Greg Denham suggested today on S.E.N that Carlton has not yet spoken to Laidley and that Carlton were pretty annoyed that such had been reported because it was totally false. Interesting times ahead.

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Meaning that Carlton have spoken to Laidley

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"I had to eat"

True on most occasions, but he said he directly spoke to someone involved at Carlton. Beats me

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The same Greg Denham who said Voss was a DEFFINATE to be senior coach of Carlton after Den Den was given the a*se in mid 2007.... ?

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Hey Moshe......I think you're assertion that Bomber Thompson....Worsfold...Roos and Choco Williams were in the same playing class as Barassi....Lethal....Blight...Coleman...Jezza....Nicholls and Walls....is.....well......

Yeah....I know....different opinions.

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Koperek.

To be fair to Denham, we offered Voss the gig, but he knocked it back. So he wasn't completely pulling that one out of his arse.

Hmmmmmm.


HE really didn't do much with North, and since his time with Port they have hardly been impressive.

Might be good as a development coach though.

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Relax, Warbs. I have asserted no such thing. Definitely not in the same playing class. In fact you're asserting the same thing I've asserted on a number of occasions. It's just that you said "how many great players.....", and I reckon the ones I said WERE great players who have recently been good coaches. So while not AS great as those on your list, there's no denying that they were great players.

I think that the principle that we're both espousing here is really this: Being a great player is completely unconnected from being a great coach.

There have been great players who were great coaches (the ones we said)
There have been great players who've been bad coaches (Tim Watson, Royce Hart)
There have been ordinary players who've been great coaches (Tom Hafey, Pagan - spit, and I'll get killed for this one, but Clarkson)
There have been ordinary players who've been bad coaches (Knights possibly, Drum)

No causal relationship between the two. Not unusual, mind you. The same is true with actors / directors, computer programmers / project managers, etc.

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Hey Moshe... .........great minds think alike.......

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.... or ... the other one .....

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Getting Laidley would help sell the idea of trading one of our promising ruckmen to the members and supporters.

Just imagine if Voss'd said yes?

Whispers on 3AW saying Mark Riley off to West Coast as their list manager.

Better paying job than the Carlton Assistant job and better career move...doesn't necessarily tell us that someone is being hired and they've forewarned Riley...he might just be smart and picked a great job to go back to Perth to. I personally thought the 'List Manager' job at West Coast was one of the better jobs going in AFL football circles. A lot of good kids already there...and the only way is up!