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

[AFC979810]

Never realised Nicks was the AFL equivalent of Gareth Southgate.

This just keeps getting worse.

 

[Macka_321]

Be very interesting to see what happens if we get humbled at home by Saints.

Without Rankine (and an important Hinge) and a few of their players getting back into form against Sydney, not going to be an easy game for Nicks especially if Ro$$ Lyin' turns it into a dour scrapfest early....

Saints paying 2.72 on Sportsbet might be worth putting on a few dollars.

 

[MsTopG]

Saints paying 2.72 on Sportsbet might be worth putting on a few dollars.

I might take a saints thumping of the crows, nicks sacking multi.

 

[Brett Cummings]

What silvers and roo don't understand is they'll look like even bigger clowns if they sack nicks next year.

 

[fuic08]

What silvers and roo don't understand is they'll look like even bigger clowns if they sack nicks next year.

They're gambling on the 0.01% chance that Nicks comes good.

 

[CrowBloke]

100 game banner

Not much noise will be made of Nicks getting to 100

I see, thanks.
Plenty of (negative) noise about his last 16 games, but that sentiment wouldn't make it onto a banner.

I wouldn't be surprised if we lose to the Saints, after which the Crows chair Nicks off the ground (it's not about winning, it's about trying hard).

 

[FR0GGY]

“After 5 long years
Theres not much to be said
The best part has been
The pet fly on his head”

 

[Firewalker]

Real ‘The Grade Cricketer’ areas from Nicks today in his press conference as he reckons the players at the club are still motivated and going alright because there’s a jovial mood in the tubs

 

[fuic08]

Real ‘The Grade Cricketer’ areas from Nicks today in his press conference as he reckons the players at the club are still motivated and going alright because there’s a jovial mood in the tubs

Exclusive pic of the Footy Park showers

 

[Redline]

Be very interesting to see what happens if we get humbled at home by Saints.

Without Rankine (and an important Hinge) and a few of their players getting back into form against Sydney, not going to be an easy game for Nicks especially if Ro$$ Lyin' turns it into a dour scrapfest early....

I think we will win comfortably but a loss will bring alot of heat in the club.

 

[FullyBigKPro]

I think we will win comfortably but if we do lose the pressure will be turned up Nicks.

 

[GreyCrow]

I think we will win comfortably but a loss will bring alot of heat in the club.

Ive tipped us

 

[Scorpus]

I think we will win comfortably but a loss will bring alot of heat in the club.

We lost to Richmond at home and there wasn't exactly a ton of heat on the club. Certainly no action taken

 

[1970crow]

We lost to Richmond at home and there wasn't exactly a ton of heat on the club. Certainly no action taken

That game is a fair outlier though.

 

[Slime Roy]

That game is a fair outlier though.

The catalyst for the probing review (no less)
& the powerful reasoning behind Jack Hombsch having to stay late twice in the board-mandated fallout.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Playing this many talls on a wet deck, Nix is a dumb ****

 

[Greenfinger]

Been thinking about the biggest problem with Nicks and it has to be his slowness ( stubbornness) in decision making.

It took 60 games for him to maybe realise that McHenry isn’t up to it, when many fans were there a long time ago.

He finally is playing curtin in the middle and surprise surprise he’s made a huge impact today. Should have worked that out earlier this year.

Adelaide simply can’t afford to have a coach that takes so long to realise if things aren’t working and change things. Game day coaching is a massive case in point. We have lost at least 4-5 games this year on slow coaching responses during the game .

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Been thinking about the biggest problem with Nicks and it has to be his slowness ( stubbornness) in decision making.

It took 60 games for him to maybe realise that McHenry isn’t up to it, when many fans were there a long time ago.

He finally is playing curtin in the middle and surprise surprise he’s made a huge impact today. Should have worked that out earlier this year.

Adelaide simply can’t afford to have a coach that takes so long to realise if things aren’t working and change things. Game day coaching is a massive case in point. We have lost at least 4-5 games this year on slow coaching responses during the game .

Yep, unfortunately he is just not that smart.

It's the reason we are usually outcoached on game day.

It's why most have come to the realisation we won't be successful under him... & we won't go anywhere until we change coaches.

Sadly also a poor reflection on AFC football decision makers that they can't see this.

Changing assistants is attempting to work around the problem, when the easiest fix is to remove the problem.

 

[crows dude]

Yep, unfortunately he is just not that smart.

It's the reason we are usually outcoached on game day.

It's why most have come to the realisation we won't be successful under him... & we won't go anywhere until we change coaches.

Sadly also a poor reflection on AFC football decision makers that they can't see this.

Changing assistants is attempting to work around the problem, when the easiest fix is to remove the problem.

When we chose nicks it sounded to me that the main reason he was chosen was his ability to build relationships. That spells assistant coach to me. Someone players felt comfortable to talk to when needed. Which wasn’t Sando or pykeys strength. Pykey could have stayed on with nicks coming in as an assistant to work under him but be the players sounding board.

We need a game day tactician in.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

When we chose nicks it sounded to me that the main reason he was chosen was his ability to build relationships. That spells assistant coach to me. Someone players felt comfortable to talk to when needed. Which wasn’t Sando or pykeys strength. Pykey could have stayed on with nicks coming in as an assistant to work under him but be the players sounding board.

We need a game day tactician in.

Exactly.

None of our coaches appear to have any tactical smarts.

Opposition coaches would look forward to going up against Nix.

 

[MRB37]

Exactly.

None of our coaches appear to have any tactical smarts.

Opposition coaches would look forward to going up against Nix.

Sounds like Rahilly was that guy for us.

When we chose nicks it sounded to me that the main reason he was chosen was his ability to build relationships. That spells assistant coach to me. Someone players felt comfortable to talk to when needed. Which wasn’t Sando or pykeys strength. Pykey could have stayed on with nicks coming in as an assistant to work under him but be the players sounding board.

We need a game day tactician in.

Everything with Nicks seems to be a "do the opposite and hope it works out" situation.

Had a coach who was tactically smart, but not great with players? Hire the opposite to replace him!

We usually fire a coach who has 2-3 poor years? Do the opposite and keep backing him in!

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Sounds like Rahilly was that guy for us.


Everything with Nicks seems to be a "do the opposite and hope it works out" situation.

Had a coach who was tactically smart, but not great with players? Hire the opposite to replace him!

We usually fire a coach who has 2-3 poor years? Do the opposite and keep backing him in!

Need a good mix in the coaching group & need at least 1, preferably the senior coach & senior assistant who are tactically smart.

We literally have none of out coaches that have tactical smarts.

Worse is we have football management who don't even realise!

Just need to be in the matchday box to know we have a big problem.

 

[dogs105]

Need a good mix in the coaching group & need at least 1, preferably the senior coach & senior assistant who are tactically smart

We literally have nine of out coaches that have tactical smarts.

Nine is a good start...

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Nine is a good start...

Lol, what a bad typo.

If only...

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

How is Ross Lyon going to feel if he is outcoached by Nix...