Steve_C7 wrote:
Sydney Blue wrote:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2019-tim-watson-isnt-buying-john-worsfolds-argument-for-the-gift-of-time/news-story/266ca18ea1d053ab30daf71003144462
This exact same argument could be put forward for Bolton
References to Hardwick and Buckley and just plain rubbish
That argument hold no water at all for Bolton.
No one of the coaches that Watson listed started any rebuild or were there for any list turnover.
Even the great Alastair Clarkson took over as coach in 2005 with Deledio, Franklin, Roughead, Lewis, mitchel, Hodge, Croad and Campbell Brown already on the list and still took 4 years to make grand final.
Realistically Bolton would be 2 years behind Clarkson so Bolton can't be looked at in the same way Worsfold is.
Deledio played for the Hawks?!
Franklin, Roughy and Lewis were drafted in November 2004. Clarkson was appointed coach in September 2004.
Hodge had played 45 games, Mitchell 50.
I get your point, Hawthorn may have had better senior leaders compared with Carlton when Bolton started, but there's no way the Hawks list was established when Clarkson began coaching. Let's not forget he went to his first draft with the most extreme youth policy the game had seen at that time, he also traded out Nathan Thompson (for #10 and #26) and delisted Barlow, McCabe, Tallis (all 100+ games), Graham (240+). The fact he made the GF in
only 4 years is still quite remarkable and was ahead of even his own projections.
The point I was making is that the list turnover started a year before Clarkson started and they had the luxury of a pre draft priority pick as well.
Out list turnover started 3 years ago and if you can add another top 3 draft pick as well (Weitering and Clayton Oliver) you effectively gain another year with the list build.
Point I am trying to make is that we should not be judging Bolton on win/losses in effectively his second year and with injury list of last year, realistically first year with a complete list.
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