VFL 2017: Rd 5: Northern Blues vs Casey

[LP]

In my best John McEnroe voice I say..."You cannot be serious" 

Are you saying Bolts is in the same position as Buckley ?  Finals next year or he's gone ?

No, Buckley is gone this year if Collingwood miss the eight.

If it's not looking like we are top eight by late next season BB is also in a lot of trouble long term.

There is also world of difference between making the top eight and being serious finals contenders. For BB to confidently retain his job long term we need to be top eight and looking like a serious finals contenders well before 2020. No matter how much you think the club has changed, football isn't that patient. Clarkson was rescued by a miracle, BB will need something similar if our progress is too slow! It's just the way it is, and the coaches accept it.

Acos is 30 next month and Rowe is 30 in November... The point I'm trying to get across is Weitering will be / or should  be our star backman for the next 10 years .... he should be there now and we should be building it around him... He'd be walking taller with Acos next him instead of getting smashed in the forward line.

Those guys can easily play to mid 30s if they have the mindset, injury and physical conditioning is no longer the main issue.

Weitering should be playing next to them now, doing what he does best which is intercept marking like Marchbank and Docherty.

You don't have to displace the old guys for Weitering to be in defense, playing on guerrillas like Rowe and ACoS is not Weiterings gig, that makes the old guys very useful!

As I've stated many times before, you don't go forward by offloading guys who can get a game, it's the ones who can't get a game that are the problem! You want to write off a players who so far this season have stitched up Hogan, Franklin, Daniher, Moore, Jack Riewoldt. It was only really the GC game that Lynch got hold of our tall defenders, and the Port talls benefited from a rampant Port midfield.