Crows to return to AFL action next week

Adelaide Crows players are still reeling from the tragic death of coach Phil Walsh, but the team will travel to play West Coast in Perth next weekend.

the Hawthorn and Collingwood teams made a tribute to Phil Walsh.

The Hawthorn and Collingwood teams have combined to form a post-game huddle in honour of Phil Walsh. (AAP)

The son of slain Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh has been moved to a mental hospital as the grieving club resolves to return to AFL action next weekend.

Cy Jacob Walsh, 26, is now at James Nash House, a secure mental facility, as police piece together the final moments before his father's stabbing death.

Cy Walsh is charged with the murder of the 55-year-old AFL career coach, who was in his first year in charge of the Crows.

Police believe they argued in the early hours of Friday at their beachside Adelaide home in Somerton Park.

Cy Walsh entered no plea at a bedside court hearing in the Flinders Medical Centre on Friday and will remain in custody until a September 15 court date.

His mother Meredith, who sustained leg injuries, was at the same hospital but was discharged on Saturday morning.

Police have refused to comment on reports the drug ice might have been a factor in the killing.

They have appealed for public help in finding a taxi driver who may have seen Cy Walsh, who was arrested in a nearby suburb.

The killing of Walsh has stunned Australia's sporting fraternity.

Adelaide's home match on Sunday against Geelong has been abandoned but chairman Rob Chapman says the club will travel to play West Coast in Perth next weekend.

He says the Crows will probably appoint an interim senior coach on Sunday.

"A few of us gathered this morning to discuss that very issue," Chapman told ABC radio on Saturday.

"It's impossible to go external so people within the club will step up. Everyone is going to have to take on big responsibilities."

The Crows' hierarchy were bunkered at their West Lakes headquarters on Saturday for further emergency meetings on how to deal with the tragedy.

"It's not something you can plan for," Crows chief executive Andrew Fagan told reporters outside the club.

Players arrived from 8am, passing a makeshift shrine to Walsh at the door to the club where fans had laid hundreds of flowers, cards, football jumpers, scarves and beanies.

"We wanted to make sure everyone was OK and remind them of the support services that are available," Fagan said.

"And have a couple of meetings and do a little bit of exercise as a way of working through the grief process and returning to a routine that they are used to."

The AFL is staging other matches this weekend and Fagan said the Crows were touched by Friday night's tribute to Walsh by Collingwood and Hawthorn after their MCG game.

"It has been overwhelming," he said.


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