I like that, Spot on!

A sunbird looked alright with a set of deep dish westerns on it.lol

Look a bit deeper. Collingwoods top 7 in their B&F last year have missed a total of 8 games. Pendlebury, Sidebottom, Grundy etc etc, they're all fit and playing well every week. They lose Treloar, Dunn and Cox and what happens, they lose to West Coast in Melbourne. Key players out kill your system.

Look at our best players from last year. Murphy, missed a heap of games, Kreuzer, probably missed or failed to play out 6 or 7 games, Docherty, hasn't played a game. Gibbs, gone. Then look at our better defenders. Williamson, hasn't played a game, Marchbank, hardly played. Alex Silvagni, hasn't played. Plowman, out.

As for Jims suggestion that Melbourne had the right coach for their rebuild, I don't recall people saying that when they lost the last game he coached by 111 points.

Some of you over estimate the coaches and gameplan. Results this year have confirmed that if you don't have the personnel, you will go backwards, significantly. Look at GWS, look at Adelaide. It doesn't matter how good your game style or strategies are, if you don't have the personnel, you're up shit creek.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Quite simple isn't it for some!

A well considered post debunking all the nonsense that has appeared in this thread.

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"our electorate seeks less to be informed and more to be validated." Sad times.

Excuses, excuses, excuses. Sick of hearing it.

We have been deplorable this year.

No amount of spin will change that. The media is right.

I have yet to see any real progress in our game plan and ball movement.

Not convinced with some of our youngsters.

You can tell the club is on the defensive and is rattled.

Give Bolton another 12 months. Can't sack him now.

Although, can't go through another year like this one.

The brand has been smashed.

I love the excuses excuses mantra. Its basically a kid holding his hands over his ears, stamping his feet yelling I will not listen. Fine - so don't ask questions when you will not listen to the answers.
Which kids are you worried about?

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Bottom line is Bolton had a 100% success rate at Hawthorn when he took the reigns after Clarkson became sick.

He had the players and merely told them to do what they do best (yeah, yeah I know it was Clarkson's team blah blah)

If you don't have the players you are never gonna win.

Let's face it I could have coached the Blues to the 95 premiership with the players we had

Maybe Melbourne wasn't that stupid

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That should be a statement rather than a question

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i was expecting the same as last season - 6 wins, but hoping for a couple more. allow for improvement in the list, improvement in the game plan, the development of many of our high picks and then allow for the loss of docherty & gibbs.

we could have won 10 games last season, but came away with six after continually bottling the last qtr ... i thought repeating those 6 wins that was a shoe in.


after they were pinged for pills, is it fair to say Essendon* played with a much worse, more disjointed list than ours? and they managed 3 wins in their shit season. if so, our one win looks really, really bad and suggests there could be more than injuries to blame.

they replaced their banned players with players who had total of 1059 games experience between them.

Is that all you have got? pfft!

Simple as that.

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Everyone looks good in Navy Blue

I’ve read some funny things online over the last couple of decades but that’s right up there with the best of them.

Classic!

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"Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen."

Mort Sahl

I suppose it's all "fake news". Nothing to see hear. 2 wins from the last 26 games with no semblance of a game plan. And Rowe is our key defender. It's going so well. So very Trumpian if you believe otherwise.

The reality is mate, none of us know how much of our 1 win season is down to injuries, and how much is from poor or failed coaching.

everything will be revealed next season i guess. but, i have a question specifically for you, blue vein and trigger.

with a healthy list to choose from next season. and with the development of our star picks and improved game plan. How many wins next year get a pass mark form you guys? Where on the ladder in your opinions, should we be finishing?


Next season; I'll happily stand here and declare i was wrong about bolton should we climb the table and threaten the top 8 next season. I'll also apologise for bashing everyone's ears in about bolton being in over his head and a bad choice for coach.


be interesting if you guys are wrong and if bolton is deemed a failed appointment to see how you handle that.




there's a few.

Weitering, SPS, Plowman, Jack, and Marchbank all looked to have regressed on what they delivered last year.

off the top of my head, the rest of the list have mostly stagnated, and only charlie, fish and Cripps looked to have raised their games/ developed from last season?

It's not about wins and losses Braithy
Surely you know that already

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Clueless!