Opinion Matthew Nicks: Adelaide's Coach

[LeftyLuke]

I wouldn't say many of his decisions. I have been underwhelmed by Nicks for a very long time.

Maybe I seem Pro-Nicks because I don't try and blame him for pretend things like some on this board (like him coaching Rachele out of form and saying the only reason Berry has been successful is because Sloane got hurt).

No one knows where Sloane would be playing if he didn't get injured but I guarantee he would be playing. I think Nick's is slowly discovering that hitching his wagon to the young blokes is his only way of survival. I don't think he will survive anyway as he has no gameplan and he isn't a good developer of young talent. I think he was under the mistaken belief that the older blokes where his life raft. They aren't except for Laird, Dawson, Walker.

I think his game plan from when he entered the club was to play as may seniors as possible to get the extension he coveted and then he would worry about developing young players later. I think it's a testament to Berry and Soligo that they have developed so quickly in spite of Nicks lack of trust in the unknown. I wouldnt be surprised if it was one of our assistant coaches that pushed for berry.

 

[1970crow]

I wouldn't say many of his decisions. I have been underwhelmed by Nicks for a very long time.

Maybe I seem Pro-Nicks because I don't try and blame him for pretend things like some on this board (like him coaching Rachele out of form and saying the only reason Berry has been successful is because Sloane got hurt).

Our forward 50 entry strategy does make it very difficult for our small forwards to thrive. And Sloane getting injured definitely helped Berry get a good run in the middle. Yes, Sloane was moved out on the day that Berry came in, but how much patience for a slow start would have been provided if Sloane returned to form at half forward? How much patience do you think Nix has for junior players that don't hit the ground running when there's a senior player available for the spot?

 

[Klug]

Angus Brayshaw would be perfect as a FA. Extremely underrated player.

He is exactly what we need.

With Melbourne's mids, Brayshaw is going to struggle to get a look in there.

Berry, Brayshaw, Soligo/Schoenberg as our starting centre bounce lineup by mid-2023

 

[Dangerousfield]

We should be throwing serious money at him!

Who is getting the money? It's going somewhere undeservedly or we have a big war chest to lure home OOC ex SA players

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Who is getting the money? It's going somewhere undeservedly or we have a big war chest to lure home OOC ex SA players

With our young list we should have oodles of cap space to offer someone like Brayshaw a long term deal that is to good to refuse.

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

With our young list we should have oodles of cap space to offer someone like Brayshaw a long term deal that is to good to refuse.

Brayshaw. If he goes anywhere it’ll be home to Perth.

 

[70lethal]

He is exactly what we need.

With Melbourne's mids, Brayshaw is going to struggle to get a look in there.

Berry, Brayshaw, Soligo/Schoenberg as our starting centre bounce lineup by mid-2023

Are you sure? Melbourne shifted him out of the midfield the year after finishing 3rd in the Brownlow. I feel our pick 3-4 has to start there next year and needs to be skilful and explosive.

 

[70lethal]

Nicks is going to go down as our losingest coach of all time, no doubt. But where is he in the list of all time losingest coaches in the AFL/VFL? Can he become the No.1?

Pretty hard after Noble, Neeld etc. They are around 15% while Nicks is about to go below Dew around 28%

 

[Interloperer]

I wouldn't say many of his decisions. I have been underwhelmed by Nicks for a very long time.

Maybe I seem Pro-Nicks because I don't try and blame him for pretend things like some on this board (like him coaching Rachele out of form and saying the only reason Berry has been successful is because Sloane got hurt).

A good portion of this board is obsessed with unifying the undeniable fact of Nicks terrible record, with the coaching strategies of Don Pyke and his predecessors. Under whatever grand conspiracy theory they see fit. (The one's where the board is unsalvageably corrupt and incompetent, but also never actually does anything wrong because any individual act is due to Tippett/Vicbias/whining players and not anything the club did.)

Trying to square these theories with the unique failures of Nicks results in some violent lashing out.

 

[MRB37]

Kornes says

“What I don’t want to hear from anyone at Adelaide today: ‘we were really pleased how we fought back’.

“If you hear it Crows fans, don’t cop it. The game was over at quarter time, finished, done, dead, go home.

