Opinion Mick Malthouse

What is the next move on Mick?

  • Sack him immediately; replacement coach to see out the year.

    Votes: 192 48.9%

  • Let him coach out the year then show him the door.

    Votes: 70 17.8%

  • Sign him now to give coaches and players some direction.

    Votes: 81 20.6%

  • Not sure yet... still too angry to think clearly.

    Votes: 50 12.7%
  • Total voters
    393
  • Poll closed .

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etsal1 said:
I'm beginning to think the media won't let up until we sack Mick.

It just seems to be becoming like one of the typical media driven coach sackings.

They smell blood because they know our board always takes the easy way out (i.e. sack the coach and everything will be ok).
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Have to agree - happens in politics all the time; once the wolf pack go after you it's very hard to maintain the will and stamina to keep going one way or the other - you're an easy target and you end up resigning or getting sacked! Wolf pack haven't started running at full-pace just yet so Lo Guardice could put a stop to all this if he wanted to...
 
Mick is a perfect smoke screen to cover up the flailing Collingwood

They are flying under the radar Collingwwod & Buckley deserve far more scrutiny than Mick
 
thylacine60 said:
Any more info on these rocks?
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it keeps tigers away.
correlation = causation ;)
 
Ellas Ellas said:
So if he's trying to make us defend better and play more defensive footy wouldn't we at least be breaking even? If it was working that is.
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People have Malthouse's game plan all wrong, it's not defend first and it's not about playing around the boundary. All our game plan is is "don't turn it over in the middle of the ground" people think it's "don't go up the middle" and they are wrong. He wants us to move it quick and direct when it's on and when we are on a roll and score heavily except we aren't doing it through lack of quality, skill, leg speed and not being mentally daring enough. We're bringing it wide a lot because we just haven't got the class to go safely up the middle. Our class players like Gibbs and Yarran go direct a lot but they are few and far between. We are also failing to score heavily enough when we are on a roll through a lack of forward quality. Our poor forward pressure is opening us up up the other end and hence we are scored too heavily against when we are meant to be doing all the attacking. We are vulnerable to being scored against when we get smashed out of the middle as well which Malthouses game plan doesn't protect against and nor should it. This is due to our lack of onballer depth/quality.

Micks old teams went around the boundary a lot but scored a lot of goals going up the middle. We aren't scoring the goals and spending enough time attacking due to personnel.

AFL games are played in parts, it's not goal for goal footy. One team will dominate, then the other will dominate and so forth. We are meant to be going direct and attacking when we are on and we are getting better at it but not scoring the goals and we are meant to be getting it wide when the opposition team is on. Ratten identified this too and they would hold the ball up in the air and play possession footy when the other team's moment in the sun arrived. It worked a little but was easily worked out.
 
Mick's press conference is a sure sign the club has asked Mick to appease the media and calm them down... what I worry about this would probably irritate Malthouse more within the inner sanctum. This could be the start of the writing on the wall :(
 

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So Mick is doomed if he keeps acting like he has been and he is doomed in he apologies...
 
"If it's not good, it's not good for Carlton," he said.

Liked this line. Possibly a catalyst for change. Will always be brain-dead types like Tony Jones who don't deserve acknowledgment let alone answers.
 
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