I think most will agree that Bolton has done a good job. What it does show however, is that the coach is only one piece of the team. The argument that we should have someone like him and that he would have got a lot more out of our cattle is fairly weak. Sure he got the Blues up & about at the start of the year, but we see this all the time in teams with a new coach. People have argued all year that a different coach would have done much better than Leppa with all the same other circumstances (personnel, injuries, lack of $$$ etc, etc).So does the win yesterday now make Leppitsch a better coach than Bolton?
Yet here is Carlton, with "super coach", the savior of Lygon St, Clarkson Jnr, stinking it up with 9 losses in a row. In fact, (fun fact) the last game they managed to win was against the Brisbane Lions. Any jibes at Bolton can be taken 2 ways. Either he is a very good coach, which weakens the argument that Leppitsch isn't, as we can see so much depends on other factors like the players for example. Or he is a dud coach which shows a premature and misguided love of his genius by so many around here, so be careful about wanting a new coach so badly.