What do premiership favourites Collingwood and cellar-dwellars North Melbourne have in widespread?
Plenty, in line with Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks.
The eighth-placed Crows host North, sitting seventeenth, on Saturday, in search of to rebound from their two-point loss to ladder-leaders Collingwood final weekend.
And regardless of the discrepancy between the Roos and Pies, Nicks is on excessive alert.
“(North) are playing a style of footy that some of the best teams in the comp are playing, very similar to Collingwood,” he advised reporters on Friday.
“They’re taking the game on, attacking off intercept, they’re scoring from stoppage.”
Nicks has scrutinised the Kangaroos’ final sport, a 21-point loss to the Western Bulldogs earlier than they’d a bye final weekend.
“They were in the Bulldogs game, that game was tight,” he mentioned.
“And there’s key moments that you’re getting the third and fourth quarter where you look at what the Bulldogs are able to do … they were able to get the job done.
“Similar to these sides sitting up the highest, the competitors is so even and it is small moments in video games that make a distinction.”
Nicks was also mindful of the Crows’ last encounter with the Roos, at Adelaide Oval in round 22 last year.
The scores were tied at three-quarter-time before Adelaide booted five goals to none in the last term.
North midfielder Luke Davies-Uniacke was a powerful performer in that game, with his 37 disposals featuring 11 clearances, 10 inside-50s and a goal.
“There’s so many proficient gamers … that may win the sport off the street – he is one,” Nicks mentioned.
“Hard to cease … he is bought velocity and energy, so we’ll take a look at that.
“There’s a couple of different ways.
“You can attempt it with one v one (however) we might wish to go in moreso from a group viewpoint the place you set numerous work into these form of gamers so your form holds up.
“That’s how we’ll look at it to start with … but like any game, if things change we’ve got plan B, plan C, plan D in place.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
