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

[kirky]

I would be happier if we started doing the macarena after taking a mark.

 

[maxlilly]

Well, well, well

Murphy's out washing Nicks's car, as we speak

 

[GreyCrow]

What would Bartel know

He isn't inside the 4 walls

 

[George Kramer]

Hmmm, this surely classifies as a Nicks criticism even though they don’t specially have a crack at him.

You can’t keep picking faults with gameplan and selection and not tie that into criticism of the coach, well you can if you’re ……………bonkers

 

[George Kramer]

What would Bartel know

He isn't inside the 4 walls

Yeah but injuries

 

[kirky]

Murphy's out washing Nicks's car, as we speak

And giving him a …….!

 

[BigBoSS_Riot]

Designated pressure forward has always been fool’s gold. One waste of a spot wasn’t doing it, so we’ve now got 3. You want them to pressure, how about allowing them to be an attacking threat leading at the ball carrier and when the pill hits the grass, they’re already there because they were the target.

Adam Schneider averaged 3.98 tackles a game across 70 games from 2009-11. Good numbers for a primary pressure forward. He also kicked over 30 goals in all three seasons, for a total of 103.49.

sMurph and Nedward have never even made it to 20 goals in a season (Nedward has never actually made it to 15), and have never had tackle numbers as high as Schneider did.

I don't think the two combined add up to the player Schneider was.

 

[MarcusP2]

Adam Schneider averaged 3.98 tackles a game across 70 games from 2009-11. Good numbers for a primary pressure forward. He also kicked over 30 goals in all three seasons, for a total of 103.49.

sMurph and Nedward have never even made it to 20 goals in a season (Nedward has never actually made it to 15), and have never had tackle numbers as high as Schneider did.

I don't think the two combined add up to the player Schneider was.

I remember that guy ripping up apart one day at AAMI, which confirmed to me we were back to being shit. Probably 2010.

 

[crows dude]

Smith's out

Lets hope so is Murphy and a few others

 

[Mr_Moogle]

“Don’t know, I’ve seen him around, but he doesn’t talk to me”.

Wouldn't be surprised.

I guess what I'm getting at that whether it's the old school Walsh approach, or something more easy going, either of these management styles can work. Nicks is just incompetent.

 

[BigBoSS_Riot]

I remember that guy ripping up apart one day at AAMI, which confirmed to me we were back to being shit. Probably 2010.

Looking at his records, AAMI Stadium seems to have been one of his weaker grounds.

He did kick 5 goals against us in that 2011 embarrassment at Docklands. Maybe you were thinking of that?

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Smith's out

This better not be some bullshit about resting him either. He's sucked hard all year and deserves to have his omission printed in big bold letters.

 

[MarcusP2]

Looking at his records, AAMI Stadium seems to have been one of his weaker grounds.

He did kick 5 goals against us in that 2011 embarrassment at Docklands. Maybe you were thinking of that?

Maybe I just thought we were going to win and seeing him kick a goal or 2 stuck with me.

Probably this game where he kicked a couple and was on the tail end of best players, and it was beginning of the season when we were crap (then turned it around).

Saints sink Crows on road

St Kilda has beaten Adelaide by 32 points at AAMI Stadium on Friday night, putting their poor record at the venue behind them

www.afl.com.au

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Bartel: "play guys in the role they were recruited to play"

I could have sworn some people around here told me what Hamish intended with his recruiting means little once the player is through the door.

 

[BACCS]

Those coaches also tend to have a very quick burn out factor to them as well.

Beveridge is a prime example, an initial spike that saw them make 2 grand finals and win a flag, but now they're burnt out and apparently the players want him gone.

I doubt that Bevo won't be there once his contract ends in 2025.

Is there anything wrong with that though? For all of Sydney's success, they still only have one flag under Longmire in 2012. They've failed in a lot of big games since then and had a Port style GF defeat.

Bevo cops it more than most coaches due to his dislike of media in general and heated off field exchanges with certain influential Melbourne journos over the years. At least he holds senior players accountable there and makes bold selection calls.

 

[BACCS]

He's right though, we can't hold the ball in our front half. We also can't get the ball out of our back half or win the ball in midfield though.

We actually do score well from our back half still, our biggest weakness this year has been scoring from the midfield. We were top 4 last year, 16th this year (Sydney went from 17th in 2023 to 3rd this year).

 

[MarcusP2]

We actually do score well from our back half still, our biggest weakness this year has been scoring from the midfield. We were top 4 last year, 16th this year (Sydney went from 17th in 2023 to 3rd this year).

Take away our thrashings of NM and GC and we are -39 I50s for the year. Other than those 2 we only won the count once (against Collingwood) since round 4 . My eye test says we've found it real hard to escape (repeat opposition I50s) while struggling to generate repeat i50s ourselves.

 

[BACCS]

Take away our thrashings of NM and GC and we are -39 I50s for the year. Other than those 2 we only won the count once (against Collingwood) since round 4 . My eye test says we've found it real hard to escape (repeat opposition I50s) while struggling to generate repeat i50s ourselves.

I saw the stat recently, we were top 4 for scoring from D50 over the 2 months leading into the Hawks game. Probably fallen away since given our results. We've also conceded a fair few I50s, but been top 4/6 for points against most of the season (as high as 3rd).

A few teams have lost I50 counts this year by fair margins and still won. Carlton lost them 60-41 against Essendon and won easily. Port usually win them by heaps but have crap scoring efficiency.

 

[Gtowncrow]

In some ways I'm glad we have one of the toughest draws in second half of the year.

We absolutely do not need any soft meaningless wins to paper over any cracks or that stupidly give the club any more faith in Nicks.

I want Nicks fully exposed against the best sides in second half of the year so even the clowns at the Club can see he isn't up to it.

I think 13 previous games this season ought to have been enough.

 

[n4sir]

Well, well, well

 

[Gtowncrow]

Bartel: "play guys in the role they were recruited to play"

I could have sworn some people around here told me what Hamish intended with his recruiting means little once the player is through the door.

The widespread media pile on Nicks is pretty damn high. When did one of our last coaches get this much scrutiny?

 

[jackster83]

The widespread media pile on Nicks is pretty damn high. When did one of our last coaches get this much scrutiny?

Probably Craig in 2011.

Even in 2019 it was predominantly Burton copping the heat.

We haven't had any Spackler transcripts yet though.

 

[Slippery Pete]

The widespread media pile on Nicks is pretty damn high. When did one of our last coaches get this much scrutiny?

Short memory. Pyke definitely did.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Any stat we're doing well in is obviously meaningless

 

[maxlilly]

Any stat we're doing well in is obviously meaningless

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