ADELAIDE V PORT ADELAIDEWHERE & WHEN: AAMI Stadium, 7.00pm CST, Saturday 10 SeptemberTV & RADIO: Channel Ten, ABC Radio, Triple M, 5AA, 3AW, NIRS, 6PR, K-RockOUR COVERAGE: live scores, stats & audio, Game Day News Desk, match replay (24 hour delay)HEAD TO HEAD: Played 18 - Adelaide 7 wins; Port Adelaide 11 winsLAST TIME: Adelaide 13.10 (88) def Port Adelaide 12.9 (81), AAMI Stadium, Round 20, 2005FINALS HEAD TO HEAD: Never met in a finalLAST TIME IN A FINAL: Never met in a finalHEAD TO HEAD AT THIS VENUE: Played 18 - Adelaide 7 wins; Port Adelaide 11 winsLAST TIME AT THIS VENUE: Adelaide 13.10 (88) def Port Adelaide 12.9 (81), AAMI Stadium, Round 20, 2005THE MEDICAL ROOM: Adelaide has no new injury concerns arising from last Saturday's loss to St Kilda. The four players on the Crows injured list - Jacob Schuback (shoulder), Matthew Bode (shoulder), James Begley (shoulder) and Ben Hudson (knee) - have been sidelined for several weeks and will not play again this season. Port Adelaide will need to make do without Matthew Primus (knee) and Elijah Ware (knee), while Roger James (knee) and Adam Thomson (corked thigh) face fitness tests. The player the Power is sweating on, however, is Michael Wilson who missed the elimination final win over the Kangaroos with a back injury.THE STORY SO FAR: Adelaide has won 10 of its past 11 matches. Unfortunately, that one loss was last Saturday night at home in the first qualifying final against St Kilda. Adelaide finished the home and away season on top of the AFL ladder for the first time with a 17-5 record, displacing West Coast with a round 22 victory at Subiaco Oval. It was harder going for Port Adelaide (11-10) which was not assured of qualifying for September until the final round. The Power sneaked in two points clear of the Western Bulldogs in eighth place. Since then, however, they have managed to achieve what the Crows have not - a win in September. And what an easy victory it was, by 87 points against the Kangaroos at Telstra Dome in last Sunday's elimination final.THE WHITEBOARD: Adelaide will welcome back captain and 2005 All Australian Mark Ricciuto from suspension and Nathan Bock should return after missing last Saturday night's loss to St Kilda with a virus to restore the Crows to full strength. As good a job as Trent Hentschel did on Nick Riewoldt, Bock will most likely be pencilled-in for the job on Port Adelaide's stand-in skipper Warren Tredrea. The match pits the competition's best defence against a forward line that's finding rhythm and form at the right time, as last Sunday's total of 26 goals against the Kangaroos will attest. Bock's return would allow Hentschel to bolster a forward line that functions best with an even contribution from the designated goal scorers. Both midfields are outstanding and the ruck divisions evenly matched, though the Power have an advantage in being able to count on a goal or four from the versatile Brendon Lade whenever he's thrown forward.THE VERDICT: Just about all of the key indicators point to a comfortable Adelaide win. The Crows were minor premiers, they defeated Port Adelaide twice in Showdowns in the one season for the first time and conceded an average 25 fewer points per match than Port during the home and away season while outscoring Port over the same period. But this is a derby. There are rivalries that run deep and internecine bitterness that predates the nine years these teams have been doing battle in the AFL. And this is a knockout final. What a waste it would be if the Crows were to be bundled out in straight sets after the club's most successful home and away season. What a waste it would be if the Power should prove unable to harness all the passion, experience, drive and self-belief derived from last year's campaign in defence of its crown. Expect a ring-a-ding-ding, no holds barred, good old-fashioned stoush. Adelaide by 17 points.