Rd 18: Post Game Pandemonium: Carlton vs Brisbane

[shawny]

Thought our kids did as well or better then expected.

BUT apart from Kruezer who tries his ar5e off for 120 mins, Gibbs, Simmo, Daisy, and even Murphy had little to no effect when the game was on the line in the first half.  Murphy and Simmo got going after the half time and tried to lift us but the damage was done by then.

Gibbs 8 touches  : along with Thomas gave our kids nothing for 4 quarters. Been good this year but today was terrible. On the flip side there leaders in Zorko and Beams were match winners. 

Put simply, our current list we will only win games of footy when our senior players impact the game. Its as simply as that.

Geez we miss Crippa.

[LoveNavy]

So, so reminiscent of previous outings at the Gabba - what's with that?
We simply do not appear to be in the zone in first halves ???

Except for the following green shoots (and I have searched high & low).

Harry - well done son. Clunked some lovely marks and got a few shots in.
Williamson - sensational return from injury.
Charlie - blinder. RS stocks just went up.
SOJ - well done under the varied structure. Some nice SOS defensive marks.
Zac  - terrier like again.
Cunningham- great in patches, need to work on consistency.
Samo - good effort against seasoned snipper opponents.
McCreadie, Docherty, and Plowman - solid but suffered the lack of organization. Weiters 2nd yr blues?
Jonesy - my guess, game high 1%ers again. Wright - solid, but missed a sitter. Daisy a pass, just.
And folks, there lies our future. IMO The rest were passengers relative to their experience and $.

If Zorko doesn't get rubbed out, this gig is a comedy show.
If we don't get a pp, see above.

[Vivian]

Any style will get flogged when there is a lack of hard work to lead combined with truly awful kicking. We had shockers, but kerridge, Graeme, fisher are just poor kicks.  Terrible leadership. Our back line fell apart with docherty in the middle.  Without Rowe or silvagni in defence we are a rabble that don't know what to do or can only hold a basic function like Jones.

Troubling that our end of year sort out has kicked in so soon. A deplorable performance against the bottom side.

Concerned about curnows set shots. He hooks it savagely and is going to miss a lot if he keeps it up.

On the positive side, McKay did some good things. And I do always like the Gabba's multi coloured seats. Offers a pleasing range of hues in the evening and makes the crowd look larger than it mostly is.

[pinot]

Alastair Clarkson won 14 games in his first two years

Bolton so far has won 12 may end up with 14 wins with a worse list.

I expect 10-12 wins next year.. this was always a development year and have a chance of getting 1-2 more rising star nominations.

But we need depth when we lose players like Curnow and Cripps...

[shawny]

Helps when Bolton allows the oppositions best players to run around unmanned.....game plan wasnt the issue it was the basic fundamentals that were missing in our game.
The game plan has been unmasked for a while...and there is no plan B...

While I agree leaving Zorko do what he pleased was madness having your best player this year gets his first kick half way thru the 3rd quarter (Gibbs) and your other so called leaders in Murphy, Simmo and Thomas do SFA until the game was shot was IMO more the reason we lost then one dimensional game plan.

[LoveNavy]

Gee, just like old times in the media. Lions win cellar-dweller. That just hurts.

[blue4life]

It's been said but young and inexperienced sides won't win many games unless the senior players stand up and today ours didn't, except maybe Kreuzer.
Murphy plugged away and Docherty got going a bit in the second half but Simpson, Thomas and Gibbs had days they'd rather forget, Simpson was responsible for probably the two worst turnovers of the day.
McKay showed enough, Silvagni doesn't look comfortable in defence, Petrevski-Seton, Fisher, Cunningham, Williamson and Macredie were all ok.
Charlie Curnow was about our best, he's a seriously good player.
No use crying about it, reload for next week and keep faith in our youngsters.

[PaulP]

Alastair Clarkson won 14 games in his first two years

Bolton so far has won 12 may end up with 14 wins with a worse list.

I expect 10-12 wins next year.. this was always a development year and have a chance of getting 1-2 more rising star nominations.

But we need depth when we lose players like Curnow and Cripps...

This is true, but he won 5 games in 05, then 9 in 06. We won 7 last year, and we won't reach that this year - Geelong, Ess, West Coast, Hawks, Swans left to play. We may end up with the spoon.

[Baggers]

Alastair Clarkson won 14 games in his first two years

Bolton so far has won 12 may end up with 14 wins with a worse list.

I expect 10-12 wins next year.. this was always a development year and have a chance of getting 1-2 more rising star nominations.

But we need depth when we lose players like Curnow and Cripps...

I guess that because BB comes from the Clarkson camp that comparisons are inevitable... but if they are we should note that Clarkson coached 5 wins in his first season and 9 in his second (including winning their last 4 games). A year later they were a contender and a year after that they won a premiership. The BB graph looks nothing like Clarkson's first two seasons.

[IvanAwfulbigone]

Didn't see the game but from what I can gather:

- we were outcoached?
- we weren't 'switched on' at the start of an interstate game?
- our leaders went MIA when we needed them most?
- we failed to kick more than 100 points?
- we're now a chance for the wooden spoon?

You shut up.