Game Day R21: Geelong vs Adelaide @ GMHBA

[Kane McGoodwin]

Is that why we've consistently been one of the absolute youngest and least experienced teams the entire time Nicks has been coaching?

We have consistently had a young side because Nix has not prioritised our high end youth.

We started our rebuild before the Hawks, yet their kids have got to 50 games before ours on average.

Ever had a think why?

Do you understand the concept of a rebuild is not to keep putting games into average players like Murphy?

 

[BunjiMC]

There was no player who deserved to be dragged - we wanted to win and there was no one obvious to take off. We weren't being made.better by taking someone off for no reason and replacing them with a teenage kid

We lost. So turns out we could have done something better.

 

[fuic08]

I know every human in SA hates him, but Murphy had been pretty good the first three quarters and had done his role.

You sub Murphy off, then you need to move someone into that role because that's not Curtin. So you're doing multiple moves, just to get a 19 year old out there.

Starting Berry as the sub was the obvious move - except they were right to play him before Curtin, because he had an excellent game.

Are you trolling??

You've repeatedly said no one deserved to be subbed off.

Multiple people have pointed out his 1 touch 0 tackle last quarter.

 

[Mostyn]

It was a classic Nicks game. Get back into it, then choke at the end to lose a close one.

I expected Geelong to come back hard because it happens in 90% of close games Nicks coaches.

I'm sorry, that's not worth celebrating. It's the same old shit over and over again.

As for who to sub off, take your pick or half a dozen players including Murphy, Nankervis, Dowling, even Laird or Crouch

Yeah, I did think Dowling was probably lucky, and maybe was the right move.

Geelong are much more experienced, on their home ground, MASSIVE and understandable favourites - the pressure and attack that we had got us into that game and meant they couldn't ever shake us.

I understand your frustration with the close losses. I thought this one showed some fantastic positives and I thought it was a really good game.

 

[jackster83]

Why am I not surprised at the poster who is sticking up for the sub decision?

Hope the club pays you to cup their balls.

 

[Cap]

I have Rocket blocked, so don't see his posts.

Tex was threatening all night. No way should he have been subbed off.

The fact anyone thinks some teenage kid would have come on, replacing a player actually playing well and would have been the difference in us winning - well, that just sounds like nonsense.

I really want Curtin to get experience - but that's a very different thing.

He should not have been the sub then.

The call to make him sub was bad, the call to hold him off to the last 5 minutes was worse

 

[dogs105]

One of us is posting complete nonsense.

I guess sides leading never use the sub.

When do most team use the sub?

Don't think it's a good idea to use a fresh player like most sides?

Crouch was gassed at 3 quarter time.
Murphy was doing buggar all as usual.
Tex is carrying an injury.

So many options, which any coach with any decent IQ would have made a call much earlier.

But keep defending the indefensible.

It's your protectionist attitude that allows our club to maintain mediocrity.

Perhaps when we had half a dozen running on the spot with 20 minutes to go?

 

[BunjiMC]

There was no player who deserved to be dragged - we wanted to win and there was no one obvious to take off. We weren't being made.better by taking someone off for no reason and replacing them with a teenage kid

Infact this supports the fact we were just worried about the optics.

 

[Brett Cummings]

I have Rocket blocked, so don't see his posts.

Tex was threatening all night. No way should he have been subbed off.

The fact anyone thinks some teenage kid would have come on, replacing a player actually playing well and would have been the difference in us winning - well, that just sounds like nonsense.

I really want Curtin to get experience - but that's a very different thing.

You block anyone who questions your garbage.

 

[Billy Cart]

Big?

Just as big as at quarter time last week.

We lost. So turns out we could have done something better.

When Crouch eventually came off he was puffing more than a mallee bull on heat. So he should have not played the last quarter.

 

[Mostyn]

We have consistently had a young side because Nix has not prioritised our high end youth.

We started our rebuild before the Hawks, yet their kids have got to 50 games before ours on average.

Every had a think why?

Do you understand the concept of a rebuild is not to keep putting games into average players like Murphy?