“It didn’t matter what happened for the next three quarters, the game was finished.”

Cornes believes accepting that contest and appreciating the fightback isn’t the path that will lead them up the ladder.

“So that is a losers’ mentality… and that’s why you're 16th on the ladder again with that sort of attitude,” he continued.

“Don’t cop it as a Crows fan if you hear any of that language.”

And of course Nicks says

Speaking post-game, Adelaide coach 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

acknowledged the first quarter was “hard to ignore”, but added: “From a full game point of view, to fight it out like we did was a real positive.”

 

[George Kramer]

Kornes says



And of course Nicks says

We should just ask to play the middle 2 quarters, we are poor starters and when we are in there with a chance in the last we lose.

Only play the 2nd and 3rd quarters, we don’t have bad starts and never lose. It’s a win win and lines up with Nicks gameplan of forget about winning, just try hard.

In all seriousness we’d want to be improving next year otherwise he’s gone.

 

[Sanders]

Kornes says



And of course Nicks says

Yes but what does John Who say?

 

[AFC979810]

Yes but what does John Who say?

The rebuild is on track. Sydney kicked 4.2 in the last quarter to our 3.3. Thats 6 scoring shots each!

We basically drew the last quarter with the 6th best team in the league on their home turf. We are tracking brilliantly.

 

[Bazz_27]

Kornes says



And of course Nicks says

Don't listen to Kane. He predicted we would finish 18th and said we had the worst list ever. Now telling us we are shit? He expected we would be worse so not sure how he has come to this theory

 

[Dangerousfield]

Brayshaw. If he goes anywhere it’ll be home to Perth.

Brayshaw is from Melbourne not WA.

 

[Dangerousfield]

The rebuild is on track. Sydney kicked 4.2 in the last quarter to our 3.3. Thats 6 scoring shots each!

We basically drew the last quarter with the 6th best team in the league on their home turf. We are tracking brilliantly.

Cue, meet rack

 

[AFC979810]

Don't listen to Kane. He predicted we would finish 18th and said we had the worst list ever. Now telling us we are s**t? He expected we would be worse so not sure how he has come to this theory

Man - we showed him. He said we would win the spoon and was worried about where our goals would come from!

And here we are sitting pretty at 16th spot and are 16th in goals kicked. Enjoy your humble pie Kane!

 

[Bazz_27]

Man - we showed him. He said we would win the spoon and was worried about where our goals would come from!

And here we are sitting pretty at 16th spot and are 16th in goals kicked. Enjoy your humble pie Kane!

The article insinuates we should be better than 16th, Kane said we would finish 18th & our list is terrible. I'm not saying we are going great but he will pot us no matter what which makes his opinions irrelevant. Clear bias against us.

 

[FR0GGY]

Don't listen to Kane. He predicted we would finish 18th and said we had the worst list ever. Now telling us we are s**t? He expected we would be worse so not sure how he has come to this theory

And he’s far closer than the average fan on here thought we’d be.

 

[FR0GGY]

Man - we showed him. He said we would win the spoon and was worried about where our goals would come from!

And here we are sitting pretty at 16th spot and are 16th in goals kicked. Enjoy your humble pie Kane!

People don’t want to hear it because of the port thing but he’s pretty bang on most of the time, sure he chucks out things to bait people, but he’s generally man enough to say he got something completely wrong.

 

[Bazz_27]

And he’s far closer than the average fan on here thought we’d be.

Not sure that says much

 

[Sanders]

The rebuild is on track. Sydney kicked 4.2 in the last quarter to our 3.3. Thats 6 scoring shots each!

We basically drew the last quarter with the 6th best team in the league on their home turf. We are tracking brilliantly.

Perfect, because it works as satire and as straight faced Impressionism too

 

[Sanders]

Don't listen to Kane. He predicted we would finish 18th and said we had the worst list ever. Now telling us we are s**t? He expected we would be worse so not sure how he has come to this theory

You’re not serious?

 

[Bazz_27]

You’re not serious?

Funnily enough that's what I say to myself every time I read something you've written

 

[Sanders]

Funnily enough that's what I say to myself every time I read something you've written

Perhaps ask your responsible adult to help you translate next time?