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Taylor Walker injury sours Adelaide's win over Gold Coast

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Adelaide have cruised to a 48-point victory over Gold Coast but the AFL win came at a cost, with captain Taylor Walker suffering a hamstring injury and wingman David Mackay hurting his leg.

Walker kicked two goals before hurting his left hamstring late in the second term on Saturday night and sat out the second half of the Crows' 16.14 (110) to 9.8 (62) victory in front of 44,835 at Adelaide Oval.

The big spearhead is Adelaide's seventh hamstring victim this season, following Eddie Betts, Matt Crouch, Kyle Hartigan, Kyle Cheney, Sam Gibson and Lachlan Murphy - a number that rises to eight if Mackay's leg complaint is confirmed as a hamstring.

Crows Tom Lynch and Richard Douglas slotted three majors apiece, Rory Laird (34 disposals) continued his leather-poisoning ways and Wayne Milera (33 possessions) enjoyed his most prolific outing in Adelaide colours.

Matt Crouch, playing his first game in a month following a hamstring injury of his own, made up for lost time with 14 first-quarter possessions (30 in total) as Adelaide slammed the first three goals and led by 15 points at quarter-time.

The Crows turned it on in with a dominant 6.3 to 1.3 second stanza, extending their advantage to 45 points when Cam Ellis-Yolmen kicked a goal after the half-time siren.

The Suns were more fluent and accountable immediately after the break, pegging the deficit back to 26 points on the back of three successive majors.

Midfield bull David Swallow (three goals, 31 touches, 13 tackles) appeared to play a lone hand for much of the night as Adelaide recomposed themselves and romped home in the fourth to their 11th win from as many matches against Gold Coast, despite the absence of Walker and the late-game exit of Mackay.

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