I thought it was on the back of a superb hitout from Kreuzer
Lamb did lay a few tackles but it was a pretty ordinary performance from a bloke who is trying to establish himself in a new team. He will have to do a lot better to avoid playing out the season with the NBs.
Maybe it was the second one he scored.
Lamb was tackling players whilst swans were handballing and Kerridge read it off the hands and pounced to score.
If Lamb wasnt tackling, rather than handballing backwards, the swans would probably have had an easier time rebounding.
Although Lamb didn't get a lot of the ball, he was applying pressure to the Swans backs at every opportunity. Some of these efforts don't appear on the stats sheet. I say give him a game.
+1 kerridges third goal was on the back of some lamb double effort tackling.
I saw enough to be pleased that lamb isn't just a list clogger.
Remember that's according to Fev on a "reality" TV show.
There was never any chance that the club would have gone back on its decision to cut Fev adrift. There would have been a walkout of players if the club had backed down.
It's also very clear that Betts would have stayed if we had paid him what he was worth and allowed him to play to his ability.
Anyway, we've been over this ad nauseum; the club's recent list management stinks and Laidler's performance on Friday was sad evidence of that
DJC I am ensuring that we don't look at these blokes as perfect little soldiers who we got rid of.
They weren't. Good footballers when they wanted to be and some of them still are.
I place the responsibility for these guys firmly on the club who have not fostered a jumper and team first environment. Resulting in players doing their own thing and leaving us.
Aside from that, we didn't chase them out, they left for more money, or better chances at a premiership or in some cases simply to get out of our footy club.
It's what we are all here for. Our footy club, and it's become clear to me that Bolton may be the only coach who has been interested in building for the long term benefit of our club than any coach we have had since parkin and largely because of our footy clubs administration.
The others were too busy looking over their shoulders or patting themselves on the back to put themselves second to our clubs future which Is the underlying reason they all got sacked but that was the environment of our footy club. All we had yo do was back in the senior coach and the rest would take care of itself.
You don't remember it was just 5 years ago we had 3 blokes who kicked 50 goals in a season, plus there was Waite as well. They are all gone, bar Walker, and playing good footy at other clubs
Between the one's we lost they near enough kicked more goals between them last year than what we kicked as a collective unit. Forgotten that?
They left us.
The only one we kicked out was Garlett as it turns out.
Fev left us and Sticks asked him to reconsider. Betts left us, and went to Adelaide by choice. Waite left us, and went to North by choice. Henderson who could kick 20 a year left us by choice. Bell left us by choice.
All of them wanted out more than we wanted them to leave and none of them will be around when we are playing finals next anyway.
It would be easy to just play whoever and call it development, but you have to encourage competition for spots and pick players on their merits otherwise people assume you're playing favourites.
We all see things a bit differently but I though Jamo was exposed trying to cover Rowe who lost his opponent far too frequently and that Rowe was the reason Jamo looked bad.
Fair play to Rowe who hits each contest like it's his last but he either wins it or loses it, and not much in between.
Jamison has no confidence in his shoulders. None. Saw him go to spoil and it looked like he did all he could to keep his arm locked in place and prevent pain before it came.
What do we think of bring Rowe to CHF , he is not setting the world on fire at CHB , that way we don't have Levi as the key forward allows him to be the forward / ruck role that is much more suited to him instead of the key forward where he is just lost? Rowe has played there before , and can kick a goal. Even though it's NAB cup Weiterling has show he has the application to play CHB even swing Philips or White through there as well. It would restructure a forward line a little which has no direction at all at the moment?
It's not bad, but Rowe is the same as our other tall forwards at the moment. Not that fast or agile, can't apply pressure once the ball hits the deck.
The others are the same.
We have to hope Liam Jones comes good because he is the only one with the right physical attributes to be a modern key forward we have.
Everett and walker are the other talls we should run with and the rest should be resting ruckmen.
We have too many ruck sized players and it hurts us.
Jaksch has to play ahead of Jones.....ok the former might not be going at his hardest and Jones might be training the house down but at the end of the day one can play football and the other doesnt have a clue and it will be the team and supporters who suffer... Bolton should be playing Jaksch this week if he isnt injured IMO and getting him fired up for Rnd1 ..Jones had one possie last game didnt he?....cant justify playing that banana this week IMO... How is Jones earning his spot?
Need to set standards.
We won't win much with either of them so you make a statement with these two now surrounding what it takes to get a game at our footy club.
It's a free hit and it's important to make these statements now whilst we are a bit crap than it is to fix it later.
