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Or the fact this win has seen the clappers return trying to prove this win makes it all good
Just imagine if we should win the Showdown.
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Or the fact this win has seen the clappers return trying to prove this win makes it all good
I like winning, it's nice. Should try it more often. It's incredibly frustrating when these wins come at this time of the year when they are essentially meaningless.
I'll repeat again though, just to make it reaaaaaal simple, there is no excuse whatsoever to be one of just two teams to lose to the worst team in the competition, at home.
Richmond are not a good football team, and we made them look like the Brisbane Lions.
Any amount of mental gymnastics to justify otherwise is embarrassing.
Well just call me a greek man on an escalator then, doesn't make anything I said incorrectYou can talk like a condescending w***er all you want it just reduces the impact your words have...
I think Dawson's best spot is the wing also.Once we beef the mids up he could be an absolute weapon on a wing
I think that's the plan. Hopefully we have someone lined up.I think Dawson's best spot is the wing also.
Gives him some time and space and the freedom to go where the ball is all over the ground.
Ill rewrite: The "sak nix" brigade think that a loss is all Nicks' fault and a win is luck.This makes no sense, at all.
"Anything but a loss" = a win or draw. So, a win or a draw is all Nicks' fault? Wtf?
We Nicks-sackers apportion blame quite rightly to Nicks' manymanymany mistakes:
--- playing favorites with seniors like Laird/ Sloane (but for his eye injury, Nicks would still be playing him)/ Smith, by rewarding poor form with continued selection.
WHY has it taken him so long to get Laird out of the midfield and drop Smith? (Hint: because he is dumber'n a sack of hammers).
--- stuffing up sub selections
--- still picking Murphy who has been useless
--- only making good youth selections because of injury to his favoured players
--- starting the season with a shitty, chip-chip, slowdown, defensive game plan
--- being unable on game day to stop opposition goal runs of anywhere from 5 to THIRTEEN goals, yes, THIRTEEN vs Hawks, and so on.
OK, let's talk about win-loss.
Your genius Nicks is 8-12-1 so far this year. He's lost 50% more often than he's won.
Overall, 37-66-1 <== I'll spell that out; he loses 78% more often than he wins. That's a garbage Coaching record. Let's all give Nicks a great big fat pat on the back for those 37 wins, fine --- HUZZAAAAH!! --- but let's kick him in the nuts for every one of the 66 losses.
Yeah, he's been lucky, that several of those wins have been against NM and WCE, or he'd be the shittest AFL Coach ever!
As it turns out, he's only the second-shittest. Big ****ing woop.
Oh, wot?
Last season we were 12th after 22 rounds. We're currently 15th.
Yes, the new faces have a lot of promise which Nicks consistently ignored until his faves got injured![]()
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And what does "down form from our best players" actually mean, ffs?
If it wasn't for our best players' good form, we'd be looking at another spoon.
FINALLY! and only by accident, ie the injuries to his golden boys and others.
Nicks has not made a single imaginative, exciting selection of his own where he took a risk and backed in a raw talent that I can recall.
Only maybe Soligo, who used to knock on his door every Monday for a game, then begged to be moved to the midfield himself.
You're counting Murphy as a success? Jones? Hately? Cook? McAsey?
As for Pedlar, he has been Nicksed, possibly to an irretrievable level.
Forced ridiculously by Nicks to play on Stewart and got dropped for it, Nicks has crushed Pedlar's confidence and now Pedlar (who was showing real, exciting flair when allowed to play his own way) is injured.
Our last 5 years of failure, especially the last three (18th, 15th, 14th, 10th and now back to 15th) of spirit-destroying mediocrity are all on Nicks.
Open your eyes.
Nicks has made heaps of mistakes, lots, like any player or coach. Can't deny that. But there is no way known that he deserve to get the sack with the 2nd youngest and 2nd most inexperienced side in the comp running around every week.
Neil Craig has a better coaching record than Paul Roos and Adam Simpson, coaching records are a dumb stat sometimes.
You can talk like a condescending w***er all
It wasn't just finals, 'internally, we got higher expectations than just making finals'The club said we'd play finals. Remembering that is being unreasonable supporters I guess.
The club said we'd play finals.
Be careful voicing even an opinion here folks- already started in the UK now. Oz next 1984 not 2024 I'm just being real.
Not sure you are in the right thread, this is GBUBe careful voicing even an opinion here folks- already started in the UK now. Oz next 1984 not 2024 I'm just being real.
Nicks has made heaps of mistakes, lots, like any player or coach. Can't deny that. But there is no way known that he deserve to get the sack with the 2nd youngest and 2nd most inexperienced side in the comp running around every week.
He didn't need to have the 2nd most inexperienced side, either. If he had invested in more of our youth earlier, we wouldn't be as inexperienced as we are. It's a bit rich to then say that makes him immune from criticism.
The problem with this logic is that it means there is literally nothing that Nicks can do to be worthy of sacking.
He's been here for five years. It is perfectly reasonable to look at our trajectory and see whether we think he's the man for the job. Are we happy with how players are developing under him? How the side is performing under him?
He didn't need to have the 2nd most inexperienced side, either. If he had invested in more of our youth earlier, we wouldn't be as inexperienced as we are. It's a bit rich to then say that makes him immune from criticism.
Also, just on your comment about Craig, Neil Craig was a good coach in the beginning. Obviously by the end he was past it, but he was great in the first couple of seasons.
Nope, but they wouldn't have sacked him either. IMOIt’s not so much that he deserves the sack, it’s this question:
Would the board have extended him for another two years if they knew the club would finish near the bottom?
Yes or no please.
That's correct. Using win % as a measure of a coaches ability is a red herring was the awfully made point I was makingIf you count win loss only, sure. A bit like counting total medals at the Olympics instead of gold medals.
Roos and Simpson are both premiership winning coaches though, so their overall record is better
He's had almost no choice. Until the last few rounds, which experienced players has he left in the SANFL? Crouch for half a season and that's it.Nicks has played 64 players at least once since taking over. Soligo has played 58/67, Rachele 55/67, Max 43/44, Jones 83 / 104, Sholl 72 /104, Berry 55/89 Thilthorpe 51/89.
He moved on Hartigan, Kelly, Gooch, Poholke, ROC, Gibbs, Knight etc in favour of playing the "kids".
You can say he has wasted games on players for sure (everyone has) but the whole he hasn't invested in youth or hasn't played the kids is a joke. The stats don't support this theory at all.
That's correct. Using win % as a measure of a coaches ability is a red herring was the awfully made point I was making![]()
Nope, but they wouldn't have sacked him either. IMO