Red faces and wet feet at Crows HQ

Whereas the Adelaide Soccer Membership continues to be pondering a transfer to its as-yet-unspecified new digs, its current HQ at West Lakes wanted a clean-up final weekend, after a younger participant doing his finest to be diligent inadvertently discovered himself in a catastrophe film of Hollywood proportions.

Contemplate this situation.

A younger Crows SANFL improvement participant took the chance to place in a little bit of extra-curricular coaching final Saturday, whereas a lot of the remainder of the membership’s focus was on the AFL crew’s impending capitulation to the Giants at Adelaide Oval.

The younger fella in query – whom the membership has not recognized – was having a kick in an upstairs room on the Crows’ West Lakes coaching amenities.

Nonetheless, one significantly formidable mis-kick inadvertently flew roof-high, within the course of knocking the top off a hearth sprinkler.

Catastrophe (and, relying on one’s perspective, hilarity) ensued.

All of a sudden, water was gushing all over the place.

Insiders say the complete constructing runs off the identical circuit, so to the petrified participant it might have seemed like a Biblical flood (to not point out his skilled life) was flashing earlier than his eyes.

To make issues worse, it’s understood the sprinkler additionally tripped a hearth alarm – the membership confirmed {that a} native MFS unit turned up on web site.

All of a sudden this enterprising younger lad’s innocent kickabout had become a full-scale emergency response.

In the meantime, the remainder of the constructing was empty, with the child pondering what to do subsequent.

He managed to boost his crew supervisor, who additionally attended – to seek out the younger participant frantically dragging over wheelie bins to position strategically beneath the geyser.

Evidently he was anticipating an imminent spray of a special kind – however fortuitously there was no lingering harm, apart from to the participant’s delight.

Nonetheless, the artificial grass might need wanted some TLC for a number of days.

Whereas all this was occurring, a catastrophe of comparable magnitude (however considerably much less hilarity, on this reporter’s humble opinion) was enjoying out on the sector at Adelaide Oval.

Fingers crossed for avoiding catastrophe each on and off discipline this weekend.

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