If Not BB, Who?

[Thryleon]

The club selected a rookie coach for the long term...in effect to grow and develop with the young players.
The experience is no doubt teaching Bolton some valuable lessons and as a result of that you would expect that his coaching will improve.

At the same time folks are quite entitled to look at the results and question the merits of both the coaching and development.
Maybe things are on the improve, but the results don't yet indicate that the course on which we've embarked will be successful in the long term.
The real goal is a sustained period of success.

We can't keep moving the goal posts....and keep saying "well maybe another year."
That would be acceptable if the number of wins and ladder position were improving each year....but they're heading in the other direction.

Individual player improvement is fine but unless it's across board and the individuals are also combining as a team it's pretty meaningless.

Results can turn quickly....no doubt.
But they can also stagnate, and the years in the wilderness can be long.

We need more than "little signs" just at the moment.
We need a period of a couple of games that indicate we've turned the corner, the players are developing and this bloke Bolton knows a thing or two about coaching.
Hopefully that starts this weekend.

The odds may not be stacked against Bolton but....
It's a fluctuating market and like it or not, like any market, it's governed by results

Actually lods, we have to maintain the status quo.

This is a bit like driving around Australia.  You can head east, or you can head west before it turns north.  Both will end up at the exact same destination eventually unless you keep changing direction.

That's the only way to ensure you never get anywhere.

Our club has continuously embarked on a plan only to abandon it before it could bear fruit.

This time we need to be bloody minded and continue our current methodology for the next ten years with minimal deviation.  Half the reason we can't attract a decent player is because the blokes who come to us end up finalizing their careers with us unless they jump ship.