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

[Cromulant]

There has to be a correlation here somewhere.
Coaches speeches at the best and fairests this year.
Chris Scott 29 minutes
Chris Fagan 26 minutes
John Longmire 21 minutes
Luke Beverage 20 minutes
Matthew Nicks 4 minutes

Imagine listening to Bevo speak for 20 minutes.....

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/living/aisha-tyler-self-inflicted-wounds-success/index.html

CNN: Throughout the book, you share stories of your self-inflicted wounds. In some way it is an anti-self-help book, showing how failure can help in your success. Why write about the failures?

Tyler: I always tell people that success is not the absence of failure, success is persistence through failure. So it does show how failure can help. I mean I think there are a lot of people who are crippled by a failure. Crippled by something that goes wrong in their lives. And we’re crippled by a fear of failure.


Yikes.

Wow

I was going to say that Nicks' speech reminded me of Frontline's Mike Moore who appeared on a television debate.

Picked a few gems from a book of quotations (Triumphantly: "The speech is written") but then bombed

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

There has to be a correlation here somewhere.
Coaches speeches at the best and fairests this year.
Chris Scott 29 minutes
Chris Fagan 26 minutes
John Longmire 21 minutes
Luke Beverage 20 minutes
Matthew Nicks 4 minutes

Less said, the better!

 

[adelaidecrows]

There has to be a correlation here somewhere.
Coaches speeches at the best and fairests this year.
Chris Scott 29 minutes
Chris Fagan 26 minutes
John Longmire 21 minutes
Luke Beverage 20 minutes
Matthew Nicks 4 minutes

It doesnt take long to blame everyone else but yourself so after 4 minutes he would have had to talk about self reflection and growth in his own coaching.

 

[PeterSalt]

Oh of course .....Hardwick at RICH, and Paul Roos at MELB .....both Clubs were engrained losers with poor cultures

Many Clubs have rebuilt from bottom up ......HAW, and WCE great examples ....NORTH are the best, because they just keep repeating rebuilds & staying bottom

When did WCE rebuild from the bottom up?

 

[adelaidecrows]

When did WCE rebuild from the bottom up?

there was that early 2000 period when they god judd pick 1. They were a basket case but that may have been more the coach.

 

[WeeBlake]

the only good thing about failing is learning from it

 

[adelaidecrows]

the only good thing about failing is learning from it

Maybe you can tell Nicks that when he fails, his job is not to lay blame somewhere else but to learn from his own mistakes.

 

[PeterSalt]

there was that early 2000 period when they god judd pick 1. They were a basket case but that may have been more the coach.

From memory Judd went at 3

They had a couple of down years as they transitioned from their premiership group of the mid 90's to the premiership group of the mid 00's

I'd never really thought of that as a complete rebuild though

 

[adelaidecrows]

From memory Judd went at 3

They had a couple of down years as they transitioned from their premiership group of the mid 90's to the premiership group of the mid 00's

I'd never really thought of that as a complete rebuild though

the West Coast sides of the early to mid 90s was one of the great sides of that era. Stars on every line. So they had to transition out of that at some stage and without looking up the stats and exact details, it is definitely more than likely they went through a huge transition of playing younger players as the premiership players were moved on. So in a way, it would have been a pretty solid rebuild.

 

[CrowBloke]

We are currently in a situation where you can either look at it as glass half-full or half empty.

Mate, the "glass" is 36% full and 64% empty, there's half-half about it.

You can look at it as a painful 7 years in the wilderness of bleakness or I like to see it as 1 bad season out of the past 4.

John, it's THREE bad seasons out of the past 4. 15th, 14th, 10th, 15th remember?
And 10th was nothing to Crow about.

Neither perspective is really right or wrong,

Yep.

but what matters now is how we go in 2025.

... and just forget about how bad Nicks has been ....?

 

[CrowBloke]

Why ANB came to the Crows:

Neal-Bullen on what it means to return to his boyhood Club

Neal-Bullen spoke to the media at West Lakes on Tuesday

www.afc.com.au

Not a word about Nicks.

 

[Milo Cyrus]

AI searching thinks Pepsi Nuts is next to no chance of coaching a premiership.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-are-the-chances-that-math-kL6A8lhsTIKMk5Yo1ATVww

 

[GreyCrow]

... and just forget about how bad Nicks has been ....?

But but its going to happen this time

 

[Gtowncrow]

So having a quiet beer with a footy mate over the weekend, we turn to the Matthew Nicks

Matthew Nicks

Age

49

Ht

187cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

9.4

4star

HB

4.2

3star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.7

4star

G

0.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

6.6

2star

K

4.4

2star

HB

2.2

2star

M

2.2

3star

T

1.4

4star

G

0.4

3star

topic. It meanders on as a discussion which ended with him posing a question to me.

"Would you swap Nicks for Kane Cornes as coach right now?"

After laughing... I had to stop and think.

What would you have answered?

 

[TheLeftFist8]

 

[kirky]

I’m just waiting to see how our R1 team looks like.

Think we will know what 2025 is in store for us looking at that side - Laird to HBF and Murphy out of the team.

 

[jenny61_99]

So having a quiet beer with a footy mate over the weekend, we turn to the Matthew Nicks topic. It meanders on as a discussion which ended with him posing a question to me.

"Would you swap Nicks for Kane Cornes as coach right now?"

After laughing... I had to stop and think.

What would you have answered?

 

[FR0GGY]

So having a quiet beer with a footy mate over the weekend, we turn to the Matthew Nicks topic. It meanders on as a discussion which ended with him posing a question to me.

"Would you swap Nicks for Kane Cornes as coach right now?"

After laughing... I had to stop and think.

What would you have answered?

Would love to see it.

 

[Cromulant]

Would love to see it.

You'd be one of very few.

 

[Scorpus]

So having a quiet beer with a footy mate over the weekend, we turn to the Matthew Nicks topic. It meanders on as a discussion which ended with him posing a question to me.

"Would you swap Nicks for Kane Cornes as coach right now?"

After laughing... I had to stop and think.

What would you have answered?

Swap Nicks for Cornes using a magic machine

Immediately sack Cornes because he has no experience. No one complains because it's obvious he shouldn't be coaching.

Hire new coach. Win.

 

[Brett Cummings]

So having a quiet beer with a footy mate over the weekend, we turn to the Matthew Nicks topic. It meanders on as a discussion which ended with him posing a question to me.

"Would you swap Nicks for Kane Cornes as coach right now?"

After laughing... I had to stop and think.

What would you have answered?

Flip a coin.

 

[Firewalker]

Luke Darcy & Nicks on the same podcast…



Imagine the amount of obnoxious self-aggrandising “love the way you go about it” garbage those two would spout spending 30 minutes with each other. Actual would rather pull a double Vincent van Gogh than listen to that.

 

[FR0GGY]

Luke Darcy & Nicks on the same podcast…

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Imagine the amount of obnoxious self-aggrandising “love the way you go about it” garbage those two would spout spending 30 minutes with each other. Actual would rather pull a double Vincent van Gogh than listen to that.

Would be plenty of “say that again” Matthew?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Would be plenty of “say that again” Matthew?

That would be painful as hard enough to listen to him the 1st time!