Re: Carlton vs Brisbane Practice Match
Reply #183 –
In 2011, 12 months before we hired him. Malthouse took his team to the minor premiership, a GF appearance, and a % of 167.7. That % is the best of any team since 2000, still not bested to this day.
He became a shot duck after he came to us, when he realised that he was working for a bunch of provincial lunkheads who would not be out of place on The Beverly Hillbillies.
In the interest of honesty and transparency, I implore the Carlton Football Club to install a device on the senior coach's door that calls out the word "sucker" every time it opens and closes.
I think the duck was shot by Eddie with his Buckley transition plan. Losing his job, at what I’m sure Malthouse considered to be the height of his powers, knocked the stuffing out him. His demeanour, and coaching, became more about self-preservation and self-interest and he seemed determined to prove that his tried and true approach would hold up when everyone else had moved on.
The situation was compounded by an ill-prepared, poorly-managed club giving him free rein, then making a shambles of trying to rein him in.
Bolton had the advantage of a united club but a dismal list. Teague has a much stronger list, albeit with some issues, but I don’t think he has a united club behind him. He certainly is under more pressure to succeed than Bolton did and that has the potential to send us spiralling out of control