Bernie Vince says Adelaide Crows primed for top eight charge Tom Lynch is the new Tony Modra according to his teammates, after the 22-year-old slotted 10 goals in Adelaide's demolition of the Giants. Bernie Vince believes the Crows are perfectly positioned for another tilt at the finals. CROWS midfielder Bernie Vince is dismissing the "who did you beat?" reviews from Adelaide's smashing of AFL novices GWS to declare his team is now primed to charge to the league's top eight. And the timing of Adelaide's confidence-topping 135-point assault of the Giants is perfect as the Crows intend to use the next month to get ahead in their win-loss count for the first time this season. "The next month can really set up our year," Vince said. Adelaide, currently 3-4, has three of its next four games at home starting with St Kilda in the Sunday twilight match. This is followed with fellow finals contender North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, Fremantle at home and premier Sydney at West Lakes. "The next month can really shape our year - it is going to be a very important four weeks for us," Vince said. We have some pretty tough games . . . it will shape where we finish this year. It is super important for us. While the national agenda from the thrashing at Skoda Stadium will question why the winless Giants have stalled in their second AFL season, Vince says the Crows have found critical answers. "Our ball movement, our stoppage work, our positioning was a lot better . . . things we have been working on have worked out," Vince said. And in a marathon run to the AFL premiership, Vince warns those ready to keep writing off the Crows because of their unconvincing steps off the starting blocks. "We've slowly been building, getting better and better," he said. And there was a sharp rise in performance at the weekend. Slowly but surely we've been getting better. It has been a slow process. A near-record belting of the Giants is not the basis for setting up credibility as a finals contender. But it has given Adelaide the confidence surge it needed. Vince put the percentage-boosting win in this perspective: "We'll worry about us - the way we perform regardless of our opposition. We have key (performance) indicators we look at and worry about how we play. We will review in that way rather than on the opposition. The video review at West Lakes yesterday more than the statistical sheets at Skoda Stadium on Sunday tell the Adelaide players they have suitably corrected and advanced their game. "Our set-ups . . . we were pretty slack with our set-ups in some stoppages over the past few weeks," Vince said. We're on when we are setting up well - you can see guys pointing and communicating. That is an area that had been down a bit. There were little lapses every now and then. You can't have too many lapses in footy today. That was a key thing for us in the midfield - getting the stoppages early, setting up and from there just hunting the ball. Adelaide's midfield has been forced to adjust by the new rule calling on umpires to quickly throw the ball rather than bounce it at stoppages. Vince senses the Crows could exploit this. " (The throw) does make it tougher because the ball moves that quick - it can be in the back pocket and a few seconds later there is a stoppage in the forward pocket," Vince said. That is an area we have identified can be a strength of ours if we get there early, communicate and set up well. When we do that, it is one of our strengths - our clearance work.