Adelaide keeping eye on the prize

WITH her AFLW premiership defence hinging on others, Adelaide coach Bec Goddard is keeping a simple focus.

Her Crows need other results to fall their way and then beat Collingwood on Sunday to reach the grand final.

“The short summary is, we need to win,” Goddard said.

The winner of Saturday’s clash between Western Bulldogs and Melbourne will secure a grand final spot.

Adelaide’s best chance of defending their title is for Brisbane to beat Greater Western Sydney on Sunday night, then defeat Collingwood.

But if GWS win, the Crows are still a chance – though a remote one because they would have to down Collingwood by a massive margin.

“When we talk about how we’re preparing this week, the focus will be on winning the game rather than we have got to pile on six, seven, eight, nine, 10 goals,” Goddard said.

“Because I think as soon as you start talking about that, you’re not going to get the result you want.

“We have got a pretty scary team ahead of us. If Collingwood had another two weeks, I think they would be right in the hunt.”