Freakish....
Is big Mal slipping a tenner into Perc's towel??
I'm worried about what happened next (NTTAWWT)

Go Blues

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It was bad luck when Docherty did his ACL the first time. Not so much the second time as I believe that the chances of a recurrence of the injury are something like 10 times higher.
Saying that, if we didn't recruit McGovern and for example McKay got injured (he was injury prone before this year) then I guess we'd all be saying that we should have recruited McGovern to take the load off Charlie.

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hope someone taught sellers to handball - if he had followed through the ball would have gone to the feet of a teammate ....... or the opposition......wait a minute isn't that was we see too often?

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You can accuse many players on our list of this....NOT Kade Simpson.

If he was fed up, that speaks volumes.

I didn't get that at all.

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Interesting read, with good comparisons to Brisbane's development. There's a lot of hard facts in the article that only time will tell if they are true or not, even if you disagree with them now.

Was Teague expected to confirm he was caretaker before the presser was even held?

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Not sure what the timeline was for that, but it wasn't the point I was highlighting.

You normally wouldn't respond with "It's news to me" - rather "Can't comment on that - the appropriate people will announce something shortly"....but I'm not blaming Teague - it's the scatterbrain approach the club have operated in for a long time now. Some basic key messages/holding statement should have been developed months ago.

yeah I know, I was alluding more to the fact that the media surely don't expect transparency in that situation

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Roar forgot that Brissie also got priority pick and afl assistance which if we were afforded the same means we would have kept our first round pick and the whole sos bashing holds no water at all

I think you'll find, the point is we didn't get one and yet the decision was still made to swap the pick before our age and experience had moved upwards and with high risk consequences as we have seen this week. The question that remains to be answered is, has the right head been rolled out the door? Let's hope the club knows what they are doing!

hope we don't fold.

Seems everything our eyes were telling us match up to what we have been hearing.

From what we can piece together seems the players themselves had issues which had reached a tipping point during and after the GWS game.

Then the players only meeting obviously Thomas and Simmo had had enough and didn’t want the rest of their playing days to be this joyless slog. I also believe Cripps wasn’t happy with the lack of help and the game plan as well.

Seems from there bolts didn’t take the feedback overly well and stuck to his guns. Daisy goes gets pissed at a charity event as a release.

St Kilda game you see animated chat with Cripps and Doch on the bench during the 2nd quarter, and the whole game our side looked a complete mess with structures all over the place and a side second guessing themselves all the time.

Then obviously simmo had upset bolts so got himself out of the side for the Essendon* game. The Essendon* game looked like the side had just given up any hope and was a completely joyless performance. Cripps over it all too.

I think everyone knew during that Essendon* game, both on the field and in the crowd that bolts was done probably by about half time.

The press almost to a man have been saying for weeks BB should go, he has no plan, no development, no wins, can't get the team over 100 points and now he's gone they are saying how unjust it was.

The reality is they have NFI and are just trying to sell papers or get 'likes'.

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The plan is and alway should be to get the right amount of top end talent and then add some mature bodies.

Last year was the final year of first round picks and whatever or wherever we finished this year we are going to go for a trade. Salary cap space has been made and we weren’t expecting Adelaide to be a top 4 team so our first rounder will still be a decent offer to the club we want to trade with

Unfortunately for bolts, he needed to at least show that there is a team on the up and our players are enjoying themselves to sell the club to outside players

Hence why our president is saying that we are sticking to the plan and we are committed to it.

For all the crap in the media that more need to go, it is far, far, far too early to rate sos on list strategy as it still isn’t complete. This year he would be planning to add experienced players and small forward and even the. We need to get that core group to 100 games to see if they ha e it or not, only then can we judge sos which is a couple years away at least

Plot twist: SOS did the Stocker trade deliberately to get Bolts sakced.

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To be fair, most in the media are saying it was the right call.
They are then asking whether others also need to shoulder the blame.

For mine, I think the questions about the Board are fair but not because they backed and then sacked Bolton. Boards need to be able to fire coaches without their own positions being questioned because of what turns out to have been a bad appointment. Otherwise, they just won’t fire them.
I don’t know either way about how good the Board is or not but I do note they have pretty much transformed the admin and esp football department at the same time as SOS & Co have turned over the list.
And SOS has done a pretty good job transforming our list - there are hardly any players he has got rid of that I am that upset about. We made reasonably good trades for Tuohy, Gibbs and Henderson.
The only query for me is about whether he could have replaced them with better options. Personally, I think it was worth it to give previously highly regarded juniors another shot to see if we could find a gem. Yes, a few more seasoned players would have been good but then again, we still have Murphy, Kreuzer, Docherty, Simpson and Thomas as well as Cripps.

I’m hopefully that Teague can give them the freedom to play and that whoever the next coach, he is able to get the best out of them. Because I think it’s a pretty good list.

I agree.
On paper it looks oK. We have enough raw talent to build a team around and if w can kep thm togethr, the wins will come.
Teague has got nothing to lose. If he can get the players and supporters happy with the way they turn up every week, he will have done OK preparing us all for next year.
Next year. I am so sick of it always being next year. I must admit I thought we would finish about 13-14 this year.
Maybe next year.

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