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[Masqualero]

I hear we're only bringing him back in some veiled attempt to keep the Mexicans out...

Sometimes you put up walls not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to tear them down.

 

[norway blue]

I’m very unhappy about this.

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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[FootyGeek]

We are getting Walls and we are going to make the Media pay for it.

 

[mediumsizered]

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.

 

[Accidental genius]

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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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]

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.

 

[norway blue]

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....

Yeah bit old school and a dry sense of humour but hope you warm to him axe. Go Blues .


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[Gethelred]

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.

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.

 

[Bamboo Harvester]

Ladder predictions are irrelevant.

Brendon Bolton is the coach.

Wallsy, it sounds like, will simply be an old-fashioned sounding board, a bit like Balmey. Wallsy knows what success (Carlton during his time) and failure (Brisbane Bears) looks like.

Hopefully in a years time the role he is doing will no longer be needed. But for now, Bolts had a shocker this year and was far better when Neil Craig was around.

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]

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...

 

[thylacine60]

you've been mentioned in dispatches, sbym - no pressure...........

 

[SBYM]

you've been mentioned in dispatches, sbym - no pressure...........

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]

never took you to be a like-grub, sbym.........

 

[SBYM]

I'm often called worse...

 

[LanceRomance]

I’m a great fan of Wallsy, but his last premiership as a player was in 1972. His last premiership as a coach was 1987.

His prediction that the current premiers would be wooden spooners this year was unfortunate and embarrassing.

I don't think he is really there to mentor tbh

I think he is there to be a proactive media voice

 

[Blubagger71]

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.

 

[perthblue]

He is an old man out of touch with the modern game. this is not fresh, inspired, forward thinking.

 

[I AM CARLTON]

Anyone else think if Bolton is struggling Wallsy might take over mid season and take us to the flag?

 

[norway blue]

Anyone else think if Bolton is struggling Wallsy might take over mid season and take us to the flag?

If that’s the case, bolts to get circled.


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[Blubagger71]

Anyone else think if Bolton is struggling Wallsy might take over mid season and take us to the flag?

No thanks. His style doesn't wash now.