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http://m.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl...blues-supporters/story-fnp04d70-1227367417552
By Sam Edmund in todays' Herald Sun
Some snippets:
There is a growing feeling among influential Carlton people that the 10-strong panel has grown stale and isn’t fit to lead a club that needs to undergo significant regeneration.
“The big challenge Carlton has got is you’ve got a group of people who have been making the same decisions for the last seven to nine years,” said a source familiar with the workings of the club.
“We’ve moved the deck chairs a little bit, but we’re trying to pin it on Mick. There’s some responsibility that needs to fall upon people who make those decisions because there’s too much blame-game going on.
“It’s very easy to start blaming, but at some stage people have to take responsibility and when each individual takes responsibility then people can make change.
Great article from the Herald Sun (of all places). The heat is well and truly on this board!
Hopefully change is coming!!
I'm hearing a strong rumour that MM has been sacked with Dean Laidley to take over for the rest of the season. Just a rumour at this stage.
Supporting the team I'll never stop doing, watching them week in week out is done for 2015!
If Mick leaves I think we should consider Kirk. By seasons end will have completed a 3 year apprenticeship under Lyon. Won't accept the no tackling pressure attitude of our squad & will know what it takes to build a contested footy side! Thoughts?
Kirk would be my first choice.I really rate and like Kirk, but apparently he is too much of a 'waccy tabaccy hippie' for some around these parts.
Due diligence should be our first choice!Kirk would be my first choice.
Sometimes this info just falls in your lap. Not sure which one I believe here, but I'd probably lean towards the $600k range.Are both or either of you privy to player contracts!
Gone from insisting he would coach out the year to insisting he will coach out the week.
That's why I said first choice, not only choice.Due diligence should be our first choice!
Sometimes this info just falls in your lap. Not sure which one I believe here, but I'd probably lean towards the $600k range.
I know for a fact that Eddie is on $504k with Adelaide (not sure what performance bonuses and such would do to that figure, but definitely on $42k per month).
I'm not privy to player contracts. I don't have an inside contact, and I don't know any other player salaries, but this one I can say with 100% certainty.
I know what he was getting per month ($42k). Would like to say how, and I know it's a baseless internet claim without it, but it's a breach of confidentiality issue if I was to reveal the way that I know.How so.
Have you seen his contract!
Malthouse trashing his own brand as Carlton split grows http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/opinion/malthouse-trashing-his-own-brand-as-carlton-split-grows/story-e6frg7uo-1227367554563…
I know what he was getting per month ($42k). Would like to say how, and I know it's a baseless internet claim without it, but it's a breach of confidentiality issue if I was to reveal the way that I know.
Luckily I don't need anyone's approval to know that it is fact. Not trying to be smart, but it is 100% accurate, so people believing or not won't change that. I would PM you, but I don't know how.Exactly!
Seriously, Carlton has always had trouble attracting members, Carlton fans have been fickle to the extreme in that regard.
We may lose a couple of thousand fans this year but 100% guarantee that they will swarm back when we are successful.
We have to do this right. We can not continue the way we have in the past. That will not bring success.
Successful clubs are built from the TOP down. This is where we see if that is going to happen at our Club.
The President, Board, CEO, Football Manager, List Manager and Coach all have to be on the same page.
If the Coach (in this case) is not (and it appears that way) then they are dispatched at the appropriate time.
This is what our CEO and President have stated will occur. Now they have to be true to that.
No, sacking Ratts to appoint MM was a disgrace particularly if you believe, as Smith apparently does, "that [Carlton] had been coached to its maximum output by Brett Ratten." Surely on that basis alone Ratts was entitled to see out the last year of his contract.Patrick Smith Article
When Carlton locked in Mick Malthouse as coach towards the end of his gap year in 2012 the Blues were entitled to puff up their permanently inflated chest.
Malthouse had walked away from Collingwood where he had reigned for more than a decade. His last three seasons at the club had delivered a grand final (2011), a premiership (2010) and a preliminary final loss (2009) to eventual premiers Geelong.
Malthouse was a coach at the peak of his powers and he knew it. So, it was no surprise he fought a guerilla war of words with Collingwood president Eddie McGuire and his transition plan that would see Malthouse hand over the senior job to Nathan Buckley at the end of 2011. Such was the hubris that covered the club like chocolate topping that year, all churned by Malthouse’s indignation that he was to be supplanted by Buckley, that a second consecutive premiership was just about impossible.
The three-time premiership coach inherited a club that had been coached to its maximum output by Brett Ratten. Now in his third year Malthouse and the club recognise the list is plain, the spirit numb.
It is argued generally that the players no longer play for the coach.
The players? Don’t play for the man who has coached the most games in competition history and won three premierships? How could that be? They ought throw rose petals before him as he struts about the football field.
If Carlton parts way with Malthouse he will be a hard act to follow.
But followed he will be. Hawthorn’s premiership coach Alastair Clarkson must be at the top of Carlton’s list of likely replacements. While the Hawks are this season chasing a hat-trick of premierships, they have won just four from eight matches and yet to win two games in a row. Last time the Hawks were similarly placed was in 2009 when they ultimately finished ninth. Even then though they had at least put two wins together, beating West Coast and Carlton in rounds five and six.
Clarkson is out of contract at the end of next season but, given that he has been at the club for a decade, Carlton would not be doing due diligence if they did not speak to the three-time premiership coach.
Yeah, let's pay millions to get Clarkson who is no doubt "as fit as he has ever been" and "firing to coach" a team from the doldrums to a Flag. What rubbish.
The Board should announce its terms (we are Carlton and we stand for something) and seek applications for coach from all comers and NOT engage in "Messiah" syndrome behaviour.
Carlton's appalling recruiting since 2009 that highlights some traditional VFL clubs — in particular the Blues — have never adjusted from opening a cheque book to secure ready-made talent to understand the new AFL is about salary caps, drafts, player development and list management.
MEDIA personalities, including former Carlton players behind microphones, who have carried long and bitter memories of their clashes with Malthouse — either physical on the field in the old VFL or verbally in the over-exposed new AFL
MEMBERS who have cancelled automatic renewals on their memberships — to send a strong message to the club administration that just a fortnight ago thought Malthouse was the man to engineer a “rebuild” at Carlton. And the Blues fans who have declared their protest by abandoning the team (as Port Adelaide remembers from the tarp era at Football Park).