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

[GROTTO]

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The world is changing!

Sorry, my bad you said Sports star.

 

[1970crow]

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The world is changing!

Are funky hair styles allowed though?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Are funky hair styles allowed though?

Jake Soligo is making me re-write my rule book

 

[1970crow]

Jake Soligo is making me re-write my rule book

Nice and neat around the ears, right up your alley.

 

[adelaidecrows]

I genuinely believe if the video review of Keays kick last year showed him hitting the post and we missed the 8 because of that and not an umpire error, all this talk that we should have been in the 8 and have played finals wouldnt be there and Nicks wouldnt have been given a reprieve.

The contract extension I believe is a direct result of a reward for Nicks for us "making the 8 in 2023".

I get the feeling its more associated with PR. The club is unwilling to admit Nicks was a mistake and the almost finals incident last year gave those living off positive PR an excuse to avoid the drama. My take on why it took so long was the club was not sold on Nicks and we would have signed him last year if we were. The media started poking around asking questions in January about Nicks contract and our decision makers (sorry Olsen) panicked and didn't want to be blamed for the side freezing and Nicks not producing in an effort to make finals. So we rushed a contract through to appease the media and the happy clappers. We shit the bed, Nicks has made us look every bit as stupid as everyone predicted he would. I mean, is anyone surprised we are playing so bad? the squad analysis demonstrates we have huge list problems with no depth and a coach whose statistically since 2021 unwilling to develop young players.

Nicks is taking the piss right now, the players clearly don't want him as coach and they never have.

 

[MsTopG]

As I've said numerous times, the decision maker at the club thought we were a shoe in for finals, despite no evidence to support his findings. We all know it was Olsen. I have my complaints about Roo but Roo is oddly silent and to me this all smacks of a board told to tow the line and shut up by John Olsen. So he signed Nicks for PR so we can wander peacefully in a hail of pr into the finals without the club or Nicks being questioned.

Olsen needs to be called out publicly for this, he clearly did it, he needs to own it, stop employing Sanfl mates in Cornes to sell it for you and man up. He screwed up because he is a gutless and useless club president as he was premier of the state. Live and thrives on PR and he can't help himself. Make no mistake, when it comes to sack Nicks, he will throw the board and Roo under the bus for all the negative PR.

The incompetent Roo, Kelly and Silvers would have needed to sign off on Nicks being extended before it was signed off by the incompetent board. From memory Silvers seemed to be the only one with any sense saying we should wait. He obviously has no power and Roo, Kelly and Olsen apparently got their way. Roo, Kelly, Olsen, the board seem to be the real cancer at the club. Roo and Kelly are responsible for not moving Ogilvie on along with hiring the incompetent Nicks. Reid needs to go as well as this is another incompetent Roo hire due to him being his ex manager. Roo also had a lot to do with Burton being hired which nearly destroyed the club. The fact that Roo is still at the club making one poor decision after another is incomprehensible. Why is no one standing to this clown and removing him from any decision making ability at the club? Surely a strong Chairman would do what needs to be done but Chapman inserted a worse clone of himself when he left in disgrace.

 

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Wow, strange need to bring politics into the discussion. But you are an Adelaide board mod, so it makes a fair bit of sense. The reason Olsen isn't yet isolated is that he's been in the role for only a couple of years and outside of the Nicks extension, nothing has actually gone horribly wrong. I'd definitely sack the entire board over it, but I'm not a child, so I'm not going to blame one person. Even if he is an ex liberal premier.

I didn't though, I just gave my opinion that he seems to be a bit of a protected species with some and I think that's a valid observation.

Your immediate reply was to associate any criticism of Olsen to politics which is proving the exact point I was making

It's not like I've just started being critical of the club out of the blue, I've been consistent in terms of calling out crap for years with the club. My stance hasn't changed, if I don't agree with decisions the club is making then I'll always call them out.

I've always been hyper critical of the club in the past with Chapman, Trigg, Burton, various coaches etc

I was one of the early ones (along with you) calling out Trigg and had him pegged as a dud, long before Tippettgate.

I would have sacked Nicks back in 22 and have said as much on here. Re-appointing Nicks was an epic F up by the cub if you want to throw some dirt on Adam Kelly and/or blame some other rando at the club then knock yourself out, but some of us will be here applying a blow torch where it needs to be until we get some elite operators at this club.

 

[GROTTO]

I actually do hope we are 0-10 after R10, there is a better chance of him being sacked, then if we are 1-9 or 2-8.

Eagles rolling us at AO, could be the straw that breaks the camels back to sack Nicks.

If this is what it takes then so be it. We are not going anywhere as a Club with him at the helm.

