I think the players love Bolts - he's a great bloke, but his gameplan sucks balls and the players can't follow it. There's no structure, no set-up, no plan. When our opposition don't play the way that suits our 'plan' we crumble.

We also have some dumb footballers, but not that many. We're better than this.

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Last night posters were harking back to better times under Ratten

Things must be grim

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Maybe we have too many coaches now.

Are players getting mixed messages?

There seems to be a lot of confusion out there.

Has Bolts delegated too much too soon?

Is he not delegating enough and he's mentally overloaded?



We definitely have some very good young talent but there also playing with some senior players who unfortunately don't cut it in this day and age.

I have been very critical of the selections in our last 2 games.

Doesn't mean I am right but I think they have put too much faith in certain senior players who haven't delivered.

Hopefully we can get the balance right sooner rather than later.

i hope to god you're right and bolton is the man to lead us out of this and forward. i love your optimism, i hope it rubs off onto me. haha





this is interesting. i wonder how many kids we've drafted & traded for are naturally like this, and how many are not, and it's the toxic carlton culture which makes them crawl into their shells.


a full clean out at board level is the only way to develop a true, new culture. imo.

Not much choice.


Look at our captains post the Sticks/Braddles/SOS era

- Kouta: Great player, but a great leader? Also injury-prone by the end.
- Whitnall: Well...
- Judd: Again, great player. But beyond the example he set on-field, his ability to "lead" was always questionable.
- Murphy: It's all been said.

The common theme is that none of them strike me as motivators. Behind the scenes this may have been different, but supporter apathy comes from (perceived or otherwise) player apathy.

Where's the Hodge type? The Maxwell type? The Harley type? The Riewoldt or Taylor Walker type? All guys who vary in their skill-level but have the common theme of clearly giving a shit, and being able to turn to their players and say "this isn't @#$%&! good enough", even if they occasionally have to be a cauliflower.

This is what young players coming to Carlton have had to contend with for years, and I pray to God that when Doch returns he can break this trend once and for all (Cripps I'm still unconvinced). Because as much as coaching may have killed us (and it has), it's the lack of genuine on-field leadership that's been the biggest issue for 15 years+.

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#GUILTY

Yeah nah I reckon it’ll click in an upcoming game and we’ll be off and running. Just not clicking at all at the mini, and resultant look is a shemozzle.

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I'm as disappointed as anyone but we must continue with Bolton

Very young team

Having said that he needs to take the flak about the last 2 games and dreadful skill level of team and players lack of effecting game plan and being soundly beaten in coaches box 2 weeks in a row

Must also take flak for getting team up for first week with creditable performance and then not getting them up to be at least competitive against 2 of the competitions average sides and take responsibility that both games were effectively over by early in second quarter

Team does need to start winning games to give supporters hope yes Dow and Curnow are exciting but given we haven't won in the first 3 rounds in the last 6 years means supporters should be impatient and particularly when arguably team is performing worse than this time last year

The fumbling and skill errors are occurring because the players are confused and don't know what they are supposed to be doing. They are 2nd guessing themselves which is leading to costly turnovers and fumbles.
This Zone defense they are trying to implement works well on a basketball court or even a soccer field where you have offside. On a large open AFL field with no offside rule you can't gaurd space. If the player up field has a millisecond of time he will pin point a pass to someone standing by themselves.
It is just one of a number of dumb decisions Bolton has made.
I always look at footy as it is a business. In business if you make an investment it needs a 3 year payback minimum otherwise it is a bad investment.
We should be breaking even this year but in business terms we are heading for another loss.
If Bolton was Manager I would have him on a performance management scheme by now.
You can not keep using youth as an excuse.
Time to be moving forward is now.
MLG should be demanding results as saying that the club is taking the long term rebuild approach only works for a while because come the 3rd year people want to see results

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Bolton is not a head coach.

He is a development coach.

We need a head coach.

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

He's tried something and it's failed, we should move on. This guarding space or zoning or whatever they call it doesn't work. They probably worked on it all summer but please put it to rest and just play accountable footy.

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking this morning....as I was driving. He's an assistant/advisor. Maybe swap him for Barks for the rest of the year.

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We made those witches hats look like witches hats all summer long. Why won't our opposition just stand there?

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the suns were even the right colour and still nothing

https://twitter.com/CarltonFC/status/982511683867328512

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#GUILTY

And today a 201 to 71 thumping by Pie Team Number 2 ......

WTF is happening ????

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nice slag off of our play and leadership here by Ed - http://www.carltonfc.com.au/video/2018- ... -ed-curnow

well spoken too, another coach in the making

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my last one was rubbish

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/carlton-coach-brendon-bolton-calls-for-a-tighter-interpretation-of-the-holding-the-ball-rule/news-story/3c6c68a7c68a27331fb8ec683d3bac28#ampshare=https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/carlton-coach-brendon-bolton-calls-for-a-tighter-interpretation-of-the-holding-the-ball-rule/news-story/3c6c68a7c68a27331fb8ec683d3bac28

Interesting call....
I see this as a huge tactic against us... Grab the ball and break tackles when the ball is in dispute... Generally there is no penalty for doing it.
(how many holding the ball decisions did we get for us last night...?)

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Yep. Great perspective from Ed.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

I’d get that SA forward, then do whatever trade to bring in a gun midfielder.

We need senior mids to help the kids.

No issue with the list rebuild, but we need senior bodies that are great to fix the glaring hole.