{"id":32218,"date":"2016-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/adelaide-crows-surging-with-the-best-says-leigh-matthews-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T00:00:00","slug":"adelaide-crows-surging-with-the-best-says-leigh-matthews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/adelaide-crows-surging-with-the-best-says-leigh-matthews-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Crows surging with the best, says Leigh Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>AFL great Leigh Matthews has heaped praise on the Adelaide footy club, saying the Crows are playing the same way as the league\u2019s best clubs.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThey look like they\u2019re playing the type of footy that the good teams are all of sudden playing \u2013 that surge out of the back 50,\u201d Leigh told the FIVEAA sports show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think of the rockets from other clubs like Adam Saad (Gold Coast) and (Jason) Johannisen from the Bulldogs,\u201d Leigh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey grab the ball and their first thought is to take off with it, and I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leigh said a surging style of play was the key to breaking down an opponent\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can run your 15 metres with it and then use it after the 15 metres, the zone is always out of position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what more and more teams are doing, which is quite exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO LEIGH MATTHEWS HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/257582460&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-crows-offer-glimpse-of-total-team-football-in-showdown-xl-win\">CROWS OFFER GLIMPSE OF TOTAL TEAM FOOTBALL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/jack-snelling-loses-control-of-health-department\">SNELLING LOSES CONTROL OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFL great Leigh Matthews has heaped praise on the Adelaide footy club, saying the Crows are playing the same way as the league\u2019s best clubs. \u201cThey look like they\u2019re playing the type of footy that the good teams are all of sudden playing \u2013 that surge out of the back 50,\u201d Leigh told the FIVEAA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18830,"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":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-32218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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