Adelaide midfielder Sam Berry was eight-months-old the last time the Crows won in Geelong.
So he knows they are are returning to their unhappiest hunting ground to play the Cats on Thursday night.
Adelaide have just three wins in 24 games at GMHBA Stadium, the most recent in June 2003.
Adelaide's winning percentage in Geelong - 12.5 - is the club's lowest at any AFL venue.
"It's such a good challenge, especially to start the year," Berry told reporters on Monday.
"It has been a pretty tough fixture to start, but now, personally, I'm pumped.
"You probably get a little bit of the extra motivation when the team typically hasn't done well down there ... the Cats are a serious team."
The Crows' 2003 triumph in Geelong came in amid three wins in four trips to the Cattery - the only victories in Adelaide's away bank.
"It would be massive," Berry said of the prospect of a win in Geelong.
"It's something in the past too, where we struggled away for a few years.
"As a group, we're really just trying to lean into playing away and creating our own energy and just being excited for the challenge ... especially the Cats down there, it's fortress for them."
Adelaide slipped to a six-point home loss to the Western Bulldogs after beating Collingwood at the MCG in their season opener.
Berry believed the display against the Dogs - frequent sideways ball movement and a record number of uncontested marks - was an outlier for the Crows.
The 24-year-old hit back at criticism from pundits about Adelaide's game plan and a supposedly one-dimensional midfield.
"We probably view it differently to how the media does, and I guess how some of the arm-chair experts view it," he said.
"But everyone that plays in that midfield has got so many strengths and we've been rolling a lot of people in there.
"Now obviously we have got Ranks (Izak Rankine) rolling in there, Rash (Josh Rachele) playing a lot more, Soli (Jake Soligo), James Peatling ... so we've been playing a fair few in there and everyone's got different strengths and different dynamic."
