That sounds like a pretty good idea.

How can knocked loose mean holding the ball?

How can knocked loose mean holding the ball?

FMD, The club has finally shown the guts to strip back the list and rebuild properly and the supporters are getting weak at the knees.
2 wins out of the next 3 or part ways?
The club has set a course which they openly told the supporters about. Did you complain about it when they initially decided to rebuild or were you in favour of it?

If you were in favour, at least extend them the courtesy of seeing it through. The hysteria over 3 losses is ridiculous.

How many of those 16 are mids? All talls and defenders. List imbalance is a key issue in the seconds I think. Too tall, too slow.... no emerging mids.

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Serious question -
eagles look to have spirit, game plan and talent.
Lions look to have spirit talent and a game plan
Gold Coast spanked us

How is it other teams have instant improvement and yet we just seem to be stagnant, without direction and lost.

IMO, Bolts should be given 3 weeks to produce 2 wins. If not, part ways.

This is a business where winning is success, and prolonged failure is not tolerated. Our financials & signing talent depends on wins on the board and memberships in the bank. Only 1 of 3 means we're probably headed for another spoon. That can't be tolerated anymore.

We'll lose players like Cripps, Charlie and Fisher, but we also won't be able to bring in players like Buddy, Dangerfield, Mitchell etc.

Right now - we stink from top to bottom.

Serious question -
eagles look to have spirit, game plan and talent.
Lions look to have spirit talent and a game plan
Gold Coast spanked us

How is it other teams have instant improvement and yet we just seem to be stagnant, without direction and lost.

Our business plan is 66 games of rebuild, then we start focusing on if Bolton is the right coach as we add free agents to the kids.

I get the 66 games bit, just not 66 losses.

A re-build doesn't mean insipid, pathetic performances like the last 2 weeks. Just 1 win in 12 games isn't flash for St Kilda circa 1982 so another 2 or 3 for us over the next 3 weeks is a disaster IMO.

There is still something wrong with our group mentally that this can happen 2 weeks running - Collingwood aren't that good.

It's a good question - meanwhile, the scum was decimated by suspension and sanctions, yet they're in a far superior position to us right now.

Worsfold has taken a basket case to one playing finals in year 1.

They're 1 from 3 and really shouldn't have beaten Adelaide in round 1. I believe in terms of young talent and salary cap commitment, we are actually in better shape than they are long term.

Spot on. Today Essendon** lost to the team who lost Round 1 by 82 points and Round 2 lost to West Coast in Melbourne by 51 points. Western Bulldogs. If I recall the Bulldogs were labelled insipid and had huge internal issues. They then come out and roll the team Duke thinks are in a far superior position to us.
Richmond won the flag last year although they were pumped by St Kilda by 11 goals in one game.
The same Richmond we probably would have beaten 2 weeks ago if we hadn't lost Kreuzer and Kennedy. All that after beating St Kilda and Hawthorn in the JLT.

The media live week to week. 2 weeks ago we're a quality up and coming side with great kids, today we're crap. I can understand them having a short term view because they have to sell papers or be controversial to get air space.

But our own supporters spewing out the same crap, FMD. We've got a supporter base that wants a rebuild but doesn't want to do the hard yards that come with it. They want to play and develop kids but they also want the hard seasoned bodies to be physical. They bitch about 24 point losses with a team full of kids when 2 and a half years ago we were losing by 130 points with a bunch of older players.

You can't have it all. If you support the club to rebuild, have the guts to see it through. Wetting your pants when it gets a bit tough is what Carlton used to do. Sack the coach and bring in a messiah to appease the uneasy whinging masses.
Those days are hopefully gone

Absolutely. For years some people on this site and that disgrace of a place called Bigfooty have been screaming/pleading ad nauseam for the club to get mids. But no; we were told we didn't know what we were talking about and that the club knew what they were doing, trust the club blah,blah,blah. They were far too reactive, Now Kerridge and Graham are our mid depth smfh. Meanwhile we got rid of Holman, and I don't care what his problems were at least he could tackle and was a mid. Love to know how bringing in Mullet, O'Shea, Shaw, Palmer, Kerridge, Lamb, Phillips, Lobbe etc, was ever going to help our rebuild. We never actually fully committed to the rebuild early and we are paying the price now.
Because idiots in the industry go on about "Look what happened to Melbourne" it perpetuates and becomes the template so you have to recruit a slew of recycled journeyman to "help and protect" the kids, fmd. It's appears all a bit haphazard.