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

Is Matthew Nicks the right coach for Adelaide?

  • Firmly yes (I love what I'm seeing)

  • Leaning yes

  • Can't decide either way

  • Leaning no (but don't sack him yet)

  • Firmly no (he should be sacked)

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George Kramer said:
Worldly view? WTF Jenny. These board members live in Adelaide, therefore it’s a position in Adelaide with some perks and prestige.
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Queenslander has “worldly view”. Have you ever come across a more backward thinking population than Queensland? It’s like going back to the 50s as soon as you cross the border. And FFS don’t mention daylight savings, they struggle to wrap their heads around the simplicity of it all.
 
adelaidecrows said:
People act like Adelaide is a small town. In comparison to Melbourne and Sydney maybe but Adelaide would be the 7th biggest city in the USA. It is not small. Adelaide has a bigger population than Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston. So time to get out of this small town mentality. Adelaide is fast becoming the best city in Australia. Anyone acting like Adelaide is some sort of country town is mistaken.
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Seriously man that is not comparing apples with apples. Or prestige with real prestige. The US with 12x the population for a relatively similar land mass (exc Alaska) has a massive amount of mid sized cities commutable to the “name” cities.

Having lived and travelled extensively (well over half US states) in Nth America, comparing Adelaide to these cities is fundamentally flawed. For example, approx one hour travel time (non peak) from San Fran and you have Oakland (14km with 400k), San Jose (70km with circa 1m), Fremont (230k) with other decent sized cities not much further away like Sacramento (400-500k) etc. Adelaide GDP would be lucky to be 10% of the wider San Fran economy. And Dallas-Fort Worth (35-40 min drive) has a population of around 7m with the airport catering to 1,800 flights per day.

No way is Adelaide comparable to a number of these economic behemoths unless Murray Bridge, Maslins Beach, Gawler and Humbug scrub have stacked on the population since my last visit.
 
kirky said:
Those cities are much bigger than Adelaide when you take into account their metropolitan areas.

Massachusetts of which Boston (population 4.367m), which is a much smaller state in geographical size, has a state population of nearly 7 million.

Dallas (population inc metro area 6.665m) in Texas which has a state population of 29 million . San Francisco (population 4.6m) is in California with a state population of 39.5m. Seattle (population 4.03m) is in Washington State with a state population of 7.6m.

Adelaide has a population of approx 1.379m, including metro area, in a state with a population of approx 1.881m.

South Australia is the equivalent of Nebraska (1.94m) and West Virginia (1.792m) - the 37th and 38th States of the Union.

Just be wary of how they use populations in USA as they normally only count the city centre and its city limits and not the metro areas.
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Absolutely correct. Someone gets it
 
1970crow said:
Queenslander has “worldly view”. Have you ever come across a more backward thinking population than Queensland? It’s like going back to the 50s as soon as you cross the border. And FFS don’t mention daylight savings, they struggle to wrap their heads around the simplicity of it all.
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Yeah, I thought that was a bit on the nose.

Like tasmanians arguing the sheep in one flock are more attractive than another
 
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

 
WaynesWorld19 said:
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

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Wouldn’t be the first time the runner up has a bad year…..and when you’re consistently up you’re going to have a bad year eventually.

Can you say either of those apply to Nicks and the Crows?

Did Fagan change their game plan?

The lengths you’ll go to do defend your embarrassing opinion is quite amusing
 

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119others said:
Seriously man that is not comparing apples with apples. Or prestige with real prestige. The US with 12x the population for a relatively similar land mass (exc Alaska) has a massive amount of mid sized cities commutable to the “name” cities.

Having lived and travelled extensively (well over half US states) in Nth America, comparing Adelaide to these cities is fundamentally flawed. For example, approx one hour travel time (non peak) from San Fran and you have Oakland (14km with 400k), San Jose (70km with circa 1m), Fremont (230k) with other decent sized cities not much further away like Sacramento (400-500k) etc. Adelaide GDP would be lucky to be 10% of the wider San Fran economy. And Dallas-Fort Worth (35-40 min drive) has a population of around 7m with the airport catering to 1,800 flights per day.

No way is Adelaide comparable to a number of these economic behemoths unless Murray Bridge, Maslins Beach, Gawler and Humbug scrub have stacked on the population since my last visit.
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Population in the US cities also measured differently. Fixed incorporated boundary vs sprawl until the houses stop touching and the scrub starts.
 
Most unconvincing 10 goal win you will ever see. Just wallpapering over cracks.

We were bad, they were worse. He has to go.
 
WaynesWorld19 said:
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

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You are the coaching guru after all!
 
George Kramer said:
Wouldn’t be the first time the runner up has a bad year…..and when you’re consistently up you’re going to have a bad year eventually.

Can you say either of those apply to Nicks and the Crows?

Did Fagan change their game plan?

The lengths you’ll go to do defend your embarrassing opinion is quite amusing
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I’ve seen happy clappers on socials defend our start comparing it to Brisbane and Collingwood.

Like it’s even remotely the same thing.
 
Samcro24 said:
I’ve seen happy clappers on socials defend our start comparing it to Brisbane and Collingwood.

Like it’s even remotely the same thing.
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The ones comparing us to Richmond in 2016 and Geelong circa 2006 are the funniest.
 
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