West Coast, Gold Coast plus most of our games/wins have been on the road. Pretty fair effort overall to this point.Who would have thought given we have zero wins.
So I gather you won't answer, because you haven't beaten anyone of real note.
Adelaide's decline
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3 wins behind second last
embarrassing
embarrassing
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You can only beat who you play... but West Coast & GWS are the only teams of note, but neither were travelling well at the time.
Lions & Saints gave you a touch up.
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In most organisations this would lead to mass sacking, particularly management.
True. But as I said, not bad so far. Still far from getting carried away though.
So how does this go, because we're not that good then the Lions and Saints beating us didn't mean much either.
Pretty soon the ladder is essentially meaningless because no one is any good so beating anyone doesn't mean anything.
Do you remember what Richmond were like before 2017? They even lost the last game of 2016 by 130 points. Yes, most senior coaches have been made to look very average at times. I’m not absolutely sold on Nicks, but he needs more than a compromised season where they can’t even train as a full squad to learn his craft as a senior coach.
Nope, it’s called finally securing pick one and being one step closer to this shit storm of a season finishing. There is not much point is the club trying to win a few games and lose pick one. I absolutely want to win one or two, but what’s the point of winning enough to finish 16th or 17th?
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Lol dont worry you would have to win 4 from the final 8 games to even be a chance of not getting pick 1
Your team is just pure shit
That we are, so very happy to just get pick one (and hopefully two) from here and move on from this season.
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A few games wouldn't get you off bottom. A few games might help the club save a little face from the utter embarrassment that would be going winless.
Yeah I know, hence why I said I hope we win a couple of games.
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Contrast between organised Freo and rabble Crows is stark.
I saw 2017 as the end of our chances rather than the start. 2012 Sando took a very fit team from Craig and gave them a bit of a harder edge. 2012 should have seen a flag. We then had the Bailey tragedy which messed up Sando. Without him Sando and the team struggled. Walsh then entered in 2015 and we were straight back into finals with a lot of players like Tex entering their prime. Club did amazing to make finals with Walshys death in the middle of the year. Pyke continues in 2016 with finals before a Gf on 2017. That was our last chance. Needed to start rebuild then. Now our senior players are getting on and our kids until this year haven’t been used. So now we start again.
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We sure are. Thanks for pointing out the bleeding obvious
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Some people are too harsh on the mid 1990s-mid 2000s tigers sides. all the tigers had got was a prelim in 1995 and 2001. 2 wins and 4 losses
Finshed 9th in 1994, 1996, 2000, 2006 and 2008. turn all those 9th placed years into 8th placed elim finals losses and it would mean 5 more elim losses but a half decent run of finals.
If that was the case, they would of had a finals run of 1994-6 and 2000-2001 and 2006 and 2008. So instead of a 2 and 4 loss record, it would be 2 wins and 9 losses. its more respectable. So it would of been 7 years of finals from 1983-2012 rather than just 2.
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I agree, I reckon your mob has bigger problems than Nicks. Fact is we have no idea whether he's an AFL standard coach or not yet, because he's never been given an AFL standard list to work with.
The worry for him is that the powers that be might lose patience and sack him before he gets the chance to coach an AFL standard list.
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Round 2 and then a couple at the end. Very nearly avoided the spoon as percentage was neck and neck with Brisbane on that final day and I hoping like mad that we could avoid it
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Crazy isnt it?
Demons, North, Swans and Fremantle all have a gap 3 wins and % over the 18th placed crows.
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Get this.
Aside from Matthew Nicks, Adelaide's coaching panel has ZERO assistant coaches who have played AFL, but never for the Crows
Every assistant coach is either an ex-Adelaide player (Clarke, Hart, Reilly, Wright) or has never played at AFL level (Godden, Younie).
Five of these six assistants have NEVER coached at an AFL club other than Adelaide
#1 issue at the club
Aside from Matthew Nicks, Adelaide's coaching panel has ZERO assistant coaches who have played AFL, but never for the Crows
Every assistant coach is either an ex-Adelaide player (Clarke, Hart, Reilly, Wright) or has never played at AFL level (Godden, Younie).
Five of these six assistants have NEVER coached at an AFL club other than Adelaide
#1 issue at the club
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If Richmond could have had a decent coach for most of those years instead of changing coaches every second year they would probably would have made a few more finals
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Thats also true. I would also think having Key players injured at the worst possible time doesnt help either. Again..... had the tigers had a that finals run from 1994-6 and 2000-2001, that would look a tiny bit better in the record books.
The Richmond: the lost years doco shows how ruthless the tigers were. You get one bad season, you sack the coach.
But looking at the coaches from 1990 onwards. Kevin Bartlett lasted from 1988-91, Alan Jeans in 1992, John Northey in 1993-5, Robert Walls in 1996-7, Jeff Giechen from 1997-9, Danny Frawley from 2000-2004, Terry Wallace from 2005-9 and now Hardwick from 2010-now.
So you look at that list, there are some experienced coaches. I think its more to do with ad recruiting in which results in a Poor playing squad.
I mean compare that to West Coast, which made finals from each year in the 1990s from 1990-99, All they had to do was look at the WAFL to get good young talent
I remembered in the 1st half in 2005, richmond were doing well and were in the top 4. Richmond won like 7 of its 1st 9 games then comes that infamous round 10 game vs the demons. Then I remembered Nathan Brown reaking his leg. It was easily one of the most horrific injuries I saw. Tigers lost that game to go 7-3. and they ended up 10-12. they lost 4 games by 2 goals or less.
Had terry wallace got you to 2 finals in 2005, 2006 and 2008, he would of been hated a tiny bit less.
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