So youve given the Coach 2 rnds and want him sacked? FMD!
No I don't think it is Bolton's fault- other than the playing of tractor at full forward which i believe IS his fault. No the issue is with the administration. It's all too easy to play at the blues. Good contracts, nice club facilities, a nice vet who will look after your sick puppy and a president who gives out housing portfolios. The simple fact about the weekend is we lost by 10 goals! Yes Sydney are a good side, but are they 10 goals better? 10 goals to me means we don't want the damn ball enough. Look at the way the bulldogs keep it inside their forward 50. They are manic. If you do that, you don't go down by 10 goals. It's a cultural thing. It's been all too easy there for too long. If you do have a bit of flair/nastiness- e.g Betts, Waite, Laider, Macinnies etc. Andrew and Co. find you guilty of being a crape human being and you get delisted. Well I think some of the worst human beings make good footballers. I would back , and I think this actually might happen, a board spill at round 15. Brown will come in and turn the club culture around. He will have to, because by then our crowds will be 8,000 max, they'll shut the 2nd and 3rd levels at the G on a cold Sunday arvo and will won't be able to get a pie, nor pay the bills at the club. Weltering will be offered a bit deal by the pies and Casboult will be on his way to Freo.
I saw some snippets of the game (the Telstra app is useless) and listened to a fair bit of the commentary.
The positives I took out of the game are: 1. Bolton refused to go defensive and didn't allow any of our players to have an easy time. He will have learnt more about who is capable from that game than he did in the last 6 months. 2. We didn't give up. Even though we were being smashed by a very good team, players tried their hardest right to the end.
We are terrible. We haven't improved at all under Bolts. We have a toxic losing culture that revolves around Andrew MacKay and other cronies. Heads should have rolled for the Betts trade decision- Andrew I'm sure had a lot to do with that. Why Waite is playing at another club, let alone doing so well is just Frickan SAD. We put 5 months into a pre-season campaign supposedly learning new things, but 2nd week in and the tractor is lining up at full forward. Yeah right. Get rid of the lot of them- board included.
I was at the game and we would have had another ten goal flogging if Rowe wasn't on the ground. He took five marks and had several decisive spoils, a couple against Buddy. Rowe's performance was considerably better than Jamison's and his grunt work allowed Weitering to zone off.
Bolton has made it perfectly clear that he won't talk about individual performances and he's said nothing about Rowe or other players. The fact that Rowe is our first choice CHB probably gives some idea of how Bolton and the other coaches rate him. Just accept that Rowe is getting a game and will continue to do so until we recruit or develop another couple of key defenders; Jamison will probably go before Rowe.
We are an awful football side. When we are getting enthusiastic about Jones etc. we are kidding ourselves. The truth is, we have NO forwards. If you don't have people who can kick goals when that is what the whole game is really all about, then we are a joke at best. How we haven't detected this issue over the past 5 years and tried to groom some people for this job, and I don't mean hacks, is beyond me. In fact we have done the opposite, traded them away. I'm not sold on Bolton either. Stop talking about 'oh we only used 90 rotations' etc. mate I don't care about rotations... teach them to kick the damn ball through the goal first.
I think Animal welfare is paramount to a moral human existence. That's why I am a vegetarian. I don't eat any meat, fish or Poultry because (a) I don't believe you need it, (b) any killing of animals- e.g abattoir etc. causes pain and is cruel in my opinion.
