07-13-2019, 10:57 AM
(04-07-2019, 04:03 AM)jeza link Wrote:I feel like I have literally watched a replay of every time we've lost to the Swans for the last 10 years.
Our mids refuse to man up for the entire match. Zone / 10-15m away from their opponents and the Swans just chip the ball through us all day.
It was one of the most disappointing matches I think I've ever watched and I include 90+ point hammerings in that. It's like we have no understanding of the most basic elements required to win a game of football. If you're sitting there on the coaching panel watching the way the Swans very simply chipped their way through our team over and over and over and did nothing to stop it - what are you doing there.
Forget talent/age - this has nothing to do with that - it's just effort. If the coaches instruction is to run that extra 10m to shut down the only option the Swans ball carrier has and the player doesn't follow that instruction then the coach should be dragging you and send you to the VFL the next week and finding someone else to do it.
My suspicion is our coaching performance was seriously sub-par. I have practically never criticised Bolton but this game was winnable and I don't know if Bolton knows how to extract the performance required to win a game any more.
The above were my comments from after the Rd 3 Sydney match.
I reckon this has pretty much proven out now.
Bolton simply lost any ability he had as a match day coach to pull the right moves OR extract a consistent level of effort from the players.
Lovely bloke but I remember that round 3 game as the one where I started to draw the conclusion on Bolton.