Adelaide Crows push for Thursday night matches at Adelaide Oval Adelaide Crows CEO Steven Trigg says the club is "quietly confident" of hosting Thursday night matches in 2014. THE Adelaide Crows are on the brink of hosting Thursday night football matches next year. Adelaide Crows chief executive Steven Trigg has told the AFL he wants the club to drive the concept next season by including up to three Thursday fixtures at the revamped Adelaide Oval. The Crows have jumped at the opportunity to be a key part of Thursday night matches, which are set to become a more regular football timeslot with the two bye rounds embedded in the fixture. Thursday night football would help complete the vision of stimulating vibrancy in the city, with CBD workers streaming to the new Adelaide Oval and families flocking from the suburbs. We have been told that because of the byes in the draw, there is the capacity to do several more Thursday and Monday night matches next season," Trigg said on Tuesday. Trigg said the club's willingness to embrace the new timeslot could lead to it securing as many as five Thursday and Friday night matches in Melbourne and Adelaide. This would deliver prime time exposure for the club, which would not have to compete with other games for audience share. "Our indications are that we will have opportunities with Thursday night and Friday night football, on the back of being a traditionally high-ranking finals participant," Trigg said. We're quietly confident of Thursday nights. There will be more Thursday night games than the one before Good Friday. The Crows are aware their Friday night prospects have taken a hit because Adelaide's 2013 form makes it less attractive to broadcasters. But the Thursday night timeslot will bring more chances to showcase the city's redeveloped riverbank precinct, which is close to completing its first phase. Turf from Langhorne Creek will be laid over the next few days and the $40 million footbridge across the River Torrens is scheduled to open ahead of Adelaide's December 5-9 Ashes Test. The AFL has introduced Thursday and Monday nights in recent years, with Carlton and Richmond beginning their seasons on a Thursday since 2008. It is understood their Thursday rivalry will continue this year, but not until March 27, in the third week of the season. The Blues are tipped to open the 2014 season against Port Adelaide at Etihad Stadium, with the MCG not available until round two because of cricket commitments. Despite the lack history of midweek games in Adelaide, the Crows are confident the timeslot would be a crowd puller at Adelaide Oval. "I'm confident it would work as a feature event," Trigg said. The key to organising Thursday night matches for the AFL is to find places in the fixture where they can still schedule six to eight-day breaks in between matches, which means the bye weeks of rounds 8-10 and 18-19 are the ideal weeks. Adelaide has also made ground in its request to play more matches in Melbourne next season, and is confident it will get a "decent" amount of matches in Victoria. Talks are continuing over the Anzac Day weekend and the Crows have made a bid to have a home game against a high-profile opponent in that round. It is understood that match, which is likely to be a blockbuster, would go some way to making up for the Crows missing out on the season opener against Port Adelaide in round two. "We're not confident of getting an Anzac round match here, simply because of the rotation of games and other circumstances," Trigg said. But obviously we're keen to see what else may be in the fixture for us if that meant that request was denied. The AFL will release the 2014 fixture on October 31. A key element of the fixture is the concept of having teams play more often against teams that finished closer to them on the final 2013 ladder to make the system fairer.