Walker's milestone shines as Crows host struggling Eagles

At Adelaide Oval on a Saturday afternoon, Taylor Walker stepped onto the field for the 250th time — a milestone of quiet accumulation that most footballers never reach. Around this personal landmark, two teams in contrasting distress met in Round 13: Adelaide, wounded and hovering outside the finals picture, and West Coast, marooned at the ladder's foot yet finding small reasons for hope. Milestones and standings rarely speak the same language, but both remind us that sport measures time in ways the calendar cannot.