Opinion Brendon Bolton

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I wonder if Bolton's communication with players is as boring as his pressers? Tonight's had no emotion like reading from a list? He keeps harking back to improvement in previous games. We've only won one game!

Can he cut through or is it now just blah blah blah to those players that have been there a while?

Is he having trouble getting players up and about on match day?

Something isn't right.
 

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Mr_Plow said:
What is a circuit breaker?

Sack the coach and next week we still go in with 14 players < 50 games and a midfield with a median age of 20. And we expect them to win games?

I'm honestly shocked that we even have one win. Everything has to go right and the other team has to absolutely suck for us to win. And I can't see where we get another win because we lose the inside 50 count every week and it's hard to win from that position.

It's a tough ******* league out there, tough guys.
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Yes but there are conditions that the Bigfooty Carlton coaching judicial panel deem are not being met.
Namely that
Its just not fair
 
Mr_Plow said:
What is a circuit breaker?

Sack the coach and next week we still go in with 14 players < 50 games and a midfield with a median age of 20. And we expect them to win games?

I'm honestly shocked that we even have one win. Everything has to go right and the other team has to absolutely suck for us to win. And I can't see where we get another win because we lose the inside 50 count every week and it's hard to win from that position.

It's a tough ******* league out there, tough guys.
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I completely agree. Our team is too young to physically compete against seasoned bodies week in week out.

I still believe the biggest cause of frustration is the trade of future first round draft picks. It should never have happened.

It's unwanted attention the club doesn't need right now. It also makes losing less palatable.

If your team is getting smashed on the ground, the one consoling factor is the clubs first round draft pick. It brings hope to supporters.

We're now in a situation where we're watching our team get belted by 15 goals and we don't hold the #1 pick.
 
THink this is way too early for a sacking the coach thread but things to consider are is the assistants Bolton has the right people to be assisting him with where he is at the moment ? Is the development coaches are good enough or does the club start looking at the available people or the ones that may be available at seasons end ?

Will be an interesting 6-8 weeks with very winnable games coming up
 
thylacine60 said:
what exactly is our culture do you think? our position whatever that might mean is gone - we have none - our history can't be changed although along with the magnificence is the taint - our prestige was not always well earned..........your delusion isn't helping your current outlook........biatch........
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Ok. Let me try a different approach.
Let’s retrain the coach. Let’s stop him looking like an earnest school teacher staring at headlights on a parent teacher night when the parents challenge him.
He worked under Clarkson, yet he shows no signs of having done so. None.
Maybe that’s because unlike all of other Clarkson’s apprentices, Bolton never played at the top level.
 
Our assistant’s aren’t good enough to Coach so it’s a pointless discussion until the end of the season imo.
I don’t think anyone knows if he’s any good or not because we have no idea what our list is capable of. It’s a list full of potential and potential goes both ways from shit to great. We don’t know where ours lies.
I also hate the argument that Hardwick, Buckley, Thomas ability were all questioned. So was insert shit coach 1,2 and 3 here. One thing Hardwick and Buckley have been very open about though is that they took a step back and let assistants take much larger rolls and that helped turn things around. I’m not sure that means much though because I have no idea about our inner workings.

A bloody tough decision either way needs to be made if we continue like this but it should only be made at the end of the season. Hopefully we can get a few wins and make it an easy one because I’d love to see him prove himself.
 
Percy2257 said:
Ok. Let me try a different approach.
Let’s retrain the coach. Let’s stop him looking like an earnest school teacher staring at headlights on a parent teacher night when the parents challenge him.
He worked under Clarkson, yet he shows no signs of having done so. None.
Maybe that’s because unlike all of other Clarkson’s apprentices, Bolton never played at the top level.
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you mean like royce hart, timmy watson, ian stewart, danny frawley? coaches like that who played at the top level?
 
One issue I do have with the current coaching fraternity is our rigidity.

It's great that we have systems that we trust and indoctrinate into the players. But when you have such a young struggling team, there needs to be a better plan B than throwing McGovern behind the ball at the first sign of adversity.

Why does it take until the 3rd or 4th quarter to push Silvagni into the middle when our young midfielders have been getting annihilated for 2-3 quarters? Sure, you want to instil some belief and hardness into your future midfielders, but ****, we're down by 40 points at quarter time, lol. Give Stocker a run in the middle before the middle of the 4th quarter. If it's clear that SPS is not interested in hunting the football today, give someone else a turn who will.

And why do we insist on not paying any respect to the opposition's best midfielder(s)? It's a terribly dangerous strategy when we lose the midfield battle essentially every week. Bolton wasn't doing that in his 1st or 2nd year, it's okay to push some of the young midfielders to the periphery somewhat and help us be more competitive in the interim.

Make the tough calls, implement changes sooner, enough with the rigid dogmatism, some tactical nous in the box pls, throwing McGovern behind the ball is not sustainable, lol.
 

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Percy2257 said:
Ok. Let me try a different approach.
Let’s retrain the coach. Let’s stop him looking like an earnest school teacher staring at headlights on a parent teacher night when the parents challenge him.
He worked under Clarkson, yet he shows no signs of having done so. None.
Maybe that’s because unlike all of other Clarkson’s apprentices, Bolton never played at the top level.
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Do you realise what nonsense this is. You dont know a thing I feel. Its just cliches.
This thread ought to be called crybaby corner. Yeah its tough but it was always going to be. But dont look for lame excuses to find a scapegoat.
 
Mr_Plow said:
One issue I do have with the current coaching fraternity is our rigidity.

It's great that we have systems that we trust and indoctrinate into the players. But when you have such a young struggling team, there needs to be a better plan B than throwing McGovern behind the ball at the first sign of adversity.

