Bolton knows. He also knows what happened earlier in the season when we tried to move the ball quicker. Our midfield depth is too easily exposed if we move the ball quickly.
He also knows that if we can't control the tempo of the game and set up to prevent the opposition moving the ball quickly, we get exposed as well. We want the opposition kicking down the line to our extra numbers.The only way at the moment to achieve that is to move the ball slowly and allow our players the opportunity to set up defensively behind every possession.
We have to kick and mark. If we don't take more marks than the opposition, we don't win.

As for Casboult, he has serious deficiencies but without him, this game style won't function. Our forwards are currently battling against 1-4 extra defenders. What chance do we have of Silvagni or Curnow giving us a contested mark or ground ball at those odds? Next to zero.

If we bolster our midfield in 2018 and get another pre-season into our young defenders, they can fend for themselves better next season. Then we can give our forwards a shot at 1 on 1 footy. Until then, Casboult is the workhorse that enables our structure to function without getting beaten by 90 points every second week.

Levi's kicking being better is like my putting, I have gone from 5 putting to 4 putting............................. hmmmm that makes my putting pretty ordinary.

Playing slow ugly footy won't wash with supporters next year. It has to change.

You've been around a long time Rexy. I thought you would appreciate the steps forward the team has taken under Bolts. It's changing slowly. It's almost impossible to alter the cattle and style quickly. Surely the majority of fans are happy with our progress this year and are confident it will continue next year.

Fans have been saying the same thing since 2002.
We had 18000?? members back then

Our game has had holes in it since Parkin jumped ship.

Now we have 50,000 members because we aren't bleeding.
But we believe in something.

Imagine when BB's reset starts peaking in 2019.
It will happen. We've been the AFLs basket place for a long time.
And we're coming back from a long way away.

Fans like me love the fact we are in games right up to the last quarter or last minutes and winning a handful too.
I can see we are not that far off now.
Its finally midfield feast time in the Draft/ Trades/FA.
A couple years of that wont hurt our list, then we judge BB's game plan.

Fans have been saying the same thing since 2002.
We had 18000?? members back then

Our game has had holes in it since Parkin jumped ship.

Now we have 50,000 members because we aren't bleeding.
But we believe in something.

Imagine when BB's reset starts peaking in 2019.
It will happen. We've been the AFLs basket place for a long time.
And we're coming back from a long way away.

Fans like me love the fact we are in games right up to the last quarter or last minutes and winning a handful too.
I can see we are not that far off now.
Its finally midfield feast time in the Draft/ Trades/FA.
A couple years of that wont hurt our list, then we judge BB's game plan.

SOS has done some good things with our list, but it's still a mystery to me why he picked 2 small forwards in the last rookie draft when we were so obviously needing at least 1 more midfielder. Our list looks unbalanced because of it. James Cousins would have been a nice pick up instead of Gallucci @ rookie pick #37.

It's hard to develop players in a VFL side that has no midfield.

Sumner, buckley, KJ graham, gone.

Gallucci, JGM, korchek, sheehan, sorry but time's up.

are we stuck with smedts and palmer and gorringe for another year????

One of white or Rowe has to go.

Elevate silvagni if needed and give him another year

Bokehurst can maybe have a one year offer. If he wants more certainty then we need to really weigh it up.

Lamb either one or two years depending on how highly they rate him.

Phillips.. Not sure. Depends if we recruit another Ruckman.

Whether daisy stays depends on gibbs and simpson. If they both play on with us then I'd be tempted to offer daisy one year max as a good will gesture.

Sumner, buckley, KJ graham, gone.

Gallucci, JGM, korchek, sheehan, sorry but time's up.

are we stuck with smedts and palmer and gorringe for another year????

One of white or Rowe has to go.

Elevate silvagni if needed and give him another year

Bokehurst can maybe have a one year offer. If he wants more certainty then we need to really weigh it up.

Lamb either one or two years depending on how highly they rate him.

Phillips.. Not sure. Depends if we recruit another Ruckman.

Whether daisy stays depends on gibbs and simpson. If they both play on with us then I'd be tempted to offer daisy one year max as a good will gesture.

SOS has done some good things with our list, but it's still a mystery to me why he picked 2 small forwards in the last rookie draft when we were so obviously needing at least 1 more midfielder. Our list looks unbalanced because of it. James Cousins would have been a nice pick up instead of Gallucci @ rookie pick #37.

It's hard to develop players in a VFL side that has no midfield.

A very shallow draft, no second round pick. I'm unsure if its wise to be dumping 10 players. Its pointless replacing them with rubbish.

Fans have been saying the same thing since 2002.
We had 18000?? members back then

Our game has had holes in it since Parkin jumped ship.

Now we have 50,000 members because we aren't bleeding.
But we believe in something.

Imagine when BB's reset starts peaking in 2019.
It will happen. We've been the AFLs basket place for a long time.
And we're coming back from a long way away.

Fans like me love the fact we are in games right up to the last quarter or last minutes and winning a handful too.
I can see we are not that far off now.
Its finally midfield feast time in the Draft/ Trades/FA.
A couple years of that wont hurt our list, then we judge BB's game plan.

Pretty sure Phillips resigned for 2 years

SOS has done some good things with our list, but it's still a mystery to me why he picked 2 small forwards in the last rookie draft when we were so obviously needing at least 1 more midfielder. Our list looks unbalanced because of it. James Cousins would have been a nice pick up instead of Gallucci @ rookie pick #37.

It's hard to develop players in a VFL side that has no midfield.