Review R14: The Good, Bad and Ugly vs. Sydney Swans

[SydCrow]

Our most experienced defender is Butts, who's played 71 games. Keane has played 23.

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[dani_giuls]

Happy Birthday

I guess

Thank you! I stuffed myself with Sashimi so I cannot complain! I am also numb to any Adelaide loss these days

 

[Ham]

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[CrowBloke]

How do you keep giving a game to a half forward flanker who has kicked a whopping 4.1 in 7 games this year. WTF!

This!!
4 goals in 7 games (0.57 goals/game) is actually an improvement on his 2022/23/24 total of 25 goals in 46 games (0.54 goals/game ).

No doubt Nicks is rewarding Murphy's 'improvement' with sustained selection (<== sarcasm).
Not to mention Murphy's leadership (mostly because it's not worth mentioning).

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Out of Butts, Murray and Keane wouldn't Keane be the No 3 option in terms of defence?

Butts is as close to a pure stopper as we have.

 

[MRB37]

Anyone having a crack at the disposal count of the forwards, we had 35 inside 50s for 10.7. We were smashed for inside 50s, clearances, contested possessions.

The only forward that deserves a crack is Murphy who is given license to roam up the ground trying to impact the contest who does **** all.

As for Amarty, how the **** didn’t Nicks move Murray on to him?

One of the things Campo said on the radio after the game when people were criticising the forward was basically "give me 55-60 F50 entries and then you can pot the performance of the forwards. They're not gonna be able to do much with 35 no matter how good they are"

 

[Greenfinger]

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This is true but is also damning on the rebuild as we haven’t put enough games into younger players to lift this . Other teams that have started rebuilds after us have sailed past us because they have identified future talent and prioritized getting games into them. We are obsessed with a weekly win and have zero strategy

 

[MsTopG]

The ugliest thing for me over this game and even the previous two games is opposition like Warner sledging and potting our younger players off the ball and no-one stepping in (apart from Hinge who gave away a stupid free kick) and flying the flag. Nank copped it against Hawthorn, and Michalanney this time...and I think it also happened a couple of times against Richmond. We have zero leadership. Fog probably the only one capable of roughing anyone up. A few big lumps like Keane and Butts should throw their weight around - Keane in particular, given he wasn't doing anything else on Sat night.

We should be doing the same thing to the oppo's inexperienced players. Nicks probably doesn't like the dark arts.

 

[CrowBloke]

Nicks really did say Richmond were in good form prior to our game against them.

Jaw-droppingly delusional.
Before beating us, Richmond had lost 10 on the trot.
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Ugly - Hitouts, clearances (19-4 centre clearances, good lord), Inside 50's differential, Contested Possession differential, Tackles inside 50 differential 15 - 5)

With 6.56 to play in the 3rd quarter, Adelaide led 9.6 to 6.8 (+16 points).
After that, Sydney kicked 6.1 to zip to end the quarter, then 4.4 to 1.1 in the last.

That's 10.5 to 1.1 to end the game, pretty much coinciding with MM out of defence which fell apart in his absence.
Nicks sat and watched, clueless about how to slow the game down or turn the tide.

Only Adam Yze (15 games, 3W-12L, 20%) has a worse Coaching record of all current Coaches than Nicks, but keep in mind after his first 15 games, Nicks was 2-13.
Nicks is not only the Crows worst Coach, ever. He's arguably the worst current AFL Coach.

Every day lost/game played from now until Nicks' sacking is a missed opportunity to stop the rot.

 

[George Kramer]

One of the things Campo said on the radio after the game when people were criticising the forward was basically "give me 55-60 F50 entries and then you can pot the performance of the forwards. They're not gonna be able to do much with 35 no matter how good they are"

Yeah that was what I was listening to

 

[kirky]

From the bloke that needed to explain the game plan using water bottles

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Reckon he thought he was still coaching at Scotch College.

 

[BACCS]

Nicks has had five years to develop some leaders to implement his game plan on the field

Yep, pretty damning that after Dawson and Tex it's two of our least experienced players showing the most leadership onfield right now (MM and Murray).

 

[Grooster24]

Watching the replay and WTF is Murphy doing leading into space from the goal square in front of Fog, who just has to watch? He does it quite a number of times for doughnuts.
Who is coaching these guys? FMD.

 

[BACCS]

One of the things Campo said on the radio after the game when people were criticising the forward was basically "give me 55-60 F50 entries and then you can pot the performance of the forwards. They're not gonna be able to do much with 35 no matter how good they are"

To be fair to Nicks, we did actually make significant changes to our midfield against Sydney:


The problem is that this has been reactionary and not planned for over pre season, so making these sweeping changes against the best midfield in the league is never going to end well. MM did a good tagging job on Warner, but he's far too good to be a defensive mid, his offensive weapons are what we would benefit most from in the midfield.

