Both teams come into this game with a season record of 5-7 and sit eleventh and twelfth on the ladder, meaning a win here is vital if they wish to make the finals.

After a tough victory of North, the Suns succumbed to Essendon in their most recent outing (115 – 72).

The Suns will be looking forward to getting back to their home ground where they’ve won 3 from 6 games this year.

It’s a tough month coming up for the Suns with games scheduled against Richmond, Carlton and Collingwood but a win here will give them confidence leading into that period and position them well as their final weeks over competition are against teams positioned low on the ladder.

Adelaide suffered their third successive losing to Richmond at their most recent match and has slipped outside of the eight.

They get the opportunity here to stop the slide and in the process, keep their perfect record against the Suns in tact.

In four previous matches, the closest the Suns have been able to get to the Crows is 57 points. The two most recent clashes resulted in victories to the Crows by 69 and 91 however; the respective form of both sides is significantly different to last year.

Odds comparison by AFL Odds:

Gold Coast Suns	2.15	2.18	2.20	2.18	2.15	2.17
Adelaide Crows	1.70	1.68	1.67	1.68	1.70	1.70

Teams:

Gold Coast Suns:
B: Trent McKenzie, Sam Day, Joel Wilkinson
HB: David Swallow, Rory Thompson, Tom Murphy
C: Matt Shaw, Gary Ablett, Jarrod Harbrow
HF: Karmichael Hunt, Steven May, Aaron Hall
F: Campbell Brown, Daniel Gorringe, Timmy Sumner
Foll: Tom Nicholls, Danny Stanley, Jaeger O’Meara
Int: Greg Broughton, Andrew Boston, Maverick Weller, Dion Prestia
Emerg: Sebastian Tape, Liam Patrick, Kyal Horsley

In: G.Broughton, M.Weller, S.May, K.Hunt, A.Boston
Out: M.Rischitelli (elbow), L.Patrick, L.Russell (hip), J.Hutchins, T.Lynch (knee)

Adelaide Crows:
B: Rory Laird, Ben Rutten, Andrew Otten
HB: Brodie Smith, Daniel Talia, Brent Reilly
C: Matthew Jaensch, Bernie Vince, Rory Sloane
HF: Nathan van Berlo, Josh Jenkins, Thomas Lynch
F: Scott Thompson, Ricky Henderson, Jason Porplyzia
Foll: Sam Jacobs, Patrick Dangerfield, Richard Douglas
Int: Aidan Riley, Luke Brown, Brad Crouch, Matthew Wright
Emerg: David Mackay, Shaun McKernan, Richard Tambling

In: : B.Reilly, A.Riley, B.Crouch
Out: D.Mackay, I.Callinan, S.McKernan