Opinion Matthew Nicks: Adelaide's Coach (Part 3) - Re-Signed to 2027...

[n4sir]

Apparently he now plays for Geelong

 

[Bovo]

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You could have added a bit of gusto. Fine I won’t give up my day job

 

[jackster83]

Don’t lie. You aren’t enjoying it. You are nitpicking every single thing, trying to score points and trying to prove your now somewhat outdated premise that Nicks is still a shit coach. It’s a sad little man who won’t adjust his thoughts and beliefs even when mounting evidence to the contrary exists. Clearly Davis has enhanced the coaching team - that’s what he was brought in for after all. Nobody is arguing that. But he is just one cog in the overall mechanism with Nicks remaining the controlling factor. What will you do if we do miraculously win the whole shebang? Declare it wasn’t Nicks, it was Murray Davis? Still demand Nicks be sacked? What is your end point here?

Did you enjoy us going out in straight sets, at home, with a minimal injury list?

 

[1970crow]

King kicks two first quarter goals and before then end of the quarter Brisbane switch defenders. King is unsighted after.
Does Nicks know you are allowed to do this?

Massie on Franklin. Match day philosophies are no different.

 

[kirky]

Buddy on Franklin. Match day philosophies are no different.

You mean Massie on Franklin (Buddy).

 

[Cromulant]

Because Nicks is a bum

Im not convinced Nathan is any better

 

[jenny61_99]

Did you enjoy us going out in straight sets, at home, with a minimal injury list?

What an odd choice of quote.

Of course I didn’t enjoy it. My first and only comment in the match day thread was SACK NICKS. However, he did some things right this year that enabled us to win 18 games and finish top. We overcame a lot of hoodoos, but sadly now have created others. He cannot coach on match day. Solution for me is to get a new coach…but at the very least, get a match day strategist in the box with him. I was hoping that would be Murray Davis but apparently not.

 

[Crowked]

If Longmire is interested in a return to coaching, he should be sounded out. Otherwise there are no better options than one more year of Nicks. Buckley isn’t the answer to anything. Spud coach.
Under no circumstances should there be even a mention of extending Nicks contract. His continued tenure is entirely dependent on improvement next season. Prelim or bust.

 

[cleanhands]

Seen enough

 

[Doctor B]

If Longmire is interested in a return to coaching, he should be sounded out. Otherwise there are no better options than one more year of Nicks. Buckley isn’t the answer to anything. Spud coach.
Under no circumstances should there be even a mention of extending Nicks contract. His continued tenure is entirely dependent on improvement next season. Prelim or bust.

I'd take Buckley or Simpson in a heartbeat.

 

[George CantStandYa]

What an odd choice of quote.

Of course I didn’t enjoy it. My first and only comment in the match day thread was SACK NICKS. However, he did some things right this year that enabled us to win 18 games and finish top. We overcame a lot of hoodoos, but sadly now have created others. He cannot coach on match day. Solution for me is to get a new coach…but at the very least, get a match day strategist in the box with him. I was hoping that would be Murray Davis but apparently not.

You said I wasn’t enjoying the season, I was, however I was mindful that we’ve got TemuKen and we would blow it in the finals, my concerns over his coaching you and your fellow cheerleaders labelled me and others as haters, not happy in life, etc.

Well what the **** happened? He was actually worse than TemuKen, picking up 2 shocking finals records along the way.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Need to heed some lessons from 2017 here

Yes, devastating finals series. Players would be crushed, confidence shattered.

Coaches... do not solve it by pointing out that the players must be mentally weak and the players need to be blamed, toughened up, broken down etc. Look internally first

 

[1970crow]

You mean Massie on Franklin (Buddy).

Lol, what an idiot. Buddy on the brain, edited.

 

[Brookster]

Nicks spent weeks talking about finals being a "different game" that he's made it a self fulfilling prophecy. Being in finals hasn't stopped Brisbane, Geelong, Collingwood, Hawthorn and even Gold Coast from playing hard running, aggressive, overlap brands of footy.

Nicks choked the most out of the entire club.

The way Nicks presented himself (and the club) through last week was (and I get the AFC drip feed to media policy) the most insipid, characterless piece of non-achievement I have witnessed. The guy appears to have no substance.
Please, no further wasted years.

