Fantastic win against the odds, all of our bit players put in and our stars stepped up. Murphy clearly BOG for mine, he went at it all day and didn't put a foot wrong, his goal in the third was sublime. We sung the song loud and proud.
An ugly win's better than a pretty loss, and it wasn't the strongest side we can put on the park anyway. It was almost painful to watch at times, the only thing more painful than the football were the umpires. I rarely bag umpires but today's was one of the most inept displays I've seen for years, an outrageously soft free paid one minute then a glaring one missed the next, those blokes should be doing Mortlake/Dimboola next week. Adelaide next week and their season is sputtering along, another chance for Teague to nail down the job.
What a relief. Cripps willed us over the line but his performance overshadowed some very good ones by other players, even though his was a standout game it was a great team effort overall. It looks like we made the right call on Bolton, the way we were playing we wouldn't have come from so far back if he was still pulling the reins. O'Brien might not be a draft bust after all, and given a bit of freedom by Teague Gibbons looked at home at AFL level and could become a long term player. There's still a long way to go but it's a good start by the new coach.
Sacking Bolton won't necessarily derail the club, McCartney did a lot of the ground work at Footscray but they gave him the bullet for Beveridge and a couple of years later they were holding up the cup. Bolton was unproven and always a risky appointment, and he's had a fair crack at it, if you could see improvement things might be different.
I think that Bolton being sacked is a foregone conclusion after today, it's going from bad to worse and just can't be tolerated any longer. He seems like a decent bloke and he's given it his best shot but we're playing like a disorganised rabble.
I really hoped that this would work but it's plain now that it hasn't, we haven't improved one iota this season and have probably regressed. Players with high skills like Petrevski-Seton are making basic errors under little pressure, our confidence is shot to pieces and the senior coach must take responsibility. It hasn't worked, Bolton has to go.
No one likes honourable losses but it will turn around, we've finally got a list with a good spread of talent and the wins will come. The umpires didn't cost us the game, Collingwood just ran the game out better and their experienced players turned the dial up, it only takes one or two touches here and there and one or two tired fumbles our way and the momentum swings. I was very happy with Cunningham's game today, I've had my doubts about him but I think that he'll become a very good player, he's happy to cop a tackle or two and always looks after his team mates. On to next week Blues!
Very disappointing, North came to play and knocked us off our game and we never recovered. It's the worst game we've played for the season but there's no reason why we can't butter up next week, if we fall away from here Bolton is probably done but we should all be hoping that doesn't happen. It isn't the end of the world is what I'm trying to say.
Bolton is wasting our time playing Ed as a small forward....talking about robbing Peter.....
Probably, but he's clean out of options. The one thing we haven't been able to recruit, and we've had a decent crack at it, is a small forward. It's our Achilles heel, we'll have to address it if we want to mix it with the best. Apart from that we're tracking OK, it was only inexperience that cost us today's game.
How is losing the hitouts 60-6 and disposals 23-17 beating someone?
I never pay attention to stats, watching the game I thought that English at least halved the contest. I'd like to see him in a Carlton jumper, put it that way.
I’d like Kreuzer to ruck solo the whole match, but it’s likely he isn’t match fit yet and needs Cas to spend a fair bit of time in the middle. Luckily the dogs have a weak ruck division.
English beat Grundy on Friday night, he's very promising
We lost mainly because our disposal is barely VFL standard, pure and simple. It's too late to go back to square one again this time around so we'll just blunder on and eventually reach 10th or 9th,then Walsh and Cripps will go and then we'll go back to square one again.