ADELAIDE believes Troy Menzel is ripe to make an impact with the club after spending a year in the AFL wilderness.

Menzel failed to play a game last season after being recruited from Carlton but has impressed in Adelaide's pre-season.

"He turned up and we knew he was ready to go, we could see he had a real desire and that has transferred into the games," Crows assistant coach David Teague told reporters on Friday.

"And that has transferred into the games, he's playing well. He had some really important, not just possessions, but impact on the game on the weekend and hopefully that will continue.

"The more time he spends out there with this group, I'm thinking he will only get better."

Menzel has another chance to press his selection claims for Adelaide's premiership season opener in the club's last trial game against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday.

"He had the right approach last year, it was just he came off a hip operation so he was just a bit behind the eight ball," Teague said.

"The way he approached it last year was outstanding, everything we asked of him he did.

"But he has built on that. He has had a full pre-season and now you can see he's playing good football."

Teague believed Menzel had the talent to break into Adelaide's vaunted forward line, which was the highest-scoring outfit in the competition last season.

But Teague, deployed as Adelaide's forward line coach, said despite last year's attacking excellence, the club had tinkered with their attacking approach for the looming season.

"There's some little aspects that we're tweaking but there's nothing major," he said.

"The game goes forward and you have got to continue to go with it or you get left behind.

"It's probably analysing the way teams are defending - some teams are playing back shoulder and defend and want you to hit up, other teams play up in front, a bit more proactive.

"So it's being able to adjust from one to the other ... we have been working on some aspects of the game to see how that will affect us."