Review R10: The Good, Bad and the Ugly vs. Collingwood

[adelaidecrows]

He has had 115 games to move the Crows forward and he still sits at 37% win/loss .... I have watched the ineffective coaching for long enough ... Rachele 7 years is a farce, his lack of defensive action and understanding of basic skills is pathetic to watch. I am not telling you anything ... I made a statement about where Adelaide Football Club are at, this is Nicks last year.

There was way too much evidence against Nicks prior to his blind extension that the club ignored and its no wonder with a fit side we are still struggling to take our game to the next level.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Keays has been below early season production 3 of last 4 games, wondering if he’s carrying something.

Doesn't appear to be covering the same ground.

Can anyone at the game confirm.

Reckon you may be on to something.

 

[Scorpus]

Doesn't appear to be covering the same ground.

Can anyone at the game confirm.

Reckon you may be on to something.

Keays used to compensate for Murphy's lack of quality

Now we have ANB and Keays sharing a similar role.

 

[MRB37]

Which then demonstrates a complete lack of forward planning because as soon as next season, he is likely to not be there. In fact If I was Adelaide, id consider moving him on regardless. Even if he plays on, let him go to another team. We need to progress beyond Walker sooner rather than later. I dont think he is playing a role that only Walker can play anymore.

A month to the bye, so we'll know Tex's intentions soon enough if the media campaign for him to get a new deal starts cranking up.

But I think we're also trying to get him to 300 and he needs to play every week to do it.

 

[StonesThrow]

So for those that think the coach had absolutely no impact on our composure in front of goal, what is the conclusion then?

If the players can't handle big moments despite our coaches doing everything possible to give them confidence, it means we need to embark on another rebuild to find players that can.

With such a long streak of very similar results we therefore know this group won't improve and so I guess we have to gut the list again

I know you hate the coach and I don't like him neither, but goal kicking is hard to pin on the head coach unless you're reaching.

There's a lot to pin on him, but goal kicking wasn't one of them. It would game been interesting if we had of kicked straight. We looked much more in the game today than we have against them in the past.

 

[CrowBloke]

Far out, I hadn't looked at the score since half time...

Yeah, doncha just love it??

 

[Interloperer]

Adelaide still would have lost if teams kicked as expected. There's a lot of gimme goals to Collingwood there 5-20m out right in front.

 

[1970crow]

It was me who said it was coachable.

I can't remember where but Jarrod Berry from Brisbane has publicly said that Fagan hooking him up with mental strength coach got him to the next level.

It's also a mindset, an attitude. Nicks is no-risk.

Nicks is a coaching coward, his fear transfers to the players. You want players being desperate to be the guy that gets to take those kicks. What you don’t want them is to be fearing failure. Everything Nicks says and does tells us he sleeps with the proverbial football light on.

 

[bmac84]

I know you hate the coach and I don't like him neither, but goal kicking is hard to pin on the head coach unless you're reaching.

There's a lot to pin on him, but goal kicking wasn't one of them. It would game been interesting if we had of kicked straight. We looked much more in the game today than we have against them in the past.

People keep saying this like Collingwood didn't have 4 more behinds than us. Not the sitter/s we did but some still very gettable.

 

[StonesThrow]

Good:

Fogarty 25 goals 4 points for the year. He's one we can rely on in finals imo. I wish we could say the same about the rest of the team.

 

[StonesThrow]

People keep saying this like Collingwood didn't have 4 more behinds than us. Not the sitter/s we did but some still very gettable.

We had very easy shots at key points in the game and failed.

 

[Scorpus]

I know you hate the coach and I don't like him neither, but goal kicking is hard to pin on the head coach unless you're reaching.

There's a lot to pin on him, but goal kicking wasn't one of them. It would game been interesting if we had of kicked straight. We looked much more in the game today than we have against them in the past.

I'm not overly concerned about missing a few routine set shots by a small margin

I'm bloody concerned that with the game on the line one of our best players in Rankine not only misses a relatively easy 30m shot, but misses entirely. Twice.

