John Longmire’s men are licking their wounds after an upset loss to Greater Western Sydney and will be desperate to atone for the uncharacteristic performance in front of their home fans on Saturday night.

But Adelaide, who demolished North Melbourne in their elimination final, will be no pushovers having won four of their past five encounters against the Swans at the ground – although the last was a 52-point drubbing by the home side in Round 18 last year.

“I think we take confidence in the fact there is six teams left, no matter where the venue now, it’s game on,” Crows forward Tom Lynch said.

“Every game for us in this finals series is an elimination final.

“I know the boys have pulled up pretty well and we’re eager to get over there and get a result.”

Adelaide escaped unscathed from their 62-point thumping of North, although defender Kyle Hartigan faces a nervous wait on the deliberations of the match review committee today after being reported for tripping Lindsay Thomas.

Sydney are counting the cost of their 36-point loss, the club confirming yesterday former Crow Kurt Tippett (jaw) and rising star winner Callum Mills (hamstring) won’t play this week.

The Crows have advanced to the second week of the finals for the second year running.

Eventual premiers Hawthorn handed them a humbling 74-point defeat in last season’s semi-final and Lynch said his team is keen to atone.

“We were in this position last year – we win our first final and we weren’t able to deliver in our second one,” he said.

“The boys are really keen to change that [but] we know it’s going to be a real fight.”

Sydney defender Nick Smith concedes the minor premiers have a lot to work on after they were outwilled and outworked in the upset 36-point loss to GWS.

Smith was one of the Swans’ best at ANZ Stadium, nailing a couple of goal-saving tackles amid the Giants’ regular forays forward. But Sydney’s defence was unable to deal with the speed and precision at which the ball regularly came into their domain – a result of GWS’s midfield dominance.

“To be brutally honest I reckon they wanted it more than we did,” Smith said.

“They out-tackled us … they had almost 40 more tackles than us.

“I can’t explain it. It’s pretty ordinary… it was disappointing what we dished up.

“We didn’t deliver our best and they played well, they got the win and deserved it.”

A dejected Nick Smith (centre), with Heath Grundy and Toby Nankervis after their loss to the Giants. Photo: Dean Lewins / AAP

The 28-year-old noted it was important his side analyse the defeat but quickly refocus on their clash with the Crows.

“The season’s not over for us. We’ll lick our wounds, no doubt we’re disappointed but we’ve got to learn from it and be better than we were,” Smith said.

“The message from (Longmire) is we have a lot to improve on and we’ve got to change it pretty quickly.

“We’ll learn from our mistakes, get back on the horse and come out next week raring to go.”

Sydney don’t have to look too far into the past for a precedent.

Hawthorn lost their qualifying final against West Coast in Perth last year then thumped the Eagles in the grand final.

“You work hard all year for a second chance and this is why. We need it,” Smith said.

“We’ve got to make the most of it.”

Smith added it would be wrong to attribute his side’s patchy performance against GWS to the pre-finals bye.

“The week off is a little bit irrelevant in that if you bring the right attitude and that kind of thing it doesn’t really matter if you’ve had a bye or not,” he said.

-AAP