 

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The incompetent Roo, Kelly and Silvers would have had to sign off on Nicks being extended before it was signed off by the incompetent board. From memory Silvers seemed to be the only one with any sense saying we should wait. He obviously has no power and Roo and Kelly got their way.

The board makes the calls on players and coaches.

The CEO typically oversees the commercial side of the club, Kelly is a wheel in the footy department cog but the decision is ultimately made by the Board.

Roo definitely has his fingerprints on this disaster, he's been on the nose for years and been actively involved in every disaster this club has had since he's been on the Board and should have been kicked to the curb the same day as Pyke and his bff Burton were sacked.

 

[beartoo]

Dude you are missing the point entirely.

To prove my point, ask yourself the following question. Name a single super star of the game that does manufactured celebrations. I don't even have to wait. There is none, there was never one. There is a reason. So maybe go educate yourself.

Akermanis?

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I actually do hope we are 0-10 after R10, there is a better chance of him being sacked, then if we are 1-9 or 2-8.

Eagles rolling us at AO, could be the straw that breaks the camels back to sack Nicks.

If this is what it takes then so be it. We are not going anywhere as a Club with him at the helm.

I actually think a bad Showdown loss may be the tipping point.

 

[GROTTO]

I actually think a bad Showdown loss may be the tipping point.

Yes, if the Blues, Dons and North can all roll us, Port tearing us apart, will clearly show we have gone backwards as a football club.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

I actually think a bad Showdown loss may be the tipping point.

Would prefer to get a flogging from the Blues this week than Port.

 

[kirky]

That's happened around the time I left, I just couldn't tolerate that level of stupid.

And yet you are here on the Adelaide BF board

 

[MRB37]

I get the feeling its more associated with PR. The club is unwilling to admit Nicks was a mistake and the almost finals incident last year gave those living off positive PR an excuse to avoid the drama. My take on why it took so long was the club was not sold on Nicks and we would have signed him last year if we were. The media started poking around asking questions in January about Nicks contract and our decision makers (sorry Olsen) panicked and didn't want to be blamed for the side freezing and Nicks not producing in an effort to make finals. So we rushed a contract through to appease the media and the happy clappers. We s**t the bed, Nicks has made us look every bit as stupid as everyone predicted he would. I mean, is anyone surprised we are playing so bad? the squad analysis demonstrates we have huge list problems with no depth and a coach whose statistically since 2021 unwilling to develop young players.

Nicks is taking the piss right now, the players clearly don't want him as coach and they never have.

It's not even admitting hiring him was a mistake. You can just as easily say some shit like

"We're on a pursuit of excellence and Nicks did a fantastic job in restoring the culture and confidence of the Adelaide football club, while embedding the fundamental skills and structures in our young players so they can take the next step. We now believe the time is right to further develop our list and playing style and have selected a coach we believe will take us to the next step of being a premiership winning side. The gains Coach X make will be built off of the work Matthew Nicks has done and we will always acknowledge the hand he had in developing and guiding this team as we continue our journey"

 

[kirky]

Well I just want to know, how does anyone think that Roo will be removed from the club?

First, who is going to instigate it? Lets face it, you have to be more higher profile than him and he is seen as a demigod by a lot of our supporter base and yet he has been there since 2014. Every **** up (other than Tippett saga) has occurred whilst he has been footy director.

Reckon the only one who could do it is Andrew McLeod

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, but that role isn’t his cup of tea.

 

[George Kramer]

The board makes the calls on players and coaches.

The CEO typically oversees the commercial side of the club, Kelly is a wheel in the footy department cog but the decision is ultimately made by the Board.

Roo definitely has his fingerprints on this disaster, he's been on the nose for years and been actively involved in every disaster this club has had since he's been on the Board and should have been kicked to the curb the same day as Pyke and his bff Burton were sacked.

Silvers said this week that he meets weekly with Nicks and Kelly about football and what’s going on.

No chance he’s not involved

 

[George Kramer]

Well I just want to know, how does anyone think that Roo will be removed from the club?

First, who is going to instigate it? Lets face it, you have to be more higher profile than him and he is seen as a demigod by a lot of our supporter base and yet he has been there since 2014. Every * up (other than Tippett saga) has occurred whilst he has been footy director.

Reckon the only one who could do it is Andrew McLeod, but that role isn’t his cup of tea.

We were supposed to be introducing a board tenure rule which means Roo must be about done, did it happen as it’s gone very quiet

 

[kirky]

We were supposed to be introducing a board tenure rule which means Roo must be about done, did it happen as it’s gone very quiet

Will probably only apply to new board members that come onboard from a given date. You just wait and see.

