{"id":12087,"date":"2018-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/coach-don-pyke-says-taylor-walker-has-turned-a-corner\/"},"modified":"2018-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:00:00","slug":"coach-don-pyke-says-taylor-walker-has-turned-a-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/coach-don-pyke-says-taylor-walker-has-turned-a-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Don Pyke Says Taylor Walker Has Turned A Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide Crows coach <strong>Don Pyke<\/strong> says he is confident <strong>Taylor Walker<\/strong> will turn around his on-field form after limited preparation coming back from injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cHe has turned the corner a little bit,\u201d Pyke said on Thursday. \u201cIt is fair to say he came back after not much pre-season and played really well in the first game against Richmond &#8212; and as is normal with guys who have not done a lot of pre-season.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cMaybe his load and his build-up was a bit quicker than his body was ready to cope with.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cHe has turned the corner a bit this week, trained well the other day. So we are really confident with Tex this week.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Pyke conceded that vice-captain Rory Sloane was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Adelaide-Crows-Drop-Some-Team-Selection-News\">still a bit sore<\/a>\u201d and hadn\u2019t been playing at his usual standard in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cHe is one we have to look at as to what is best for Rory &#8212; and best for the team &#8212; to give him a chance to perform and play at the level we know he is capable of.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cClearly in the last couple of weeks, as much as he has been really willing, his body is not in the space it needs to be to perform the way we know Rory Sloane plays.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crows coach Don Pyke faces tough decisions on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Adelaide_FC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Adelaide_FC<\/a> line-up to play Sydney <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTiserSport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheTiserSport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EPhnVE7379\">https:\/\/t.co\/EPhnVE7379<\/a><\/p>&mdash; michelangelo rucci (@michelangeloruc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michelangeloruc\/status\/986753670808190977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide Crows coach Don Pyke says he is confident Taylor Walker will turn around his on-field form after limited preparation coming back from injury. \u201cHe has turned the corner a little bit,\u201d Pyke said on Thursday. \u201cIt is fair to say he came back after not much pre-season and played really well in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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