I'm not sure what you want the club to do Cret.

MM is under contract. I dont think sacking him is a good isea.
I believe what it says is what you read into it. For me its a case of 3rd and final year of a Contract and lets see what improvement he can muster from this group.

I believe injuries will decide his fate at the end of the day, like they did (in part) with Ratts and Britts. A good run with injury in 2015 and a few good inclusions to the squad like last year and we can make the top 4 let alone the finals. Then his contract may be extended.

Im sure there's a plan and his contract has been discussed to some degree, but then again, there's a bonafide contract in place for 2015. That's the whole of next year.

Come on Blues I cant stand it us not being in the GF!!!!

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Cret has no cretybility... Wouldn't take much notice of his football talk...
He's a dreamer... Kicks the ball around in his back yard with CD that is playing crowd noise....

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I dont either...

But its obvious to everyone (especially the players) that if Mick doesnt receive a contract extension before the start of the 2015 season then the first half of the season is an ultimatum to make the finals. Not ideal in my opinion.

Ideally the Club needs to decide if Mick is the man to take us forward - it was never a 3 year Job anyway - we had too many holes to fill, and weak leadership base to start from.

I am actually confident we will have a good first half of the year next year - that is half the battle. (and generally we tend to play our best footy in the second half anyway, so our start is critical)

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We are Carlton, @#$%&! the rest !!!!!!

So by your reckoning we should have a succession plan if we don't think mick is the one to go forward with (ask collingwood supporters how they feel about that).

I don't understand the idiocy of extending a contract with a year left to run. I don't believe that Mick feels as if he has achieved what we wants from this group and therefore will not be going anywhere so that leave us in the drivers seat so why extend?

Actually he is 7 4 4

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Mick is the consumate coach , he'll squish the best out of the players , facilities and assists he has around him and get rid of what he does not need. He'll be given the term he needs .
He has an amazing passion and drive for the game, the master will get the Baggers to were the should stand, right on top.
We need almighty patience for a few years yet, he needs to upgrade many aspects.

Ciao

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Whatever that means!!!

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We are Carlton, @#$%&! the rest !!!!!!

Those are fairly impressive penis measurements in anyone's language I think you'll find.

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HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR TALKINGCARLTON SUPERCOACH 2009 YET?

Anyone else notice how diabolically bad collingwood are looking just a couple years past Mick? It's almost unrecognisable to the powerhouse roster and club Mick left it as.


... meanwhile Carlton is on the up.


Discuss

I'm not convinced Beams is leaving SOLELY for his dad.

No one is.

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From the outside looking in, this appears to be true. Although I would say our 'up' will be no more than a few ladder positions. Finals still doubtful for 2015 due to our depth.

I would wait until we are 2-0 against them and higher on the ladder before claiming any form of superiority.
When it happens, life will be grand.
Red hot chance it will be next season.

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Anyone happen to watch the chosen ones on seven last night? Gotta admit I face palmed when all the new gen coaches spoke about having to put in 9-11 hrs of work in after a game to make sure they covered all bases. Cut to Mick who says he doesn't do any of that because believe it or not he was actually at the game the day before & knows what happened!!

Still believe we won't win a flag with Mick coaching but will win a flag because of having Mick as a coach setting the foundation.

On the up?? Didn't we finish 13th? How are we on the up? Only in the sense that we might finish higher than 13 th next year, with a fit Judd and then slip back again. We are nowhere near a flag and unless we have a long term strategy we will be mired in mediocrity for another ten years. What is our plan? Did we get Daisy so he cd win us a flag in the next four years, anyone seriously think we are going to be anywhere near a flag in the next few seasons? We don't seem to know where we are and where we are going. I can just see us giving up way to much for past their best players and players who struggle to get a game at their original club. The Hawks success is built on hodge, mitchell roughhead franklin and lewis and then supplemented after 08 by adding mature players to a recent flag side and judicious drafting without high picks. What is our plan, our time frame our set up? It changes every week. I doubt murph or gibbs will get to play in a flag. I don't care where cwd are. We need to match the hawks and we are about a century and a million miles away at the moment. If we rise to 9th and the pies are 10 th, that's not a victory. If we think it is we are not the club i grew up with.

Should always be desperate to play finals - failure must come with consequence - they are professionals; mm included

C'mon they are professionals and should be desperate.....must feel performance has consequence

GA I'm afraid we are not the team we grew up with.