The Crows coach is only too aware that his players limped away from Subiaco with an 82-point hiding ringing in their ears that day, but Craig is confident that the build-up he has engineered over the past fortnight will see a different outcome this time around.
"We've had a good contrast in the last two weeks versus the last time we played them," Craig said from AAMI Stadium on Friday.
"I just finished watching a bit more of that game over there - round 17 was it? I had to turn it off it was that bad - it made me feel sick - but the last two weeks, I saw a bit of that this morning too and I didn't feel sick (anymore).
"We've used the last two weeks to do some more work on the training track - it was good for us - it enabled us to put work into certain players and it enabled us to back certain players off who had niggling injuries.
"Also from a planning perspective, once we saw the result of last week's game, it gives you an opportunity to do that in a slightly less crammed manner, if you like. It's been a good fortnight for us, our preparation couldn't be better."
Craig won't be afraid to tinker with his gameplan either as he tries to reverse his team's lopsided recent record - one win from the past six matches - against the Eagles.
"I think we're going to have to make some changes and we will do that. Whether those changes are significant enough to be picked up by people in this room or by the supporters - I don't know," he said.
"But there's certainly some things that we need to do differently and we get an opportunity against them in a prelim final to see how they work. It'll be really interesting but, clearly, we need to do some things differently."
The club's headquarters at West Lakes has been abuzz with excitement at the prospect of hosting a preliminary final according to Craig, and he was confident that the home crowd would prove to be an advantage on the day.
The Crows boss was asked how else he might be able to gain an edge against the minor premiers.
"It's going to be a tight game. An edge? It'll be just the way we go about our team footy … that's the only edge if we can get one," he replied.
"We need to put some real pressure on them because if we don't, we know what happens. They're a hardened footy club, they've been around (finals) a long time, they've got some great players, they're well-coached and well-managed - the task is ahead of us.
"I'm confident that if we put our best footy on the ground tomorrow - we're very confident that we can get a result - absolutely."
