JLT Game 2

[jeza]

If Jaksch worth a crack in front of Simon White I'd be amazed.

Jaksch can at least kick.

Bolton clearly hates his guts with a passion.

[LP]

If Jaksch worth a crack in front of Simon White I'd be amazed.

Jaksch can at least kick.

Bolton clearly hates his guts with a passion.

Not as much me thinks as you hate White!  ???

What did he do to you, punch you in the nose at a nightclub? :o

[thrunthrublu]

If this circus act doesn't improve, more people will turnout for the womens game than the mens
Perhaps obamas unisex changeroom laws adopted here, ironically might uncover who should be playing where.
Fuck, i prepared myself last year as year 1 out of rock bottom.
I know its pre season, but i dont like what i see as a collective so far

[ElwoodBlues1]

If Jaksch worth a crack in front of Simon White I'd be amazed.

Jaksch can at least kick.

Bolton clearly hates his guts with a passion.

Tend to agree...Jaksch could kick 14 and I doubt Bolton would be that interested....I'd be trying him down forward given he kicks straight..
Watched Rowe get the ball 40m out and instead of going back and kicking the goal he kicked a lollypop pass to Charlie Curnow I think it was and missed him by a mile....
I'd be trying every combo I could to get some system down forward...

[kruddler]

Last season Parkin said Carlton had the worst list in the AFL, a lot of us pasted him for saying that, treated him like a senile old bastard.

But he's laughing now!

I'm not sure what any coach could do, or how to fix that problem. But having a sh1t list doesn't help a beginner coach, and previously having an experienced coach didn't help the list at all!

The list has been half the problem. Wrong culture in it.
Ratts started it with Fev (too little too late to some extent)
Mick ditched at least 1/3 if not 1/2 the list in his time there.
Bolts had a big cleanout on top of that with 15 going.

No one coach is to blame, its been a big issue for over a decade.

What you do to fix it, is continue to do what we've been doing, weed out the problem.

Start with a couple of #1 picks.

If Adelaide come back to the table with an improved offer, goodbye Gibbs.
Shop Murphy around and take whatever you can get towards young talent either picks or young kids.

[kruddler]

Didn't Richo leave because MM arrived as Senior Coach? He had a good run with Hinkley at Port afterwards.

Richo wanted to learn the trade in the hope of getting a senior gig. I think he'd already worked under Mick previously, so there wasn't a whole lot for him to learn from staying.

[Peter Brady]

All those posters saying we have half a team in today and using that as an excuse are absolutely delusional.

I'm not at all critical of the kids. It's our senior players out there today that are simply bloody awful. Their skills are deplorable! Well below local footy standard which is a bloody joke. Missing target from 20 metres more often then they hit them.

I'm no coach but Why the heck do we waste a spot on our list with these players that will never amount to anything!! 
Jones
Thomas
White
Kerridge
Graham
Armfield
Lamb
Smedts
Boekhurst
Buckley
Palmer

Farewell games

[BluePhantom]

I Love my club....I Love my club....I Love my club....I Love my club....I Love my club.... :-\

[John Corey]

I'm under no illusions as to where our Club is it. And I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we got the wooden spoon this year. But honestly I thought we looked like an U18 team today. Not just the abysmal skill set, but the physical stature of players. We have so many guys out there that look like that kid that hands me my Quarter Pounder through the drive thru window.

Gonna be a long and frustrating year. And if you don't convince yourself that there is a plan in place and you need to trust the process, then you will end up in a mental home.

[PaulP]

I'm under no illusions as to where our Club is it. And I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we got the wooden spoon this year. But honestly I thought we looked like an U18 team today. Not just the abysmal skill set, but the physical stature of players. We have so many guys out there that look like that kid that hands me my Quarter Pounder through the drive thru window.

Gonna be a long and frustrating year. And if you don't convince yourself that there is a plan in place and you need to trust the process, then you will end up in a mental home.

Most of us are already there.

No Simmo, Doc, Murph, Gibbs, Krooz. Today is a good reason why you don't play too many kids at once. Bolts stated in the after match comments :

"There's some young kids who couldn't hold on for more than a quarter and a half today, but we'll challenge them to do that.

"For them to get better, we need to expose them to develop them. Within that, we will challenge (the things) they need to improve on."