Nicks controversially dropped him for the final game of the year to make an example of him. Do you call that support?
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Other than Richmond (who will be a total rabble for years to come and who likely take Smith or FOS) - there is no 'big' Vic club until Essendon at 8 or CarLOLton at 11 (who may be using that pick for Houston).
I guess depending on what happens with Richmond/Freo possible trades for Bolton/Baker and those 9/10 picks..... Seems unlikely he will get to a big 'Vic' club unless Demons throw a curve ball and take him at 5 (But surely his parents would be even MORE concerned about their culture) ...but doubt he would slide past us...
Senior players lead no doubt and you know Nicks who won't dare go against.
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I call it a kick in the ass
FFS people need to toughen the **** up
How would some of these young player have played under Kerls, Hafey, Parkin etc
Honestly have we become that soft
There is time to support, but there are times you need tough love, he’s had plenty of support - it was tine for tough love
I’ll go as far as saying - it will be the making of him as a player and as a leader
Harden uo people
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Nicks dropped him
fkkk this club makes my blood boil. They figure out Nicks can't coach 5 years in so they look for senior help like he's a baby.
This is way more embarrassing than the power stance, and no one will take responcibility for it
This is way more embarrassing than the power stance, and no one will take responcibility for it
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Not every kid wants to stay in SA
Draper obviously wants to head to Victorian - where players get the most exposure
He obviously knows of Adelaide’s interests and is using the Rash dropping to discourage Adelaide
If our handling of young players was so bad, why have so many young players stayed and signed long term contracts
So let’s cut the BS and the storm in a tea-cup noise
Whether people like Nicks or not is irrelevant, however under Nicks our retention of young players has never been better, and the young players including Rash, Curtin, Sig and Dowling actually love the coach
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Draper obviously wants to head to Victorian - where players get the most exposure
He obviously knows of Adelaide’s interests and is using the Rash dropping to discourage Adelaide
If our handling of young players was so bad, why have so many young players stayed and signed long term contracts
So let’s cut the BS and the storm in a tea-cup noise
Whether people like Nicks or not is irrelevant, however under Nicks our retention of young players has never been better, and the young players including Rash, Curtin, Sig and Dowling actually love the coach
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This is Nicks you are talking about. He ain't going to go against the senior players, did you see how long he played a clearly cooked Smith and then Laird in the midfield, what he said at the airport before boarding was supportive and totally different to what Dawson said when the plane landed in Sydney.
As much as I don't disagree with your sentiment, today's youngsters are a totally different kettle of fish to that. It's something our club refuses to understand and adapt to.
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Exactly right, was told a while ago that the Eagles have had him number one on their draft board and he’s perfectly happy to go there. Last time I checked that isn’t in Victoria, but unfortunately that would’ve required Josh Money to have any credibility in his story.
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Agree, nicks needs to toughen up, if you can’t handle a kid trying to enjoy his footy, GTFO
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That’s have the problem, the softer we treat them the softer they become
There gets a point you need to build some resilience in players, otherwise how do they stand up in tough game situations
What I find hilarious in all this, the player himself Rash - accepted the feedback, accepted the dropping and is determined to turn this into a positive
It’s the rest of these soft “wrap players in bubble wrap” supporters that are have a sook
**** me if we ever have to go to war again
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We haven't had any real difficult signings for non SA kids. We gave Soligio and Rachele 5+ year deals very early.
Regardless of whether this is a smokescreen or not, you cannot have draftees have the mere thought of "I don't wana go there because they dont know how to manage young players".
The club let it play out publically, embarassing rash to the comp. thats not proper football clubs like geelong and hawthorn delt with ginnivan and stengle.
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Even if all of that were true, there's no excuse for giving him a public shellacking by a series of senior players and coaches.
If those conversations had been kept strictly within the walls of the club (as I'm sure Geelong did with Stengle while supporting him publicly), it wouldn't have become an issue for broader public discussion.
Whatever your take on it is, it's a diabolical look for the club.
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What else is he going to do?
He literally tried to go to war with the enemy and we were so soft that we didn’t want to upset them, and no one went with him.
This has been said ad nauseum and still goes in one ear and out the other.
Even football greats have said the same, we treated him and handled it woefully.
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Yeah! It's actually worse than what he thinks!
It was f*cken pathetic
Well if there's no truth behind it, surely the club should at least take some kind of legal action? Arguably as damaging to our brand as anything that's come out this year, which is saying a lot
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Surprising ANB is so keen to get to the Crows given he's also with the same management team as Sid Draper?
They couldn't have clued ANB up it seems.
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You don't think a highly touted local draftee being concerned about being drafted to our club warrants its own thread? Where would you like the discussion hidden?
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Being inside the club will only solidify his perception.
Extremely not ideal. And it's hard to blame the kid and the people around him, to be honest. It was an embarrassing spectacle from our club and if I was a talented youth, I would be concerned as well.
This should be a wake-up call to the club, but it won't be.
This should be a wake-up call to the club, but it won't be.
