Adelaide Crows senior assistant coach Scott Camporeale believes the rules changes have benefits for their game plan

Senior assistant coach Scott Camporeale believes the new kick-in rules could be a blessing in disguise for the Adelaide Crows with the opportunity to kick over the defence.

Adelaide Crows training at Football Park during the demolition of the grandstands. Picture SIMON CROSS - Brodie Smith

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ADELAIDE’S playbook is different for AFL Season 2019 with the league’s new rules delivering a big blessing - and some real tests - for the Crows.

“The AFL implements new rules - and our job (as coaches) is to beat them,” Crows senior assistant coach Scott Camporeale said on Friday.

The blessing for the Crows is the new kick-in system that no longer hems the defender to a nine-metre goal square.

“We’re reasonably happy with that one - particularly when we get (long-kicking) Brodie Smith back (from a knee injury),” Camporeale told SEN1629.

“Those extra 10 metres for Brodie to kick the ball out of the back half are a bonus.”

Adelaide Crows Brodie Smith training at Football Park during the demolition of the grandstands. Picture Simon Cross

The rewrite of the Crows playbook is forced by the new 6-6-6 rule for the start of quarters and centre bounces after goals.

Gone is Adelaide’s well-known ploy of working a forward, such as Eddie Betts, off the back of the centre square at centre bounces or an extra wingman, half-back or half-forward on the turn of the centre square.

“We have a few things in the pipeline,” Camporeale said.

The Crows appear in action against an AFL opponent for the first time next week in the under-23 trial with Port Adelaide.

After a disastrous 2018 pre-season, the Crows are describing their preparation for Season 2019 as near perfect.

“With no finals (after ranking 12th last year) we have had extra training before Christmas - we have got 20-25 per cent more work into the guys,” Camporeale said.

“It has been a solid pre-season. There is unbelievable competition for spots ... it is going to be tough picking the team for Round 1.”

Camporeale, who stepped up as interim coach in 2015 when Adelaide tragically lost senior coach Phil Walsh, has declared his wish to return to a senior job in the AFL.

But he notes the opportunity has to be presented - and needs to be the right job for him.

“I am still learning my craft, but my 11 years (as an assistant coach) have made for a solid apprenticeship,” he said.

“I have been through a lot and seen a lot.

“I am confident in my ability to do the job if it came up.”

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