Carlton Supporters Club

It has been apparent in the play of a lot of our players, especially in neutral situations over the last few weeks. However, we need to get really good at it and hide our thuggery like Hawthorn do. Our guys do not know how and when to show that aggression yet. Hawthorn took a while to 'get it right'. Hopefully, so will we.

Docherty's spoil that left the Swans player on the deck for couple of minutes and looking over his shoulder for the rest of the game was a good example.

I suspect that a lot of the negatives being thrown around is because of WHO it is, rather than WHAT actually happened.

All this argy bargy we are now doing (and will get better at it) will make the Dawks game a rather physical one. 
I reckon BB will have the boys fired up for that one. Here's hoping.

All this argy bargy we are now doing (and will get better at it) will make the Dawks game a rather physical one. 
I reckon BB will have the boys fired up for that one. Here's hoping.

I suspect that a lot of the negatives being thrown around is because of WHO it is, rather than WHAT actually happened.

Bolton could not have found a more accurate or quicker way to make our lot feel "Comfortable at being uncomfortable" than to force them to play physically accountable and intimidating football. For most of the last decade the only people we have been any good at intimidating or bullying have been our own!

So "Unity" and "Become Comfortable at Being Uncomfortable". Watch Clarkson's tactics against us very closely, he will be desperate to pick this apart especially if it looks like being the seeds of long term success!

Hubris is a funny thing.

I think Clarkson will want to try and pick this apart, but on some level he will be pleased that it will be his protege to knock him off if anyone is going to do it.

Isn't Bolton the fifth of Clarkson's protégés currently coaching against him?

I suspect Clarkson doesn't give a fat rat's clacker about our long term prospects and will simply be focused on winning on the day.  He and his players will perhaps be expecting a more physical game from us but they won't be changing the way they go about their footy.

Which is exactly why its full of hubris.

He thinks he is too good to have to knock off his proteges and accordingly will stick to what he does, till everyone out Hawthorns Hawthorn.

Without knowing the intricate details I put Bolton in a different category to the others. Bolton was the 2IC, the Lieutenant, the others were foot-soldiers who busied themselves learning from the General.

That's overstating Bolton's role LP.  He was coach of Box Hill Hawks, then forward line coach.  The only difference is that he stood in for Clarkson when he was ill.

PS; Video up on the club website now, in Emily Angwin's video, really shows the level of Laidler's staging for a free, either that or he has the reflexes of a slug! Two views, one angle shows the double motion from Laidler, the other shows Daisy's elbow is past Laidler's jaw near Laidler's right shoulder/collar bone.