The Crows were shell-shocked. If you read Adelaide papers and Crows forums, they all had the champagne on ice expecting a repeat of round 6. Rucci in the Adelaide Advertiser was calling them the "perfect team" .... oops!

It was interesting at half-time during the Ch7 coverage, that the word out of our rooms was that Adelaide players were already arguing with each other and finger pointing despite still being only 9 pts down at that stage. We felt confident we'd go on with it during the second half because the Crows had lost their "team connection".