Sando invites NZ rugby coaches to teach Crows how to tackle New Zealand rugby coach Jim Love, left, talks to Rory Sloane while Darrel Shelford, centre, chats with Crows coach Brenton Sanderson. PREPARE for Adelaide and Brisbane's clash at the Gabba on Saturday to look more like a rugby game than an AFL match. Crows coach Brenton Sanderson yesterday invited two rugby coaches to help his team with tackling. And he's making no apology for planning a brutal style that goes against the AFL's wish for open, free-flowing football. Sanderson yesterday signalled he will deal with Adelaide's losing the tackle count 47-73 against Essendon by inviting the two rugby experts to training. Former New Zealand professional Darrel Shelford and former Tonga coach Jim Love went to West Lakes to advise the Crows players on correcting their ineffective tackling. And Sanderson will send select players to Love and Shelford today for one-on-one training. Brisbane, which is dealing with its own nightmare from its 68-point loss to the Western Bulldogs on Saturday, has long used rugby experts in its territory to make the Lions one of the hardest-tackling units in AFL football. Sanderson is describing Love and Shelford's presence as a "fortunate coincidence." Officially, the Crows say the rugby duo is on a fact-finding mission for the New Zealand Sports Academy. It was pretty much a theory session, we stripped it right back to the basics "They're just watching our program for a couple of days this week," said Sanderson. But it has worked out really well - the timing is perfect. They allow us to do a little more on our tackling technique stuff, which we need. Tackling was a major concern for us (against Essendon) and last season so the opportunity to get a bit more advice has been good. It was pretty much a theory session (on Max Basheer Reserve yesterday). We stripped it right back to the basics. We didn't want to bash and crash into each other today - it was more about technique and triggers that help our guys with some of the method (of tackling). I'm sure a few of our players will grab (Love and Shelford) while they are here or we might send a couple of guys to them in the next two days to make sure any little problems or deficiencies might be ironed out. Hopefully, we are taking a small step towards getting better at being a tackling side. The remedial session comes after Adelaide made tackling a significant part of its pre-season program. That work has not delivered Sanderson's wish to lift the Crows from the low end of the AFL table on tackle counts. Sanderson maintains technique is more of an issue than attitude at West Lakes. "The intensity (towards tackling) can be lifted, but it is more of a method thing," he said. Some guys gave away four or five free kicks (against Essendon) from a method problem, not an intensity issue. I prefer to be involved in a footy club that tackles. We want to make sure we are consistently in the top eight when it comes to tackling. We want to build our side around really good defensive values. Tackling is part of that. It also will deliver a Crows team that plays hard rather than fancy football - and challenges the way the AFL Laws of the Game committee is trying to orchestrate the game. "I would prefer a tight, scrappy game rather than an open, free-flowing game," said Sanderson. The games we like to watch as spectators are like the Carlton-Richmond game from Thursday night. It's up and down the ground, high speed and free flowing. But from a coaching point of view, from a selfish point of view, I'd rather it be in-close, contested and high tackling.