Carlton Supporters Club

Sick of hearing those media grabs like, "Carlton won the I50 count!"

They are meaningless and worthless hyperbole twisting stats.

We spend many minutes of gut busting effort to scramble the ball a few meters inside the F50 arc usually deep in a pocket in a manor best described as a maul. Only to see the opposition sweep the ball from their defense to their goal square within a few seconds in what could be best described as a streak.

The quality of entry means something, and perhaps the ease of the exit means even more!

, but a club starved of any success will loose commercial viability, thus resulting in a do something mentality (rinse repeat)

This is our biggest danger.
The members, being football tragics and incapable of critical thinking, will bay for blood, it remains to be seen whether the current board has the mettle to withstand it and stay the course.
We'll know by the end of this year, it will either be a reasonable chance of recovery and long term success or we'll be consigned to a future as a perennial laughing stock.

We are playing the long game IMHO and Bolton can't be tried by results at this stage particularly if things are being done right everywhere else.  His game day leaves a bit to be desired but that's it.

Our football club don't care about its members.

Bolton won't be under pressure this season.

You cant trade Gibbs,  lose Docherty to a season ending injury and then declare you have the wrong coach.

It's just not going to happen.

I always stated that the knives will come out for Bolton and that this would be the test of whether or not we have changed as a footy club.

If we go down the usual route of not backing in the coach we'll continue producing the same old same old.

We are playing the long game IMHO and Bolton can't be tried by results at this stage particularly if things are being done right everywhere else.  His game day leaves a bit to be desired but that's it.

Sick of hearing those media grabs like, "Carlton won the I50 count!"

They are meaningless and worthless hyperbole twisting stats.

We spend many minutes of gut busting effort to scramble the ball a few meters inside the F50 arc usually deep in a pocket in a manor best described as a maul. Only to see the opposition sweep the ball from their defense to their goal square within a few seconds in what could be best described as a streak.

The quality of entry means something, and perhaps the ease of the exit means even more!

But when is the right time for the Coach to be questioned?

I think that the club needs to communicate with the members and supporters and be more open and honest.
If the supporters, members and sponsors feel that they are being genuinely informed about the journey we're on and that the club has a definite and well thought out plan they will be far more likely to support the direction we're taking.
Bolton is learning along with the players and he's certain to make mistakes along the way, but it will be more beneficial if he owns them and learns from them rather than ply us with more of the nauseating spin we've become accustomed to.

I think that the club needs to communicate with the members and supporters and be more open and honest.
If the supporters, members and sponsors feel that they are being genuinely informed about the journey we're on and that the club has a definite and well thought out plan they will be far more likely to support the direction we're taking.
Bolton is learning along with the players and he's certain to make mistakes along the way, but it will be more beneficial if he owns them and learns from them rather than ply us with more of the nauseating spin we've become accustomed to.

I largely agree with you (for once).

But when is the right time for the Coach to be questioned?

Already we have seen some absolutely poor selections being made ie for the Gold Coast game when Special K was an out and then tactically in Rd 3 when seemingly diddly was done to stop the 10 goal run on the Pies got on....

And let'd be frank, the Pies are about as good/bad as us overall.

Sick of hearing those media grabs like, "Carlton won the I50 count!"

You question the coach when you see what he does at the club and wonder why?

What the rank and file think isn't important it's the players and the club.  If they can see he's putting in the work and practices that focus on development then the game day stuff will look after itself in time.

You complain when they don't have anything positive to say about us.

You complain when they try and say something positive about us. 

That "they", the "sh1te stirring they" is the media.
This "they", the "I50 they", is the club spinning.

You love posting ambiguities Kruddler.

This latest one is called an "Ambiguity of Cross Reference", two "they" that are not the same!