With wet weather expected at Adelaide Oval on Thursday night, North’s clash against Adelaide will be contest-heavy according to Crows’ coach Don Pyke.

“North Melbourne is pretty renowned as a hard, contested footy side and we’ll expect that challenge is going to confront us regardless of (weather) conditions,” he said on Tuesday.

“The conditions will be the same for both sides, so it won’t really be a factor.

“North’s been all year, if not the best, one of the best teams in the competition. It’s another great challenge.”

The Crows are looking to make amends for their Round 1 loss to the Roos at Etihad Stadium.

On that night Jarrad Waite, Drew Petrie and Ben Brown booted seven goals between them. However the Crows’ defence was smaller than it will be on Thursday night.

"We went in slightly smaller [in round one] from that game, I think Nathan van Berlo played and Kyle Hartigan didn’t," Pyke said.

"Kyle’s been in fantastic form so we’ll have a slightly different mix this week.

"They’ve got the three tall targets down there but it all comes down to supply - if we can stop the supply it makes it easier on the backs."