Pyke’s Crows on Saturday meet Richmond, who have endured a week under the AFL blowtorch after last week’s late capitulation to Collingwood.

But Pyke says Richmond’s mindset should be largely irrelevant to his Crows players.

“They are a really good, strong footy team,” Pyke told reporters yesterday.

“On the weekend they probably had the game won with a couple of minutes to go and unfortunately for them they let it slip.

“But they played some good, strong footy as they did the first week against Carlton. So they’re a really impressive side.”

Pyke warned his players they would need to be flexible in changing game styles against Richmond in the Etihad Stadium encounter.

Adelaide’s two games this season have been freewheeling affairs – the Crows are the league’s second-highest scorers – but Pyke doesn’t expect that to be an ongoing trend.

“For us, we want to focus on how we want to play, obviously aware of how Richmond will play,” he said.

“And we have got to be flexible enough and adapt… if we can move the ball with speed and get some of the movement we had last week, that’s great. If that is not available, we have got to find a different way.

“That is what we have been training and that will be one of the challenges come Saturday.”

Meanwhile, the father of Richmond star Dustin Martin has left Australia for New Zealand after his visa was cancelled over links with an outlaw motorcycle gang.

Shane Martin left Sydney on an Auckland-bound flight on Wednesday, the Herald Sun reported.

Martin had his visa cancelled over links with the Rebels bikie gang, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed in March.

“We are determined to target people who have been involved particularly at high levels of outlaw motorcycle gangs,” he said at the time.

The government can cancel someone’s visa on character grounds.

New Zealand has criticised Canberra over its tough new immigration laws, which allows non-citizens who have served a sentence of 12 months or more, or failed a character test, to be deported.

The rules have caught out many Kiwi offenders who have lived in Australia for years.

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection confirmed Martin’s departure from Australia.

Dustin Martin, who was born in Victoria, came second in the Tiger’s Best And Fairest last year.

-AAP