Sunday second AFL Round 17 match is between Adelaide Crows and Geelong Cats with the game to be played at AAMI Stadium. The opening bounce is set to commence at 2.50pm local time with away team Geelong Cats currently holding favouritism. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Adelaide Crows and Geelong Cats.

WHERE AND WHEN: AAMI Stadium, Sunday July 21, 2.50pm

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Opening odds comparison:

Adelaide Crows	4.30	4.50	5.00	4.50	4.30	4.35
Geelong Cats	1.21	1.20	1.17	1.20	1.21	1.23

Preview:

Adelaide take on the Geelong Cats on Sunday, 2.50pm at AAMI Stadium. The Cats will be favourites to win here, with a great three weeks of footy after their loss to the
Lions a month ago. While the Crows started off well against the Magpies last week, they couldn’t keep up the pace and ended up losing by 27 points. They will probably
experience similar problems this week, with a Cats outfit in great form at the right end of the season. While the home ground advantage might make this one closer than
it otherwise would be, Geelong should be able to take the points comfortably.

Teams:

Adelaide Crows:
B: Luke Brown, Ben Rutten, Andy Otten
HB: Rory Laird, Daniel Talia, Brodie Smith
C: David Mackay, Scott Thompson, Rory Sloane
HF: Brad Crouch, Josh Jenkins, Bernie Vince
F: Matthew Wright, Tom Lynch, Jason Porplyzia
Foll: Jacobs van Berlo Douglas
Int (from): Richard Tambling, Luke Thompson, Sam Kerridge, Jarryd Lyons, Mitchell Grigg, Ian Callinan, Ricky Henderson

In: Tambling Callinan L Thompson Grigg Kerridge
Out: Jaensch Dangerfield (shoulder)

Geelong Cats:
B: Cameron Guthrie, Tom Lonergan, Josh Hunt
HB: Taylor Hunt, Harry Taylor, Corey Enright
C: Mitch Duncan, Joel Selwood, Joel Corey
HF: Mathew Stokes, James Podsiadly, Billie Smedts
F: Steven Motlop, Tom Hawkins, Travis Varcoe
Foll: Dawson Simpson, James Kelly, Jimmy Bartel
Int (from): Mark Blicavs, Josh Caddy, George Horlin-Smith, Andrew Mackie, Jordan Murdoch, Jesse Stringer, Nathan Vardy

In: Corey Enright Stokes Vardy
Out: Johnson (suspended)

Crows won’t gift AFL games: Sanderson

Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson says he won’t gift AFL games to players despite his club’s dwindling finals prospects.

Sanderson says he’ll continue to pick a team each week that he expects to win, regardless of Adelaide’s ladder position, rather than offer work experience to his younger players.

“You have got to deserve a game,” Sanderson told reporters on Thursday.

“We won’t pick a player just because we want to have a look at him – that is the wrong message to send to the rest of the group and our fans.

“We will pick a 22 each week which we think is going to be hungry and aggressive and which we expect to win.”

The Crows sit 12th on the ladder, three wins outside the top eight, ahead of a home clash with Geelong on Sunday.

Sanderson conceded that Adelaide, who were beaten preliminary finalists last year, had gone backwards this season when rated purely on wins and losses.

“But I feel like we have got the bones of a really good young side that we’re growing here,” he said.

“We have gone backwards when you look at win-loss and exposure to finals action – we’re not out of it yet, but we’re chipping away in that bottom half (of the ladder).

“But it’s important we finish the year off really well … we have just got to fight it out to the last quarter of the last game, whenever that is.”

Sanderson, who will lose star midfielder Patrick Dangerfield (shoulder) for Sunday’s game, said Adelaide had never felt on top of their season.

“It feels like it has been like that since we were two (wins) and four (losses) … we have been chasing our tail ever since,” he said.

“I haven’t been too disappointed with our form in the past two weeks … it feels like we’re in the game, but we’re not in the game for long enough.

“We just lose concentration at critical times. We make fundamental errors with our skills at really bad times.”