Obviously won't be sacked. Having said that we also assume he made the decision to play one ruck. Last year he spoke to us mid year and said the match committee overruled him as he wanted to play Graham against Port. So we just can't assume it's always his fault...... 
So the buck stops with him but he cannot play a second ruckman against Collingwood if he wants to?
I call BS on that.
As KB always says, lying is the second language of the AFL.
The match committee chooses the team. Fact. Hardwick is a big part of the match committee but he can be overruled. Fact. I'm not sure what you think is BS.
So why would the match committee think not playing balta would be beneficial to the team?
I don’t think anyone on this forum alone thought that it was the right decision especially after the high praise he received in his development even on the website. Mostly everyone allso thought that bringing back Ellis was regressing back to mediocrity
One might be able to concede the match committees decision to bring in Ellis for the loss of Houli but dropping balta was a mind boggling and a terrible decision by all involved. That said I don’t think we would’ve won the game because everything that made us great in the last two years has pretty much gone out the window in the last few games we’ve played.
