TheBluesMuse wrote:
So I've had the day off today and I've spent a little time researching. You can say I have too much time on my hands and perhaps I do today and I really wanted to demonstrate why I feel the way I do about Bolton and Carlton's journey to date.
In the last 10 years of AFL history there have been 52 coaches, of those 52, 6 have coached their team to a premiership, this means that based on 10 years just under 12% of coaches will win a premiership.It's not many. It's tough and its rare.
Further to that, of those 6 coaches they took on average 5 years coaching their teams before their premiership year.
Brendon Bolton is into his 4th year now. Brendon took on one of the toughest assignments that I can think of in Footy. He put his hand up to coach a team who has been lacking any form of list management for 15 years, despicable recruiting with a culture that was nothing, not positive, not negative just non existent and irrelevant. 42 players were turned over in 3 years, Carlton was starting from scratch. This is a unique situation and one of such complexity that I don't think many people truly understand the mammoth and difficult task that he agreed to.
Over the past 4 years Bolton has been enthusiastic, positive, resolved, patient, professional, relentless and 100% dedicated to this job. He has managed to create a club of loyalty and mateship, a place that people want to be and dare I say it a destination club. Bolton should be given the opportunity to see it through until its destination, we aren't there yet and all romance aside i think the statistics prove that he needs more time. For all those saying "Bolton was the right man up until now" I say get F@#%!. Bolton took this on and he deserves to see it through. Let him have the opportunity to become one of those 12%. Lets not be hasty here just because uneducated, bias, frustrated, impatient supporters think that a talented bunch of teenagers and 20 somethings who have barely played 22 games together should be top 4.
Great post.
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