Ravenous Adelaide devoured an undermanned Fremantle by 117 points at AAMI Stadium on a night of numerous records and utter humiliation for the Dockers.

The Crows maintained their climb up the AFL ladder with the 19.16 (130) to 1.7 (13) result, registering their seventh win in succession while at the same time consigning the visitors to their eighth defeat in a row.

While far from pretty, the match had plenty to intrigue the statisticians.

Fremantle's final score was the lowest in their history, comfortably less than the 3.7 (25) compiled against Geelong in round 20 of 2004, and the 117-point deficit equalled a round six 2000 drubbing by West Coast as their worst loss.

Their halftime return of 0.1 (1) was the most meagre in a league fixture since Fitzroy went scoreless against Essendon in round one 1995.

Adelaide's victory represented their widest margin over Fremantle, surpassing a 96-point thumping in round eight 1996, and was also the lowest score kicked against them in a match.

Though it was virtually a case of "all played well" for Adelaide, youngster Patrick Dangerfield (three goals) shone brightest when the game was decided in the first half.

Scott Thompson, Andy Otten and Nathan Bock were also excellent, while Kurt Tippett and Jason Porplyzia finished off the unrelenting lead-up play of their teammates by tallying five goals each.

Fremantle entered the game minus a host of big names, none more significant than that of their gargantuan ruckman Aaron Sandilands.

Up against an in-form home side that was also celebrating the 250th game of skipper Simon Goodwin, the young Dockers appeared out of their depth, and the game did not take long in providing evidence to support the notion.

The Crows monopolised possession, allowing Fremantle only a handful of attacks, and stretched out a 33-point quarter-time margin.

Dangerfield was the most eye-catching of a fleet of ball-hungry Crows, swooping to kick one goal on the burst in a movement that combined the speed of Andrew McLeod with the strength of Mark Ricciuto.

Term two saw more of the same, Tippett epitomising Adelaide's advantage in height and power by plucking a goal direct from a boundary throw-in.

A 68-point halftime margin gave the Crows a chance to bury their overawed opponents, but sloppy kicking in the third quarter momentarily saved the Dockers from embarrassment.

Tippett (twice), Knights, Porplyzia and Tyson Edwards all missed gettable shots, and Ryan Murphy's goal after 12 minutes of the third belatedly put the Dockers on the board.

However the last term brought a further avalanche of Crows goals and the tumbling of records, Porplyzia and Tippett doing much as they pleased against a tiring and exasperated Fremantle defence.

Crows coach Neil Craig credited his players' attitude for not allowing the Dockers off the canvas.

"I think our guys need to be complimented on the attitude they played with for the whole night," he said.

"We thought we dropped off a bit in the third quarter but that's being super critical of them and Fremantle did respond to a certain extent in the third quarter.

"Obviously from the premiership table point of view percentage will only do us good and I was really pleased with the style of football our guys played."

Dockers coach Mark Harvey refused to rank the loss among Fremantle's darkest due to the number of players missing through injury.

"If we had everyone available I would've said yes (it was our worst loss), but I don't think under the circumstances it is," he said.

"It's not to be accepted by the way, but we're a learning team."

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