Nix over Hinkley? Geez, what a choice, but Nix is going to be sacked with one of the worst 3+ year records ever.
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Nix over Hinkley? Geez, what a choice, but Nix is going to be sacked with one of the worst 3+ year records ever.
Like for like or maintain structure are only excuses used for stupid selection decisions when it gets or keeps experience and/or continuity in the 22.
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This hurts more.
Ugly, pushing guys out the club like Matt and Brad Crouch, Tyson Stengle, probably Sholl as well at this rate. Took all season for Worrell to get a game. Even Darcy Fogarty could barely get a game in the first half of the season until there were rumours of Brisbane looking to poach him.
All this while absolute potatoes like McHenry and Murphy have a gold pass and will never get dropped.
Is it just me or does it seem like Nicks hates and punishes players who rate their own ability more than he does?
That old, “There’s the door” video comes to mind. Hopefully I’m wrong and it’s the right call in the long run, but I feel like we might see a lot more Crows players dominating at other clubs in the future under Nicks.
All this while absolute potatoes like McHenry and Murphy have a gold pass and will never get dropped.
Is it just me or does it seem like Nicks hates and punishes players who rate their own ability more than he does?
That old, “There’s the door” video comes to mind. Hopefully I’m wrong and it’s the right call in the long run, but I feel like we might see a lot more Crows players dominating at other clubs in the future under Nicks.
Can't comment on Jones, but McAsey was at 6 - 10 in half a dozen of the recognized phantom drafts. He was clearly the pick of the KPPs in that draft.
Recruiting is a problematic exercise - hindsight criticism is as easy as knocking off North Melbourne!!
Both Nick's and Hinkley aren't good coaches. Both gone next year.
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So in the back half of the year he was like the 5th highest goal scorer of all teams - that is just a ridiculous take
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You could mount a case to say he's been lucky to be in the side at all this year.
Underwhelming season. Blowing off the cobwebs excuse finished months ago.
Looking like an unfortunate contract for the club.
Underwhelming season. Blowing off the cobwebs excuse finished months ago.
Looking like an unfortunate contract for the club.
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IMO - The 'Good' is the loss itself.
Whilst I know Nicks already tried to do it in the Presser last night - The loss should effectively mean that there should be absolutely NO sugar coating, turd polishing, back slapping, high fiving wallpapering over cracks.
We were awful and waved the white flag in the second half. Couldn't handle the heat.
4 of our 8 wins this year have come from witches hats (Norf and WC). Lets not kid ourselves, if we only played them once we would be on 6 wins and worse W/L then last year.
This crap about 'improvement, DNA, youngest side' needs to go over summer.
Time to get ruthless, get the chequebook out (Rankine/JHF) and start putting some players on notice (Yes - I'm talking about you Smith).
Whilst I know Nicks already tried to do it in the Presser last night - The loss should effectively mean that there should be absolutely NO sugar coating, turd polishing, back slapping, high fiving wallpapering over cracks.
We were awful and waved the white flag in the second half. Couldn't handle the heat.
4 of our 8 wins this year have come from witches hats (Norf and WC). Lets not kid ourselves, if we only played them once we would be on 6 wins and worse W/L then last year.
This crap about 'improvement, DNA, youngest side' needs to go over summer.
Time to get ruthless, get the chequebook out (Rankine/JHF) and start putting some players on notice (Yes - I'm talking about you Smith).
Matt Crouch is rubbish and needs to be pushed out. There's not much we could do in the BCrouch situation, I wouldn't have offered him a long deal with where we were at when his contract came up. Stengle being ousted was a massive mistake and we should never have moved him. We are now going after Rankine at 800k to do the same role. Worrell was a big misjudgement and should have played at least 15-20 games. Newchurch not playing at least one game was idiotic. Sholl is garbage and is softer than Rory Atkins. Playing Murphy McHenry Rowe in the same team should never happen.
I agree the cobwebs reason ended weeks ago. Should have been cue in rack for season once injured again.
I am hopeful he can have a strong preseason. We have him for a few more years yet, no trade value, so we really need to be patient with him.
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What do you think we learnt from the Bulldogs, Tigers; Blues and The first Showdown?
And Keays gets heaps of the ball as a mid. Do you have a point that you’re making?
