Adeladie Crows' Scott Thompson is sick of forward talk Crows onballer Scott Thompson in action against the Tigers. Picture: Michael Dodge. ADELAIDE midfielder Scott Thompson says he's "sick of talking" about the Crows' forward vacuum left by turncoat Kurt Tippett and injured star Taylor Walker. The Crows managed just 10 goals from 52 inside-50s in yesterday's 38-point loss to Richmond at the MCG, two of which came to midfield star Patrick Dangerfield. Emerging Josh Jenkins added two majors and fellow target Tom Lynch booted one, but like it has for much of the year Adelaide severely lacked an imposing weapon in the attacking half. Walker and Tippett combined for 102 goals in last year's tall-man combo - and despite coach Brenton Sanderson's plan to rotate different players through the scoring zone he has struggled to find a consistent combination. But Thompson last night said regardless of whether it was the fault of the Adelaide forwards or their midfielders' delivery, it was time for critics to get over the hole left by the Walker-Tippett pairing. "At the end of the day there is no Tippett, there's no Walker so we can't keep complaining about that," Thompson said. It's not the reason we're losing games, there's a lot of factors where we're just not good enough at the moment. We need to improve a number of factors to get ourselves moving in the right direction again. I'm sick of talking about it, the club's sick of talking about it, we're not going to beat around the bush, we're just not playing anywhere near good enough. The Crows were again led by Dangerfield - a one-man-show Sanderson is becoming increasingly worried about - but gained a return to touch from Thompson, who finished with 29 disposals, five tackles and a goal. Also welcome was Jason Porplyzia's ability to find the ball, after he racked up racked up 21 touches, seven tackles and chimed in with a goal. But the Crows enter their mid-season break on a three-game losing slide and Thompson said recharging for a four-game stretch that includes Gold Coast, West Coast, Collingwood and Geelong was crucial. "We need the guys to freshen up now, the coach has already touched on our next game on the Gold Coast, they're obviously playing really good football as well," he said. We need to freshen up and try to improve in a lot of areas and hopefully get things back on track. We're 5-7 now so it's a tough ask but I still think we've got the belief in the group to get ourselves up and going again.