why did he finish the presser with "sorry guys, I can't give you much" with a wry laugh. not reading too much into of course... but it struck me as pretty weird. 
despair? defeat?
despair? defeat?
Opinion Matthew Nicks: Adelaide's Coach (Part 4) - Re-Signed to 2027...
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I've always been a big supporter of Nicks, and had hopes he'd be our next premiership coach, but it is becoming evident that his Crows legacy might just be resetting the culture at the club. He came to the club when nobody would stay, nobody would come, which has been flipped on its head. But we rarely see the rebuild coach stay on until a premiership is won (outside of Fagan). John Longmire, Adam Simpson? An Assistant who has been in a successful set up like Stephen King? Hopefully we can turn it around but a loss in the showdown could be our season.
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Perhaps we could hire someone to prepare the players and have them ready to go and play as a team?
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Glad more people are spotting this.
He doesn't trust the playing group to play to their strengths. This is bleedingly obvious though:
1) constantly wanting to go slow and defensive, even when we're leading
2) not backing in our depth and bringing young players int the team, or altering his order of selections made in November
3) making comments like "we've got to earn the right to play fast", as if we're naturally not good enough to
4) constantly referring to players' "work-ons" rather than celebrating strengths
It's his ever-increasing conservative nature that he'll never shake and why he's our biggest handbrake to success
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I would imagine a coach who would develop a game plan as I described would also be intelligent enough to work that out.
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You mean, like a coach?
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Exactly!
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A specialist appointment, I like it!
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Can that person also do selections?
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And in game moves
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And press conferences.
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They could also address the players during the breaks.
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I've been wanting him sacked since the Hawthorn game in 2022.
The guy is a dunce who coaches a horrifically ugly brand of football.
He's essentially Temu Paul Roos running on 2005 firmware.
The guy is a dunce who coaches a horrifically ugly brand of football.
He's essentially Temu Paul Roos running on 2005 firmware.
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Well would you look at that
The apricot slice brigade clearly in bed
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Has he ?
You must have missed the crows last year. Literally the worst KPI you can give him and the club. They just signed him extra year to buffer him from your suggestion as we develop some more. He needs air or the team wont be genuinely developing for flag at all. As league currently stands he has ability to paper over cracks and shut you up and keep himself in job.
Nicks hasn't got enough top end talent to work with, no amount development going help a few of them. He and club dont make good decisions quick enough here. My scepticism has been aimed at club purpose and priorities and least the already known partial failure of the rebuild. Which stems from list decisions and team selection. Not without risk but strayed off full rebuild and went conservative decision making. Went off short term make finals. Probably again, to shut you lot up (and perhaps relic sanfl insistence make good dividend and Trigg big deal himself announcing sponsors is why bums on seats passed down, also we Afl lap dogs best times let alone under their influence). The forced rebuild via camp was a free kick for those at club, a great chance for them to define it, we talking legacy. Instead I see status quo. Club in rebuild trading pick 25 in super draft for 29yo was but one for normal resumption.
Players having learn some more again. Maybe unlearn some. Some indecision eventuates. Unless in back half transition or fwd 50 stoppage things dont generally look smooth enough, looks bit clunky. We dont appear organised enough, not enough set play, not drilled enough, not everyone on same page. Not sure how many times over years seen dont even appear have heap voice. Perhaps all of it summed up by Murray last week late in first umming and ahhing what to do with ball from a mark at CHB speed on ball, inside centre square inside corridor, obviously not aware one minute remaining in qtr. He had least couple (arguably one strong if organised) options i saw including move it fast or defend with it and chose none. Some this just on circumstances, some on Nicks.
We need put foot down sort this out. Starting to get out hand. Development has to be taken serious to extents its question of balance to win the game. Avoid at own risk. Perhaps could start with wanting to get inside position a bit more and using first touch (hunt ball over space) and around the ground not so rigid back shoulder (hunt space over man)?? Three crows forwards last week led by metres to aerial ball by three Saints defenders, Saints touch ball but manages to get thru, falls into Tex lap he kicks winning goal. Sweating off, out the back, being led to ball - ultimately short term solutions and not sustainable??
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I'm confused. Those are all cultural issues that both pre-date Nicks, and continue to exist.
What did we turn around?
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why did he finish the presser with "sorry guys, I can't give you much" with a wry laugh. not reading too much into of course... but it struck me as pretty weird.
despair? defeat?
He thought he was at a mid week strategy meeting for a second there
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