Give Harry a go

[kruddler]

I apologise wholeheartedly.

You were right,  Bolton is showing his limitations as match selector and potentially outcoached himself in both games.

I'm notching it Two games that selection has cost us more than anything.

You are one of the few who have had the balls to apologise and admit they were being harsh on me for suggesting it.

Said the same thing re team selection costing us games.
Not sure what he is trying to achieve, or if there is some hidden punishment being exercised that we don't know about, but makes no sense otherwise.

[crashlander]

I do agree with you. Our team selections have not been good enough. Going into a game against a top ruckman (my God, I am frightened to write that: had Witts stayed at Collingwood he would still be a dud!) with only Casoult as a rucking option is a terrible mistake. It set us up to fail. Then our team balance hasn't been there.
Much work required in this area.
You are also correct: Bolts was seriously out-coached today. Dew's plans succeeded, while ours struggled.
Mind you, some of the non-decisions didn't help from the Umps, but if we had wanted the ball as much as they did, the umpiring would have been much less of an influence.

[crashlander]

In many ways it was probably a good thing that H wasn't out there today. He would be tarred with a brush not of his own making, as our lack of intensity was clear. However, he would have taken some of those marks in the forward line to actually make out forward entries be worthwhile.

[laj]

Bolton said that Harry will come into the side if the Tractor can’t play.

Then he didn't....grrrrr!

What the hell were they thinking.

[LP]

Then he didn't....grrrrr!

What the hell were they thinking.

There are fairies at he bottom of the garden too!

It was all smoke and mirrors, but I don't know who was smoking what!

I suspect we have quite a few more injury concerns than are not being admitted, which will ultimately come back to bite BB on the ar5e!

[cookie2]

Talking of injuries, I don't think Wright was 100% either from the way he was moving.

[Jack Burton]

Agree, didn't look right (pardon the pun)

[ElwoodBlues1]

You are one of the few who have had the balls to apologise and admit they were being harsh on me for suggesting it.

Said the same thing re team selection costing us games.
Not sure what he is trying to achieve, or if there is some hidden punishment being exercised that we don't know about, but makes no sense otherwise.

I would apologise but I agreed with you.......

[DJC]

I do agree with you. Our team selections have not been good enough. Going into a game against a top ruckman (my God, I am frightened to write that: had Witts stayed at Collingwood he would still be a dud!) with only Casoult as a rucking option is a terrible mistake. It set us up to fail. Then our team balance hasn't been there.
Much work required in this area.
You are also correct: Bolts was seriously out-coached today. Dew's plans succeeded, while ours struggled.
Mind you, some of the non-decisions didn't help from the Umps, but if we had wanted the ball as much as they did, the umpiring would have been much less of an influence.

The thing is that we didn’t have any other options;  Lobbe is injured, Flip has played half a game, Harry may have been an option but only if there was no-one else and De Koning, while named as an emergency, is a long way off.

I thought that Casboult and Jones both gave good contests in the ruck, and we won the clearances, so Witts’ dominance in hitouts didn’t really amount to much.

I’d prefer to see Harry honing his key forward craft in the NBs rather than being thrown to the wolves as an underweight, inexperienced ruckman.

[flyboy77]

HooraY, so we played Polson (a kid who struggles in the maggos).

Stroke of genius by Bolts.

Quite frankly, footy players aren't known for their IQs, most Coaches and supports are ex footy players?

Do the maths.