09-01-2020, 01:54 AM
Yep. In the case of Kerr we did a "anything else must be something better". Not anything else has kicked 3 goals vs Geelong in an otherwise poor team performance.
Kerr was probably turned off for a variety of reasons. There is a variety of reasons why the move from Bolton to Teague occurred, and IMHO getting the lesser lights to buy in was one of them.
The more time goes on the more it looks as though some guys just didn't want to play for him as a senior coach and that the overall environment was lacking something from that perspective. This is not necessarily a knock on Bolton either, the players are responsible for this too. Where it starts to get hazy for me, is where we have blokes who came into our club from other environments, seemed to be a mix of honest triers, some that actually were talented and could play footy and for some reason never gained traction and a consistent run at it with us, when we were parked on the bottom of the ladder playing kids.
The approach seems very different this year. Not overloaded with kids (sure some of them are the same ones that have done some growing up over the past 2-4 years to become what they are today) but some of the others are still becoming what i would call a 24/7 footballer and a reliable performer for 4 quarters at a time.
That is down to our environment, and not necessarily the senior coaches fault, but he is the bloke responsible for managing the environment. We as fans are partly to blame for that. We kept asking for the kids to get game time to make them get good faster not really knowing what is best for each player.
Kerr was probably turned off for a variety of reasons. There is a variety of reasons why the move from Bolton to Teague occurred, and IMHO getting the lesser lights to buy in was one of them.
The more time goes on the more it looks as though some guys just didn't want to play for him as a senior coach and that the overall environment was lacking something from that perspective. This is not necessarily a knock on Bolton either, the players are responsible for this too. Where it starts to get hazy for me, is where we have blokes who came into our club from other environments, seemed to be a mix of honest triers, some that actually were talented and could play footy and for some reason never gained traction and a consistent run at it with us, when we were parked on the bottom of the ladder playing kids.
The approach seems very different this year. Not overloaded with kids (sure some of them are the same ones that have done some growing up over the past 2-4 years to become what they are today) but some of the others are still becoming what i would call a 24/7 footballer and a reliable performer for 4 quarters at a time.
That is down to our environment, and not necessarily the senior coaches fault, but he is the bloke responsible for managing the environment. We as fans are partly to blame for that. We kept asking for the kids to get game time to make them get good faster not really knowing what is best for each player.
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