Adelaide coach Neil Craig admits he'll have to reassess his role, and some of his team's on-field deficiencies, if the Crows are to move forward in the coming seasons.

The Crows have been knocked out in the first week of finals for the second year in a row after succumbing to the Magpies by 31 points at AAMI Stadium on Saturday.

It leaves Craig with an unflattering 2-5 record in finals.

Craig said Adelaide was 'a long way from being a power in the AFL' and expected his coaching style would come under scrutiny as a result.

"I'm no different to any players, no different at all. I get judged, I have to take a really good look at the way I go about things and the things I need to change and that will happen," he said.

"What they exactly are at the moment I can't tell you because that needs some time."

The team's ailing forward line and attacking strategies will also come under fire after another solid but unspectacular season.

Their cause wasn't helped by the season-ending injury to Brett Burton in Round 15 and the loose shoulder of Jason Porplyzia, but Craig said there was still room for improvement.

"We've just got to find a way of going forward better, we go forward but we just don't have a good enough system at the moment, to hold up under the real pressure," he said.

"Just our ball movement into the forward line is a bit too one-dimensional at the moment. We need to develop personnel to play up there and so we are on track there in terms of identifying people."

"We just bomb it in and hope for the best."

"You have periods in the game when it works for you but it's not of the consistency that we need."

It was a similar story in the Elimination Final with the Crows relying heavily on Scott Stevens, who is not a regular forward, to carry the burden of scoring.

Craig said the club needed to also look at its match promotion or programming after only 37,685 people attended their AAMI Stadium final. The Crows more often than not attract bigger crowds during the home and away season.

"We probably need to find out why and ask the question why we couldn't get a slightly bigger crowd," he said.

"Whether it's Saturday afternoon or other things are on or country finals and that sort of thing but I'm sure our club will want to try and get some answers whether we need to do it better."

Meanwhile Craig said his side was ‘bulldozed' after half-time with Collingwood controlling the tempo and winning the stoppages.

He was also disappointed by the team's opening to the contest when the Magpies got the jump on his players.

"I don't think we adjusted to the speed of finals early in the first quarter and there were quite a few of those run-downs from behind," he said.