Daniel Talia fists the ball away from Lance Franklin. Picture Sarah Reed. Source: Sarah Reed / News Corp Australia
"WHAT'S hurt us has been our turnovers and our skill level. We've killed ourselves when we've had the ball.''
With those words defender Daniel Talia summed up Adelaide's Turnover Terror which has condemned it to a horror 0-3 start to the season.
The winless Crows have not hidden from the fact they are shooting themselves in the foot with basic errors which opposition clubs have taken full advantage of.
"You've got all the stats to show it,'' Talia said. "Turnovers have killed us.''
The statistics make damning reading for Adelaide.
The Crows' turnover scoring differential is the worst in the league — by a long way.
Brenton Sanderson's team has a minus 148 points turnover differential, conceding a competition-high 277 points after turning the ball over and scoring just 129 points from opposition turnovers.
Daniel Talia is all set to stand Saint Kilda forward Nick Riewoldt. Picture Mark Brake Source: News Corp Australia
Adelaide is paying a heavy price from turnovers in its own half of the ground.
While it ranks third for turnovers in its defensive half — where teams can quickly hurt you — its biggest concern has been giving the ball back to the opposition forward of centre.
Champion Data stats reveal the Crows are the easiest team to score against when they cough it up in their half of the ground.
In cricketing strike rate terms, Adelaide has an average of 118.8 points per 100 turnovers against.
The AFL average is 51 points per 100 turnovers, highlighting just how bad the Crows are at defending a turnover.
They are the easiest team to take the ball from the back half to inside 50 against at 35 per cent.
Once inside 50, teams are scoring a goal 36.5 per cent of the time against Adelaide — the highest in the competition.
To put this figure into context, high-flying, unbeaten West Coast has a strike rate of only 23.2 per cent.
The Crows have conceded a staggering 164 points from 138 turnovers in their forward half.
The Eagles have given up just 29 points from 125 turnovers in their half of the ground, showing how much better they are defensively at shutting down the opposition once they turn the ball over.
Matthew Jaensch — while enjoying a solid season at half-back — has been the Crow most hurt by his turnovers.
They have cost Adelaide five goals.
Midfielder Richard Douglas has been directly responsible for 25 points conceded from turnovers (4.1), ruckman Sam Jacobs 24 points (4.0) and half-back Brodie Smith 23 points (3.5).
"We've just been missing easy kicks that we would usually hit — and easy handballs,'' Talia said of the turnover crisis which has plagued the club.
"We've been hurting ourselves. In modern footy you can't afford to turn the ball over because teams are so good at punishing you the other way.''
Talia, who is at a loss to explain why the Crows' skills have been so poor this season, knows if the trend continues their hopes of making the finals will be shot.
"It is something we can fix,'' Talia said after the team trained in preparation for Sunday's clash against St Kilda at Etihad Stadium.
"It's just about us getting back to the basics and doing the fundamentals well. It's not too complicated, we've just got to hit our skills this week and I think that will go a long way towards keeping us in the game and hopefully winning.''
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