04-12-2018, 01:16 AM
(04-12-2018, 12:36 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Agree...Youth also gives you an excuse if you lose, its easier to sell failure to the poor huddled masses and blame inexperience rather than anything
wrong from the coaches box.
Lets face it we are back to square one shuffling deck chairs on the titanic, the rebuild has hit an iceberg as our senior playing group are not good enough to carry the juniors while they develop and one of the worries when you rebuild is you hope other teams dont improve at the same rate as you but that hasnt been the case. There are no easy games and other teams who we thought we should beat have actually improved more than we thought, teams that should have collapsed into a screaming heap after cycles of success like Hawthorn, Swans etc refuse to die and bottom out.
We have no choice but to continue with youth but it isnt going to be pretty watching and unless Bolton can improve his coaching and planning on game day to make up for our deficiencies its going to be a long couple of seasons ahead with no guarantees..
Yep. I think there may be a good case to bring in an old proven tough and canny warhorse or maybe two, if any are available, as the Lions have done with Hodge. I'll be very interested to see how that works out for them this year. As you say I don't think we have many, if any, of his calibre,
Reality always wins in the end.