Opinion Matthew Nicks: Adelaide's Coach (Part 3) - The Biggest Loser

Is Matthew Nicks the right coach for Adelaide?

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Well I don’t know what happened to my other reply. I would have hoped a Mod didn’t delete it without explanation. Anyway I’m not going to type it all again but give you the summary.

The initial discussion was about Nicks changing our gameplan over preseason, from attack to defensive. A fundamental change.

Wayne criticised the gameplan and coaching at the start of the season.

Now he’s trying to ignore that and say coaches change the gameplan every 6 weeks, what’s he’s describing are tweaks in game plans for match ups etc and have nothing to do with what Nicks did last preseason and the beginning of the season. He also can’t hide from his own posts which we’ve bumped some of today.
I think he got a bit melodramatic in his reply and it was deleted
 

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So because our defenders were missing we went with an ultra defensive game plan yeah?
Thilthorpe got injured 14 days before our first round, not enough time to change our game plan because of it.
Less not make things up.
Our whole preseason was based around this defensive gameplan, had nothing to do with injuries, they are just a cop out.

I shared with you what the Crows official told me at the time, that we changed the gameplan because we couldn’t defend our attacking one, I pointed out we had the 9th best defence so it wasn’t as bad and didn’t justify their reaction.
 
WaynesWorld19 you really do owe an apology to these basic cheerleaders, they’ve lapped up your flip flop and are now floundering.

By the way when you going to comment on your critical posts of Nicks coaching 1-4 and his changed gameplan?
 
So Carmo and WaynesWorld19 I know you love your stats, hiding behind the inexperience of our defence and Wayne’s flip flopping on his opinion of Nicks coaching at the time.

First 4 rounds of the year when we went 0-4 and clearly played a more defensive slower ball movement game.

We averaged 75.75 against and 57 for.

Next 5 games when we freed up the players and played more attacking, taking out the Roos smashing just to show I’m not trying to up the data, we went 2 wins against finalists, 1 draw against the eventual premiers and 2 losses by a combined 7 points.

We averaged 78.4 against and 83.4 for.

We conceded 3 more points but a whopping 26 extra points for per game.

Quite a contrast not as a result in change in personnel and experience but Nicks changing the gameplan back to more attacking and changing the vanilla midfield mix.
 
He wasn’t talking about a tweak though.
He said every 6 weeks they change it.
Tweaks are weekly.
If you dont think teams alter their game plan the you are dellusional Teams do change their game plans the fundamentals may stay the same but you need to change what team you come up against to counter their strengths and weakness you identify

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If you dont think teams alter their game plan the you are dellusional Teams do change their game plans the fundamentals may stay the same but you need to change what team you come up against to counter their strengths and weakness you identify

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See what I mean, seriously dude your posts are illegible. Learn basic grammar FFS.
 
If you dont think teams alter their game plan the you are dellusional Teams do change their game plans the fundamentals may stay the same but you need to change what team you come up against to counter their strengths and weakness you identify

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Maybe read the posts before making a fool of yourself
 
Nah you are right sack the coach the football department , actually sack everybody and close the doors thank f*ck none of you clowns are in charge

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Just stop there mate, you are going off the deep end when you haven’t even understood the discussion.
 
You really are a joke unless you are whinging about anything and everything you aint happy. You wonder why people here cant be bothered with your crap?

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Funny, lots of posters interact with me, so who are these “people”. If you mean the couple of cheerleaders who don’t like having their opinions challenged, I’m not shedding a tear.

By the way kudos on the grammar, you’re maturing 👍
 
Actually you change the game plan to suit the opposition what works against one team doesnt mean it works against another .So you need to have variations to the game plan and style of play ,if not teams work you out pretty quickly in this league

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OK, but I would still say that's tweaks, or tactics, rather than changes to the game plan in the sense that's being discussed here (every six weeks as other teams work it out).

This discussion is getting a bit toxic though, so maybe I'll leave it at that.
 

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