A lax final quarter has given Adelaide coach Neil Craig plenty to work with as he plans a big workload for his players in the two-weeks before their next match against lowly Melbourne.

The Crows are now secure in fourth spot on the AFL ladder but let slip an opportunity to bury North Melbourne at AAMI Stadium on Saturday night.

They had pushed their lead out to 65 points early in the last, only to slacken off while the Kangaroos fired through the final six goals of the match.

The edge Adelaide had shown while hammering home 12 goals without a miss between time-on of the second quarter and the first five minutes of the last went missing as they returned to the faulty goal-kicking of the first term.

With the advantage now of a week off for most of his players, due to the AFL's 150th anniversary Dream Team fixture, Craig indicated the last quarter performance had given him a useful spur.

"We just lost all of our competitiveness around the football with the attitude we played with in the last quarter, that's why we missed those easy shots because that's part of the attitude, the hardness to finish the goal when you need to," Craig said.

"We just lost our hardness. Our mentality and fierceness at the ball, we lost it in the last quarter.

"It was a great win, make no mistake, but we did not like the way we finished."

Starting with a community camp in the Barossa Valley on Monday and Tuesday, Adelaide will train hard, conscious of a favourable draw pitting them against the likes of Melbourne, West Coast, Essendon and Richmond over the next two months.

"With the footy we have played and the draw that we have had we actually need to do some work, so it (training) will be reasonably tough," Craig said.

Kangaroos coach Dean Laidley, meanwhile, barely hid his disgust at a performance that started promisingly only to be ripped to shreds in the pivotal third.

For that he laid the blame at the feet of his entire team for their turnovers, but also at backman Daniel Pratt for a disciplinary lapse that cost a 50m penalty and goal to young Crow Jarrhan Jacky late in the second.

"We gave the ball back to them, they kicked 11.8 from our turnovers so that's it in a nutshell," Laidley said.

"The way we used the ball by hand and foot was just absolutely appalling, bordering on disgraceful, and until our players get better at that it'll be costly for us."

Laidley said Pratt would need to correct his disciplinary flaw very quickly if he wished to stay in the side.

"We should have only been two goals (behind) at half-time, which I was pretty pleased with," the coach said.

"But then you get undisciplined Daniel Pratt, and he really has to look at himself because the coach is getting sick and tired of him giving away 50-metre penalties.

"You end up going three-and-a-half goals down and all of a sudden you quickly find yourself seven or eight goals down and the game's been blown open."

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