Adelaide has made just one change to last week’s initial 29-man squad for the trip to Alice Springs on Friday.

Running defender Tony Armstrong has replaced Aaron Kite in the 29 to prepare to play West Coast in the NAB Challenge game on Friday night.

The group will train at AAMI Stadium on Thursday from 10am and a squad of 26 will leave Adelaide on Friday morning.

Kite made his debut for the Crows in last Saturday’s NAB Cup first round match against Geelong Cats at Telstra Stadium. Rory Sloane, Patrick Dangerfield and Chris Schmidt were the three players who dropped out of last week’s squad.

The 29-man squad is: Gill, Moran, Reilly, Thompson, Griffin, Cook, Edwards, Jacky, Doughty, Shirley, Walker, Mackay, Vince, Johncock, Maric, Knights, Otten, McLeod, Stevens, Sellar, Sloane, Dangerfield, Petrenko, Goodwin, Hentschel, Armstrong, Bock, Martin, Schmidt.