Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide to stage SANFL clash at Clare Max Redden, right, with Darren Jarman and Max's dad Tom. THE Adelaide Crows want to take their SANFL Showdowns with Port Adelaide to the country, starting in Clare next year as a show of support after the tragic death of six-year-old Max Redden. The Crows are in talks with the Power and the SANFL about making their only "home" state league clash an annual rural fixture. As part of the agreement allowing Adelaide and Port Adelaide to field teams in the SANFL next year, all of their state league games will be "away" fixtures, except when they play each other. None of their meetings is likely to be a curtain-raiser to AFL Showdowns at Adelaide Oval. "We want to take, on an annual basis, the state league game (against Port Adelaide) that we host to a near-rural location," Adelaide chief executive Steven Trigg said. Partly because we are the team for all South Australians and we have terrific support from our country people, so it's logical that we take that game to the country. The Crows want to play the Power reserves in the Mid-North and ideally in Clare, where the community is coming to terms with the loss of Max Redden, who died in a tragic playground accident when an unsecured slippery dip fell on him last month. Max's father Tom is the principal of the Clare Valley Toyota dealership, Toyota is the major sponsor of the Adelaide Football Club and Max was a Crows supporter. "We'd like to use the game to demonstrate our support for the region and the family," Trigg told The Advertiser. This (Max's death) touched the hearts of everyone and we felt it was an ideal opportunity to take this game to the area to support the region and the family. We've still got work to do with the competition ... but we'd like it to be early in the season. Trigg said initial indications from the SANFL were positive, but there were "a lot of things to consider." Adelaide has also discussed its plan with the Power and Trigg said the rival club was supportive of the concept. The SA Football Commission is expected to ratify next year's 10-team SANFL fixture by mid December. Adelaide and Port Adelaide's AFL teams will meet in the first Showdown at the redeveloped Adelaide Oval in Round 2 on Saturday, March 29 and the SANFL season is expected to start a week later.