05-07-2019, 06:25 AM
Reference to Shawny comment earlier about footskills. I made a similar post a few weeks ago after some dreadful turnovers and asked the question, do we have even one bloke on our list with what you would call "elite foot skills"? I think the answer to that is obvious....NONE! I find it staggering that we can identify midfielders and draft them with very high picks while acknowledging that they're not "elite" with their disposal....yet! Dow at pick 3 and O'Brien at pick 10 regularly butcher the footy.
I've also raised this point in posts last year as well and earlier this year and question whether Bolton is the coach to take this young group forward? Clubs like Geelong etc seem to be able to bring young kids into the side and develop them quickly. Would someone like Marchbank or SPS still be floundering in their 3rd and 4th years?
As for Plowman, the guy is a spud with terrible decision making and poor skills by foot on a regular basis. Unfortunately with Newman and Simpson out, he gets a game by default. I doubt Stocker and Williamson would've both played had one of Simpson and Newman been available.
No disrespect to North as they came ready to play obviously but they were bottom of the ladder and were copping a lot of heat in the media. You don't need to be Einstein to work out that they were going to come out ferocious in that first quarter and surely a coaching panel would've had our players fired up and ready for it? Yet we didn't fire a shot and the game was over. It was one of those Carlton results where 10 minutes into the first quarter you just knew we were going to get flogged....and all the reasonably good work of the first 6 weeks goes out the window. And over the last few years there's just been far too many of "those" games.
A 100 point demolition from Collingwood this week is on the cards and if that happens, it's hard to see how Bolton can keep his job. It's hard to make a case for him given we've gone backwards in the last two years.
I've also raised this point in posts last year as well and earlier this year and question whether Bolton is the coach to take this young group forward? Clubs like Geelong etc seem to be able to bring young kids into the side and develop them quickly. Would someone like Marchbank or SPS still be floundering in their 3rd and 4th years?
As for Plowman, the guy is a spud with terrible decision making and poor skills by foot on a regular basis. Unfortunately with Newman and Simpson out, he gets a game by default. I doubt Stocker and Williamson would've both played had one of Simpson and Newman been available.
No disrespect to North as they came ready to play obviously but they were bottom of the ladder and were copping a lot of heat in the media. You don't need to be Einstein to work out that they were going to come out ferocious in that first quarter and surely a coaching panel would've had our players fired up and ready for it? Yet we didn't fire a shot and the game was over. It was one of those Carlton results where 10 minutes into the first quarter you just knew we were going to get flogged....and all the reasonably good work of the first 6 weeks goes out the window. And over the last few years there's just been far too many of "those" games.
A 100 point demolition from Collingwood this week is on the cards and if that happens, it's hard to see how Bolton can keep his job. It's hard to make a case for him given we've gone backwards in the last two years.