Cornes and Healy react as Crows and Power name interesting Showdown teams

The teams are officially in for the Round 8 Showdown clash between Adelaide and Port Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval on Thursday night.

While the sides have opposing records with the Power 5-2 and the Crows 2-5, these games often throw up interesting results.

For the Crows Daniel Curtin makes his debut while Jordon Butts and Brodie Smith return, while the Power are without Aliir Aliir and Sam Powell-Pepper.

SEN Sportsday’s Kane Cornes and Gerard Healy reacted to the teams being released on Wednesday night and discussed Connor Rozee remaining in the team despite the Power skipper suffering a hamstring issue last week.

Cornes: “Ken Hinkley said today, ‘For those people sitting there with the doomsayers saying you're taking a big risk, we are not’.

“I'm really surprised that he's playing because I watched him do the hamstring, go back on, be ineffective and then limp off the ground.

“I said on Monday, ‘Well, it's three weeks, this is a hammy’.

“You're the expert, are you surprised?”

Healy: “I'm surprised … he was grabbing the side of his leg, so it could be the sheath of the muscle or thereabouts.

“They would have had scans done. Ken said he's taking a normal risk, but I'm not sure what he means by that because it's clearly not 100 per cent.

“The issue is what per cent is he and what's he actually damaged.

“He may well have seen Novak Djokovic's physio. So, who knows what's going on with him?

“It's going to be all eyes on him for the first five minutes.”

Cornes: “It will be, he’s such an explosive player as well.”

Check out the teams for Thursday’s clash below - teams now name five on the bench with the sub to be revealed pre-match.

Adelaide

IN: Daniel Curtin, Jordon Butts, Brodie Smith

OUT: Will Hamill (Omitted), James Borlase (Omitted), Luke Pedlar (Injured)

B: Daniel Curtin, Jordon Butts, Brodie Smith
HB: Josh Worrell, Mark Keane, Max Michalanney
C: Mitchell Hinge, Jake Soligo, Jordan Dawson
HF: Lachlan Sholl, Taylor Walker, Josh Rachele
F: Elliott Himmelberg, Darcy Fogarty, Izak Rankine
FOLL: Reilly O'Brien, Rory Laird, Ben Keays
I/C: Luke Nankervis, Brayden Cook, Chayce Jones, Matt Crouch, Ned McHenry

Emerg: Sam Berry, Lachlan Gollant, Lachlan Murphy

Port Adelaide

IN: Ryan Burton, Jed McEntee

OUT: Aliir Aliir (Injured), Sam Powell-Pepper (Injured)
B: Kane Farrell, Brandon Zerk-Thatcher, Dylan Williams
HB: Lachie Jones, Esava Ratugolea, Dan Houston
C: Miles Bergman, Ollie Wines, Willem Drew
HF: Darcy Byrne-Jones, Todd Marshall, Connor Rozee
F: Travis Boak, Charlie Dixon, Willie Rioli
FOLL: Jordon Sweet, Jason Horne-Francis, Zak Butters
I/C: Jackson Mead, Jase Burgoyne, Ryan Burton, Mitch Georgiades, Jed McEntee

Emerg: Dante Visentini, Francis Evans, Jeremy Finlayson

The bounce for Thursday’s game is set for 7:30 pm (AEDT).