Nah

People dont appreciate a lack of concentration from the first bounce.
People dont apppreciate the dropped @#$%&! chess marks from AFL footballers.
People dont appreciate shanking kicks for 4 quarters.....

...look I loved the positives, like forward entries, and some of the linking through the corridor, and a handful of players, but dont tell that has anything to do with Collosal improvement.

Its just the @#$%&! basics....101.

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That's pretty simple to understand.

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Look. Are you saying I’m not a person?

Telling it like I see it. Poor leadership.

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"our electorate seeks less to be informed and more to be validated." Sad times.

Great insight.

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There you go.

Other bottom teams have lost stars...and Ablett = Gibbs, Kreuzer and Docherty.

No excuse.

Players failed to play football today.

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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.

I cancelled the Annual Family Holiday overseas. This year it was USA because the kids felt the Blues would improve with another preseason and a few coming back from injury, plus they wan to see Blues at new Perth Stadium and we haven't gone to Adelaide since new stadium. We decided we will do all the Interstate games plus a few in Melbourne we usually would see.

I'm hearing you frank, but I'm not yet regretting the decision to change travel plans, because I'm hoping the players will realise they dropped the ball today and there's time to redeem.

All they have to do is get the @#$%&! nut, and do the basics properly.
Hunt in packs....those who are fit enough.


...and @#$%&! me Lamb, just after I paid you a compliment in match day thread, you miss a standard 40 metre shot at goal to stifle our momentum. Embarssing.

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He refuses to take ownership.

That's exactly how he played and how he led.

Even Warner knew he couldn't hide from the fact it was he not we.

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I thought Daisy made good things happen as reward from effort. He busted a gut, hit hard, tackled and was a one touch player...he isnt the class act he once was because he's lost a yard....imo. Haters would have hated that, and he's an easy target when there was another 14 players who didnt turn up.

Byrne was still at JLT. Dont know if he's got the footy smarts. he's got pace when he wants to use it. He was bloody disappointing from the get go.....imo

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He wasnt lazy imo.

He did a lot of good things, basics but he laboured to achieve, and like others he, not the coach dropped the easy mark.

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I saw him put a few teammates into space and saw him deliver the ball nicely. He also flew for a contest against two and brought the ball to ground for Fish to run on to. He took a decent hit in doing so.

I agree his lazy kick back to Gartlett wasn't great but he was running into an open goal and it was inexplicable why the ump refused to call advantage. The ump robbed Daisey of what would have been a good goal. But yeah he wouldn't be proud of the way he returned the ball. He did several other good things if class as leadership though.

Get Fogarty!....oops we missed that chance

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Cripps had 20 contested possessions. Should’ve had two goals if he could kick straight. A good job? Not really.

in the first half when all the damage was done and we were dusted, holman neutered cripps. check out cripps' first half stats and efficiency. cripps and his metres gained on his possessions was his lowest in 12 games. but yeah cripps did have a much better 2nd half ... when the game was already over.

but shit verbal. that's all you take from my post?

please be better.

Holman was delisted before Bolts arrived, but yes Holman is doing well so far for GC.

I’m not prepared to say Dew is a better coach than Bolts. Dew has coached 2 games. And given the unprecedented turnover of players at Carlton in the last 3 years I seriously doubt many could have done much better than Bolts has in the circumstances. That’s not to say he is immune from criticism.

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It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.

I think you misunderstand my posting style and history with Murphy. We agree. You are just 24 months late to the party, that's cool, it's a big church.

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The only way for some people to understand is for them to be on the receiving end

Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

I’ll try and be better. If the game was over at half time, when Lamb hadn’t missed for goal mid way through the third we would’ve been under 10 points behind. “all the damage” certainly wasn’t done in the first half.

Cripps wasn’t neutered by Holman. Of his 20 contested possession he had about half of them in the first half and should’ve kicked two goals.

We rolled the dice at selection and it didn't work. I don't mind the coaches trying different strategies, in fact, I'd encourage it but you have to be able to adapt if it's not working.
At the game it was obvious we were going in with a short forward line with Charlie, an out of form Weitering and a bunch of midgets. Our plan appeared to be running the ball, linking with handball and hitting up the leads. The trouble is Gold Coast didn't play along with our plan and their pressure at the contests and the dominance of Witts saw us continually under pressure.
We needed to change it up at quarter time and we did Jack Shit. We kept banging our heads against wall kicking the ball inside 50,only to see it coming back out with interest.

After an uneventful and unproductive first half, it was well overdue to change up the structure and push some size inside forward 50. Jones was the perfect candidate yet the same shit continued.
Consider the circumstances. At half time we've had 37 inside 50s to 23. Yet we've had 9 shots to 13. Weitering was offering nothing and Charlie was being swamped whenever we went forward of centre. Not only were getting no value from our forward line. The ball was coming out at pace giving our defenders little hope. Compounding the problem, we had to abandon the loose defender because Gold Coast pushed their spare to the stoppages so they started to dominate there as well.
With our team selection, Dew and his coaches were able to dictate the game and our coaches were chasing their arses all day.
The selection of Polson was bizzare. Last week in the VFL he had 8 possessions, 2 inside 50s and 2 clearances. Not exactly banging the door down.

We were adventurous at selection but our strategic rigidity during the game was costly. The very few times Casboult was able to drift forward, he attracted the tall defenders and Charlie and the other forwards were finally afforded some room.
At half time Dale Amos was interviewed. He said our set ups were working well. WTF is that? We had 37 inside 50s to 23 yet we were 28 points to 55! What part of the forward set up was working well? It was a @#$%&! up by the coaches and they didn't have the capacity to fix it.
We needed a ruckman. Phillips, TDK, whoever. Charlies not ready to be the main banana against top shelf defenders and nor he should be expected to. We still need Casboult to do the heavy lifting. Charlies time will come but he's not physically ready yet.

So in the end we've had more ball, 17 more inside 50s and we've lost by 34 points.
Does it really sound like our set ups were working well?
I love Bolts and I think his coaching crew are excellent but they had a pig today. I dont mind the strategy but I didn't appreciate the lack of imagination once the ball was bounced. We went in too 1 dimensional and when it started to hurt us (which was always a possibility) the coaches needed to step up. They didnt.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Don’t make shit up to make your argument better
Holman was gone before Bolts got there