Think a little harder on that one rather than basically. After 7 wins, 6 wins as well as leading 7 times in last qtrs too afterv2 years where do you think we should be after 4 years. We should be pushing for finals. We won't be but should be. Anyone should know that. Melbourne were. Roos took over a rebuild with 2 wins, had 10 wins by the 3rd. That's the difference. They had a good coach, we have a shit one.

Hmmmmmm.........so let me get this straight. Roos took "over" a team in rebuild that had 2 wins and by the 3rd year they had 10, yet you think we should be playing finals the year after 2 wins. And to make it more confusing, you think that 10 wins will have us pushing for the finals, even though 4 teams this year had 12 wins and didn't make the top 8!

Clearly thinking harder isn't working...

Jim is a deep thinker and his posts are worth reading.
Unfortunately he has no idea on the modern game and he is disinclined to back away from anything he writes.

He is an important part of TC, regardless of how much we disagree with him.
He rarely goes the man and that is the essence of a site like this. People disagree and get on with it. That's Jim's forte. I don't often agree with him but that isn't important in any way. What is important is that we can all come on here and spruik our ignorance.

What part of this year you not see. A shit coach is a shit coach. That's not changing. None so blind that will not see.

Think a little harder on that one rather than basically. After 7 wins, 6 wins as well as leading 7 times in last qtrs too afterv2 years where do you think we should be after 4 years. We should be pushing for finals. We won't be but should be. Anyone should know that. Melbourne were. Roos took over a rebuild with 2 wins, had 10 wins by the 3rd. That's the difference. They had a good coach, we have a shit one.

I agree his posts are worth reading, but not all of them.
I hate being told what is fact when it is actually opinion.

He rarely goes for the man, but what do you call this:



Does it imply, I'm blind if I don't agree?

Well, whilst I have my doubts about Bolton, I also can see how his hands are tied with the players he's got at his disposal at such an early stage of their development, plus injuries.

We knew the pain we would go through would be greater than the previous year when we traded Gibbs for 2 First rounders. Which was a great deal imo. Then following Docherty's ACL in the first training session, we knew we were in deep trouble, but hoped we could do better than 2017.

Just ignore his posts,I do ( like some might do with mine!!)
But I am going to play the man in this instance, he has no idea and sprukes absolute crap virtually every post!!

He has never coached a team or group of players on any semi pro or professional level and most of the non educated tend to get found out when some who have experienced the real sporting world see thru the crap!!

Sorry that is fact!!

And by the way Bondi, i would suggest you have have had some experience in the real sporting world, not like the usual uneducated keyboard/ couch coaches. I may be wrong, but i doubt it!!

By the way, i am not patronising you, i just enjoy your level headed

posts!

Cheers

I could have coached Carlton to a spoon this year and I am sure Jim could have too

We just de-listed multiple players that were supposed to be better than the players they replaced. I'm sorry, but that's a fail in any man's language. We made our list weaker and incredibly vulnerable to injuries - and 'Murphy's Law'..............................!!!!!!!!

Correct.

And that’s the responsibility of the list manager.

I don't blame recruiters for trying to improve the list when we're cellar dwellers.

The worst thing you can do is be conservative when you're losing.

We had 7 wins in 2016 and on the upswing. They took a punt and it didn't come off. IMO, that's put us in a bad position where our finances will suffer and the club will find it more difficult to attract quality recruits and sponsors.

Replacing a few duds with a few duds was only a small part of our season story this year, IMO.

The Club has now made 13 changes to its playing list since the end of the 2017 season, with Bryce Gibbs departing for Adelaide and Dennis Armfield, Daniel Gorringe and Matthew Korcheck announcing their retirements. Smedts, White, Boekhorst as well as Rhys Palmer, Dylan Buckley, Kristian Jaksch, Ciaran Sheehan, Liam Sumner and Andrew Gallucci have also been delisted.

Why was Malthouse responsible for everything and Bolton nothing?

Can’t help with any insights on Malthouse but Bolton was overruled several times with list management decisions....