Rucci s worry for Matthew Nicks heading into 2021
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2020-12-22T13:39+11:00
Veteran South Australian journalist Michelangelo Rucci is worried that Matthew Nicks will simply be another young coach cast out after a few poor years at a rebuilding club.
In recent years, we have seen coaches like Brendon Bolton at Carlton and Alan Richardson at St Kilda take over struggling clubs before being sacked early in their tenure.
Rucci hopes that Nicks is able to get through this early phase with the Crows unscathed.
“It’s a long road for Matthew Nicks and I hope he doesn’t become one of these coaches, and there’s a long list of them in VFL, AFL, SANFL, WAFL where a club is on its knees and a young, first-time coach comes in and just wears himself out over the first two years and clubs become impatient and want to go with a finishing coach,” he told