aboynamedsue wrote:
I hated today’s result. Hated it.
But I am not surprised by it.
We only have 3 x A-Grade players on our list currently in their prime. Cripps, Doc & Kreuzer.
Those supporters expecting us to win more than 6 games this year (probably the same supporters flagellating the club tonight) need to think again, especially if the Kreuzer injury is a long term one.
To be clear, I don’t think the team should be excused for a poor performance; but take a serious look at the side we fielded today- 12 players with less than 50 games; Cripps; and the remaining 9 players are veterans nearing the end or C and D grade stop gaps.
When Dow, SPS, Charlie, Fisher, Kennedy, Weitering & Marchbank are fully fledged bona fides then I can see us winning more games. Until then, I can almost promise you it will continue to be a roller coaster ride.
I'm not so sure ... good coaches get the best out of their team. they develop the list into bonafides.
Hinkley put port on the map, a team hotly considered for the spoon that year.
Beveridge did it with the bulldogs in a year most had bulldogs as an outside top 8 team.
Dew seems to pushing what many thought was a bottom 4 GC team (without ablett) into the upper reaches already.
my point is, this is year 3 of bolton. And we haven't developed dramatically. Our skills haven't progressed, we still seem unsure of the gameplan. we're out tackled & out run every game. and with the gameplan. We have a plan A, but never a B or C. all signs point towards coaching as our achilles.
i hate saying it, but bolton could be a career assistant coach. he excels in the peripheral coaching aspects, but being the gameday coach, the one who has to adjust and think on the run. he looks in over his head.
living up here on the GC, Dew is as impressive as i've seen. At one point we had a choice between Dew and Bolton, and chose the latter. makes me wonder what if. i mean look at what bolton got out of holman, and in JLT and the early season so far, Dew has eclipsed that with his output from holman.
holman did a job on cripps today.
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Surely that's one role he can't possibly play. I know he wasn't the only one. But some of his kicks into forward 50 were horrible.