Why does it take until the 3rd or 4th quarter to push Silvagni into the middle when our young midfielders have been getting annihilated for 2-3 quarters? Sure, you want to instil some belief and hardness into your future midfielders, but ****, we're down by 40 points at quarter time, lol. Give Stocker a run in the middle before the middle of the 4th quarter. If it's clear that SPS is not interested in hunting the football today, give someone else a turn who will.

And why do we insist on not paying any respect to the opposition's best midfielder(s)? It's a terribly dangerous strategy when we lose the midfield battle essentially every week. Bolton wasn't doing that in his 1st or 2nd year, it's okay to push some of the young midfielders to the periphery somewhat and help us be more competitive in the interim.

Make the tough calls, implement changes sooner, enough with the rigid dogmatism, some tactical nous in the box pls, throwing McGovern behind the ball is not sustainable, lol.
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You raise a very interesting isuue.
Blue and Blue said:
Do you realise what nonsense this is. You dont know a thing I feel. Its just cliches.
This thread ought to be called crybaby corner. Yeah its tough but it was always going to be. But dont look for lame excuses to find a scapegoat.
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This thread ought to be called crybaby corner. Yeah its tough but it was always going to be. But dont look for lame excuses to find a scapegoat.[/QUOTE]
mate I’m sick of your over the top responses to my posts.
You are on Ignore.
 
SickQwon said:
Damn, in 7 games we were in very winnable positions and now we're having threads like this.

A bit of luck and some polish and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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What garbage, a bit of luck? Coulda, shoulda, woulda.... With a bit of luck, Carlton could be 0-9, and not 1-8. Face the facts this club is rudderless in the boardroom and in the coaches box. And someone else talking about being assassinated - how many wooden spoons does he get to rack up before he can be ‘moved on’??
This club is going nowhere at present, but it can change quickly with a new coach. I’d be bold and appoint someone for the remainder of the season from outside the club, e.g Ratten, Voss... It’s time to be ruthless, much can be salvaged with a change at the top.

On another topic, Carlton must demand a Pick 1 priority draft pick. Carlton’s record is woeful, and having traded what is likely to be Pick 1, the AFL need to intervene.

I admire people’s patience, but Bolton is not the right horse to be on.
 
thylacine60 said:
you mean like royce hart, timmy watson, ian stewart, danny frawley? coaches like that who played at the top level?
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Tony Shaw was the worst of them.

Mate of mine had a chat to him once, Shaw said that swimming was "a waste of time" when it came to training/recovery.
 
IMTOPS said:
What garbage, a bit of luck? Coulda, shoulda, woulda.... With a bit of luck, Carlton could be 0-9, and not 1-8. Face the facts this club is rudderless in the boardroom and in the coaches box. And someone else talking about being assassinated - how many wooden spoons does he get to rack up before he can be ‘moved on’??
This club is going nowhere at present, but it can change quickly with a new coach. I’d be bold and appoint someone for the remainder of the season from outside the club, e.g Ratten, Voss... It’s time to be ruthless, much can be salvaged with a change at the top.
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Thanks for the laugh.

Why would Ratten come back after we turfed his arse prematurely? He owes us nothing.
 
Why isn't any attention going to the assistants? Has Barker contributed anything meaningful, for example? I remember people were livid with him at one point or another but suddenly it's all quiet on that front. Is Bolton letting them having a larger say when perhaps he should not, or is it the other way around? Perhaps Bolton needs some help on match-day, I don't think it'd be wise to sack him now because who is going to replace him? Barker again? Someone mentioned Voss, I'm still recovering from my side-splitting laughter. Doesn't anyone actually remember how terrible Voss was as coach?

Make the decision at the end of the year. Who knows, we may win several games in the 2nd half of this season and this talk would be pointless. Although I'm not too sure on Walls mentoring him, he's been out of coaching for decades now and is out of touch with the modern game. Perhaps he's giving Bolton terrible advice? I'm not sure. At either rate, sacking Bolton now is premature and won't really fix our problems.
 
SickQwon said:
Damn, in 7 games we were in very winnable positions and now we're having threads like this.

A bit of luck and some polish and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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This is it. Easy to forget games where we were very competitive and arguably should have won. We should have at least 2 extra wins right now, possibly more.

No denying today was a shocker, but what else did people expect? GWS are a great team and we’re not close to them at full strength, let alone when we’re struggling with injuries.

I’ll wait until the end of the year to make any judgments. Bolton & the team have shown enough flashes that I feel reasonably confident that they’ll turn it around and win a few more games.
 
TheRedPill said:
This is it. Easy to forget games where we were very competitive and arguably should have won. We should have at least 2 extra wins right now, possibly more.

No denying today was a shocker, but what else did people expect? GWS are a great team and we’re not close to them at full strength, let alone when we’re struggling with injuries.

I’ll wait until the end of the year to make any judgments. Bolton & the team have shown enough flashes that I feel reasonably confident that they’ll turn it around and win a few more games.
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That's the thing too - if Bolton turns it around, it will likely be with a near full-strength side, and I reckon it will happen in a hurry. Like, win six out of eight games sort of stuff. Does our board have the fortitude to see this tough period out?
 
Percy2257 said:
You raise a very interesting isuue.
This thread ought to be called crybaby corner. Yeah its tough but it was always going to be. But dont look for lame excuses to find a scapegoat.
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mate I’m sick of your over the top responses to my posts.
You are on Ignore.[/QUOTE]
please put me there as well - me and mr plow can play checkers - not doctors and nurses though.........
 
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