Post Game Passion AFL Rd 10: Carlton vs St Kilda

[crashlander]

Bolton may be stubborn, but our players have no confidence and don't work hard enough. I can't say the same things every week for the other teams going around, not every week.

[JonHenry]

Bolton may be stubborn, but our players have no confidence and don't work hard enough. I can't say the same things every week for the other teams going around, not every week.

A real concern for me is our “younger” mids and their lack of possessions.
Everyone says they need time to build up their tank.
How is it that Walsh out works SPS, Fisher, Dow and Murphy every week?

[Lods]

Not sure if it's been mentioned but Cripps's first 15 -20 minutes were outstanding.
The guy looked like he was determined to drag the rest of them along with him to fulfil the promise of the players meeting.
Unfortunately after a good start they dropped off and he couldn't carry them any further,

[Micky0]

I don't give a toss whether it's the players or the coach's fault...it's unacceptable for all these blokes - players and coaches - to dish that rubbish up at this level.

ps I'm talking about the entire 22, not just the 3 key forwards.

X2.

Excuses are done. Is anyone watching our games and feeling positive, at alll? About any of them?

[flyboy77]

He doesn’t cope well with mid sized physical, quick opposition. Why the coach didn’t say, I don’t know, swap him with McGovern for a spell to see what would happen? McGovern was doing two shakes of f-all anyway. At least Weitering can take a mark and force the Saints to re-asses? Who knows. I’m just sick of it. Maybe Andy Maher was right about the word on the street that Bolton is a stubborn guy. I think inept is more apt.

MLG. Step up to the Plate. Call for an independent review, right now. State that all positions are under Review. Ideally, I’d love Bolton to be sacked now, to give some assistant 12 games to try his luck and also prove to would be coaches like Longmire, Roos, Scott that we can play. There is no point waiting any longer for Bolton to prove that he cannot get 4 quarters of effort out of a team and have them working as a unit, with a clear system. Ideally Roos - until Clarkson’s contract is up in 3 years and then we nab him. Bolton cannot seem to make logical decisions, promptly, on game day and plays his favourites. Please just walk the plank. Even if we beat Essendon next week, it just feels to me like holding back the inevitable at this point. At this point we are doing more damage to the brand than we are working on building success.

There is no point keeping Bolton past - tomorrow.

The players won't play for him - they were - as a Group - lazy again today. Lazy mentally and lazy physically....

After quarter time we seldom had equal numbers around the ball?

We only stayed close due to St Kilda's own ineptitude!

It really should have been 40+ at half time....

[Gointocarlton]

I don't give a toss whether it's the players or the coach's fault...it's unacceptable for all these blokes - players and coaches - to dish that rubbish up at this level.

ps I'm talking about the entire 22, not just the 3 key forwards.

No argument from me on that mate.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Not sure if it's been mentioned but Cripps's first 15 -20 minutes were outstanding.
The guy looked like he was determined to drag the rest of them along with him to fulfil the promise of the players meeting.
Unfortunately after a good start they dropped off and he couldn't carry them any further,

Cripps got off to a good start but I thought his opponent Steele was very good with 28 possies and 10 tackles and the Saints mids combined efforts
wore us down. Thought we failed again to help Cripps and the work load is wearing him down....Dow and Fisher were unsighted and Kennedy didnt have any real impact.

[Lods]

Cripps got off to a good start but I thought his opponent Steele was very good with 28 possies and 10 tackles and the Saints mids combined efforts
wore us down. Thought we failed again to help Cripps and the work load is wearing him down....Dow and Fisher were unsighted and Kennedy didnt have any real impact.

Yep Steele was good and kept Cripps honest for most of the day...I just thought Cripps efforts at the start were really good and showed that he at least was prepared to back up the talk with actions...but you don't expect anything less from him..

Funny moment...we had a visitor at one stage and Cripps had the ball lining up for a goal...She said "Is he the captain, he looks about 2", maybe he's still a baby faced assassin.
Maybe we should make him Captain Coach....(on second thoughts we probably don't want him to go into the Black Hole that is the Carlton coaching job).

[flyboy77]

Cripps got off to a good start but I thought his opponent Steele was very good with 28 possies and 10 tackles and the Saints mids combined efforts
wore us down. Thought we failed again to help Cripps and the work load is wearing him down....Dow and Fisher were unsighted and Kennedy didnt have any real impact.

Kennedy was good early - very good I thought - but faded...

Fisher has lost his mojo, Dow leaves me speechless (in a bad way) and Ed Curnow is treading water.

SOJ was ordinary too.

Gibbons did his job today (other than a few bad decisions)

[JonHenry]

Cripps got off to a good start but I thought his opponent Steele was very good with 28 possies and 10 tackles and the Saints mids combined efforts
wore us down. Thought we failed again to help Cripps and the work load is wearing him down....Dow and Fisher were unsighted and Kennedy didnt have any real impact.

It’s like there are 22 blokes all playing their own game, but they just happen to wear the same jumper.
Zero cohesion or team work.
No shepherding or blocks.
Everyone just trying to get a kick away before getting tackled