Wingman Paul Seedsman has strongly backed Adelaide’s game plan despite the Club registering its 10th consecutive defeat this season against Melbourne on Wednesday night.

The Crows matched it with the Demons for three quarters before a final-term blowout saw the home side go down by 51 points.

Seedsman did not believe that was due to the system, however he did concede that implementing coach Matthew Nicks’ game plan has been challenging with strict coronavirus restrictions imposed on full group training. 

“When we have been able to play our way, we’ve put ourselves in the contest, even on the weekend with such a young side,” Seedsman told reporters at West Lakes on Friday.

“The hardest thing for this is with the change, and the past eight months since Nicksy’s been in charge. 

“The time that we’ve had, due to the COVID implications, we haven’t had a lot of time as a team to train that together as a full squad and at full noise, fully competitive. It does make it hard.”

Seedsman believes there are similarities in Nicks’ first year at the helm to when Chris Fagan took over at the Brisbane Lions. 

Brisbane won just one of their first 10 games in 2017, before losing their opening eight games the following year to finish with a combined record of 10 wins, 34 losses over two seasons.

The Lions then turned a corner in 2019 to finish second on the ladder with 16 wins and 6 losses and are currently entrenched in this year’s premiership race.

“They implemented a game plan, they didn’t get the results they wanted straight away,” Seedsman said. 

“But it’s held them in really good stead and now they’re one of the best sides in the competition through doing that. 

“If you think it works, you’ve got to put the time into it.”