Jared Crouch will make his highly anticipated return to senior football in Saturday night’s clash against Adelaide at AAMI Stadium.

The former Norwood junior had a solid hit-out in the reserves last weekend and will come in for Sean Dempster who suffered a ruptured medial ligament in the win over Brisbane.

Crouch broke the consecutive games from debut record last season before succumbing to several injuries mid-last season to end the amazing feat at 194 games.

Speaking after the Swans main training session on Thursday afternoon coach Paul Roos said Crouch was looking forward to his return."Crouchy will come in, he says he's feeling really good and his body is sound, he trained well tonight and is looking forward to finally getting back," Roos said from the SCG.

"You need to have a fair bit of luck and you need to be pretty professional to go through what he did (194 successive games).

"It's very difficult in the AFL competition to keep that string going and it all came to a abrupt end, but he's had a pretty good preparation for his return."

Meanwhile there are no changes to the Crows team which toppled rivals Port Adelaide last weekend and Roos expects a very tough game.

"They are the only team in my time of coaching that hasn't had a bad day against us, although there was once back in 2003 or 2004, here (at the SCG),” he said.

"They have played really well every time we have played them and we really are going to another level against Adelaide.

"Brisbane was good last week but they are a young team, Adelaide are a step up, they have played finals for the past few years.

"We'll have to improve a lot on last week, how we use the ball, and we'll need to keep up the same intensity.

"It will all come down to which group of players are capable of stopping the opposition doing what they want to do."

TEAM
SYDNEY SWANS vs. ADELAIDE CROWS
Saturday 21 April, 7:10pm (local time), AAMI STADIUM

SYDNEY SWANS
B: Richards, Barry, Malceski
HB: Kennelly, C.Bolton, Mathews
C: Buchanan, Kirk, Schneider
HF: R.O'Keefe, O'Loughlin, J.Bolton
F: McVeigh, Hall, Ablett
FOLL: Jolly, Goodes, Fosdike
I/C: Crouch, Everitt, Grundy, Schmidt
EMER Vogels, Moore, Laidlaw
IN: Crouch
OUT: Dempster (knee)

ADELAIDE CROWS
B: Douglas, Rutten, Bassett
HB: McLeod, Stevens, Doughty
C: Burton, Goodwin, Mattner
HF: Vince, Bock, Reilly
F: Porplyzia, Perrie, Welsh
FOLL: Hudson, Edwards, Thompson
I/C: Griffen, van Berlo, Torney, Knights
EMER: Jericho, Hinge, McIntyre
No changes