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Totally agree. It’s funny how a weakness can be turned into a real positive. Yes, our midfield this season might’ve been one of the rawest and least experienced in the competition, but it’s probably the area of our list that gives me the most excitement about our future. Agree that we’ve got...

One of the positives I've taken away from this year is that despite some awful results we haven't diverged from our original plan of a complete rebuild. Now some might say that us not diverging from the plan is a bad thing and that we should've had a better season than we've had. I think those...

You’ve summed my thoughts pretty nicely. Definitely agree with you regarding disposal and organisation in particular. Would be hard to argue that we’ve become more organised. And it’s hard to see the what our style is. Chipping the ball round slowly definitely isn’t the answer. As for our...

One thing I’ve noticed which has become a bit of a theme throughout the season is that when teams have a well organised forward zone (or whatever you want to call it) we really struggle moving the ball out of half-back, particularly when we kick the ball around, going sideways etc. Conversely...

Seems logical that there would be some sort of change at the end of the year considering the season we've had. I've said this before but its hard to know what goes on inside the four walls of a footy club, so I have no idea if our assistants are any good or not. But maybe it is time for change...

Surprised this announcement hasn’t attracted a bit more attention on here. Would’ve thought this was a fairly significant appointment for the club, you would think that the head of football would play an important role over the next couple of years as we continue our rebuild. Actually reckon...

Funny game. First half there was a lot to like and we were well in the game. The siren sounds for the 3rd quarter and for whatever reason we switched off. Something I’ve noticed in a fair number of our losses this season is that we often have one quarter that costs us the game, where...

Hope Kreuzer is okay, hopefully his cardiologist can get to the bottom of it.

Agree the off-season is a big one for the club and in particular Bolts. IMO one of the key criteria’s for him is to get the game plan / player cohesion on an upwards trajectory. Obviously hard to do when you have lots of injuries and you’ve made wholesale changes to the list. On the list and...

I know we’ve got a long way to go and win number two doesn’t make up for a disappointing season. But in that third quarter you could genuinely see the confidence come back into the group. Was kind of weird watching it happen. All of a sudden we were taking the game on. Just hoping that the...

Might’ve been a scrappy game but I loved that. We played with a lot of spirit tonight. Wouldn’t be fair to single out anyone for praise as it was a great team effort. Loved the hunger for the contest. Loved the attack on the footy. Loved the follow up efforts and support provided to one another.

I’m loving this. Don’t care that it’s a scrappy match. Bring on the last quarter !!

An observation. Some of the questions that are getting asked about Bolts; is he the right coach for us going forward, how much is he to blame for our current predictament, would another coach have done better in the same circumstances, are unanswerable. These questions are really not possible...

This is hard to watch. I’m usually fairly optimistic too

Couldn't agree more with this. When we often talk about rebuilds its just within context of the playing group but as you quite rightly mention the most successful rebuilds are the ones where the whole football club is put under the microscope and examined. It feels definitely like the more...

One thing that I’ve thought about in the last two weeks after we’ve turned in some fairly dire performances is that it can’t be underestimated how important it is we replace Andy McKay with the right person. I’ve supported Bolts his year recognising he hasn’t had the easiest time of it with...

Agree with everything there. One of the things that annoys me a bit is when you start hearing about something that went wrong and it immediately getting traced back to the coach. Sure the coach is responsible for a lot of things and they have enormous influence but they can’t control everything...

Hope that Marchbank is okay, elevated heart rate and gone to hospital. Hopefully just heat stress or something similar. We’re not having a lot of luck are we.

Yeah think this might be something that has been overlooked. I think some sort of additional support for all the coaches not just Bolts would be hugely beneficial. Our coaching group as whole seems to be fairly inexperienced in that none have coached at senior level other than Bolts and they...

Normally I’m a fairly glass-half full supporter but not today. What disappoints me the most about a display like that is that as a young player you’re never going to get a better opportunity to cement yourself in an AFL side as you are at Carlton at the moment. It’s not like we’re a top four...

Hope nothing too serious for Marchbank. What a day we’re having.

Didnt get past the first quarter myself

Will be interesting to see how our younger players go against theirs. There could be a few match ups and duals that will continue for the next decade on display Saturday. Few weeks back I said I thought we were better off getting lots of numbers around the footy and playing a really defensive...

Curnow !!!!!!

No Kreuzer still

I think often when something bad happens to a football club, like for example, us having 7 points on the board to half time last week, is that it is easy to trace things back to the coach. I.e. the players weren’t switched on therefore the coach didn’t prepare them properly, their skills were...

I wrote this last week about the Geelong match but actually think us clogging the game up by getting lots of numbers around the ball actually suits us. Might not be pretty to watch, think it was mentioned in the post match press conference last week that it was a scrappy, ugly sort of a game...

Actually don’t mind us playing with a lot of numbers around the footy. Might not have been the prettiest to watch but whilst many of our players are still developing its a decent tactic for us to use to stop the opposition running over us. Had we been a bit more polished in front of goal we...

You’ve summed up our problems pretty well. When I watch our matches the two things that stand out are 1) we turn the ball over too easily through either poor skill execution or choosing the wrong option, and 2) we don’t yet have the ability to keep our effort and concentration up for four...

Yep couldn’t agree more. And IMO this is why our rebuild has taken longer than expected. Bolton/SOS inherited an old list and as you mentioned there was very little in the way of talent coming through the ranks Cripps aside. It’s a pretty bad position to be in from a list management perspective...