“The sorrow and distress felt today touches many in our industry because Phil Walsh gave such a lot to our game”, he said.
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Crows chief executive Andrew Fagan said there was disbelief within the club. “The point is just to get people through today”. “It’s really hard to comprehend”.
“Together with the Roughy (Roughead) stuff that our players had to deal with over the course of the week, to get a win in those circumstances, we’re enormously proud how we handled the week”.
Walsh, 55, was found with multiple stab wounds at his family’s Somerton Park home at 2am.
The son, Cy, was undergoing a mental health assessment and was expected to face a bedside hearing later in the day.
“It is not fair to ask the young men of the Adelaide Crows or the Geelong Cats to play in these circumstances”.
“Phil Walsh was a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm, and his death is a tragic loss”.
“We can’t speak to the son at this stage and obviously [the] wife is receiving treatment so as the investigation unfolds, I’m sure we’ll find out exactly what happened”.
Supt Bray said the domestic incident was a tragedy.
“It is not just that he is a high profile person”. No charges had been laid.
“This is a decision of the competition, as a mark of respect to Phil Walsh“.
Superintendent Des Bray told reporters outside Walsh’s home that there had been an argument. “I lost that connection and I’m trying to reconnect with my son, which I have done”.
Tributes to the Crows late head coach Phil Walsh are left outside AAMI Stadium.
Walsh’s death has shocked Adelaide and the AFL. He was appointed Crows coach in the 2014 off-season, replacing the fired Brenton Sanderson.
Rioli kicked five goals from ten disposals while laying ten tackles, often bobbing up at important times and successfully filling the void of key forward Jarryd Roughead, who missed the game after having a melanoma removed from his lip.
The former winger had played 122 games in the AFL – and its predecessor, the Victorian Football League – from 1983-1990, representing the Collingwood Magpies, Richmond Tigers and Brisbane Bears.
Walsh was the strength and conditioning coach at the Geelong Football Club, before moving to the Port Adelaide Football Club, as an assistant coach in 1999.
“This is unprecedented”, he told Seven’s Sunrise on Friday morning.
Brisbane Lions CEO Greg Swann said Walsh’s death had shocked all at the Club and across the AFL. It was a speech that resonated with many.
“When we lose someone before their time, we need to acknowledge that”.
“He was a different individual, Phil. He used to rise at 2am and start work about 3am”.
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He then held the assistant coaching roles at Geelong, West Coast, and Port Adelaide.