I would be happy if those top 5 (after the ruck) are prioritised for midfield minutes from here on and the likes of Dowling and Taylor start taking those remaining minutes from Berry, Laird and Schoenberg. That's a midfield we can properly build around and has genuine A grade talent beyond just Dawson and Rankine. Add a top 5 midfielder through the draft and suddenly 2025 under a new football department looks far more promising.

 

[BigBoSS_Riot]

A near consensus on coaches votes.

10 Joel Amartey (SYD)
8 Brodie Grundy

4

Brodie Grundy

Age

30

Ht

202cm

Wt

105kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.5

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

9.6

5star

CL

4.1

5star

HO

32.0

5star

D

16.4

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

9.6

5star

CL

4.0

5star

HO

34.6

5star

D

13.8

4star

K

5.2

2star

HB

8.6

5star

CL

2.6

5star

HO

20.6

5star

(SYD)
5 Isaac Heeney

5

Isaac Heeney

Age

28

Ht

185cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.2

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

7.7

5star

M

4.9

5star

T

4.1

5star

CL

2.2

4star

D

14.3

3star

K

8.8

4star

HB

5.5

3star

M

4.8

4star

T

2.5

3star

CL

0.8

3star

D

10.4

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

3.2

3star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.4

4star

CL

0.8

3star

(SYD)
5 Errol Gulden (SYD)
2 James Rowbottom

8

James Rowbottom

Age

24

Ht

186cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.0

4star

K

8.1

3star

HB

5.9

4star

M

2.2

2star

T

4.3

5star

CL

2.0

4star

D

14.6

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

5.6

3star

M

1.5

2star

T

3.4

4star

CL

2.5

4star

D

14.4

4star

K

7.8

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

3.6

5star

CL

1.2

4star

(SYD)

No real surprises here, though I thought Rowbottom could get a vote or two more.

 

[Carn The Texan]

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Very interesting stat, and it shows why our poor on field leadership is really hurting us. I reckon Murphy and Laird are playing the worst football of their careers. ROB and Smith two club leaders not even on the park (and with good reason). I think bigman has posted about this elsewhere in the last few hours but maybe there is relative merit in getting rid of some of those players who can't lead from the front and getting a Parker or a Yeo in.

Might also explain why injuries are really biting us more than some other clubs - once we look to depth to cover injuries we end up fielding the youngest and most inexperienced team in the league by a long way. Those numbers aren't even close!!

 

[BACCS]

A near consensus on coaches votes.

10 Joel Amartey (SYD)
8 Brodie Grundy (SYD)
5 Isaac Heeney (SYD)
5 Errol Gulden (SYD)
2 James Rowbottom (SYD)

No real surprises here, though I thought Rowbottom could get a vote or two more.

I know Amartey kicked 9, but I thought Grundy was BOG. Without him that game plays out differently I reckon.

 

[hippyhippy]

I know Amartey kicked 9, but I thought Grundy was BOG. Without him that game plays out differently I reckon.

He kicked 9 on keane .. so it doesn't count

 

[Mutineer]

I know Amartey kicked 9, but I thought Grundy was BOG. Without him that game plays out differently I reckon.

Grundy was best on ground but only because he virtually had no opposition all game. Strachan has neither the strength or the endurance to ever be an AFL lead ruck, surely those championing his AFL potential have come to that realization now?

 

[skam85]

Jaw-droppingly delusional.
Before beating us, Richmond had lost 10 on the trot.

Anyone who had watched Richmond recently could see they were building toward a win.
They were improving week on week.

Must be nice

 

[MsTopG]

Watching the replay and WTF is Murphy doing leading into space from the goal square in front of Fog, who just has to watch? He does it quite a number of times for doughnuts.
Who is coaching these guys? FMD.

Murphy has the run around like a headless chook role. Also known as the "Nicks" role. McHenry wasn't cutting it so Murphy has stepped up.

 

[woofsson]

Reckon he thought he was still coaching at Scotch College.

They use bottles of Grange at Scotch.

 

[SugarShane]

This is true but is also damning on the rebuild as we haven’t put enough games into younger players to lift this . Other teams that have started rebuilds after us have sailed past us because they have identified future talent and prioritized getting games into them. We are obsessed with a weekly win and have zero strategy

100%. You can point to it as a reason why we were poor, but it's entirely our doing. Nank and Dowling have both looked very much at home in the side, after 2.5 and 1.5 seasons respectively they could've played 50-60 games or more between them by now instead of 17.

 

[jackster83]

Has Rowey fired up again today or has he backed down?

 

[CrowBloke]

Watching the replay and WTF is Murphy doing leading into space from the goal square in front of Fog, who just has to watch? He does it quite a number of times for doughnuts.
Who is coaching these guys?

The forwards? Burns (ex-defence Coach, re-assigned after the very good Rahilly left).
Since Burns took over, the Crows have gone from the highest-scoring side in the Comp. to also-rans.

Much the same as Ben Hart being forwards Coach ie a defender, showing forwards how to play .