Neil Craig says Adelaide's players have gained 'enormous belief' from their heroic 30-point come-from-behind win against Fremantle in the second qualifying final at AAMI Stadium on Saturday.

"It's important to have it because it's easy to drop off on the belief," he said. "It will just reaffirm to the whole playing group, from the senior leadership group down, that when you have that belief and you have people contributing, anything can be possible."

"But, still, let's keep the whole thing in perspective. It's been a great result for us. All it's done is give us an opportunity, hopefully, to advance to a grand final."

Craig described the hard-fought battle with Fremantle as 'typical finals football'.

"Our players understand that and I think, from a mentality point of view, they were very patient, even in the last quarter," he said. "And it will be an important trait for any team that continues in the finals race."

"I thought our first quarter was reasonably poor with the way we went about it into the wind. I thought we played too quickly and the positioning of some of our defenders wasn't as good as it could have been."

"But I thought our third quarter was the absolute opposite of the first quarter. It was an important quarter for us because it was a difficult (southerly) wind to play in. It was a fluky wind and it made execution pretty difficult."

Craig said the Crows needed to 'tidy up' their inaccuracy in front of goals after kicking 10.16 and he added: "Luckily, we've got a bit of time to spend on that now and that will be one of our focuses going into the preparation for the prelim."

Stressing the 'all-played-well' feel about Adelaide's performance against the Dockers, he said: "We've said pretty much all year that we have played our best footy when we have a nice, even contribution from everyone."

"To the playing group's credit, that's been a very strong characteristic of everyone really contributing over the board, and we need to do that - we have no other choice and we wouldn't want any other choice."

Craig was reluctant to name names in what he described as 'a pretty special, resilient group', but he did say: "Scott Stevens' capacity to stand one of the best forwards in the competition (Matthew Pavlich), Graham Johncock's capacity to stand (Jeff) Farmer - big, big contributions - and Ben Rutten also to play on Pavlich. But I'm sure you guys will recognise those (other) players in the appropriate manner."

Later, he said Jason Porplyzia's run around the outer wing in the last quarter would be 'a fond memory for Jason for the rest of his life - and so it should be'.

"He's playing some good footy for a guy who has played very little AFL (10 games)," Craig said. "He's turning out to be a pretty important player for us, so well done, Jason."

Craig described the noise made by the crowd of 42,208 as 'just unbelievable', and he added: "It sounded like 52,000, not 42,000. So to everyone who showed up, a big 'thank-you' from our playing group. I couldn't hear myself speak at three-quarter time, that's how loud they were."

"It was a significant contribution to getting us over the line, so, if you can save your pennies for two weeks' time (in a preliminary final), we'd love to see you here because you are pretty important to us."