Assured Crows to trip successful wave: coach Nicks

Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks has by no means seen his gamers do it higher.

However regardless of witnessing a “full sport” by his Crows, he is tempering any finals speak.

“Type is fickle,” Nicks mentioned after Adelaide’s 52-point thrashing of St Kilda.

“However we’re going to trip this wave as a result of we’ve got received a lot confidence for the time being.

“We get our confidence from being competent. We all know we will play actually good footy however there is a problem to do it week-in, week-out.”

Nicks preached warning at over-reacting.

“We now have received to watch out. We’re not getting forward of ourselves,” he mentioned.

“We’re nonetheless a younger group and we’re working by way of the best way to grow to be a extremely good, constant, sturdy workforce. That’s the place it sits.”

The Crows, with a dozen goalkickers towards the Saints, booted their highest rating – 19.7 (121) – below Nicks.

They maintain eighth spot after topping 100 factors for the fourth time this season however the attacking firepower is not what satisfies Nicks probably the most.

“Scoring 121 factors is a superb signal for us but it surely’s the place it comes from is the important thing,” he mentioned.

“Our mindset shouldn’t be about kicking 121 factors, that’s the bonus on prime. We saved them (St Kilda) to 69, that’s our mindset.

“If we received a variety of issues proper immediately it was going to be our defence and our transition.

“And I believed we nailed that immediately. That was nearly as good as I’ve seen us in that house.

“Off the again of that comes the chance to attain.”

Nicks mentioned the broader dialogue could shift to Adelaide’s prospects of returning to the finals for the primary time since 2017 however he’ll ignore it.

“Individuals begin speaking about finals – we’re only one week, we go once more (then) we go once more,” he mentioned.

“If we had misplaced, we have been going to lose contact with that prime eight.

“Now we discover ourselves in it and so now we will hold combating.”

Australian Related Press