As I’ve said to someone

You haven’t been around long enough but the AFC is literally sucking the life force out of me. I followed West Torrens for 30 years and in all that time we played in only 4 final series (lost every final) - but I was young and thought I’d see them in a GF one day. Well I eventually did but it was the merged entity and I was in Darwin in the bank, flew down for the day in 1993 (we won and I got absolutely smashed like your type of drunkenness a few years ago) and flew back the next day, flight cost over $1k because I thought I would never see it again (wasn’t the case fortunately and seen them win a few more times). The AFC last won one back 26 years ago and I doubt I’ll see another with current board and Roo in charge.

 

[Coopers]

so what will it cost to flick him when we finish bottom 4?

Oddly seems like you only have to pay out 6 months of contract.

I wonder if we can fire him and make him work through his notice period like a normal job.

In which case we should give him his 6 months notice about now.

I'm sure that will help this season.

 

[GROTTO]

Would prefer to get a flogging from the Blues this week than Port.

I agree too, but humiliation by the Power is more likely to lead to a result in Nicks being sacked than anything else.

 

[GreyCrow]

I agree too, but humiliation by the Power is more likely to lead to a result in Nicks being sacked than anything else.

Do you know what. I dont think the club cares about ''chasing Port '' as they used to be

On one hand its a good thing as it only ever felt like we existed to be better than Port - we should aim higher than that.

 

[MRB37]

Oddly seems like you only have to pay out 6 months of contract.

I wonder if we can fire him and make him work through his notice period like a normal job.

In which case we should give him his 6 months notice about now.

I'm sure that will help this season.

Was only for teams who took COVID loans.

 

[Coopers]

Was only for teams who took COVID loans.

Sweet, we could use a loan as well. Aren't we building a new facility?

 

[CrowBloke]

The club is unwilling to admit Nicks was a mistake and the almost finals incident last year gave those living off positive PR an excuse to avoid the drama.

Do you mean those in the Board, or the rose-tinted glasses supporters?

My take on why it took so long was the club was not sold on Nicks and we would have signed him last year if we were.

My take is that it was a hasty, belated reward for an almost-Finals 2023 which ignored the reality of the 10th spot finish. Many thought the Crows did well last year.
10th is ho-hum. Meh.

The media started poking around asking questions in January about Nicks contract and our decision makers (sorry Olsen) panicked and didn't want to be blamed for the side freezing and Nicks not producing in an effort to make finals. So we rushed a contract through to appease the media and the happy clappers. We s**t the bed, Nicks has made us look every bit as stupid as everyone predicted he would.

All true, I reckon. The noise was external, media-driven.
A Club with balls would've said pre-season: "We're happy so far and we'll wait see what happens in 2024 before making a decision". That gives them the opportunity to extend or sack around the Bye, or even at Season's end.
A year is a long time in footy; in fact, the last three weeks (0-4 start) is reason enough to give Nicks the boot.

I mean, is anyone surprised we are playing so bad?

Honestly? Yes, I am. Horrified in fact. Totally against my expectations/hopes for 2024, even after Sloane's one-year gift.
I thought Nicks would give Rachele/Rankine/Pedlar more midfield time.
I thought they'd spend more time (as Collingwood have) practising come-from-behind wins and shutting down opposition goal-runs.
I expected the Forwards to play as well as, if not better than last year with better mids delivery.
I thought Fog and Jones would be even better than last year.
I was wrong, in all cases.

the squad analysis demonstrates we have huge list problems with no depth and a coach whose statistically since 2021 unwilling to develop young players.
Nicks is taking the piss right now, the players clearly don't want him as coach and they never have.

I'm not so sure. Several of those young players signed extended contracts which was a vote of confidence from them in Nicks.
I dunno wtf has happened over the pre-season and probably never will, but
--- I think Burns has confused/messed up our Forwards. Appointing another Defender to Coach forwards (a big HI to Ben Hart ) is ridiculous
--- VB is not producing midfield results/impact/effectiveness; PA's Rozee/JHF/Butters will kill us this year. We're nothing like the side that belted them by 47 points in Round 20.
--- Crouch is regressing to the player who was dropped to the SANFL last year. His ball-getting and evasion skills are good, but his ball USE is terrible
--- our skill-level looks like it has fallen off a cliff; we're the worst-kicking side of all those I've seen this year
--- Smith is done, Laird is ineffective, ROB can't take a mark, Tex and Dawson are shadows of their 2023 selves, RT and Murray are big OUTS and Sholl/Parnell/Murphy/McHenry have proven themselves to be busts.
--- Heaven help us when Sloane is an automatic selection again.
--- the whole team looks confused, hesitant, fumbly, without composure. Lost.

For me, life is good, but as an avid Crows supporter since their inception the whole current mess is depressing.