 

[1970crow]

Don’t lie. You aren’t enjoying it. You are nitpicking every single thing, trying to score points and trying to prove your now somewhat outdated premise that Nicks is still a shit coach. It’s a sad little man who won’t adjust his thoughts and beliefs even when mounting evidence to the contrary exists. Clearly Davis has enhanced the coaching team - that’s what he was brought in for after all. Nobody is arguing that. But he is just one cog in the overall mechanism with Nicks remaining the controlling factor. What will you do if we do miraculously win the whole shebang? Declare it wasn’t Nicks, it was Murray Davis? Still demand Nicks be sacked? What is your end point here?

This is pretty humorous. Nicks didn’t shed his long known and terminal weaknesses just because he won a heap of minor round games. If you were watching closely, you would have seen it unfolding a month before finals.

Anyway, welcome Jen. Funnily, as typing this SFS just reminded me that Nicks denied knowledge of the term ‘straight sets’ during the week. Seriously, has there ever been a bigger fake as a senior coach?

 

[MRB37]

What an odd choice of quote.

Of course I didn’t enjoy it. My first and only comment in the match day thread was SACK NICKS. However, he did some things right this year that enabled us to win 18 games and finish top. We overcame a lot of hoodoos, but sadly now have created others. He cannot coach on match day. Solution for me is to get a new coach…but at the very least, get a match day strategist in the box with him. I was hoping that would be Murray Davis but apparently not.

The problem is I don't think it's necessarily a lack of ideas in the box. We changed things up during the year, but finals come around and Nicks immediately went into his "finals footy" mode he's tried numerous times before.

You can have all the ideas in the world, but if you have a leader who can't recognise the good ones or doesn't want to use them then how is it going to help to bring in another coach?

 

[1970crow]

Lloyd on footy show just showed footage of us playing sideways keepies off and that you need to challenge your oppo. Didn’t someone say we had the go slow sign up for most of the game and only changed to boxing gloves when it was over? If so, that’s not on the players ‘choking’, that’s the coaches.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Im not convinced Nathan is any better

He speaks far better from an analytical POV.

Reckon he would be better 2nd time around.

Problem is Nicks just doesn't have the necessary smarts. Never will!

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

I'd take Buckley or Simpson in a heartbeat.

Simpson would be my preferred option.

 

[1970crow]

Need to heed some lessons from 2017 here

Yes, devastating finals series. Players would be crushed, confidence shattered.

Coaches... do not solve it by pointing out that the players must be mentally weak and the players need to be blamed, toughened up, broken down etc. Look internally first

Just repeating what I just posted separately, a poster said they keep an eye on the signs held up by the bench throughout the game and that it only changed to boxing gloves late in the 3rd when we were already done. That’s not players failing.

 

[MRB37]

Lloyd on footy show just showed footage of us playing sideways keepies off and that you need to challenge your oppo. Didn’t someone say we had the go slow sign up for most of the game and only changed to boxing gloves when it was over? If so, that’s not on the players ‘choking’, that’s the coaches.

One thing I always look for is the signs we put on the bench. It was the T all game until about halfway through the 3rd when we were down by 5 goals and stuck up the boxing glove.

 

[nummy217]

Just repeating what I just posted separately, a poster said they keep an eye on the signs held up by the bench throughout the game and that it only changed to boxing gloves late in the 3rd when we were already done. That’s not players failing.

Wtf get rid of the campaigner. Takes away our greatest strength for over half the game absolute joke.

 

[George CantStandYa]

One thing I always look for is the signs we put on the bench. It was the T all game until about halfway through the 3rd when we were down by 5 goals and stuck up the boxing glove.

Wow, so Mattrox WaynesWorld19 Pilchard_Adams 119others care to give your opinion on this?

 

[George CantStandYa]

Lloyd on footy show just showed footage of us playing sideways keepies off and that you need to challenge your oppo. Didn’t someone say we had the go slow sign up for most of the game and only changed to boxing gloves when it was over? If so, that’s not on the players ‘choking’, that’s the coaches.

That was so obvious, we didn’t take the game on again, our sideways movement was just dumb, so ****ing slow.

Teams this finals series are running with overlap handball, Hawks did against Pies last time they played them and smashed them.

Against Pies we had 105, the lowest by far that finals round and 47 behind Pies.

Against Hawks 120, 23 behind Hawks, again lowest for the 2 finals.

What made it worse is our handballs were under pressure, they weren’t forward handballs, they weren’t overlapping handballs.

Effectively we did the opposite to all the other finalists and we didn’t win a quarter.

Dumb moronic stubborn clueless ****ing coaching.

 

[Cromulant]

Early in the season we kicked some big scores, but also gave them up.

We did need to tighten up defensively all across the ground, but we went way too far. The coaches were too clever for their own good.