Essendon put woes behind them by winning season opener.
Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson looks for answers. Source: Getty Images
ADELAIDE coach Brenton Sanderson says the numbers are as ugly as the result.
The Crows took a beating from Essendon in key areas in their 35-point loss last night.
None concerned Sanderson more than tackling.
After spending a summer with improving Adelaide's tackling as his main priority, Sanderson's players laid just 47 tackles to Essendon's 73.
"The glaring stat for us is the tackles," Sanderson said.
"We couldn't stick tackles, they brushed us away and then they got some easy goals."
Sanderson's next concern was centre clearances, where his much-vaunted midfield was hammered by the Bombers who racked up 18 centre clearances to Adelaide's nine.
"We'll have to work out what exactly went wrong but it probably started in the centre bounce, the numbers there are ugly. They just killed us in centre bounce clearances," Sanderson said.
"We had our A-grade boys in there and unfortunately they got beat."
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Then there were uncontested possessions, with Essendon recording a whopping 49 more than the Crows. And also skill errors, with Adelaide recording 49 clangers for the game.
"If it was a tennis game, you would call them unforced errors," Sanderson said.
"There was times we could only blame ourselves ... we shot ourselves in the foot a lot with unforced errors."
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Sanderson was also worried that Adelaide lacked dash and daring.
"It looked like we were quite stagnant at times, we didn't want to take risks, we didn't want to take the game on," he said.
"We play our best footy when we're dynamic and we take the game on and we accelerate out of contests. That wasn't there."
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