Can Crows and Dockers fans set another crowd record this weekend? Currently the biggest-ever attendance for a game between Adelaide and Fremantle is 45,436 at Football Park in Round One, 2003. That remains the biggest home and away crowd the Dockers have played in front of.
Wingman David Mackay is set to play his 150th game at Adelaide Oval on Saturday afternoon. Mackay will become only the 21st player to reach 150 games for the Crows.
If selected, Fremantle onballer Tendai Mzungu will notch game No.100 this weekend.
For the third straight week, the Crows will be out to snap a losing streak against the opposition. Fremantle has won the past four matches between the two sides dating back to 2013.
The Dockers held on for an 11-point win when they travelled to Adelaide Oval in Round Nine last season. On that night, injured Brownlow Medallist Nat Fyfe collected 40 possessions and 14 clearances to earn three Brownlow Medal votes.
It was the same game that Eddie Betts kicked Goal of the Year – a left-foot torpedo in slippery conditions in Indigenous Round.
The Crows and Dockers have met a total of 34 times. Adelaide leads overall, 19 wins to 15.
Fremantle will be searching for its first win of the season this weekend, while the Crows will be aiming to claw their way back into the top eight with their fourth victory of 2016.
The Dockers rank equal-fourth in the competition for tackles, averaging 72 per game.
Fremantle is averaging the fewest forward 50ms entries of any team, but are quite efficient once inside the arc, scoring from 52.3 per cent of entries – ranked fifth overall.
The Crows average only 2.8 disposals inside 50m per goal – the fewest of any team this season.
All Australian defender Daniel Talia leads the competition in spoils (47).
Matthew Pavlich has been the target of 43 Fremantle inside 50ms this season – more than double the next most targeted Dockers player, Michael Walters, on 18. Walters leads the Club’s goalkicking with 10.
Prolific Dockers midfielder Lachie Neale is ranked fourth in total disposals this season with 155. Crow Scott Thompson (147) is 13th in the competition. Neale is also fifth for contested possessions (73) and equal-fourth in hard ball-gets (33).
Fremantle defender Lee Spurr has taken 41 marks – also ranked fourth in the League.
Wingman Stephen Hill has generated 28 inside 50ms – ranked equal-sixth after five rounds. Hill is eighth for metres gained this season (2,627), while Crow Brodie Smith is third (3,147).
Crow Rory Laird has won more ground balls in defensive 50m than any other player (22).
The lowest score ever kicked against the Crows was 1.7 (13) by Fremantle at Football Park in Round 15, 2009. Adelaide also recorded its greatest-ever winning margin over the Dockers that night – 117 points.
Adelaide’s highest-ever score against Fremantle was 25.17 (167) in Round Two, 1998. The Club’s lowest score in a clash with the Dockers was 7.8 (50) in 2014.
Darren Jarman holds the record for most Crows goals in a game against Fremantle. Jarman slotted 8.1 in his team’s one-point loss at Subiaco in Round 17, 1998.