CROWS coach Neil Craig is expecting a “strong reaction” from his playing group at AAMI Stadium on Saturday afternoon, following what was a “sub-standard” performance against Hawthorn last week.

Adelaide has named draftee Jarrhan Jacky to make his AFL debut and the 19-year-old will be one of eight Crows to take the field against Fremantle with less then 30 games experience.

Craig said each member of the team would need to be “up on the red line” on Saturday for the Crows to claim their third win of the season.

“We’re looking for a very strong reaction after last week - we were very poor,” Craig said.

“Whilst Hawthorn was very good, there were some aspects of our game that were sub-standard AFL, irrespective of who we were playing.

“We’ve got a group of probably seven or eight guys like Jon Griffin, Kurt Tippett, Jason Porplyzia, Richard Douglas, Bernie Vince, Dave Mackay, now Jacky".

“We’re now asking that young group of players to respond very quickly in their careers, which probably in some situations wouldn’t happen.

“We haven’t got much room for error with the squad that we’ve got at the moment. We need to make sure we’re all up on the red line and we’re playing to our maximum.”

Jacky, a former basketballer, is originally from Broome and was selected with Adelaide’s third pick in the 2007 NAB AFL Draft.

Craig said he was impressed with Jacky’s speed and goal smarts.

“I’m really pleased with the guys we’re selecting, which in this case is Jarrhan Jacky. I’m really happy with his talent, his character and his work ethic,” he said.

“Is he inexperienced? Yes, but we select him with a big degree of confidence and hopefully he’ll be a very exciting player, not only for our club, but for the competition.

“You’ll certainly see something tomorrow that makes you say, ‘yeah, in another two or three years time, that’s going to be really, really good’.”

Adelaide’s first and second picks in last year’s draft, Patrick Dangerfield and Andy Otten, have been named as emergencies.

Dangerfield flew to Adelaide from Melbourne on Thursday night and trained with the squad on Friday morning. The exciting midfielder is on stand-by to play if the Crows suffer a late injury, but it’s likely he’ll return to play for the Geelong Falcons on Saturday.

“We’ve got to understand the way Patrick is preparing. He’s not here with us during the week,” Craig said.

“I could be accused very strongly that I’m disrupting, or not being fair to, Patrick. He’s missed school today to come up and train for us.

“We do that because he is an emergency for us. It doesn’t look like there’s anything wrong with the group at the moment, but [if there is] he might have to play.

“Ideally, I want Patrick to be able to stay over there, train over there, do his year 12 studies, play good football in the under-18s and I would select him from that environment.

“We don’t want to fly him over every week as an emergency and not play then go back home.

“It’s not what we want to do, but it’s what we have to do at the moment.”