Carlton Supporters Club

Bolton was a poor match day tactician and did he his best work 9-5 during the week at training.
Teague is also struggling on match day, our assistants have been next to useless as well.
We dont have a definitive gamestyle and also struggle with team selection and reading what the opposition are going to do.
Its a real worry when teams beat you with the same plans/same players year in year out and we keep pulling the wrong levers in the coaching box. Its even deja vu in the coaching box...nothing worse than that camera shot of Teague like Bolton looking helpless and paralysed unable to think and Barker clueless next to him.

I think we(Carlton) suffer from a lack of understanding about modern football, the appointment of Malthouse fairly confirmed that for me, we thought one geriatric could out coach a panel of experienced opposition.

Modern AFL match days needs a panel of high performers, coaching very well, to have success. One weak link and you are doomed, and we've too many B-Graders in supplementary roles. It's no good guys like Barker solving the problem three days after the game!

But it's a problem that is rife in the AFL, they ones that stick around are often megalomaniacs who think they know best, and if you have an executive that spends all day sniffing armpits instead of cutting the weeds you are stuffed!

Like how Chris Fagan is doing at 59?

59 and 73 are quite different.

The men themselves are likely different too.

I still maintain that any coach coaching any way can be successful but our footy club likes to get involved and get in the way of allowing them to do their job the way they want to.

I wonder if we had our time over again if Murphy would have been made captain.

That still may prove to be the right decision based on how we go.

A telling stat, we no longer bleed talent.  Something is happening better than it used to although we are about to he tested there again.

Who's 73?

Like how Chris Fagan is doing at 59?

Autocrat or not, Malthouse suddenly became hopeless only when and because he came to us, just like all the others.

I'd argue that he left a club which had forced a collaborative regime on him, something he did not want, yet a regime that was probably the reason he remained competitive while still there, and we removed him from that environment as was his will, and he hung himself!

In that respect his demise was not sudden at all, but just exposed by the move!

I disagree. 5 coaching failures in 20 years is enough circumstantial evidence for mine to point the finger squarely at the club. If Malthouse was the only failure, then sure, I would agree. They all come highly credentialed, flag winners, from successful environments etc., but we'll sort them out, don't you worry about that. Like Sylvester McMonkey McBean's Star Off machine.