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

[ams4crows]

Imagine being a worst coach than Shaw!

God I hope that means we get Malcolm Blight 2.0 next

 

[Crow till I die]

This fuxkstick is so many more magnitutes worse than Ken Hinkley its not even funny..

I would so much rather Ken Hinkley coaching the crows than 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

.

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

is the temu version of Ken Hinkley.

There.. I said it.

Well that is actually not an incorrect statement. Hinkley has got his side to finals a number of times. Nicks is yet to get us there. Regardless Port have fallen short time after time, he still gets them there and who knows, they might win it this year (I hope not). Nicks right now looks a million miles away from coaching us to finals let alone a grand final

 

[rocket18]

Huh!

The person I quoted thought Nicks has/had done a great job, I was asking them to expand and describe what particular area Nicks is great at.

 

[1970crow]

Think I’m might start a closest to the date “Nicks gets sacked” competition.

Winner gets a bottle of Hentley Farm Clos Otto (2020) from my cellar.

Hentley Farm Wines Clos Otto Barossa Valley Shiraz 2020

Read the latest ratings and reviews for 2020 Clos Otto Barossa Valley Shiraz from Hentley Farm Wines as rated by Halliday

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2020 Clos Otto, blech, why don't you offer up something drinkable.











Note that I know nothing about this wine, I'm sure it's magnificent, I just miss Sanders

 

[cleanhands]

The person I quoted thought Nicks has/had done a great job, I was asking them to expand and describe what particular area Nicks is great at.

I thought he like it in his first couple of years is now convinced he should be gone, pardon my comprehension

 

[GROTTO]

Well that is actually not an incorrect statement. Hinkley has got his side to finals a number of times. Nicks is yet to get us there. Regardless Port have fallen short time after time, he still gets them there and who knows, they might win it this year (I hope not). Nicks right now looks a million miles away from coaching us to finals let alone a grand final

With dumb luck, Port easily could have landed in a couple of GF's under Hinkley.

Lost to Hawks and Tigers by a straight kick in prelims.

 

[CrowBloke]

I will never forget being beaten by the wooden spooners at AO, THAT is the mark of Nicks coaching ability

Yeah, that was our lowest point.
With ROB dropped, they came over here with a plan and monstered Strachan.
Their runaways and goals from stoppage plays killed us. Shittiest loss of 2024 imo.

 

[CrowBloke]

Sounds dodgy

... because it IS dodgy.
As an AFL Coach, Nicks'd make a good used car salesman.

 

[CrowBloke]

Laird has become the absolute antithesis of team first this year yet seems to be held completely unaccountable for it because he's a senior player.

TRIPLE-Club Champ, doncha know? Just ask him.

 

[bmac84]

"Praise in public, criticize in private"
- Vince Lombardi

Nicks falls well short in this space.

 

[CrowBloke]

Sack Nicks after the final game. Spend the next 5 weeks finding a new coach, and hit trade week hard.

This!
Please, OH PLEASE, get rid of him now.

Anyone got Nathan Buckley’s number?

Yep, 5:

 

[CrowBloke]

Think I’m might start a closest to the date “Nicks gets sacked” competition.

Winner gets a bottle of Hentley Farm Clos Otto (2020) from my cellar.

Hentley Farm Wines Clos Otto Barossa Valley Shiraz 2020

Read the latest ratings and reviews for 2020 Clos Otto Barossa Valley Shiraz from Hentley Farm Wines as rated by Halliday

www.winecompanion.com.au

A day or so after our last game before the Bye, 2025.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Resetting the poll has gotten rid of all the legacy votes from people who aren't active on the Crows board anymore (or who won't show their faces). The updated results are stark.

Two of the firmly yes votes are Port trolls and someone who has never posted (likely a troll/alias or both).

Paints even more of a picture.

 

[maxlilly]

... because it IS dodgy.
As an AFL Coach, Nicks'd make a good used car salesman.

hahaha
I was going to write used car salesman but then I thought it might disrespectful to them

 

[kirky]

A day or so after our last game before the Bye, 2025.

Haven’t started it yet. Will commence thread from Monday.

 

[moses]

Why would young guys want to come to this club the way it treats it's players and publicly hangs them out to dry in the media.

 

[CrowBloke]

Which area(s) do you think he is great at?

I know you weren't asking me, but can I have a go?

He is great at:
--- deflecting/ bluster/ smoke and mirrors (pick a presser, any presser ...)
--- blaming (players usually)
--- not taking responsibility
--- bewildering selections
--- poor use of sub
--- not reacting on game day to stop goal avalanches against us
--- playing newbies out of position to defer to senior players
--- selecting and deferring to senior players regardless of form
--- not-improving player skills
--- confusing Game Plan and NO-Plan-B
--- being oblivious to a fly sitting/shitting on his noggin while oppositions are shitting on us AND
probably greatest at
--- Murphy-love.

 

[aabp1978]

So apparently Simpson available to coach again in 2026…feel like that timing might work well….

 

[CrowBloke]

What ever Nick’s is preaching “Team first” our ladder positions over his time says it’s working....

... for the oppositions' teams?

 

[cleanhands]

... for the oppositions' teams?

Certainly not us

 

[n4sir]

Well that is actually not an incorrect statement. Hinkley has got his side to finals a number of times. Nicks is yet to get us there. Regardless Port have fallen short time after time, he still gets them there and who knows, they might win it this year (I hope not). Nicks right now looks a million miles away from coaching us to finals let alone a grand final

Not only that, the way Hinkley went into bat for JHF (both personally and publicly) and the way he takes the blame when they screw up is the polar opposite to the way Nicks seems to avoid responsibility by blaming others.

Hinkley has some major shortcomings as a coach, but Nicks isn't fit to shine his shoes.

 

[CrowBloke]

Why would young guys want to come to this club the way it treats it's players and publicly hangs them out to dry in the media.

... because they'd be under no pressure to be elite or excell.
If the AFC was an ice cream it'd be vanilla (which is actually unfair to vanilla ice cream).

 

[GROTTO]

Not only that, the way Hinkley went into bat for JHF (both personally and publicly) and the way he takes the blame when they screw up is the polar opposite to the way Nicks seems to avoid responsibility by blaming others.

Hinkley has some major shortcomings as a coach, but Nicks isn't fit to shine his shoes.

Hinkley has gone into bat for a lot of his players, they genuinely do play and want him.

Its also one of the reasons he hasnt been sacked.

Im not sure the same can be said about Nicks.

 

[GROTTO]

So apparently Simpson available to coach again in 2026…feel like that timing might work well….

The timing of Nicks extension is to coincide with Goodwin's availability.

Its happening.

 

[jackster83]

Getting rid of Nicks won't fix a damn thing, as much as he sucks and needs to go.

Any new coach might have a short term sugar hit but give it 2-3 years and we'll be back where we started.

It's the club's core philosophies that are wrong.

Aside from when Blight came in we've been basically a pyramid scheme for senior players and officials since day one.