Carlton's AFLW coach Daniel Hartford has hatched his plan to cause a boilover in Sunday's grand final against heavily-fancied Adelaide.
Hartford is plotting to deny the Crows the footy, urging his Blues to control possession in the premiership decider at Adelaide Oval.
Sounds simple.
But as Hartford says: "It's a lot easier said than done."
"We have got a system that we think can work, we have got a few things we would like to do," Hartford said as the Blues eye their first AFLW premiership.
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"They (Adelaide) are a great pressure team so they'll try to get it back quickly ... but if you can control the ball for stages and make them defend.
"If you give them a chance to get free ball or easy ball they're just going to cut you up."
The Crows have sliced up opponents in seven consecutive wins entering the grand final, including restricting Geelong to the lowest AFLW score - 1.1 (7) - in last Sunday's preliminary final.
Little wonder Adelaide's co-captain Chelsea Randall was confident of securing the club's second flag in three AFLW seasons.
"We have really just continued to step up our level each time," Randall said.
"We had 83 tackles last weekend; our pressure acts were just phenomenal.
"We just hope that we continue to bring that.
"Footy is about moments and we just hope each contest we can compete and continue to hold on for four quarters."
Randall shares the captaincy with Erin Phillips, arguably the AFLW's best player.
Phillips won the best-afield award in the Crows' 2017 premiership - she also claimed the league's best and fairest award that season.
But Carlton boss Hartford said his plan for Phillips mirrored his overall scheme: stop the ball getting to her.
"She's an absolute star, no doubt about that," Hartford said of Phillips.
"But you have got to give the players on her the confidence that they can do the job.
"She's going to get some footy because they use her and she gets in good spots because she's so smart.
"It's not so much stopping Erin, you have got to stop the ball getting to Erin."
