Maybe the exam is too hard.

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Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

If the team plays the first half of next year as it has played this year Bolton will get sacked during the season. He and his game plan have been very poor this year, but he should be given a chance to correct for this season; but a short leash.

The club should hold firm for now in my opinion. Tim Clarke has gone, so hopefully that will initiate a change for the better inside the box.

Cain Liddle and Brad Lloyd are looking at our fitness & injury management. I expect they will find we are league worst. Improve that is of extreme importance.

I am so glad this year is over. Surely, surely this is rock bottom; no more green shoots talk, we got to get actual results; 6-8 wins required at a minimum in 2019.

Maybe you're having Grade 3 kids sit VCE exams?

I haven't agreed with much of your thoughts this season, but I do agree with this one.

Bolton needs at least one season with a fully fit list for his abilities to be properly judged IMO. The issue of whether or not he can actually coach has this year been clouded by other circumstances out of his control. Injuries are one, lack of mid-age talent another.

If the other factors aren't present next year but we still finish near the bottom, we'll have our answer.

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The chance of having a fully fit list is virtually zero. The fact that Bolton so proudly states that we've turned over 42 players in 3 years sums up why he's no good.

We're 5-10 years behind the movement of clubs like Essendon* and North - which is terrifying!! Not only do you not need to 'bottom out' anymore, it's now a completely dumb and outdated strategy.

Essendon* will get another couple of good kids plus a free agent or two and have the base to grow for a flag.... while we're still trying to determine whether Bolton can actually coach .

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How long did it take for Richmond, Hawthorn and Collingwood to figure out whether their coaches could actually coach?

Nonetheless, I've been waiting all year for a suitable answer to this, and I'm still yet to get one.

What. Is. The. Alternative?

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You start looking and the alternative will present itself. Extending contracts and blindly sticking with the wrong bloke is a bad strategy.

I only saw a small amount of last nights game - thank @#$%&! - but the group looked absolutely lost - AGAIN!!!!! STILL!!!!

No spine whatsoever. No mental toughness at all.

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I'd prefer to hear your version

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Last night meant @#$%&! all in the grand scheme of things but winning the inside 50's and losing by over 100 is still pretty damning and what is with setting up with only 2 forwards v 6 defenders at the centre bounce?

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Winning the i50's is nothing to crow about if you've got all your players in defence pinging the ball in but watching it pinging back out because there's no-one there.

Which is exactly the problem i think everyone is alluding to.

Stupid strategy.

....we also won the centre clearances

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

With out knowing what you do it's clear you don't do what I do. I go into businesses that are not performing and I analyse them from ground up, then I implement processes across all facets of the business. I then put in strategies and targets to monitor the development of the changes and here's the clutch, I fully understand that final performance does not always reflect growth in these processes, especially where anomalies are involved during the change period.

So to think that I embrace failure or fail to understand is laughable. It's clear that everything you write only reflects on the obvious statistics and you refuse to look to deeper to have a better understanding why. i.e. inside 50 count from last night. As you so boldly put it we won that stat 61-54, but you failed to mention that they had a 65% accuracy compared to our 30% odd as it was stated. Our injuries and lack of leadership on the field you blame the coaches for game plan, it's pretty hard to run a business and implement new processes when your key staff are always changing and you're constantly trying to train kids to fill those roles, especially in a business when the work load is tailored to men, not kids. And finally, I have played in a team that has had only 2 wins for the season and believe me the last game of the year is more of a relief as your spirit and body have copped a flogging all year you actually begin to doubt yours and your teams ability. And no coach on the planet can change that, it's an individual mental thing.

As I said before if you haven't got it by now you never will. Let's just all enjoy the off season and put this woeful year behind us and look forward to new players a refreshed mindset and most importantly NO INJURIES.

watching the game from behind the goals last night this was the weirdest set up i have ever seen...
i could clearly see where the adelaide spares were but it was almost like our spares were hiding...i couldnt see any spares in our back 50..more like out wide on the wings..
i'd love to see a stat for centre clearances we won that resulted in forward 50 entries but were then rebounded up the other end for an Adelaide score..

And this is the thing I'd like to know better first before advocating for a sakc-fest.

Who is responsible for these setups/issues at our club?

Is it Bolton himself, our line coaches, or our 'head of strategy' (Barker)?

You'd think Clarke's swift booting last night would be a pretty big clue.

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We may well have the answer by round 2 (assuming the fixture is similar to this year)

We lose to GC at home and Bolton can start clearing his office. The rot started then. How FKN dare Murphy say that the players didn't take that game seriously...what, just because they kicked the first 5 goals against Rich the week before?

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Ahh one of them.
That explains a lot

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Great analogy, but it lacks a little detail.

Firstly you have to look at the class as a whole. The kids in the class actually have to attend to be able to learn or even take the exams. And when they come back they have to play catch up as well as moving forward in the curriculum.
Secondly these kids have been selected to attend classes because of their talent in certain subjects, the problem lies when they are asked to do other subjects outside this for the benefit of the whole class.

I think it will be fair to judge the teacher after a year when the absentees are a lot less.

We should rename this forum TalkingAnalogies.

We're on fire in this area.

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Don't hold your breath

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