SEN footy analyst Terry Wallace fears Adelaide is too offensive to win this year’s premiership.
Adelaide’s flying 4-0 start – the best in the club’s 27-year history – has been spearheaded by an offensive juggernaut that has the club on pace to record its greatest single-season goal average.
The Crows average 19 goals per game in 2017 - up three on last season’s 16-goal average – and rank first in the league for points scored on the back of big home wins over GWS and Essendon.
But Wallace remains unconvinced.
“I fear Adelaide is too offensive to win this year’s premiership,” he told SEN's Hungry for Sport.
“If a couple of sides work them out I don’t know if Adelaide has the defensive aspect to go with them if someone can stop them (from scoring).”
After four matches the Crows are conceding 13 goals per match, up one from 12 conceded in 2016.
The side is yet to restrict any of its four opponents – GWS, Hawthorn, Port Adelaide and Essendon - to less than 80 points.
Wallace highlighted Geelong as a potential thorn in side given its capacity to frustrate the Crows’ scoring.
From two meetings last season the Crows averaged nine goals while kicking two of their three lowest scores of the year. They lost both matches to Geelong by an average of 28 points.
The former Western Bulldogs and Richmond coach believes the key to unravelling the Crows is to not get drawn up the ground defensively and retain shape behind the ball.
Adelaide does meet the Cats until Round 11 at Simonds Stadium in what shapes as a possible Grand Final preview given the two sides currently occupy the top two spots on the AFL table.