ADELAIDE coach Neil Craig is hopeful of returning home with at least two key-position players when the Crows head to the NAB AFL Draft on November 29.

The Crows, who will have five available picks on draft day, have struggled to find a dominant key forward in the past, but Craig was confident his recruiting team could find one in this year’s bunch of highly-fancied tall timber.

“We need to continue to service our forward line and midfield and I think we’re pretty well dressed with people that can play in defence,” Craig said on Thursday.

“We need to keep looking for guys who are genuine forwards, so we’ll do that. Our first pick is No.10 and, like most clubs, we’ll pick the best available player there.

“We’ll have five picks and we’d like to think that two or three of those are what we would term ‘key position’ players.”

Adelaide, which has opted not to invite any ‘train-on’ or recycled players to join the team prior to the draft, is likely to use each of its five picks to secure youngsters.

Craig said the club had no interest in either former West Coast star Ben Cousins or Ex-Sydney Swan Nick Davis, who is training with the Brisbane Lions.

“I would be very surprised if Ben Cousins wanted to come to Adelaide to start with and certainly with where we’re going with our playing group - Ben doesn’t fit into that structure at all,” Craig said.

“I hope he plays again. Whoever gets him will get a fine player, but it won’t be us.

“We’ve got people that can cover the positions that Nick Davis plays. We’ve had a look at it and, let’s not beat around the bush, we won’t be interested in Nick Davis.”

The Crows, who farewelled veterans Nathan Bassett, Ken McGregor, Rhett Biglands and Kris Massie after the 2008 season, have completely changed the profile of their playing group since having the oldest list in the AFL just a few years ago.

And Craig was hopeful this would be the last year of significant change for his club for at least a few years to come.

“At the end of this draft we’ll have 29-30 players aged 22 or under and that’s a group of players you can now hold, work with and move with. Up until now, our playing squad has changed significantly, pretty much, each year,” Craig said.

“So you can see the development we’ve got in front of us. It’s exciting for us and it’s exciting for our supporters.

“It will put a lot of pressure on our coaching staff to accelerate those players and we’ll need to accelerate those players to get the result that we want.”

Adelaide has restructured its coaching panel in line with the new-look list.

Ex-Hawthorn assistant coach Todd Viney will take over the midfield.

The club’s only premiership captain, Mark Bickley, will share the midfield duties with Viney, but will also play a part in the club’s development program.

David Noble will replace the outgoing Paul Hamilton in the forward line while Ben Hart (defence) and Matthew Clarke (ruck) will remain in the same portfolios.

The appointments of Viney and Bickley will allow Peter Jonas to move completely into a development role.