Rexy wrote:
Taff wrote:
Rexy wrote:
There's more than 1 reason we are on 1 win.
Injuries, selection, confusing game plan....
Confidence and skills are deficient. Simple. Too many players just not of acceptable AFL standard
Confusion -> lack of confidence -> shit decision making and skills
Agreed, all have played a part. But how much of the above can be blamed on consistently having to swap deckchairs both between games and also when they begin?
Shit, even
that turd Clarko acknowledges it.
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"It's easy to dig the boots in," he said. "They're on the right track as a footy club and it's really, really hard yards.
"I can recall being in a very similar position in 2005, and what you need to be is strong internally in terms of the direction you're going.
"What people need to give some consideration to is not the win-loss column but the number of players who have been exposed to having to play when they've had so many senior guys out injured. That's made it really hard going. They've been crippled by injury and they were again today."
Bolton was an assistant coach at the Hawks from 2009 to late in 2015. In 2014, when Clarkson missed five games because of illness, Bolton stood in as interim senior coach and the Hawks went 5-0 in that time.
They are friends, as are their wives, and their catch-up ahead of the weekend was purely a social engagement, although as Clarkson said, "We didn't talk much footy given we were going to box-on today."
Clarkson said he believed the Blues have got things right on the field.
"On the field, it's been a battle because they haven't been able to get that continuity and stability, but once they have it they're going to be on the right track in terms of winning games," he said.
"Too many in the football world judge it just on wins and losses, and that's tough on them."