Adelaide has thrashed North Melbourne by 77 points with new captain Taylor Walker kicking six goals.
AFL: Adelaide coach Phillip Walsh fronts the media after his side's 140-63 win over North Melbourne.
Sam Jacobs and Todd Goldstein go head-to-head in the ruck. Photo: Sarah Reed Source: News Corp Australia
PHIL Walsh started his first game day as Adelaide senior coach redefining the "Crows way".
"I hope you see a team committed to playing for one another – players with great team care," he said.
At the end, with an impressive 77-point win against North Melbourne to celebrate at Adelaide Oval, Crows ruckman Sam Jacobs was satisfied that his club's team spirit lived up to the promotional line of an Adelaide Football Club that flies as one.
"I felt we had 22 contributors," said Jacobs, after another of his absorbing classic duels with North Melbourne ruckman Todd Goldstein.
"We showed we will be strong around the contest.
"And when the Kangaroos came back at the start of the third term (to rally with six unanswered goals) we embraced the challenge. Our game held up.
"We were tested in all facets of the game – we got on top in the second quarter, were challenged in the third and responded and finished strong in the last. It sends a message, I hope, on how we are going to play."
Adelaide's match-winning second term, in which the Crows chalked up a 69-point lead, highlighted the classic adage in sport that attack is the best form of defence.
"And we were able to attack right to the Kangaroos' last line of defence," Jacobs said.
"We won the ball, we were able to move it quickly and I am sure the figures will show that we played most of that quarter in our half (to score 6.6 to 1.0).
"That is a key indicator in the AFL now – time in forward half.
"Get that working your way in most games and it will go a long way to helping us."
Jacobs was quickly called to a game review by Walsh to look at the start of the third term when Goldstein sparked the Kangaroos' revival with his deft ruckwork.
"I like to think I responded – as did the whole team because we have prepared for that situation," Jacobs said.
"It has been drilled into us just what we have to do when a team comes at us like that.
"It is a real credit to the team leadership group that they drove that response – and that there was a buy-in from the rest of the players.
"Phil Walsh (as coach) can instil that process in training, but it ultimately falls on us as players to react and respond and to know the Crows way."
In a game that has so many observations to be made of the new ways at Adelaide under Walsh, there is a telling note that more and more Crows have developed second and third strings to their games making it harder to predict and control Walsh's team.
"We were exposed to a lot of new things in the pre-season – including playing different positions," Jacobs said. "It goes a long way to building our team's depth."
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