Hawthorn traded Mitchell and Lewis before the 2017 season, and Hodge at the end of it. They had a losing season that year, and have only had one winning season since 2016.

Putting aside for how long Hawthorn have been rebuilding - what possible sense does "we've consistently had a young side because we've not prioritised youth" mean? I literally don't see how a team can both be full of young players and not prioritising youth??

 

[Pugsley]

Well, yours is obviously wrong.

People can disagree with me, but yours is just incorrect.

You need to stop embarrassing yourself.

 

[crowker]

Quite simply , Rankine plays we win , it really was that close..


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[Mostyn]

Why am I not surprised at the poster who is sticking up for the sub decision?

Hope the club pays you to cup their balls.

There's the same mouth breathers that repeat the same stuff every week here - just so boring.

Should Dowling have maybe come off for Curtin? Possibly. Would it have affected the result by how much better Curtin would have been? Of course it wouldn't have.

 

[fuic08]

You need to stop embarrassing yourself.

He's just going to ignore all of the posts contradicting the "no one should have been subbed off" shit.

 

[jackster83]

There's the same mouth breathers that repeat the same stuff every week here - just so boring.

Should Dowling have maybe come off for Curtin? Possibly. Would it have affected the result by how much better Curtin would have been? Of course it wouldn't have.

Coming out with insults now?

It's just sad now.

 

[Mostyn]

You need to stop embarrassing yourself.

LOL - anyone who watches how young that side was and how much responsibility Nicks gave them, and still holds blindly to the view that he's somehow anti youth - well, that's obviously just dumb.

Not being young enough isn't our issue ...

 

[Pugsley]

Coming out with insults now?

It's just sad now.

Those who have no argument, get personal.

 

[Pugsley]

LOL - anyone who watches how young that side was and how much responsibility Nicks gave them, and still holds blindly to the view that he's somehow anti youth - well, that's obviously just dumb.

Not being young enough isn't our issue ...

I agree. It's a senior coach with no idea after 5 years.

 

[Cap]

Quite simply , Rankine plays we win , it really was that close..


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To be completely fair, you probably aren't wrong.

But that doesn't excuse Nicks coaching. What he did today to Curtin should be a sackable offence.

 

[Dewy006]

There's the same mouth breathers that repeat the same stuff every week here - just so boring.

Should Dowling have maybe come off for Curtin? Possibly. Would it have affected the result by how much better Curtin would have been? Of course it wouldn't have.

Maybe posters keep repeating the same stuff because the club continues to make the same mistakes?

Mate it’s been 7 years without finals and we’re going backwards. Might be time to accept the club and Nicks aren’t infallible.

 

[Mostyn]

Coming out with insults now?

It's just sad now.

Feel free to replace mouth breathers with whatever word you want for people that blindly repeat things week in and week out, if that seems too harsh.

I'm fine with criticisms of the side, but people here will criticise no matter what happens, because they're poisoned.

That was a fantastic effort when we were massive underdogs, and the matchups and attack we had to score quickly and efficiently was excellent.

 

[Cap]

LOL - anyone who watches how young that side was and how much responsibility Nicks gave them, and still holds blindly to the view that he's somehow anti youth - well, that's obviously just dumb.

Not being young enough isn't our issue ...

The problem Nicks has is not youth, not sure which poster pointed this a couple of years ago (1970crow you perhaps?)

But Nicks at every opportunity will pick the senior player regardless of form, there needs to be injury to get younger players in.

How confident are you that without the injury to Crouch the injury/suspension to Rankine etc that we'd ever have seen Dowling or Taylor ? (I have no confidence at all)

He doesn't deliberately develop youth, thats the problem.

 

[Mostyn]

Maybe posters keep repeating the same stuff because the club continues to make the same mistakes?

Mate it’s been 7 years without finals and we’re going backwards. Might be time to accept the club and Nicks aren’t infallible.

We chose to do a full rebuild, which is minimum five years. This is the first year you could argue we've gone backwards, and most expected that because rebuilds aren't linear.

 

[Brookster]

Somebody tell me that we did not try to defend a very minimal lead with 20 mins left in last quarter, but that it was more a spirited lift by Geelong that had us on the back foot. Please.