MatthewB
If the drinking lamp is lit, you should be too
- Sep 17, 2015
- 10,028
- 12,222
- AFL Club
- Adelaide
- Other Teams
- NY Yankees, Glenelg Adelaide Giants
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
By God ....no-one would want that FIGJAM Bucks coaching them ......that guy was so rigid in his thinking
I know it's popular to dump on every Coach ....it's a common theme across most of the Club Boards ......Nicks, who I admire as an upcoming coach, is still getting better competitive outcomes, than the more celebrated Coaches in Ross Lyon, and Clarko
People talk about the BRIS outs .....but their outs were fringe players .....ours in Thilthorpe, Milera, and Murray, were core players
Bad, Bad start to the season ....and yes that's on the Coach ....but also, to ressurect the season as he has, deserves better appreciation than he's received by supporters here .....thankfully the footy World has a much deeper appreciation of Nicks
Paraphrasing: In hindsight, it was a mistake. But we will gladly keep making that mistake.
He truly thinks they've reinvented the wheel by calling it an "impact sub". Like we've discovered something the other 17 clubs haven't been smart enough to think of.
"Nank came on and had an impact". His output playing exactly half a game was almost exactly half of his usual output this year (averaged 16.6 touches before this week, got 8 yesterday). That's not an "impact". That's just half a game.
By God ....no-one would want that FIGJAM Bucks coaching them ......that guy was so rigid in his thinking
I know it's popular to dump on every Coach ....it's a common theme across most of the Club Boards ......Nicks, who I admire as an upcoming coach, is still getting better competitive outcomes, than the more celebrated Coaches in Ross Lyon, and Clarko
People talk about the BRIS outs .....but their outs were fringe players .....ours in Thilthorpe, Milera, and Murray, were core players
Bad, Bad start to the season ....and yes that's on the Coach ....but also, to ressurect the season as he has, deserves better appreciation than he's received by supporters here .....thankfully the footy World has a much deeper appreciation of Nicks
Did our game style and kicking it to contests and Brisbane defenders out making up? Any mention of changing it up?Something I rarely do, listened to yesterday's after game press conference.
Nicks says I don't know a fair bit.
It's been 5 years matey, time you should have learned something.
I just think people are keen to embrace someone new ....but the very criticisms of past Crows Coaches, are more than evident in BuckleyBuckley has mostly shaken loose the FIGJAM moniker, been ages since I've heard it. That name just takes me back to Footy Park days when Buckley was playing.
I could easily see you not being alone, Buckley not being accepted by large parts of the supporter base.
There legit would be people out would just remember him as FIGJAM the player.
This narrative that Nicks is an "inexperienced developing" coach who still needs more time makes absolutely no sense to me.
It completely contradicts how every other coach has been assessed in the past.
Aside from Dew and Alan Richardson, can anyone tell me another modern era coach who's been given as much leniency and time as Nicks has been given?
The fact that Nicks is into his 5th season is an anomaly rather than the norm. If Nicks stays until the end of end 2025 and doesn't make the finals he'll overtake both Dew and Richardson and become the longest tenured coach in the modern era to have not made the finals. It's hardly the stuff of a rookie coach that is just starting to find his feet.
Let's not kid ourselves, if he was at most other clubs he would have been lucky to have been given 3 seasons.
Grand final lost by a nose, prelims, finals appearances, time out of the game to observe current trends v Nicks 5 years without finals and making rookie mistakes……I just think people are keen to embrace someone new ....but the very criticisms of past Crows Coaches, are more than evident in Buckley
I just think people forget over time ....or didn't follow his coaching journey that closely
Hope we have a bannerYep it's bullshit
Nicks has the following experience:
44 games AFL development coach
163 games AFL assistant coach including 9 finals and a grand final
92 games AFL head coach
This week against Collingwood he will be an AFL level coach for the 300th time
You're either deliberately misrepresenting what he's said or have not read it properly because thats actually not what he said at all.
