Malthouse said that he would not be particularly delighted if Carlton made the finals in the event the Bombers were turfed out by the AFL.

"It would leave a very poor taste and there would have to be an asterisk to explain why you made the finals," he said.

Clearly some common sense coming from Mick here. We are shite, and I think it would be emabarassing to be potentially handed 8th spot.

Yep ... someone has certainly dropped the ball this year. We were a better team ... but now ... well ... the damage has been done.

Drama queens

Did I say he hasn't adjusted his thinking once? Did I say any man of 60 cannot change his ways?
Did I say its beyond me how he's lasted this long?

No wonder the mental health of our nation is struggling when psychologists are prone to such illogical rantings.
What hope have the patients got.

If you cant debate the points without going over the top, go and play elsewhere.

I'd say in the last 10 years sports science is the biggest change in the football landscape and the biggest structural change at every club.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/m ... 6154417917

I don't know if Mick is the right coach to take us to a premiership, but I do know that Ratten was not.

So perhaps the whingers and whiners on this thread should hold their thoughts and save it up to give the club and everyone a massive 'I told you so' in a year or two.

I get the feeling that the personalities of the people whinging and whining about Mick, would get more pleasure out of a 'I told you so' than an actual premiership

In the esteemed words of Bryce Gibbs...'Yeah...Nah'. What's done is done and that'd be pretty inappropriate.



There's no one answer for that, and if I gave you four reasons as to what my personal thoughts are - I'd probably be leaving out numbers five, six and seven that I'm not privy too. But a coach can't implement a game plan on a playing group and expect it to work immediately. Sure - it's footy - it's the same language, but there's different dialects. e.g - A German from the north and one from the south of the country can have great difficulty understanding each other's dialects. Same thing with footy. And some of the players want to speak the language from the north and others want to speak the one spoken in the south. I'm a fan of the one spoken in the south, but I've spent some time in München, and I think the girls are prettier and the beer is better.

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It's not so much about Tami as it is about the Roos family and there being a unanimous decision based on existing employment, children schooling and offers on the table. But Carlton never had an offer on the table. Not to Roos. Carlton were a long way down the track with MM's manager Peter Sidwell before Sticks even put a call through to Roos. And he only did so at the behest of Jeanne Pratt who thought it silly that Carlton would appoint a senior coach without putting together a shortlist of senior coaches to sound out. By then, the world - and Paul Roos - knew that Carlton (driven by Swann) had settled on Malthouse.

Greg Swann might be quoted as saying "We have kept looking at other options, because if we don't get him we don't want to put all our eggs in one basket." But believe me - they had absolutely put all their eggs in one basket. Swann, Sidwell and to a lesser extent Sticks made sure of that. There was no way Malthouse was going to go through an interview process against other coaches.

That's probably going to please the Malthouse bashers, but that's the truth. There's no reason to shy away from it. Now comes the challenge to the supporter to put a little bit of faith in Malthouse and see what he can do when given a bit of room to play with regarding list management and what he can do with his cattle.

I'm prepared to give him some time. Season 2014 will be telling. I think we are sitting in exactly the position we belong. We're not better than just outside the eight and we're not worse than it. His job is to get us well and truly inside the eight...but he shouldn't announce that next summer. Let's keep our KPI's 'in-house' next season.

play with regarding list management and see what he can do with his cattle.

Correct ratten and co had no depth as such as I said those 3 masked our issues

Ratten and co should be convicted of gross list mis management

Thank Christ mm is here to fix it

If u think we would of done anything in 2011 without those three you are kidding yourself

Malthouse is the problem. We have a great list and a great administration.

Our recruitment and development has been sensational.

I find it interesting that we haven't won a Premiership since Judd has been at the club either.

Make this clear:

Sack the entire Board before even thinking of sacking Malthouse.

Great analysis on afl 360

Blues list miles off, drafting and recruitment and development horrible

Are the Board and CEO watching?

What has it got to do with them, it's micks fault, just ask the couch coaches.