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Seriously, this is an excellent post that calls out the harsh truths of our list and selection policy. Last night was the REAL indication of where this rebuild is at. Club apologists on this forum cling to the youngest side security blanket for our current situation but so many players are never going to be up to standard.
We had only four wins this year against sides that weren't part of the worst ever AFL teams bracket at the bottom of the table and the win against Port whilst undeniably delicious and spectacular was actually a fluke as we'd been outplayed for 90% of that game.
The best sides ooze skills, last night Port killed us with their skills, and we have very little, and it will continue to hurt us as we go forward.
Dawson to his rightful position on a wing and not saving Nick's arse in the backlines every week, Rachele back fit and the addition of Rankine will assist but we rapidly need to find more skilled players and dump forever McHenry, Murphy, Rowe etc.
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Don't put ROB and skills in the same sentence!
Agreed, it's a myth in football that all senior players bring good experience and leadership. No difference to any other workplace, sometimes the ones that have been there the longest are great leaders and sometimes they are not and you don't want the new staff learning from them.
Next to nothing. Our club and coaches have extremely rigid philosophies. Any win just cements failed beliefs further despite overwhelming evidence that our approach is wrong.
It’s no different to 2017, we smoked lots of teams but we also lost every 3rd week. And we lost by opponents bringing the same strategy. But we don’t learn from losses, we ignore them under the ridiculous pretence that it was us not playing our way.
I don't understand the selection of Parnell if we refuse to use his skills. Unless he's getting 20+ a game, he's a handicap on the side. Tries his guts out but is too small and not strong enough to defend at AFL level.
We were never going to win last night.
When we beat them in round 3, they still had players struggling post COVID. Not much said in media, but they were hit hard during the two weeks before the season started.
Then first up they have Brisbane up there. Warm himid energy sapping game. Which affected them the next two weeks. Hawthorn belted em. We just beat them, the difference between us and Hawthorn.
Since 0 and 5, Port have been back to the same side they have been under Hinkley. Struggle against good sides, beat up on bad ones.
I posted early yesterday Port's work between the arcs would hurt us.
Last week was a warning for us. That playing group love Ken, as does the club internally. The white noise around sacking him no doubt spurred the players on in the last two weeks. To not just win, but humiliate two bottom four quality sides. Make a statement to the "Sack Hinkley " crew.
They did that against us.
We tried early, but ran out of steam. Port Boys then did what they do best.
Better ladder position this year, but still a bottom four quality side. Need to really improve next year.
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When we beat them in round 3, they still had players struggling post COVID. Not much said in media, but they were hit hard during the two weeks before the season started.
Then first up they have Brisbane up there. Warm himid energy sapping game. Which affected them the next two weeks. Hawthorn belted em. We just beat them, the difference between us and Hawthorn.
Since 0 and 5, Port have been back to the same side they have been under Hinkley. Struggle against good sides, beat up on bad ones.
I posted early yesterday Port's work between the arcs would hurt us.
Last week was a warning for us. That playing group love Ken, as does the club internally. The white noise around sacking him no doubt spurred the players on in the last two weeks. To not just win, but humiliate two bottom four quality sides. Make a statement to the "Sack Hinkley " crew.
They did that against us.
We tried early, but ran out of steam. Port Boys then did what they do best.
Better ladder position this year, but still a bottom four quality side. Need to really improve next year.
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I clearly recall warning the boosters not to see a good performance in a game lacking pressure and intensity as a meaningful sign.
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Nicks is a self promoter but many of us can actually analyse the games and list accurately so know Nicks is a bull sh artist in pressers.
Walker got coaches votes in four games in the back half of the year and was top 5 in goalkickers in the comp and so his second half of the year was good. I think that was the point. Had a fairly quiet game last night and was poor against the Eagles, was good consistently for the whole year apart from those two games.
I wouldn't read too much into last night. We looked tired, disinterested and were already on holidays. We need to get Murphy, McHenry, Jones, ROB, Rowe out of the side and be aggressive at the trade table. Our main problem is that we are so wasteful as a team when moving the ball into our forward line. This has happened all year. We also urgently need another decent experienced KPD. Next year should be around the 11 win mark I believe if we are aggressive in the offseason.
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Jokes on them really. They came looking for a tough fight and we weren't having it.
So when we win against a good side in a high pressure game it means nothing?
Bloody hell there are some whingers on this board. We obviously still have a long way to go, but there have been some positive signs this year. Some people only ever focus on the negative.
