Opinion Non-Crows AFL 11

[Mostyn]

I think they wanted an easy soft rebuild. No hard calls, move on a few old players and depth, back in the senior guys on the list, a few high draft picks and some new experience. New coach, camp behind them, back to finals quickly.

I do not believe for one second the club expected to come anywhere near last. Especially with the amount of experience still on the list

Yeah, that's fair enough. I think they underestimated what was about to happen.

 

[Mostyn]

there’s numerous posts of you claiming it was later than that.

I think we knew we weren't premiership contenders anymore by mid 2019.

We knew players who we had relied on - Betts, Jacobs, Greenwood, Douglas, etc - weren't going to get it done. We started to pivot away from them, and cut them at the end of the year.

A rebuild doesn't start with the delisting.

 

[FR0GGY]

I think we knew we weren't premiership contenders anymore by mid 2019.

We knew players who we had relied on - Betts, Jacobs, Greenwood, Douglas, etc - weren't going to get it done. We started to pivot away from them, and cut them at the end of the year.

A rebuild doesn't start with the delisting.

I believe the most evidence points to us rebuilding from the end of 2020.
I could be wrong but I don’t remember the rebuild word when nicks was announced.
It was only when he crashed and burned in 2020, the sides he was picking didn’t suggest rebuild at all.

 

[George Kramer]

I think we knew we weren't premiership contenders anymore by mid 2019.

We knew players who we had relied on - Betts, Jacobs, Greenwood, Douglas, etc - weren't going to get it done. We started to pivot away from them, and cut them at the end of the year.

A rebuild doesn't start with the delisting.

Why are you continuing to sprout this lie we delisted these players?

Greenwood, Keath and Jacobs we offered contracts. With Greenwood and Keath we just didn’t want to give them as long a contract. Jacobs we offered one year.

Betts we would have retained but he wanted to leave us due to the camp and how we handled the fallout and his wife wanted to go back to Melbourne.

Douglas was finished and he retired.

You’re also ignoring Roos comments that we expected to be a lot better than we were with the remaining experienced players we had. We finished bottom and they went full rebuild mode as a result.

 

[George Kramer]

I believe the most evidence points to us rebuilding from the end of 2020.
I could be wrong but I don’t remember the rebuild word when nicks was announced.
It was only when he crashed and burned in 2020, the sides he was picking didn’t suggest rebuild at all.

As he has me on ignore, show Mostyn this. Chapman uses the word rejuvenation not rebuild. We only went rebuild when we finished bottom.

Nicks appointed Senior Coach

The Adelaide Football Club has announced Matthew Nicks as its new Senior Coach

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