Daniel Talia tries to get his hands on Buddy Franklin at AAMI Stadium. Source: Getty Images
WHY is Adelaide - a team that won 17 of 22 AFL home-and-away games last year - at 2-4 this season?
How can the Crows - who won 11 of 12 games at AAMI Stadium in 2012 - have a 1-3 record at home this season?
Where is the attacking power that allowed coach Brenton Sanderson to establish the highest-scoring Crows team last season (106 points)? Adelaide is today averaging 88 points, falling back to the ineffective numbers from Neil Craig's final seasons in 2010 and 2011.
What has happened to the imposing midfield that had Geelong premiership captain Cameron Ling declare Adelaide would win the AFL premiership based on its talent and rotations through the centre zone? Only Patrick Dangerfield is excused from review in this question.
After a summer of concerted training on tackling - and then remedial work with two rugby union experts - why have the majority of the Adelaide players shown no significant improvement in their tackling?
Each of these questions has more merit in salvaging Adelaide's season than concentrating on one umpire's call on Crows midfielder Scott Thompson in a marking contest with Hawthorn ruckman David Hale.
Keep in mind that umpiring decision was made at the seventh minute of the last term. Hawthorn scored four unanswered goals in seven minutes after the 19th Man rose in outrage in a contentious free kick.
Where was the mental steel in the Adelaide players to ensure they were not derailed by a free kick?
There were 20 minutes of football to play - to protect a reputation of never losing two games in a row under Sanderson's watch and to honour key defender Ben Rutten in his 200th game.
Sure, there is need for clarity on the laws of Australian football - and more critically the interpretations.
But the bigger question today is: Where is the Adelaide Football Club, on and off the field?
In the front office, new chief operating officer Nigel Smart is busy reviewing how the business works - and how it can achieve greater results, particularly on the critical bottom line.
In the revamped football department, list manager David Noble is living the fable of the best plans of mice and men falling apart.
New needs - particularly in attack - have emerged as the black-cat curse returned to claim key forward Taylor Walker and respected players such as Jason Porplyzia struggle to impose themselves in games.
The highly rated but under-performing midfield appears in need of a rethink.
But Noble and recruiting manager Hamish Ogilvie's jobs in dealing with these new challenges are compromised by the draft penalties from the Kurt Tippett saga. Adelaide's ability to trade into the first and second rounds of November's national draft does not look promising when the Crows do not have players excess to needs.
There is a challenge at West Lakes. It deserves more time than questioning umpires.
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