Get Acker

From bit part player to B&F Champ to Player/Coach in the VFL to Coach of back to back Grand Finalists Bullants. Teague looks like he is going to be a Senior AFL Coach one day.

his results with the bullants certainly suggest he is worth a shot

Interesting moves. That's a fair portion of the coaching panel gone. Does that mean we got it wrong in the first place? Do they carry the can for our poor second half of the season? Did Ratts pick them, were they foisted on him, did he sack them or was it a committee or Icke/ Swann decision? I was never happy with the Lappo appointment. No experience, just seemed too much like jobs for the boys, but did we learn from this? Do the people who appointed him reflect on why they appointed him and why he wasn't the success they hoped for? Not sure if that is something Carlton does well. I am a little surprised at Monty going. I thought he was being touted as a possible senior coach and was picked from outside the club presumably because he presented really well. I think we come up against Ratts inexperience again, the only experienced assistant we had was Riley because Ratts just didn't know any experienced coaches well enough to know he could work with them, beacuse he had had so little experience in AFL coaching.

I hope these were Ratts decisions and not made at a corporate level. I don't think Ratts is going to take us to a flag, but he has got a pass mark so far and 2011 will show if we are going ahead or marking time. But if he is having assistant appointments and sackings done above his head he is on a hiding to nothing. You get the absolute best coach available after exhaustively judging the field (we didn't do that) then you absolutely back that coach and absolutely trust his appointments. If he proves not to be up to it, you move him on.

Ratts needs to be absolutely free to create his own team, or 2011 will be compromised.

Wayne Brittain should be looked at in my opinion.

but i'm guessing Wiggo will be given Harvey's role.

No more Carlton people please. We need some ideas from other clubs..

I too like the idea of looking to some of the elite junior coaches (if you can't poach the better credentialed assistants from the more successful clubs). The fact that Rohan Welsh has some history at Carlton is a bonus.

John Barker has recently left the Hawks and was also forward coach at the Saints. Worth considering

I'd like to speak to Mark Neeld. With Bucks coming in, the main role at Collingwood wont be available for a few years and he's reasonably ambitious. I like his approach and the Pies rate him highly