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<\/p>\nAdelaide coach Matthew Nicks reckons it’s all about trust.<\/p>\n
“That’s where we’ve found ourselves: we just have complete trust in each other,” Nicks said after Adelaide’s stirring 14-point win over Hawthorn.<\/p>\n
“It’s a position that every sporting club wants to get into – and it’s hard to stay there.<\/p>\n
“We’re doing whatever we can to try and stay there.”<\/p>\n
The Crows took top spot on the ladder after steamrolling the Hawks with six goals to two in the final quarter of Friday night’s clash.<\/p>\n
Adelaide’s 15.11 (101) to 13.9 (87) victory was remarkable given the Crows overturned a 32-point deficit late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
“We trust our playing group completely, because it has been years of work,” Nicks said.<\/p>\n
“They trust us (coaches) and so in that moment, there’s no need for yelling and screaming.<\/p>\n
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Staying calm – Matthew Nicks during the Crows’ victory over the Hawks. (Matt Turner\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n
“You go back three or four years, you’ll probably find me yelling and screaming at that quarter-time break.<\/p>\n
“That’s me not necessarily trusting that we’re all on the same page – and maybe then, we weren’t.<\/p>\n
“It took us time to get to that and show that maturity. But tonight, it was calm.”<\/p>\n
The Crows amassed 6.6 to nothing in the second term before the Hawks fought back to take an eight-point lead at three quarter-time.<\/p>\n
Again, Nicks trusted his players to turn around their fortunes – and they did.<\/p>\n
“It’s a trust in the group, in that when it’s my turn, the group trusts me, I trust myself,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Because possession-wise, we didn’t have anyone over 30. And this has been consistent for us, it has been just across the board – \u00a0everyone contributes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks reckons it’s all about trust. “That’s where we’ve found ourselves: we just have complete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,16712,85,34325,34326],"class_list":{"0":"post-38253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-matthew-nicks","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-the-crows","16":"tag-the-hawks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}