{"id":17864,"date":"2016-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/adelaide-crows-poised-to-land-prize-recruit\/"},"modified":"2016-07-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T00:00:00","slug":"adelaide-crows-poised-to-land-prize-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-crows-poised-to-land-prize-recruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Crows poised to land prize recruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Chief Advertiser footy writer and FIVEAA regular Michelangelo Rucci says the Adelaide Crows are being \u201ctouted across the AFL as the winners\u201d in the race to sign Brisbane Lions captain Tom Rockliff.<\/h3>\n<p>Rockliff has pressed pause on contract talks with Brisbane where he is contracted until the end of next season when he will become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/sport\/afl\/teams\/adelaide\/adelaide-primed-to-resign-josh-jenkins-and-lure-tom-rockliff-from-brisbane-lions\/news-story\/a1c781bb4dbd90a74b2c67b2ba5770c6?login=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adelaidenow.com.au on Thursday night<\/a>, Rucci said: \u201cThe Crows are certainly expected to ask Brisbane during October\u2019s trade talks if Rockliff is available before he gets to make his own call as a free agent in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat impending deal may explain why Crows midfielder Brad Crouch remains without a new contract \u2014 and is repeatedly referred to as a trade option in October\u2019s AFL player market,\u201d according to Rucci.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that another AFL club has decided to abandon its pursuit of Rockliff because \u201cthe chase is already won by the Crows\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rucci said Rockliff\u2019s manager Tom Petroro confirmed his player had met with Adelaide fitness coach Brett Burton, but denied he had visited the Crows\u2019 West Lakes HQ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had a coffee, as mates from their time at Brisbane, while staying at the same hotel. But there is no way Tom has met anyone from the Crows (about a potential move to Adelaide) nor toured the facility there,\u201d&nbsp;Petroro said.<\/p>\n<p>The Adelaide Crows say they won\u2019t be \u201ccommenting on players from other AFL clubs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rucci called the looming deal a \u201cdouble-hit\u201d for Brisbane who he said have failed to lure out-of-contract Crow Josh Jenkins.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/mark-bickley-s-huge-josh-jenkins-news\">In June FIVEAA\u2019s Mark Bickley reported that the Crows were confident of re-signing Jenkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rucci said the Crows believed Rockliff would be a better replacement for veteran midfielder Scott Thompson than Brad Crouch, who could be used in a potential trade to bring Essendon\u2019s Michael Hurley to Adelaide.<\/p>\n<h2>MOST POPULAR<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/adelaide-crows-star-not-a-top-liner-says-leigh-matthews\"><strong>CROW STAR NOT A TOP LINER, SAYS LEIGH MATTHEWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/body-of-missing-teen-found-in-dry-creek\"><strong>MISSING TEENAGER\u2019S BODY FOUND IN DRY CREEK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Advertiser footy writer and FIVEAA regular Michelangelo Rucci says the Adelaide Crows are being \u201ctouted across the AFL as the winners\u201d in the race to sign Brisbane Lions captain Tom Rockliff. Rockliff has pressed pause on contract talks with Brisbane where he is contracted until the end of next season when he will become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-17864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v20.2.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adelaide Crows poised to land prize recruit - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-crows-poised-to-land-prize-recruit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adelaide Crows poised to land prize recruit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chief Advertiser footy writer and FIVEAA regular Michelangelo Rucci says the Adelaide Crows are being \u201ctouted across the AFL as the winners\u201d in the race to sign Brisbane Lions captain Tom Rockliff. 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