Adelaide will contemplate tagging star Geelong interceptor Tom Stewart because the Crows try and rapidly bounce again from their heartbreaking one-point AFL loss to Collingwood.
Stewart is coming off 26 disposals and 12 marks towards Essendon and since getting back from an opening-round knee harm has averaged 24.4 touches and eight.8 marks.
Midfielder Ben Keays went to Collingwood wunderkind Nick Daicos, protecting him to a season-low 27 disposals, and Adelaide may make use of an analogous tactic towards Stewart on Saturday.
“We definitely look at Stewart. He’s an outstanding player and very influential across half back,” Crows coach Matthew Nicks instructed reporters.
“Keaysy’s weapon is he likes to have a job. He likes to have something that he’s gonna look after and it may be that he looks at Stewart this week.”
Rory Laird (managed) missed Wednesday’s coaching however Nicks was assured he would to be match to face the Cats at GMHBA Stadium.
Taylor Walker and Rory Sloane will seemingly be managed in some unspecified time in the future however it’s unlikely to be this week.
“At this point we’d like those guys to play,” Nicks stated.
“We want to go down there and have a real crack at Geelong.
“Their type’s top-shelf for the time being they usually’re taking part in some nice footy. We have not received down there since 2003.
“So we want to go down there on a mission and really take on the best – we feel like at the moment their performances warrant that sort of tag.”
Adelaide led Collingwood for many of Sunday’s match and trailed for the primary time when Steele Sidebottom kicked the profitable level with 30 seconds left.
“It hasn’t affected our confidence at all,” Nicks stated.
“We’re not leaping on the loss.
“At the identical time we all know we have got to enhance however we will go down with some actual confidence and tackle Geelong.”
Nicks admitted he shouldn’t have substituted out Jake Soligo for Harry Schoenberg.
“We bought a variety of issues improper in key moments in direction of the tip,” he stated.
“But in all probability our largest studying out of all of it was the stuff we bought proper.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
