Autopsy Blues smashed by Giants. No sugar coating this one.

[F_therest]

The cupboard is bare, untried kids and injured players are all we have left. It hurts to lose like this, not a lot can be changed in the way of personnel.

Hope the club ignores the media vultures, they will be out in force after today.

If you didn’t see this coming, you weren’t looking.

Kennedy, Lang & Cunners need to be brought in next week for Murphy, Setterfield and Dow/LOB.
Need more senior bodies in there, the young mids looked tired.

 

[bigm386]

JSOS, McKay and Newman were good. Walsh ok and Weiters ok. Rest can be dropped

 

[Stig O'Hara]

10 scoring shots.....

I dunno, big Mummy runs through Murph, illegal or not, and the kids are looking sideways.

Cripps flew the flag, but gawd, the few big guys have to physically impose themselves.

Some wouldn’t run, some wouldn’t chase, some couldn’t kick.

I dunno....

 

[Blubagger71]

I'm lost for words. Feel forlorn. We don't even look like we are at the level. Flicking between this and Hawthorn/Richmond and we just don't cut it. I get we are young. Just don't know what to say or think. I thought we were going in the right direction after the first month. Might cash in membership for an NBA league pass for next year except 10 years is close.

 

[JohnnyFontane90]

Young midfield got smashed...not enough experience and mature bodies in there. Looked tired from the outset.

We had 7 mids in their first 3 years of AFL today...Walsh, Gibbons, Dow, LOB, Setterfield, SPS & Fisher. Then Murphy got injured as well.
They don't have the running power to keep up with mature teams.

Newman, McKay, JSOS & McGovern our best imo. Not much else.

except they did last week.

the major difference this week though is cripps got tagged. and everyone in australia knew it would happen and bolton did nothing about it.

 

[KnaveyBlue]

Oddly, the thing that irritated me most out of this loss was the free kick against Thomas to DeBoer.

Scragging Cripps from the opening bounce, then gets rewarded with a ridiculous free the second he gets some of his own back. Really hate seeing taggers looked after in that manner.

 

[tarczonandjane]

I gave up 25 mins into the first quarter. I outlasted the players by about 22 minutes.

 

[Osc1]

SOS’ timeframe for the full rebuild doesn’t give Bolton a chance to achieve the success rate required to stay on. We will be a very good side but not for a while.

 

[David Sylvian]

Felt worse after the nth melb loss. may need to write an introspective, ambient tune to drown out the sakc bolton crowd.

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

I like Bolts

Unfortunately liking someone doesn’t win games of footy

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

Going to be a good press conference

Why don't you tape it so you can re watch it.

 

[therubbernub]

7 goals to 5 after half time- not bad! LOL

 

[__Bobcat__]

Mumford is the biggest sniper to ever play the game

Whom did hey snipe, didn't see him King hit or Snipe anyone, just goes in Hard for the ball.
All 110 kgs of him.

 

[HBF]

In: Plowman, Simpson, Cuningham, Jones
Out: Macreadie, O'Brien, Gibbons, Casboult

All those changes make up significantly better.

 

[Blubagger71]

Time for a Bex and a lie down. That's what my Nanna always said.

 

[HBF]

SOS’ timeframe for the full rebuild doesn’t give Bolton a chance to achieve the success rate required to stay on. We will be a very good side but not for a while.

Towards the end of next year hopefully. We came up against a very very good team today.

 

[Michael Jezz]

To the players - soft
To Bolton- coach.

You have to react in the moment before the dam breaks when you coach. Silvagni and e curnow should have been on the ball 15 mins into 1st qtr. Stop teaching and theorising on match days and go into battle mode and a small tip (Play Kennedy)

 

[MITSUHIRATO]

Ummmm ... I’m starting to think taking O’Brien over Ed Richards was a bad call.

 

[passmark]

The media team couldn’t even be bothered with a little line in the press release.

 

[HBF]

Kennedy has to play next week.

 

[F_therest]

except they did last week.

the major difference this week though is cripps got tagged. and everyone in australia knew it would happen and bolton did nothing about it.

They can't do it every week.

 

[PP34]

I joked to my mates last night we’d get belted by 100. Didn’t actually expect it to happen.

Thought we’d lose somewhere in the 20-40 point range.

Didn’t expect a complete joke of a performance like that. 476 disposals to 288. 324 uncontested possessions to 157. 57 tackles to 44 and that flatters us because we were awful in that area early on. Just indicates a complete lack of effort. They ran hard, made repeat efforts and went in hard. We did the complete opposite.

Who is to blame? I don’t know.

But if anyone acts like this was part of the plan to still be putting up rubbish performances like this four years into a rebuild then they’re kidding themselves.

We have a list with awful depth, kids still developing and big holes that leave us at a disadvantage every week.

It is not good enough. Wins matter and always have. We are crying out for some mature players who can play. They see rubbish like today and you think they’re going to want to come to us?

We are currently witnessing a footballing tragedy with Patrick Cripps. A superstar player being horribly wasted at an awfully bad footy club.

 

[El Topo]

Young team with injuries, GWS on the rebound at home with key players back in - not to be 'that guy', but this loss should have been expected.

That being said, we need to start winning the winnable ones. It needs to begin next week.

 

[ferrisb]

They shut down Cripps and the team collapsed. Blueprint for every other team, surely.

Granted Cripps is good enough to work his way through it most weeks, but we simply need more contributors and 'firestarters' to put the game on our terms each week.

 

[smashbox gill]

JSOS is the heart and sole of this footy club. Anyone who questions his place in the team doesn’t know what he brings. His desire and love for the club is what you want in a teammate ate. I couldn’t give a F*^* if he’s not the most athletic, he will give his all every week. Bleeds Blue!