Then Ben Keays – in scenes harking back to Andrew Symonds’ iconic shoulder-barging of a streaker in a one-day worldwide towards India on the Gabba – collared the sphere rusher, who was duly swarmed upon by a military of redcoats and marched out of the stadium.
“It’s actually disappointing and it’s harmful,” Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks mentioned.
“Pitch invaders … I don’t perceive it. It’s somewhat regarding.
“I took the chance to take a look on the pc to see the place we may very well be higher, so I didn’t get have a look at what performed out.
“It’s disappointing to see somebody, nowadays, nonetheless runs out on the footy subject. I don’t get it.”
Nicks stopped in need of admonishing Crouch and Keays for bodily manhandling the invader, who faces a minimal three-year ban from Adelaide Oval.
“There’s excessive threat in that,” he mentioned. “There’s the harmful a part of somebody being on a footy subject, particularly when the sport’s going, to be proper in amongst it.
“The hazards are enormous, not just for our gamers however moreso for that particular person, to be sincere.”
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