When Is The Honeymoon Period Over?

[laj]

Bolton v Clarkson first 27 games

[flyboy77]

hard to stop the blow outs when the midfield is lead by Murph, Gibbs and an (injured?) Cripps?

Murph and Gibbs have never been good defensively.

That said, defence, is a team effort....it went missing badly Friday night and in Q3 against the Coast.

[bratblue]

Definitely over when the first child came along....

[flyboy77]

Definitely over when the first child came along....

2E had problems the year his kid was born, but bounced strongly.

Pity Bryce;s bounce will be playing along side Eddie and Sauce....

[Gointocarlton]

Free agents are different to messiahs ie Fyfe, Martin etc.......we dont need messiahs and we dont need to over do free agents at this stage......Saints have gone low key and with the exception of Carlisle have limited their free agents/imports to cheap kids on the rise ie Hickey, Steele, Weller, Bruce, Stevens, Roberton etc...
We are only 1 year and 5 games into a rebuild, why would you be chasing big names at this stage?....unless you were panicked by bottom finishes....

Agree EB, get the right young talent in, build, develop and things will turn and become a club of choice. Target two younger guns say instead of 1 Fyfe or Dusty type messiah.

[Thryleon]

I think people are starting to look critically at Bolton.

His slogans are wearing thin on some fans.

His matchday coaching tactics seem to come under fire and seems limited to swapping Rowe and weitering around,  and swapping Ed Curnow onto a different opponent to tag according to what I've heard/read from supporters.

I'm under no illusions.  Our club is in a bad situation where too much has been left to too few, and that's a work in progress but in a couple of years time we will need a new batch of kids, to fill in our current gaps, because our elder players who have a big say in how we go, will be replaced by our current kids.

If people are looking at success as a measure of Bolton he won't stack up in a few years.  Kruddler pointed it out.  We are five years off challenging properly unless we bring in a few free agents, or our kids and sub 24 year olds kick on and become solid afl performers quickly.

[JonHenry]

I think people are starting to look critically at Bolton.

His slogans are wearing thin on some fans.

His matchday coaching tactics seem to come under fire and seems limited to swapping Rowe and weitering around,  and swapping Ed Curnow onto a different opponent to tag according to what I've heard/read from supporters.

I'm under no illusions.  Our club is in a bad situation where too much has been left to too few, and that's a work in progress but in a couple of years time we will need a new batch of kids, to fill in our current gaps, because our elder players who have a big say in how we go, will be replaced by our current kids.

If people are looking at success as a measure of Bolton he won't stack up in a few years.  Kruddler pointed it out.  We are five years off challenging properly unless we bring in a few free agents, or our kids and sub 24 year olds kick on and become solid afl performers quickly.

Seriously?
Have you watched us over the last 4 years?
We have been shite. And u expect Bolton to turn that around?
It's not about Bolton, Ratten or Malthouse.
The coach is one piece of a team.
We need to build a resilient hard working ruthless group, that can transform our players into something similar.
Our list will require another 8- 10 players.
As u said it will be 3-5 years before we could challenge.
So far so good but we are just starting a 5 to 7 year programme.
We will disagree on a few things along the way but expecting miracles early is just old school garbage

[ElwoodBlues1]

Seriously?
Have you watched us over the last 4 years?
We have been crape. And u expect Bolton to turn that around?
It's not about Bolton, Ratten or Malthouse.
The coach is one piece of a team.
We need to build a resilient hard working ruthless group, that can transform our players into something similar.
Our list will require another 8- 10 players.
As u said it will be 3-5 years before we could challenge.
So far so good but we are just starting a 5 to 7 year programme.
We will disagree on a few things along the way but expecting miracles early is just old school garbage

I agree and on the time frame...the question is will the faithful and the management of the club agree and stick fat for the long journey....one bad loss to Port and the natives seem to be restless.

[JonHenry]

I agree and on the time frame...the question is will the faithful and the management of the club agree and stick fat for the long journey....one bad loss to Port and the natives seem to be restless.

Faaaarrrrk the natives.
That thinking put us in this mess.

[Thryleon]

Seriously?
Have you watched us over the last 4 years?
We have been crape. And u expect Bolton to turn that around?
It's not about Bolton, Ratten or Malthouse.
The coach is one piece of a team.
We need to build a resilient hard working ruthless group, that can transform our players into something similar.
Our list will require another 8- 10 players.
As u said it will be 3-5 years before we could challenge.
So far so good but we are just starting a 5 to 7 year programme.
We will disagree on a few things along the way but expecting miracles early is just old school garbage

Your misunderstanding of my post is so enormous Im not even going to try and clarify things with anything but the following.

That post isn't about what I expect from Bolton and I have no idea where you extrapolated that point from.

Read the post properly.