Adelaide Now
By Michelangelo Rucci

CROWS midfielder Brent Reilly is battling bone bruising in a knee ahead of Friday night's clash with Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium.
The Crows' chosen tagger has carried the injury since Adelaide's home game against Brisbane on May 29. This setback hurts Adelaide's midfield planning as Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade has confirmed Brownlow Medallist Adam Cooney will resume. Adelaide completed its training this morning with coach Neil Craig declaring forward Kurt Tippett is "very close to selection''. Tippett is carrying a left shoulder injury suffered in the second quarter of the match against West Coast at AAMI Stadium last weekend.

The Sydney Morning Herald
By Robert Grant
EADE to stick it out at the Bulldogs

Embattled Western Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade says he has no plans to quit before the end of the AFL season. Eade was responding to a suggestion from former Bulldogs star Chris Grant that a loss to Adelaide on Friday night might prompt him to leave the Whitten Oval after nearly seven years at the helm. Both Eade and Adelaide coach Neil Craig are under extreme pressure with their sides managing just three wins each this year. The Bulldogs are languishing at 13th on the ladder with the Crows one spot behind.

ABC Adelaide:
By AAP
TIPPETT cleared to play

Kurt Tippet has been cleared of serious shoulder injury and could line up for the Crows this Friday. Scans have cleared Adelaide Crows forward Kurt Tippett of shoulder damage. Tippett was injured during an attempted tackle in Saturday's loss to the West Coast Eagles. He was substituted at half-time. The Crows say Tippett trained this morning and should be available for Friday night's game against the Western Bulldogs in Melbourne.


The Advertiser:
Jordanna Schriever
PATRICK Dangerfield has drawn on his personal grief to call on men to be more aware of cancer risks.

The Crows young gun lost his grandfather Kevin Dangerfield and uncle Peter Hoskins to cancer within weeks of each other in 2006, before he was drafted.
"My uncle Peter found a lump underneath his arm ... and six months later he was dead,"
At the time, Dangerfield's grandfather had also been diagnosed with liver cancer which spread through his body. He passed away shortly before Dangerfield's uncle.
"They died in the space of about six weeks of each other," he said. Dangerfield, who has regular health checks and six-monthly skin checks, is a face of the Cancer Council's Call to Arms campaign, along with Crows captain Nathan van Berlo, as part of International Men's Health Week this week.

Sportal.com.au:
By Paul Barbieri
BURNS denies Crows' link

West Coast assistant Scott Burns hasn't completely shut the door on taking a senior coaching role in Adelaide, although he maintains he's more than happy with the Eagles at present. Former Collingwood captain Burns, a South Australian native, is in his third year with the Eagles, having received some glowing praise about his midfield structures this season from senior coach John Worsfold. And, with Adelaide coach Neil Craig looking to be in increasingly dire straits at the club after four successive losses, Burns has been asked whether he'd apply for the job if it became available.