Adelaide Crows Football Club - LarNoa Media

This review of Adelaide Crows Football Club was completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 9 April 2014.

About the app

This section contains details about the app provided by an ACCM Reviewer.

ACCM review

This review of Adelaide Crows Football Club contains the following information:

• The level to which the game was reviewed
• App description
• Reviewers comments
• In App purchasing
• Online information
• Gambling
• Advertising and product placement
• Gender stereotypes and sexual references
• Coarse language
• Game playing behaviour which may be of concern to some parents
• Other

The level to which the game was reviewed

Not applicable

App description

The Unofficial Adelaide Crows Football Club App contains a diverse range of features including all the team news, fantasy team news, scores, ladder, fixture, as well as team Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram page links.

Reviewers comments

This app is the unofficial Adelaide Crows Football Club App, and is free to download with no paid sections or shop access. This app is safe for children, and has a wide range of features which will be explored in detail below.

Team-Specific News: This section directs to news stories from Adelaide Crows Telstra Media, which contains individual news stories on players with videos and a range of team-specific text based articles, such as 'Yes to Jaensch'.

AFL News: This section contains non-team specific news and videos from Telstra Media such as: 'Five talking points: Western Bulldogs v Richmond'.

Fantasy News: This section contains news and information relating to individual players such as injuries, bans from playing, and exemplary performances, such as 'His own worst enemy'.

Scores: This section contains live scores from completed matches.

Fixture: This section contains the complete Fixtures for every competing team.

Facebook: This section links to the team's Facebook page, with the option to either “Like” the page, or scroll through the team's recently posted information and updates.

Twitter: This section links to either the official team Twitter page, where individuals can see recent tweets by the team itself, or to the Twitter page of both the AFL Newswire, and the twitter pages of some of the team's most popular players.

Song: this section has the youtube video of the team anthem available to watch with lyrics below, so that individuals can sing along.

Videos: This section links to the team-specific youtube page, where individuals can browse and watch various team-related videos.

Instagram: This section links to the team's instagram page where individuals can see recent photos and comments uploaded by the team for the public.

#GoCrows: This section allows individuals to send photos into the app with the hashtag of #GoCrows.

Overall, this is a comprehensively built unofficial team app, with a large amount of relevant information to any Adelaide Crows supporter.

In App purchasing

This app has no in-app purchasing.

Online information

This app has options to connect via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  As a result, there are many methods of online communication which parents should be aware of. Parents who are concerned about this may wish to carefully monitor their child's use of this app.

Gambling

No gambling content found during the review.

Advertising and product placement

This app features banner ads across the bottom of the in-app window, but all ads are age-appropriate and non-invasive.

Gender stereotypes and sexual references

All genders are represented equally within features such as #GoCrows.

Coarse language

This app contains no coarse language, and appears to be closely monitored.

Game playing behaviour which may be of concern to some parents

This is an information app, not a game.

Other

N/A.

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