp the club embarked on last pre-season.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe may have a camp but it might be a different camp, it will probably be more a physical performance camp than, say, the one we did this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don Pyke says Adelaide won\u2019t \u2018repeat\u2019 its failed mental focus strategy but backs Taylor Walker\u2019s captaincy. 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