Adelaide midfielder Matt Crouch has been selected to face the Dockers on Sunday at Metricon Stadium.

Crouch was omitted from the Crows’ Round Four side, but has impressed coach Matthew Nicks over the past week.

“Matty has had a fantastic week after some good conversation about where we’re going as a Club,” Nicks said on Friday.

“He’s been up and about, we couldn’t have asked for a better attitude.”

Key defender Kyle Hartigan will play his first senior match of 2020, replacing young Crow Fischer McAsey. 

Nicks said Hartigan’s experience would help limit Fremantle’s tall forward line. 

“Harto has been outstanding at the lower levels,” Nicks said.

“Some of the stuff he’s done off-field, that no one sees… we couldn’t have asked for much more.”

Midfielders Rory Sloane and Chayce Jones have been named in the side, but still face fitness tests before Sunday.

“We have to be careful with Sloaney, he’d play with a broken leg if you’d let him,” Nicks said. 

“We just need to make sure we’re doing the right thing by him. 

“(And) Chayce being a younger guy, we’re mindful of that.

“There is no damage to the knee, but we just want to make sure he’s alright.”

Elliott Himmelberg has also been omitted from the side.

Adelaide will face Fremantle at Metricon Stadium on Sunday at 1.05pm (AEST).

The match will be televised live on Fox Footy and delayed on Channel 7 at 3pm, after The Optus Crows Show at 2.30pm (ACST).

Adelaide’s Round Five team is:

In: Crouch M, Hartigan
Out: Himmelberg, McAsey

B: Kelly, Talia, Brown
HB: Laird, Smith, Doedee
C: Crocker, Jones, Lynch
HF: Murphy, Crouch. B, Walker
F: Frampton, McAdam, McHenry
FOL: O’Brien, Sloane, Keays
INT: Crouch. M, Poholke, Hartigan, Hamill
EMG: Himmelberg, McAsey, McPherson, Davis