I think the competition has taken us a bit more seriously and that has been a contributing factor.
Yes, this may well be part of it.
Having some opposition coaches announce us last season as a young team on the rise probably ensured the rest are motivated to put the boots in!
Certainly someone like CheatsFC would be heavily Sheedy motivated to rip our sails, which is ironic given we defeated them, but we get to remind them of that until next season! If only they miss the finals by percentage!
Personally don't care what sort of career he's had - Grigg is an ordinary footballer whose presence would make no difference to our current predicament.
Doubt you'll find any disagreement, I even suspect if we recruit Grigg types our predicament will become worse!
I think Holman would be a good get. An upgrade on a few of ours....
He's a great size, seemingly robust, hard at it and a tackling machine (averaging 6 a game). Also, physically mature at 23.
In fairness to the club, you cannot have Holman in the midfield with Cripps, Kennedy and Ed Curnow, we are already treacle slow and Holman would make things even worse, add SoJ to that list in the future and Carlton leg speed is looking like The Blue Rose! Anyway that ship has sailed.
The point wasn't to get types like that, it was more about getting blokes like Lang and Smedts while letting these guys go! It's pointless, the replacements are at best more of the same, not particularly moving forward are we!
We have metaphorically tossed a coin hoping for something other than a head or a tail, or at least it seems that way!
Actually I forgot to add Jones had to leave his man because of Dow's error. We all would have blamed Jones but our zone was already broken and is probably the reason why Jones finds himself in that situation.
Agree, it's not Jones or Weitering, at the game it's clear, watching off the TV the person in shot gets the blame. And whatever you do do not listen to the radio, they don't even get the player names correct!
Get some wide angle views of the opposition kicking into our F50 and you'll see a Carlton defender corralled by 3 or 4 opponents and not another Carlton player in sight. It's why I was so disappointed with BB's weekend comments, he was blaming the defense, maybe he meant the defensive structure or efforts from mids or forwards, but it came across like BB was pointing the finger at Jones, Weitering and others in D50. Our defenders cannot fix the problem when they are often outnumbered 2:1.
FFS, a mate who was at the ground tells me at one stage the Lions got the ball and started heading down the wing into our D50 being chased by Carlton players. One of our chasers gave up the chase, took a right run on the wing and headed to the bench!
Spot on, I thought that Freo was line in the sand time so we're a few weeks overdue. If we don't show some fair dinkum fight this week the rumblings will be felt in Albury.
It is not our culture.
We are the kinder playgroup of the AFL.
After the game every body gets a gold star and hug before going home for some birdie num nums and to be tucked into bed!
There is more chance of us stopping the game for a risk assessment on a tackle than having a serious crack!
If any of our blokes look like amping it up they'd be booked into anger management Monday morning!
I'd be content if Bolton would work with the list he has. But he doesn't and his game plan isn't right for where our playing group is at. We need to get the basics right and develop some fighting spirit by playing tight, competitive one on one footy. As a young team we will still get beaten in the contests, but I'd rather see them go down fighting than running around confused, uninterested and playing soft football.
The only doubt I have, is this BB's game plan or is he under instruction from above?
If he is, what integrity does he have, if he is under instruction what integrity does our club have?
If he isn't under instruction, is that even worse?
Bolton is a different personality and has a different style to Malthouse, but seems similarly fixated on an inflexible game plan that doesn't work.
The game plan would work if he brought the Dawks list with him!
I'm far more impressed by coaches that work with and improve what they are given, than coaches who have a formulaic approach and renovate the environment/list to suit an existing plan!
That was MM's problem, he had one plan and needed the whole place turned on it's head to make it work! Even then it would have been a plan that all the opponents knew well, nothing innovative!
Dimma's success is a great example, his list hasn't changed much, but he changed even if it was just by getting himself and the other dud coaches out of the player's way!
