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

[Mattrox]

Its even worse than that.

Scraping into the Finals WILL 100% guarantee Nicks stays on.

No matter how much posters on BF hate him, if the sum of the season is an improvement he wins.

 

[Scorpus]

Don’t want to hear any bullshit about sacking Nicks!!! We had our chances and we didn’t take them. Our skills need to get better if we are to become a good team!! To many times we fumbled or kicked poorly
Cuttin, Rankine twice and Rash all had chances and fluffed them.

Teams embody their coach and his philosophies

Nicks isn't a hard, tough, uncompromising coach that instills a winning culture.

We constantly shit the bed in these situations because Nicks is a loser that comes up clueless in big games/moments. That's the culture he's set, and the players follow

 

[HarryCrow]

Bad: that we're offering Milera three years. Three more years of that? FFS

 

[Bovo]

The worst thing that could come from this season is scraping into finals from an easy fixture and ticking the season off as a success.

No that’s silly. The worst thing would be to fail to make finals

 

[Moonwatcher]

Worst game i've seen from Keays but he has credits.
Milera. Taylor and Nank can have a rest.

Nank will at least make an extra yard to prevent a turn over.

 

[GROTTO]

No matter how much posters on BF hate him, if the sum of the season is an improvement he wins.

That will only happen if we make Finals.

Nicks will be sacked, if we dont play Finals in 2025.

 

[Scorpus]

Yeah, just smashing teams we only just beat last year lol.

Which means we're downhill skiiers

 

[Redleg Crow]

Bad: that we're offering Milera three years. Three more years of that? FFS

Milera is the epitome of the Adelaide Crows.

 

[Southerntakeover]

Go 0-3 after the Eagles game, which is a very real possibility and follows the 'last years results' trend and we'll miss finals.

 

[ABAB]

Frustrating considering periods of dominating and +8 i50's.

But we know where we are at 5th-8th team. We might win an EF but that's it. I'm at peace with it.

As we should, there's still gaps in our list with RoB, Milera and Laird and they are not only considered our best 22 but 18 lol.

 

[Bovo]

IDK even know who to blame for this one.
Nicks for being defensive AGAIN and accepting a slow scrap.
Our players for choking AGAIN and missing easy shots.
Or umpires for shafting us AGAIN.

Poor kicking is poor footy. Those missed goals were crucially needed.

 

[ABAB]

Which means we're downhill skiiers

Better than just beating them last year which meant we were shit.

 

[Moonwatcher]

The (only) beauty of Nicks being our coach for 6 years is his identity is clear.

He has no answers. He panics. He reacts after the fact. He diverts blame and responsibility. He makes poor decisions. He is a boring, vapid speaker.

And our players play EXACTLY like that when it gets tough.

We will never succeed under Nicks because he has a loser identity. We need a winner

I said to myself during the game "we play like Nicks speaks".

 

[WAG]

Good: Dawson, Fog (mostly)

Bad: Game plan, umpiring in general

Ugly: Nicks, goal kicking, Milera, Keays, Cumming

Putrid: Lyon's utterly biased commentary.

 

[jirkago1975]

Teams embody their coach and his philosophies

Nicks isn't a hard, tough, uncompromising coach that instills a winning culture.

We constantly shit the bed in these situations because Nicks is a loser that comes up clueless in big games/moments. That's the culture he's set, and the players follow

I’m not defending him but we had our chances, all the players failed when they could have nailed the goals. Blame him for the crap but today had nothing to do with his decisions

 

[WetCrow1991]

Don’t want to hear any bullshit about sacking Nicks!!! We had our chances and we didn’t take them. Our skills need to get better if we are to become a good team!! To many times we fumbled or kicked poorly
Cuttin, Rankine twice and Rash all had chances and fluffed them.

We lost to them in the same we have lost to them pretty much every time under Nicks. We didn't pick a side for the conditions and we didn't play a style of game that suited the conditions. Sack Nicks.

 

[SellarStardom]

Ugly
Missing goals that should be kicked
Umpiring
Loosing to the toothless f**ks
Not resting Walker
Not starting Berry

Bad
Keays non event
Nibbler quiet
Bombing long in wet weather
Soligo channelling Laird and blindly kicking around the body constantly

 

[Southerntakeover]

We lost to them in the same we have lost to them pretty much every time under Nicks. We didn't pick a side for the conditions and we didn't play a style of game that suited the conditions. Sack Nicks.

And he keeps backing in the same players who can't execute under pressure.

 

[WetCrow1991]

I’m not defending him but we had our chances, all the players failed when they could have nailed the goals. Blame him for the crap but today had nothing to do with his decisions

If multiple highly talented players shank easy shots, repeatedly, in multiple games against the same side, in the same way, under the same coach, maybe it isn't the individual players?

 

[CrowBloke]

The (only) beauty of Nicks being our coach for 6 years is his identity is clear.

He has no answers. He panics. He reacts after the fact. He diverts blame and responsibility. He makes poor decisions. He is a boring, vapid speaker.

And our players play EXACTLY like that when it gets tough.

We will never succeed under Nicks because he has a loser identity. We need a winner

The players have NO composure, or mental strength.

Weak Coach ==> weak decision-making and weak finishing.

SACK NICKS!! Now, now, right now, before they leave the MCG. Make him walk back to Adelaide.

 

[Brookster]

NO composure, or mental strength.

Weak Coach ==> weak decision-making and weak finishing.

SACK NICKS!!

Yep. Nicks does not have those very attributes in his coaching.

 

[Interloperer]

For most of the match, both sides had (at least) one useless forward that was none the less fully occupying a top-tier defender.

Eventually Adelaide brought on Berry to replace Walker. 15 minutes of gametime later Collingwood made a similar call to pull Cox out of the game. In the time between the subs Collingwood kicked 4 unanswered goals and won the game.

 

[VKCrow]

Bad - last 5 mins of the third. Handed the win to that filthy mob. Oh and all the missed set shots from 30-40 out

 

[WetCrow1991]

Milera has the consistency of a wet tissue. The leeway he is given is insane.

 

[Go the Guts]

Soligo, Tex, Milera and Nankervis all awful today.

Plenty of others too but the above have no form to fall back on.

Today was a test of toughness and it should smack selection committee square between the eyes that anyone not willing to crack in when the going gets hard should be banished.

Soligo had 23 disposals, 4 tackles and kicked 2 goals. Far from our worst.