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- ↑ "Draft Wrap: Crows secure exciting talent". Adelaide Football Club . 25 November 2022.
- ↑ "Adelaide Crows vs Fremantle Dockers - AFL Round 1, 2022". Fox Footy . 20 March 2022.
- ↑ "Soligo signs long-term extension". Adelaide Football Club . 16 June 2023.
- ↑ "Adelaide Crows Football Club Player List". FootyWire. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
- ↑ Waterworth, Ben; Laughton, Max (31 January 2024). "Crows blows as star cops repeat of gruesome injury; Dee in doubt for opener: AFL Track Watch". Fox Sports.
