Re: Will it stand up?
Reply #118 –
The only players that have question marks over how they were treated under Ratten could clearly be put down to a dose of sour grapes after realising Did Ratts ever do that? I honestly can't recall Ratts dropping anyone that was clearly best 22 (as Waite is/was).
Nick Stevens might jog your memory Kruds.
Ratten just didn't have the experience to be a good coach, he played footy for us, did a year as an assistant at the wooden spoon team then coached in the Eastern suburbs, it was madness to appoint him in the first place and suicidal to persevere with him for five years.
At the time it was all about marketing and memberships, we were broke, in that sense the appointment worked but football wise it put us back years.
Malthouse is hardened and experienced, he'll sort out the wheat from the chaff.