Again, I seem to recall there being whispers from early on in the season that Chiefy and Griffiths had fallen out, am I just making that up?
Entirely true. Griffiths stepped back totally from coaching about halfway through the season after a fallout with Chief. Not just Griffiths but the entire coaching staff (save for the strength and conditioning guy) who all left at the end of the season after falling out with him...unless you believe the narrative that was pushed that they all just wanted to go back to Aus.
I see Ballane has already replied.
But I remember someone else else saying they watched a Nix training 2nd half of last season, and Griffiths was still actively hands on involved.
As Martinb says no one around the club was likely happy last season. Chiefy openly admits he got very down on himself. There would have been grumpy agruments all through the club. Unnatural not to be.
Nix had a great defensive season 2023/24, and AG rightly got some plaudits. I think he also did well at WSW season 2022/23 (WSW lowest GA in the league?).
But Nix also had Paulsen & Surman 23/24. Hard to exactly quantify who gets praise and in what measures.