{"id":566615,"date":"2026-03-26T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566615\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:44:19","slug":"matthew-nicks-press-conference-adelaide-crows-vs-geelong-cats-result-score-crow-coach-slams-poor-start-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566615\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Nicks press conference; Adelaide Crows vs Geelong Cats, result, score, Crow coach slams poor start, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks lamented the opening stages of Thursday night\u2019s loss to Geelong<\/a>, suggesting \u201cwe were still on the bus\u201d.<\/p>\n

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An undermanned Crows conceded the first 10 inside 50s of the game and Nicks admitted post-match that his side were lucky not to have been blown out in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

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After experienced quartet Jordan Dawson, Taylor Walker, Rory Laird and Callum Ah Chee missed the trip to Victoria, many expected the Cats to run away with an easy win.<\/p>\n

But apart from the opening exchanges, Adelaide was able to match their much more experienced rivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first 10 minutes were the issue, we were still on the bus,\u201d Nicks said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat will be the one we will have to look at and look at the why.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adelaide did hit the front in the final term after Alex Neal-Bullen\u2019s long-range goal, but Nicks wasn\u2019t buying the gap in breaks between the two sides as a factor.<\/p>\n

The South Australians played last Friday night, while Geelong was returning from its first bye due to Opening Round.<\/p>\n

Although Nicks said there was \u201cno doubt\u201d the experience difference could have been a factor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when you lose the experience we lost, it challenges you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou take your top end as far as guys who are going to be able to control the game and they\u2019ve been through what we\u2019re about to go through.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got guys coming in who are playing their first 10 games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that was going to be a challenge tonight, we brought over a reasonably young side but not to the point where we\u2019re sitting here 10 minutes in.<\/p>\n

The Crows led at three-quarter time. Picture: Michael Willson\/AFL Photos via Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of breakdown in that. We\u2019d like to think we\u2019ve got a lot more depth than that in our group.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adelaide defender Jordon Butts was taken from the ground for assessment minutes after he collided with the back of Lachlan McAndrew\u2019s head in a marking contest.<\/p>\n

Nicks said the concussion test was \u201creally professional\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Crows coach said he was hoping to regain Dawson, Laird and Walker for his side\u2019s next game with Fremantle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks lamented the opening stages of Thursday night\u2019s loss to Geelong, suggesting \u201cwe were still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-566615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566615","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=566615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}