Opinion Brendon Bolton
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Roos Director of coaching yet??
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Him and Barker come across as 2 absolutely admirable men, I can genuinely say that anyone would be lucky to have them their lives.
Unfortunately it feels like every line Barker has coached has been a mess and Bolt's, rightly or wrongly, is coming across as a coach who will not take us forward.
It's shit, and why I will never envy anyone who has to make decisions that impact people's futures...
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Didn’t the Lions sack their coach and bring in Fagan?
I’m sick to death of these Brisbane comparisons.
There is literally no chance we are suddenly going to win 4-5 more games 2nd half of the year.
On the list of probabilities, it’s similar to expecting Sri Lanka to win the World Cup in the cricket.
Brisbane had a team with a better midfield than us last year, on what planet are we improving the rest of this year with our skinny kids now mentally and physically stuffed.
2 wins absolute max, 1 more most likely, 0 more a distinct possibility.
Havn't listened to the presser yet as I'm emotional enough as it is... but sounds like it's not one for the ages... and if he is taking thinly veiled swipes at the board/recruiting etc then he best be careful...
1. We're not the youngest list in the league (every other team has at least 2+ more wins than we do)
2. When we were healthy earlier in the season we still couldn't close off a win and those were mainly due to coaching tactical issues (Gold Coast, Hawthorn)
3. Development of skills on a lot of our players is horrendous (tackling, kicking, handballing... the 3 basics).
I feel a Pagan-like pop in tomorrow morning to his (Bolton's) house is going to occur.
1. We're not the youngest list in the league (every other team has at least 2+ more wins than we do)
2. When we were healthy earlier in the season we still couldn't close off a win and those were mainly due to coaching tactical issues (Gold Coast, Hawthorn)
3. Development of skills on a lot of our players is horrendous (tackling, kicking, handballing... the 3 basics).
I feel a Pagan-like pop in tomorrow morning to his (Bolton's) house is going to occur.
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Oh I understand that, I just meant I would find it difficult to let a good person go because they are doing a shit job haha
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All going well mate. Hope all is well on your end..
Feeling sick and sorry for the club..
The list has potential and has shown glimpses of what could be in years to come.
Unfortunately for Bolts, it just hasn’t worked.
Don't want another coach who hasn't played at the highest level even in the interim.
Bolton is just one man, appointed by an outsourced process to perform a specific role in the club's systematic rebuild. Why would replacing and/or tweaking the coaches necessitate that everyone else be turfed as well?
Docherty it is then!
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Imo, as a person and a life coach, Bolts appears to be top class. However, as a football strategist and a football coach, he increasingly appears to be out of his depth in dealing with what is admittedly a very challenging situation, given the unbalanced nature of our list (specifically, the paucity of mid-20s players with mature bodies and 100+ games).
As I see it, in terms of whether we stick with Bolts, the key question is whether another head coach (and his preferred assistants) could realistically extract more out of our current list than Bolts (along with his assistants) is managing to do, in part through their ability to implement superior systems and structures, and in part through their capacity to motivate and develop young footballers (as opposed to young men) into the finished AFL article.
Imo, I think that the right head coach could do significantly better than Bolts is currently doing - perhaps not to the point of radically improving our short term win-loss ratio, but at least to the point where we could restore and then hopefully improve on our competitiveness, to a level that would allow us to attract the above mentioned mid-20s players with mature bodies and 100+ games that we are so sorely missing atm. Imo, it would be at that stage that our rebuild could rapidly progress to the next level, and beyond.
My concern is that if we do not replace Bolts relatively soon, then our rebuild is in danger of stalling badly in the short term, and then going into reverse in the medium to longer term. I say this because, if we continue down the current path for too much longer, then not only will we struggle to attract the mature players that we need, but eventually we may also struggle to hold on to the young talent that we’ve so painfully acquired over recent seasons.
The call on Bolts is a huge one imo, which - for better or worse - will go a long way towards determining the future of our club.
As I see it, in terms of whether we stick with Bolts, the key question is whether another head coach (and his preferred assistants) could realistically extract more out of our current list than Bolts (along with his assistants) is managing to do, in part through their ability to implement superior systems and structures, and in part through their capacity to motivate and develop young footballers (as opposed to young men) into the finished AFL article.
Imo, I think that the right head coach could do significantly better than Bolts is currently doing - perhaps not to the point of radically improving our short term win-loss ratio, but at least to the point where we could restore and then hopefully improve on our competitiveness, to a level that would allow us to attract the above mentioned mid-20s players with mature bodies and 100+ games that we are so sorely missing atm. Imo, it would be at that stage that our rebuild could rapidly progress to the next level, and beyond.
My concern is that if we do not replace Bolts relatively soon, then our rebuild is in danger of stalling badly in the short term, and then going into reverse in the medium to longer term. I say this because, if we continue down the current path for too much longer, then not only will we struggle to attract the mature players that we need, but eventually we may also struggle to hold on to the young talent that we’ve so painfully acquired over recent seasons.
The call on Bolts is a huge one imo, which - for better or worse - will go a long way towards determining the future of our club.
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Sorry but this needs a dislike button.
I'm not prepared to throw away all the good work the club and prez have done the last few years, and I'm not prepared to throw away the season at the half way mark.
Club needs to review the situation and make adjustments whatever they may be.
The coach and gameplay can change now, the hierarchy must be stable and do their job until season's end.
There is no flicking of a switch, when the group is ready, mentally, physically then it will start to turn, no matter who is leading them
was inevitable, the board can't ignore 60000 members for much longer... the last 3 weeks the tide has turned dramatically against the coach and unless the board and those within the club can give us the members into some better insight or reasoning behind the faith in the current coaching setup then things are not going to get easier unless we score some wins (which is not going happen for a few weeks yet).
do you have statistics to prove that?
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Assistance who have been at Carlton 3 years or more need to go as well as Bolton.
Yeap some clubs sack coaches, Leppa, McCartney, others like Thompson, Hardwick, Buckley survive.
But every rise has been on the back of a maturing, cohesive experienced group of players
Again, I am not defending Bolton, I am defending the rebuild
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