He said to try him at HB or wing at the expense of McHenry, he said nothing about playing him in the guts.
He brought up playing Crouch and Laird in the middle at the same time was madness, which is valid, but that comment was completely disconnected from his point about Curtain so I'm not sure why you're trying to link them together
Grand final lost by a nose, prelims, finals appearances, time out of the game to observe current trends v Nicks 5 years without finals and making rookie mistakes……
Have you listened to Buckley on SEN and heard his views on current game plans and what works and what doesn’t?
He's coached the third most games of any Adelaide coach. And has the worst win/loss recordThis narrative that Nicks is an "inexperienced developing" coach who still needs more time makes absolutely no sense to me.
It completely contradicts how every other coach has been assessed in the past.
Aside from Dew and Alan Richardson, can anyone tell me another modern era coach who's been given as much leniency and time as Nicks has been given?
The fact that Nicks is into his 5th season is an anomaly rather than the norm. If Nicks stays until the end of end 2025 and doesn't make the finals he'll overtake both Dew and Richardson and become the longest tenured coach in the modern era to have not made the finals. It's hardly the stuff of a rookie coach that is just starting to find his feet.
Let's not kid ourselves, if he was at most other clubs he would have been lucky to have been given 3 seasons.
Can’t wait to see Godden sacked again, then deployed to SANFL again to then leach back into the AFL group a year or so later again.Though, I'd rather have new assistants than keep the basement bargain ones we've got.... just sayin'.
I get the feeling Godden will be a part of the ''new'' assistants rotationCan’t wait to see Godden sacked again, then deployed to SANFL again to then leach back into the AFL group a year or so later again.
Paraphrasing: In hindsight, it was a mistake. But we will gladly keep making that mistake.
He truly thinks they've reinvented the wheel by calling it an "impact sub". Like we've discovered something the other 17 clubs haven't been smart enough to think of.
"Nank came on and had an impact". His output playing exactly half a game was almost exactly half of his usual output this year (averaged 16.6 touches before this week, got 8 yesterday). That's not an "impact". That's just half a game.
See earlier, he thinks it was a great move. "Nank came on and had an impact." Bloke thinks picking a good player and them having a good game as a sub is proof they're a good sub and not just a good player.Also how did he justify making Nank sub?
Yep it's bullshit
Nicks has the following experience:
44 games AFL development coach
163 games AFL assistant coach including 9 finals and a grand final
92 games AFL head coach
This week against Collingwood he will be an AFL level coach for the 300th time
He's coached the third most games of any Adelaide coach. And has the worst win/loss record
And that record likely flatters him, because his worst season was a shortened one.
See earlier, he thinks it was a great move. "Nank came on and had an impact." Bloke thinks picking a good player and them having a good game as a sub is proof they're a good sub and not just a good player.
Soligo was good after being subbed on. Rankine would be a good coming on as sub. Dawson would be a hell of a sub.
He's so obsessed with looking like a genius by subbing on an "impact player" that he's happy to let potatoes play full games in preference to a good player, just in order to huff his own farts over a sub's "impact".
Pretty sure that Nicks is now only 1 game behind Don Pyke so in a couple of weeks he'll be our 2nd longest serving coach behind Neil Craig
I’m afraid not. I’m glad more and more posters are realising it. I can lay off Wayne now.Can you imagine arguing that a coach that was a kick away from a flag was inferior to a coach that's running with a 35% win/loss record after 5 seasons?
It actually defies all belief.
He's got to be taking the piss at this point.
Whoops. you're right. He's actually 4th, one game behind Pyke.Pretty sure that Nicks is now only 1 game behind Don Pyke so in a couple of weeks he'll be our 2nd longest serving coach behind Neil Craig
Just looked it up, Ayresy still ahead. Nicks will finish the home & away season on 106:Pretty sure that Nicks is now only 1 game behind Don Pyke so in a couple of weeks he'll be our 2nd longest serving coach behind Neil Craig