Rejoice footy fans! We're through the bye and we are just over 24-hours away until the ball is bounced on the Adelaide Oval to get the 2017 finals series underway.
After 23 grueling rounds, injuries and form have conspired to form a best-22 vastly different to the start of the year for some teams, while others have become bastions of consistency.
So as we begin the four-week journey to Grand Final day, who is in each club's best-22?
Adelaide
FB:ย Jake Lever,ย Daniel Talia, Luke Brown
HB:ย Rory Laird, Jake Kelly, David Mackay
C:ย Rory Atkins,ย Rory Sloane, Brodie Smith
HF:ย Charlie Cameron,ย Taylor Walker, Riley Knight
FF:ย Tom Lynch, Josh Jenkins, Eddie Betts
R:ย Sam Jacobs, Brad Crouch, Matt Crouch
Int:ย Hugh Greenwood, Richard Douglas, Wayne Milera, Mitch McGovern
The Crows have been blessed with injuries this year, even if Rory Sloane is no certainty to play against the Giants. Sloane is yet to train and must be given medical clearance to take the field after he had emergency appendix surgery last week.
Their defence and midfield are both very solid units and provide the grunt necessary to feed the ball to their forwards. While the Crows have quality up and down the field, the forward line is where they excel. Four tall-targets in Taylor Walker, Josh Jenkins, Tom Lynch and Mitch McGovern rotate through the forward line and are supported by quality smalls Eddie Betts and Charlie Cameron making the minor premiers a very potent attacking threat.
