Opinion Matthew Nicks: Adelaide's Coach (Part 2) - Full Support of the Board

[WetCrow1991]

So has Fagan suddenly become a bad coach, after almost snatching the 2023 GF

Same players .....PS Flag favourites with bookies .....7 games later, season over

Player attitudes have an enormous bearing ......and we're talking a very mature group, not a young group like the Crows

All tip no iceberg

 

[baldandbroke]

Matthew Nicks

Matthew Nicks

Age

48

Ht

187cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

9.4

4star

HB

4.2

3star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.7

4star

G

0.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

6.6

2star

K

4.4

2star

HB

2.2

2star

M

2.2

3star

T

1.4

4star

G

0.4

3star

: "Hold my beer."

 

[George Kramer]

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Matthew Nicks: "Hold my beer."

I can’t watch it without hurting my eyes and ears.

Any cringe comments of note?

 

[baldandbroke]

I can’t watch it without hurting my eyes and ears.

Any cringe comments of note?

George, it's unbelievable.

Watch the first minute - I cannot explain it's true depth of awfulness in words.

 

[NSolis]

He basically got asked if that was the best four quarter performance for the year and he agreed that it was and then talked a bit about how 'that's closer to who we are' and values and so on.

 

[whattagun07]

I can't bring myself to watch it

 

[George Kramer]

George, it's unbelievable.

Watch the first minute - I cannot explain its true depth of awfulness in words.

I can’t imagine being a player and having to listen to him, would make me want to not go to work.

We beat up on a s**t opposition and he’s lauding it and some great performance.

 

[baldandbroke]

I can’t imagine being a player and having to listen to him, would make me want to not go to work.

We beat up on a s**t opposition and he’s lauding it and some great performance.

I think i gagged hardest with his splooshing (phrasing) over Laird.

He’s too invested in the individuals.

I want my coach to be a coach, to lead the players … not be their peer.

I do not see a way we get out of this dead end path we are on… that doesn’t cost us multiple years.

 

[George Kramer]

I think i gagged hardest with his splooshing (phrasing) over Laird.

He’s too invested in the individuals.

I want my coach to be a coach, to lead the players … not be their peer.

I do not see a way we get out of this dead end path we are on… that doesn’t cost us multiple years.

The carrying on over Tex giving up shots in goal, did any of them work to the teams advantage?

 

[maxlilly]

The carrying on over Tex giving up shots in goal, did any of them work to the teams advantage?

It's like his gameplan, thinks it works and is great but we never get any results from it

 

[Crowstar]

We beat an sanfl side. Training matches would've been more competitive.
The next stretch of 3 games will show who we really are like we don't already know.

 

[WetCrow1991]

That ideology is peak AFC, no regard for the opposition.

 

[MsTopG]

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Matthew Nicks: "Hold my beer."

Don't worry Nicks. You'll get brought back down to earth next week from this massive high of beating up on a wafl/sanfl side. The bloke is truly delusional.

 

[Rotayjay]

I can't bring myself to watch it

Coach press conferences aren't worth a crock of s**t at the best of times. It's the same boring questions and variations of the same boring answers which are likely to be self-serving in some way rather than truly objective. Ultimately a coach can give a good press conference and the team plays badly in the following game, and vice versa.

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

I can’t imagine being a player and having to listen to him, would make me want to not go to work.

We beat up on a s**t opposition and he’s lauding it and some great performance.

Tbf it’s hard not to say it was a good performance without shitting all over opposition.

It would refreshing for coaches to just call it how it is but no other does it that either

 

[marty36]

Interesting to consider how poor North Melbourne are, is it because their coach is extremely poor or do they have a crap list. Who on this earth would consider their coach crap

Now equate that to Adelaide


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[MRB37]

How can the win without continuity? Impossible!

Most unconvincing 10 goal win you will ever see. Just wallpapering over cracks.

We were bad, they were worse. He has to go.

We scored 138, but given how many forward half intercepts we had, especially in the 1st half and then failed to convert into scores and then the forward half dominance we had in the last quarter which lead to the Roos kicking 5.2 to our 4.6 shows a lot of our improvement can probably be chalked up to punching down on an opponent. I'll give a little leeway in the last on saying maybe the foot came off the pedal, but also I don't think any player is in the position they should feel comfortable doing that either.

I thought our intent to move the ball quicker from the back half was a lot better, but we said that against Carlton and then Nicks tightened it down again against Essendon, so remains to be seen how defensive he goes against the Power next week.

 

[George Kramer]

Interesting to consider how poor North Melbourne are, is it because their coach is extremely poor or do they have a crap list. Who on this earth would consider their coach crap

Now equate that to Adelaide


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Do you rate Nicks as a coach?

 

[MRB37]

Tbf it’s hard not to say it was a good performance without shitting all over opposition.

It would refreshing for coaches to just call it how it is but no other does it that either

The most honest a Crows coach has probably been was Pyke in 2018 when he was laughing his ass off in the box when playing Carlton.

 

[George Kramer]

The most honest a Crows coach has probably been was Pyke in 2018 when he was laughing his ass off in the box when playing Carlton.

Against Gold Coast it was

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

He basically got asked if that was the best four quarter performance for the year and he agreed that it was and then talked a bit about how 'that's closer to who we are' and values and so on.

Surely the Carlton game was more impressive given they were undefeated at the time... v winless Roos.

He shouldn't be getting ahead of himself beating up on a hapless side.

We did what we needed but we also missed a great opportunity to try some new players.

 

[Trigger13]

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Matthew Nicks: "Hold my beer."

Wow. A good coach knows that game said nothing about where we are at. And says as much — without being disrespectful — in the presser. This bloke is a train wreck.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

Wow. A good coach knows that game said nothing about where we are at. And says as much — without being disrespectful — in the presser. This bloke is a train wreck.

I had to watch the presser to truly hear how bad it was... Boy that didn't disappoint

"Complete performance... Back to our DNA.... They challenged us, but we went to work on our game... Lairdy back to hunting the footy.... Big for our group... Did a fair bit of work this week..... Got back to what we know works.... Mindset was spot on.... Cohesion..... Reward for our boys... Guys could use their weapons.... Mindset.... Contest..."

Just awful.