Can we get a narrator with English as his first language...
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Can we get a narrator with English as his first language...
Is he tactically sound enough to be a successful assistant, though?
His inability to adjust is not a great endorsement. May have just been carried and made to look good by Clarkson's systems.
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I feel for him. He has to go but feel for him. Had the best interest of the club always. The next coach will hopefully get the benefit of the work he has done the last 3 years, and Bolton none of the judos
I can't reconcile that comment. I grant the structures and skills are poor at the moment. I do believe that to his own detriment, Bolton has coached to
develop players, albeit he has some favourites who receive more consideration than others. (fair to say most coaches guilty of this)
He has a list with a handful pf older players of whom very few are the right types to complement a young developing group. Murphy, Simpson and Thomas
are hardly the types to protect the youngsters. Kreuzer and Ed Curnow are the only developmental leaders in our top age group, with the exception of Lobbe who is no longer in the top 22 plans. Blokes like Levi an Jonesy need to concentrate on their own development . We are devoid of mature leaders. Never before has a club's short term future depended so much on one player's knee. Doc we need you....desperately.
I don't blame Silvagni and crew. The decent free agents and trade targets have resisted our overtures. We have been left with "scraps" to top up our
mature playing list. The catch cry of cutting too deep is crap. We didn't have the players to cut.
The perfect storm for Bolton, and he has been both committed and crazy for taking on the challenge. Situation no win. Then the bloody AFL change the rule
on runners so he has next to no contact with this ultra young group on game day.
No feeling sorry for anyone? A young coach with decent credentials has had his career all but ended. He will earn a living, get support gigs or lower level jobs, but his path to the top is cut. No chance of coming back like the former AFL players. He doesn't have the seniority for a Director of Coaching type role, although would be highly suited with his analytical and communication skills. I really feel sorry for him.
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Na in his role he would be great as an assistant. Not necessarily a line coach etc but a link between players and coaches role. No doubt the players loved playing for him, just couldn't cut it as a head coach.
Lucky for Bolton - he gets to leave!
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If Barker is interim coach I'm done
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Yeah, didn't end well for that North Korean translator!
I agree. Let’s all deluge the switchboard with complaints about Barker.
I agree. I think he's had a thankless task. He's done it the best he can. He's protected a lot of soft, lazy, lousy players. Maybe he's protected them too much, and he'll eat the bullets.
Clearly some sort of major shake up is needed. I'd love it to somehow include Bolton continuing and success following. But short of firing half the team, assassinating the president, etc... I don't know what else is a big enough shape up to get a different result than the head coach.
So frustrating that we are in this position again...when will this dark era ever end...starting to understand the term eco ;P
Could then explain Cripps game, against a second game player...
Poisoned chalice is the Carlton senior coaching role. And for those calling for Ratten’s return, that guy was burnt hard by the club he served - he’d be well within his right to laugh in their face if he was invited to interview for the gig.
Much overlooked contributor to our plight this year imo.
At the start of the season people were predicting this would affect young teams with less on-field leadership the most.
We have by far the worst senior on-field leadership in the competition.
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Had more than enough time to turn the ship around but in the end it will be his almost unbelievably bad W-L record that will rightly see him get the boot. Nothing else matters in this game.
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Delusional - and if this is why we are performing so poorly it is yet more evidence the coach hsa NFI
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A shit cook (our coaches) with good ingredients (our top end draft talent) doesn't make a good meal (a team that wins football games). There's not just 1 chef in the kitchen and clearly it's not just Bolton's fault. Happy enough for them to pull the trigger if we know he isnt the man for 2020 and beyond, maybe we play a bit freer and better once he goes and we get some sort of enjoyment out of the final half of the season rather than limp to another 1-2 wins
with a bit of luck, we would have 4-6 already
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Bolton there with his manager.
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Watch every team play, they love their forwards getting that high then running back. they try to score on the overlap
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