ADELAIDE coach Neil Craig has suggested his side will revert to an attacking style of football when it hosts Geelong at AAMI Stadium on Friday night.

In other words, the same mistake won't be made.

The club was criticised last year when the Cats pinched a round 11 seven-point win at the venue, claiming top spot on the ladder en route to the premiership.

That was despite the Crows' defensive, well-drilled methods that had lifted them to fifth place after 10 rounds, only to fall to eighth and lose an elimination final to the Hawks by three points.

"The criticisms in 2007 were warranted as far as our capacity to score – defensively we were still very good, but in terms of our capacity to score it was poor compared to 2005 and 2006," Craig told Adelaide radio station 5AA on Tuesday.

The Crows adopted a new approach for 2008 – with a renewed list – but seemed to deviate in matches against Hawthorn and the Brisbane Lions in the lead-up to the split round.

And they slipped out of the four after narrow losses to both clubs.

"We were unhappy with our last quarter-and-a-half of football against the Brisbane Lions, where we fell into a style of football that was never going to win and it's not what our supporters want to watch and be associated with," Craig said.

"It's not what we try to train, so we need to get out of that pretty quickly, because it won't be good enough to get into the finals."