Autopsy Rd 7 vs North. Terrible loss, poor skills, never in it.

[Juddrockz]

One of the worse games ive seen the blues play in 5 years.
I knew after the first 5 minutes we were in for a bad day.

 

[GoBlues!]

We looked off after the first 5mins

I don’t get it that’s a leadership thing isn’t it?
Plowman, Cripps, Murphy are all in the leadership group?

The only one that led by example in the first quarter was daisy

Perhaps bringing in both stocker and willow wasn’t the smartest thing to do

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Couldn’t work out why Stocker, a first gamer with modest VFL form, started the game in defence, talk about a baptism of fire.. He was out positioned by a north player who marked and kicked a goal.

Thought it was strange the coach didn’t start him on the bench for at least the first quarter or so, before putting him on.

 

[Bostonian]

Not enough love for ... oh uh umm ...

Final sirens and remote controls with easy to locate off buttons.

 

[cfc4life]

No bloody excuses, that was pitiful.
Zero effort.
Zero structure.

The first one is on the players.
The second is on the coach.

Pats on the back and platitudes in the presser aren't good enough. We can't a carry primary school teacher as our coach. We need some mother f'ing mongrel.

 

[Iamcarlton]

Missing the big bodies of kreuz, Gov, and Newman killed us.

Maybe selection was wrong? Setters and Kennedy?

Whatever with selection, that was a putrid effort and I don’t think it’s Bolts’ fault.

And Marc Murphy, thank you for your service now **** off.

Dont care what Kennedys formline is imo he should have been playing seniors today .

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

id like to know what our preseason training looks like...are we doing the right gym programs...we lack physicality big time...

A lot of kids weighing 70kgs wringing wet mate.

 

[Bostonian]

Is this the thread where people rant while others accuse them of not being real supporters?

"Levi is a terrible footballer"

"How dare you? How could you be so mean? Remember that one game where he kicked a goal..."

Would have been in our top 10-12 players today.

 

[gandaal]

I’d add JSOS and Fish. But yes, slim pickings...

Forgot Fish. JSOS a pass.

 

[Mr_Walshy]

Not agreeing or disagreeing with the Bolton diatribe, but if it isn't the coaches job to teach players skills and footy IQ, then who do you think is responsible for this? As another poster said, I am still on board, today hurts a lot, and i'm looking forward to when this actually does turn around.

IQ can’t really be taught tbh it can be developed ever so slightly but whe it comes to those split decision so in Game. Bolts ain’t there to tell them what’s to do. With regards to kicking well I can’t even

 

[jj1978]

Just wondering when questions will finally be asked of Murphy's efforts on the field..he's the former captain and shows zero leadership out there .

What scares me is that apparently he is a mentor to a few of the young kids.

 

[cisco82]

Hate to say it cuz I love the guy. But Murphy should play out the season and retire.
He just doesn't wanna go in hard , body language awful and his supposed strength being his skills are non existent ...
Setting an awful example for the youngsters ..

 

[Talrahir]

Fisher was the only positive today.

I would also add Silvagni and Daisy purely because they showed that mongrel and determination every time i saw them.

 

[gandaal]

Would have been in our top 10-12 players today.

I doubt he'll be dropped.

He's still a poor footballer though.

 

[Harlequin]

Just saw the Liam Jones incident.

Looked shocking

Hope he’s ok.

 

[blue6ers]

If you can't get a kick, get a flipping tackle
If your getting smashed, get flipping angry
If you want to be competitive, show some flipping effort
This is on the players, not the flipping coach
Its not the loss, its how we flipping lost

 

[Burgers45]

Maybe Daisy, Patty Cripps, Walshy, Fish, Weiters and Jack can all hold their heads high. The effort of the rest of the players leaves a lot to be desired.
Looks like we've lost another defender (Jones) and maybe also Plowman, who was holding his shoulder after a tackle. Don't know how we are going to cope with a non existent backline next week against the Magpies. Our hardness and attack on the ball was pathetic, and game plan looked shot. Doesn't appear to be any Plan B when things go wrong. Got to be pressure on the Coaching Panel this week for a very poor preparation of the team for this match

 

[Navy_Blueblood]

Extremely poor today. Lost every position on the ground. Work rate and desperation was lacking compared to recent weeks. Regularly poor skill execution. All round, a day to forget!

But I am not at all worried - in my view, we have the most exciting young list in the league. Let’s stick by the club. We will get there

 

[cookie monster]

Complete clean out of the coaching staff needed. The fact that a team almost entirely composed of first round draft picks can take. The field and have no system or structures in place is inexcusable. The fact that our skill levels are STILL extremely poor is inexcusable.

All the positivity from the last couple of rounds is completely gone and we are staring at yet another wooden spoon.

Player retention will become an issue if we don't start winning games, and I can't see us winning many more games this year.

Just the worst possible result.

You mean the clean out that should have happened last year? After the independent review we should've had?

Shambles

 

[The Blue Weirdo]

Left at three quarter time only for the train to be severely delayed. All round shocking day

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[Dadda Dave]

Hopefully that was so bad a call is finally made on Bolton !!

He needs to go alright ..
Consistently missing targets ,Not sticking tackles ...yep ..gotta go..

 

[rampar]

Bolton can try, but he can’t teach them them to kick straight or have footy IQ. Not his fault players just slept on the field.

Thought coaches job was to prepare players... im confused.

 

[Talrahir]

Seemed like his head hit the turf on a tackle and he was then ruled out late.

That's what i saw also. His head hit the deck pretty hard and I would not be surprised if he had suffered some concussion. I'm hoping there was no other damage. He hit it pretty hard.

 

[Juddrockz]

Couldn’t work out why Stocker, a first gamer with modest VFL form, started the game in defence, talk about a baptism of fire.. He was out positioned by a north player who marked and kicked a goal.

Thought it was strange the coach didn’t start him on the bench for at least the first quarter or so, before putting him on.

Better this week than next.

 

[Blue Heart]

Second post in the thread has the team lists from both sides, with their games beside them. It's on page 1.

Cheers for that.

 

[The Blue Weirdo]

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Should have stuck around, you missed our best quarter.