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Opinion Matthew Nicks: Adelaide's Coach
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I can’t listen to him, in fact I can’t listen to any of them.
If that's what he believes, whatever it's his opinion. He was speaking for supporters when he said that though. Does he realise we just had our lowest crowd ever?
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Some other pearlers, "we're playing some really strong footy" (last time I checked we've just come off a 5 game losing streak) ”we've got a really strong squad".
It's all just baseless PR spin
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Didn't know you hated Blight.
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We are now in the most dangerous spot.
We have acknowledged that we were rebuilding in 2020/2021, but 2022 started different. Our Captain came out saying we were gunning for finals and that 2022 was about further improving on 2021.
Nicks is now in the tough position. Finals are gone and its about next year, but he needs the Crows to stay competitive and finish strong so the club can sell progress to the masses and the board.
For the first time under Nicks, we are now in the territory where club goals and Nicksy's goals appear to be contradictory.
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I for one hope we follow the Brisbane Trajectory:
Voss gets fired amid missing finals for 4 years and an exodus of players leaving the club (Yeo, Polec, Longer, Karnezis, Docherty)
Pyke gets fired amid missing finals for 2 years and an exodus of players leaving the club (McGovern, Lever, Betts, Jacobs,Jenkins, Keath, Lynch, Cameron, Hartigan, Greenwood).
Leppitsch gets hired and leads them to 3 bottom 4 positions and a winning record of 21%. Fired.
Nicks comes in and leads us to 3 bottom 4 (hopefully) positions and a winning record of 26%. (hopefully fired).
Fagan Hired. Spends two more years at the bottom, before finishing top 4 the next 4 years.
Hopefully we copy the above.
Voss gets fired amid missing finals for 4 years and an exodus of players leaving the club (Yeo, Polec, Longer, Karnezis, Docherty)
Pyke gets fired amid missing finals for 2 years and an exodus of players leaving the club (McGovern, Lever, Betts, Jacobs,Jenkins, Keath, Lynch, Cameron, Hartigan, Greenwood).
Leppitsch gets hired and leads them to 3 bottom 4 positions and a winning record of 21%. Fired.
Nicks comes in and leads us to 3 bottom 4 (hopefully) positions and a winning record of 26%. (hopefully fired).
Fagan Hired. Spends two more years at the bottom, before finishing top 4 the next 4 years.
Hopefully we copy the above.
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That’s all we seen to have is “triers”
Rory is a case in point for both sides of the argument because he nosedived and flatlined badly for 2 years after the AAs. That bad that he required reinvention as a midfielder, which he’s done an awesome job of so far.
Sloane said that we’d finished learning and it was time to start performing. Just need to get continuity into the perceived best 22 and we’ll be pushing for the bottom of the 8. Rebuild is done.
How is blight relevant to my post?
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Thats what Blighty did. Its his legacy. Make the 8, get some luck and anything can happen.
What's Sloane on? Some of our players have played less than 5-10 games. Most of our underperforming players are older or have had their chance and aren't up to it. Our rebuild has a long way to go. The priorities are fixing our list management and recruiting first and then locking in a quality coach.
Silver's today was saying we've added the high end draft talent and we would be looking at free agency and the trade market.
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McAsey, Jones, McHenry. 2 are out of the team and one is borderline selection. I presume he is referring to Thilthorpe and Rachele. Where is our high end mids? They don't know what they are doing. The question needs to be asked of why is there such a reluctance to look at our list management and recruiting? Being a bottom 2-3 club for 3-4 years is acceptable? Do we need to turn into Carlton's 20 year rebuild before change happens.
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Randall joins AFL coaching team
Randall will start her new role as an AFL development coach in July
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Randall joins AFL coaching team
Randall will start her new role as an AFL development coach in Julywww.afc.com.au
Damnit. I thought it said Rendell joins AFL Coaching Team.
I thought even better, that Nick's had been given his marching orders! Chelsea may be an upgrade anyway...
To be fair, "time to start performing" is I think a reasonable attitude. And yes, we should be pushing for the bottom of the 8, that doesn't mean that's the ceiling we should aim for, just the next step. "We should be pushing for top 4 / a flag" is not something sensible to say right now.
OK, whether or not you think the current list / coaches / player development is capable of "starting to perform" to that level is another question, but I'm not going to bag Sloane for saying that.
I heard that, and I didn't like it. We've got a few good draftees, but we haven't finished. OK if we can land a good FA; and OK if we're trading for a young gun mid, but we can't afford to trade away our next first rounder for anything less than an absolute gun.
Except in both years we ended up with a double chance. The lesson was never build a list with a huge middle section to maximise the likelihood of making the 8.
Unfortunately that’s not the view inside the 4 walls.
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