04-28-2019, 08:31 AM
(04-28-2019, 08:16 AM)PaulP link Wrote:That's crazy. You have Docherty, Walls, Bolton, Teague, Barker, various analysts, statisticians etc., all watching the game, and you don't think that between that cast of thousands, one of them might see what the experts on here can see ? Do you think, maybe, just maybe, that whatever changes are made or not made, there may be some reasoning behind it ? That they may know a little more about the state of play than you or me ?
But no, by all means, sack the coach.
The buck stops with Bolton. And I know from personal knowledge, that he's as stubborn as they come, and believes that he has a game plan which will ultimately win every game.
Problem is, he and his plan, are to frigging complicated.
He's a school teacher by trade, but thinks he's talking to Doctors of Philosophy, who probably wouldn't understand him either.
He's talking to young blokes. Keep it simple.
Make changes when necessary. Don't let Omeara get a record number of possy's before you finally tag him.
Make sure they come out firing for the third quarter.
I posted here a few weeks ago, that for all the above reasons, he's a hack as a coach.
But for me, the ULTIMATE reason was that first round against Richmond this year.
86,000 people. The boys are supposedly fitter than ever, and frankly, that last quarter today with three men down proved that Russel has got them very fit.
They had been chomping at the bit to play.
And you, Brendan Bolton, our head coach, couldn't get them wound up enough to come out and make a at least a contest of the first quarter against Richmond.
So what did we get, as a result of your failure to fire them up, 5 goals to ZERO.
Five goals to three would have been acceptable, and who knows, maybe a win would have resulted.
I frankly don't know who we can get, but anyone with half a football brain has got to be better than him.