CHAMPION Adelaide duo Chelsea Randall and Erin Phillips will need to get through training this week to be considered for selection for a top-six clash with a resurgent Collingwood.
Randall has missed the past month of footy after reaggravating a hamstring injury, which had kept her out of round three.
Phillips has what the club is describing as a "sprain" in her left knee, which was reconstructed after she tore the ACL in the 2019 Grand Final. She also underwent an arthroscope on the joint following the 2021 season.
"They're tracking really well, Randall's really, really close and it'd be really special to have our captain with us on the weekend," Crows midfielder Ebony Marinoff said.
"I'm not sure what the verdict is, we still have to get through training [on Wednesday night].
"'Flip' (Phillips) is still managing that minor knee and we'll see them both train tonight. Hopefully they'll both put their hands up for selection, but I'm not the physio or doctor ticking those boxes and making the decision if they can play on the weekend."
Adelaide has managed to cover for the loss of both players, dropping just one match without Randall in that time, and defeating fellow powerhouse Fremantle without either player.
"We've been working on the depth of our squad for the past couple of years now. I think you saw in the first two or so years that our record wasn't so great without Erin and Chelsea playing," Marinoff said.
"To have all the young girls come in and step up and continually wanting to get the job done, it's amazing to see. It makes us older girls really proud. Our depth is probably the best it's ever been, and we knew heading over to Perth that it was a one-two clash. To come home with the four points was a really good result.
"We probably didn't have the best first half we would have liked, but to see ourselves play out the game the way we wanted to, leading into a big clash with the Pies this week, is really pleasing."
Along with Brisbane midfielders Ally Anderson and Emily Bates, Marinoff will break the 50-game mark this weekend, the first AFLW players to do so.
She told reporters that premierships aside, her favourite home and away match came in round two, 2017.
"We didn't know if we would have a team (in the AFLW), and we played the Giants in round one, and we didn't really know where we were at," she said.
"Melbourne and Doggies were the teams to beat because of the Hampson-Hardeman Cup, and we were playing at Whitten Oval under lights.
"We were travelling along the West Gate (Freeway) in Melbourne in peak-hour traffic, we were so late and everyone was standing up on the bus, needing to go to the toilet, it was just hectic.
"We got to the ground, it was chaos, and we went out and just killed the Doggies. They were one of the premiership favourites, and I knew from that game – and it was round two – that the girls were going to do special things in that first year."
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