These weren't just misses. They were systemic chokes in big moments which we have been doing constantly in these sorts of games for years.

It's more than "player was bad at executing that skill at that moment"

 

[BRL121]

Worrell's worst game of the year, yet he still had 2nd-most metres gained on the ground!

 

[Mattrox]

We'll never know.

We don't have to know. Why waste games on people who won't make it. Better to consolidate the group that will.


Draper will be back. But after that I'm not convinced.

 

[feenix67]

We don't have to know. Why waste games on people who won't make it. Better to consolidate the group that will.


Draper will be back. But after that I'm not convinced.

I don't think I've read a more ridiculous statement on this forum. Gobsmacking.

 

[maxlilly]

Just finished watching, day has been disrupted by a new arrival - so all I can offer is - good:

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He will probably end up being a ruckman for the Crows / Red head

 

[adelaidecrows]

A month to the bye, so we'll know Tex's intentions soon enough if the media campaign for him to get a new deal starts cranking up.

But I think we're also trying to get him to 300 and he needs to play every week to do it.

At what point does the need for an individual player fairytale become an unnecessary burden on the side?

 

[Multiballz]

At what point does the need for an individual player fairytale become an unnecessary burden on the side?

Cmon man, its all we have.
Any real professional outfit would have pissed this 3 headed monster + Curtin fairytail off 2 years ago.

 

[Interloperer]

At what point does the need for an individual player fairytale become an unnecessary burden on the side?

It's pretty irrelevant when the entire forward line structure is built on three tall targets stretching the defence. And the only other potential forward target that tests the defence is Jordan Dawson.

 

[Scorpus]

At what point does the need for an individual player fairytale become an unnecessary burden on the side?

I remember Carlton crawling Marc Murphy to 300 when be was beyond cooked. Was embarrassing.

Tex can still contribute but the focus shouldn't be on 300

 

[1970crow]

I'm not the one arguing that players missing has something to do with Nicks. You'd have to ask them.

No, that was a position that you took.

 

[lacrow]

But we have had Burgess (God to some) training our squad for years now, we should be physically strong.

I don't know if this is sarcastic, but that's the way I'm reading it. If not, apologies.

We have a bunch of 18-22 year olds. They are not a peak physical strength like a 27-30 year old is. Even Thilthorpe, who looks like an absolute beast is not at his top level yet.

Collingwood are. Only thing you could say about them is that being an older side, injuries might start to creep up on them as the season progresses. But for now, they look strong and fit and I'm hoping we just need to physically mature in order to match that type of team.

 

[clinto69]

We played Berry over Draper, it says everything about this club.

I like Berry and think he is a good fringe player but I don’t care what he has done in the seconds or in a sub role, he doesn’t take games from our number 4 pick.

For the record I don't disagree with you. But when Berry came in as rhe the "big body" midfielder, Soligo started playing better. I know a lot of people on this forum are anti Crouch but he averages 8 clearances and seemingly is the only one, other than the oppo, who can read ROBs taps.

 

[arsene wenger1]

Im on record here saying repeatedly that we need at least 1 (preferably 2) seriously pacey and pressure small forwards that can tackle and lock the ball in.

At the ground it was so sh*t seeing them run it out of our defence so easily on multiple occasions.

How Pedlar can't get a game ahead of Taylor is simply bewildering.

How Tex played in those conditions was baffling...

Yea we had an opportunity to play a couple players that would’ve suited the conditions and style of game that toady dished up. Preferably Draper and pedler

 

[King Elvis]

Of course it does. If we cease handicapping ourselves at selection we can better absorb individual player errors. Pies had a couple of brain fades going forward and bad kicking for goal, but they select better and are coached better.

We just played against a coaching group that rested 4 senior players for their trip to Freo. Meanwhile our coaching keep wheeling out injured players and spruiking ‘building cohesion’ which is exactly the same as Pyke’s continuity mantra.

The decisions the coaches made during the week mattered a lot.

Exactly.

Poor goal kicking hurt us badly - doesn't mean we aren't handicapped by a useless coach.