Strategy Our Next Senior Coach: 2019 & Beyond... is Matthew Nicks

Our next senior coach...


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The amount of groupthink on here regarding potential coaches is pretty absurd.

Nicks being at Port for quite a while in an assistant role when they weren’t that great doesn’t mean a whole lot.

Yze working under Clarkson also doesn’t mean a whole lot.

End of the day, a senior coaching role is a completely different kettle of fish, and some thrive almost immediately (best recent example of this is Fagan) and some completely fail (best recent example is Bolton).

Note: Fagan and Bolton both came from the Clarkson coaching factory. It means virtually nothing.


None of us are in a position to have enough info to know if the correct choice is Yze, Nicks or someone else. Maybe if Yze was in charge at Hawthorn for the last 2 years they would be bottom 4? Maybe if Nicks was in charge at Port instead of Ken, Port would be a juggernaut? Maybe they’re both amazing future head coaches? Maybe they’re both awful?


I think we need a coach who doesn’t instruct players to move the ball slowly, who empowers players to back themselves in to take the game on, who has a team of assistants around him that he actually trusts and who have the ability to adapt to various scenarios that unfold on game day, and who can inspire and rebuild trust in a playing group who are in desperate need of inspiration.

I want a coach who gives us a hard edge, who believes in tagging the best opposition mid out of the game, who connects with players and builds close relationships with the playing group, and has the players playing FOR him, every week, without fail.

Is that Yze? Is that Nicks? How the hell would we know? Let em pick someone, and we’ll back them in and no doubt commence judging their performance in early 2020.

Next year isn’t about winning the flag (we have virtually zero hope of even making the finals with the way our list will look by November), it’s about rebuilding a broken club and creating an environment that players actually want to be around.

Fagan managed to achieve this recently at Brisbane when all looked lost, and now they look set to challenge for a premiership from 2020-2023. That’s the blueprint.
You speak far too much sense for this thread
 

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Have it on good authority Yze will be named coach on Monday and have a huge say in the trade period

Trade period is meaningless, he needs a huge say in those that are to be his coaching group. This “trade period” piece of shit that’s leaked out says to me that it’s Yze in, Pyke out and then the “NO FURTHER CHANGES” sign getting nailed above the club’s entrance.
 

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