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Sometimes you put up walls not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to tear them down.
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- Apr 21, 2018
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Why axe ? It’s been ticked off by the club . He won’t meddle . It’s voluntary. He might be fantastic in his small role .
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It would seem the negative posts about Walls are being made on the presumption that he will be participating in aspects of our coaching. This is not what a mentor does:
Mentor:
1. a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
He will not be coaching the players or making tactical moves during game time. He is not fulfilling the role previously carried out by Neil Craig. I just don't understand why some cannot get their head around this.
Mentor:
1. a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
He will not be coaching the players or making tactical moves during game time. He is not fulfilling the role previously carried out by Neil Craig. I just don't understand why some cannot get their head around this.
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I just don't like him NB....he is full of himself...I can see him being more of a hinderance than providing any value..time will tell....
BluStreak
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IF he prov s to be a hinderence then the club will deal with it.
IF Bolts don’t like it then he won’t use walls.
IF Bolts don’t like it then he won’t use walls.
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Yeah bit old school and a dry sense of humour but hope you warm to him axe. Go Blues .
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The bolded's my issue.
The former feeds into the later and vice versa. Walls might be old, and he might have the relevant experience at the same job Bolts is attempting, but it does not immediately entail that he's 'wise' in the right way to assist here. His knowledge of AFL coaching is, if not outdated, radically different to the skillsets and experience of current day coaches. His opinions as stated in the media - which may be the only way the current coaches/football department know him, unless like SOS they're from the old days - have been the epitome of surface level analysis, the kind of thing that were they from Tony Shaw or Graham Cornes we would deride with overtones of ageism. He's been a rent-a-quote merchant for the better part of the last decade. Granted, this could change and change quickly, should he get re-immersed in the environment of a football club, but realistically why couldn't we get someone who could enhance the setup from day one, instead of needing to reacquaint himself with the intricacies of contemporary AFL first?
So, if wise is out, how exactly are the coaches to trust him? Like him, sure; that's an easy thing to do. If they see him daily, as a club great, with the right people interacting with you and him in order to see him in a good light, I could see people with nothing to do with him prior to this appointment liking him, but that's not what we're trying to get out of this scenario. Trust in his opinions is necessary to be able to value his advice, and while I'd trust Walls to be able to speak with a tone of certainty I don't think I'd trust him to be right about very much, not without considerable evidence rendered before my eyes first.
yes yes yes yes yess yeass yessss...and more bloody yesssssss's
Neil Craig was no doubt a sounding board for Bolts....elder statesman, ex senior coach, and all round nice guy....the sort of person you would turn to as an inexperienced senior coach....when he retired, i was actually nervous about the repercussions it may have on the coaching staff...he reminds me a lot of Chris Fagan at the Lions..and see what a difference he's made there...
Walls has got to accept he's only a sounding board there for the coaching staff...don't you dare get the players off side like you did when you were coach!!!!
SBYM
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When you see Wallsy out on the ground wearing shorts and running the drills, then it will be time to panic...
Some of the hand-wringing in here is ridiculous...
Some of the hand-wringing in here is ridiculous...
thylacine60
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you've been mentioned in dispatches, sbym - no pressure...........
SBYM
Fish, chips, cup o' tea, Mary @#? Poppins. London!
I can't be sure, but I think there is some charlatan out there using my good name to enhance his/her own reputation...
thylacine60
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never took you to be a like-grub, sbym.........
SBYM
Fish, chips, cup o' tea, Mary @#? Poppins. London!
I'm often called worse...
LanceRomance
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I don't think he is really there to mentor tbh
I think he is there to be a proactive media voice
Blubagger71
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Spoke earlier in the year about Bolts needing a mentor. If Walls is the man, happy days. A former premiership player and coach wants to volunteer to help, I say welcome until he is no longer welcome. Can't do to much damage in this capacity.
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Anyone else think if Bolton is struggling Wallsy might take over mid season and take us to the flag?
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No thanks. His style doesn't wash now.
