If we finish bottom 3 next year I will delete my account.
Bookmarked.
Its pretty naïve if you cant see the club is rightfully playing down expectations intentionally.
What the hell?
Playing down expectations?
You think
thats what they're doing with this whole 'green shoots' and 'the journey' and 'sticking to the road map' and 'restting the list' jargon?
You are also kidding yourself if the club and coach Brendan 'we are a club in a hurry' Bolton are putting a celling on what we can achieve. No one is saying we will peak in 2018, but the club will definitely be aiming for finals, I just wont be holding my breath waiting for them to announce it like Malifice will be.
Its year three of a three year reset next year... and you think we are aiming for finals in it?
Hillarious.
As far as our offence goes, along with the rest of the side, it is improving. We have scored over 95 points twice this year, we only achieved that 3 times for the whole year last year
Dude
what? Our forward line is (clearly, by ANY metric) the worst in the competion. Worse than Brisbanes even. Our leading goalscorers the past 2 years were Matty Wright with 20 odd and Andrejis Everitt with 30.
You reckon that's going to suddenly and miraculously change next year and morph into a forward line capable of getting the 12 wins to get us into finals?
We've had next to zero injuries this year (thank God) barring Rowe who (luckily for us) is in a postiion we have coverage for with a glut of tall defenders and an astute rookie pick in ASOS last year. Next year, we likely loose Gibbs and possibly Simpson and maybe Kruezer and/or Casbout, and pick up even more 18 year olds, and suddenly we are going to find a functioning forward line, an improved midfield and the scoring power needed to turn 3-5 wins into 12?
READ THE ROOM. The coach, president and CEO have been crystal clear that this is a
total list reset. We are 18 months into it. And only barely starting to enter the development stags of pumping games into the kids while the grown ups are still on the list. We still have two big drafts to come this year and next before the reset is offically over.
I love your optimism but watch non Carlton games football man, and leard to read what Bolton and the rest are saying (he says it often enough). We are miles off at present, and will be for another 2-3 years yet.