A New Game plan

[kruddler]

In among the discussion of his increase in height the other day Patrick Cripps had this to say...

So what will be the new approach.
You would think there would be a strong Hawthorn influence but...
This is an opportunity for Bolton to put some of his own strategies into practice.

In very simplistic terms...rightly or wrongly...One of the criticisms of both Pagan and Malthouse was that they tried to make the players adapt and play to 'their' game plan, rather than choose a game plan that suited the skills and abilities of the list at the time.

Ratten seemed to adopt a different approach in that his strategy seemed to be to let the list play to their strengths...The criticism of that was that such a plan didn't stand up under certain circumstances...particularly finals pressure. ("that type of football will never win you a flag was a constant theme")

So it's over to Bolton...

How will he approach it?
How will our significant list changes impact on those strategies.

The problem is Lods, when you have a group of kids who are only learning the game. How do we build a game plan around kids when we don't know how they play?!

As mentioned elsewhere though, it will be team focussed, you can guarantee that much. Although Micks gameplan was said to be similar in that regard, 'play your role...whatever that may be'...i think Bolton will be even more specific in his needs. Think Clarkos cluster (18 players working as 1). Don't do your job and it stands out immediately.

I just hope our boys have the dedication to follow it through. Getting rid of the 3 blokes we did will help (Yazz, Menzel + Hendo).