Carlton Supporters Club

I think people are starting to look critically at Bolton.

His slogans are wearing thin on some fans.

His matchday coaching tactics seem to come under fire and seems limited to swapping Rowe and weitering around,  and swapping Ed Curnow onto a different opponent to tag according to what I've heard/read from supporters.

I'm under no illusions.   Our club is in a bad situation where too much has been left to too few, and that's a work in progress but in a couple of years time we will need a new batch of kids, to fill in our current gaps, because our elder players who have a big say in how we go, will be replaced by our current kids.

If people are looking at success as a measure of Bolton he won't stack up in a few years.  Kruddler pointed it out.  We are five years off challenging properly unless we bring in a few free agents, or our kids and sub 24 year olds kick on and become solid afl performers quickly.

Seriously?
Have you watched us over the last 4 years?
We have been crape. And u expect Bolton to turn that around?
It's not about Bolton, Ratten or Malthouse.
The coach is one piece of a team.
We need to build a resilient hard working ruthless group, that can transform our players into something similar.
Our list will require another 8- 10 players.
As u said it will be 3-5 years before we could challenge.
So far so good but we are just starting a 5 to 7 year programme.
We will disagree on a few things along the way but expecting miracles early is just old school garbage

I agree and on the time frame...the question is will the faithful and the management of the club agree and stick fat for the long journey....one bad loss to Port and the natives seem to be restless.

Seriously?
Have you watched us over the last 4 years?
We have been crape. And u expect Bolton to turn that around?
It's not about Bolton, Ratten or Malthouse.
The coach is one piece of a team.
We need to build a resilient hard working ruthless group, that can transform our players into something similar.
Our list will require another 8- 10 players.
As u said it will be 3-5 years before we could challenge.
So far so good but we are just starting a 5 to 7 year programme.
We will disagree on a few things along the way but expecting miracles early is just old school garbage

Faaaarrrrk the natives.
That thinking put us in this mess.

Bolton v Clarkson first 27 games

Can't read it Jim .

Clarkson had one more win only than Bolton at the same stage....its a fair point Jim makes remembering Hawthorn were a basket case when Clarkson took over.
Saints record when Pelchen traded out everything was also poor....bottom, 4th bottom and bottom again, taken them a while to rebuild and move up the ladder.....one bad loss to Port and we are questioning the coach who we have to remember is also learning his craft and tactically etc is a novice...

True.

I've backed them in for bringing in the kids reasonably quickly and it will be interesting to see if they think they had a few too many kids in.

I've got no problem even if they think it was a mistake, it happens, there's no hard and fast rules . We have to know what the tipping point is.

My feeling is a few more mature bodies this week.

I watched On the couch and Healy bought up our list of inexperienced kids.
He said it may be dangerous bringing in too many at once.
Dunstall disagreed saying, just get games into them.
Effectively sink or swim.

Was interesting Monday night after Melbourne lost everyone on fox sympathied saying they were short a ruckman etc and Dunstall said they just need to find a way to win these games.

Faaaarrrrk the natives.
That thinking put us in this mess.