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Wonder what they think if we win the next 2 as we will likely sit in the 8.

A new dawn has to start sometime... perhaps it is this year. We can hope.

Which is why other clubs have success and we thrash around looking for Peter Perfect.

I agree with you 100%, but you know why even if that is true I'd expect that the outcome won't change, just like circumstance didn't help Ratten.

Unfortunately results under Bolton and Mick were awful. Few wins, embarrassing hidings. Our culture and motivation is terrible but you couldn't run with that. We've had nothing like that right now, as frustrating as it has been. We have been a very competitive team, on the scoreboard at least, even if some of the on field efforts have left a bit to be desired. Could end up a Ratten to Malthouse type handover, thinking we had something better, which we have regretted ever since.

I agree. That the club will chase Clarkson hard is practically a foregone conclusion. It's really whether :
a. Clarkson wants to coach, and
b. whether he wants to coach us.

Neither of which seem very clear at this point.

I'd say Coll are the front runner. Despite recent turmoil, they have been a stable club of the years, are arguably the biggest club in town and will be able to throw massive coin at him and are ready to appoint today if they needed to.

I'd say Coll are the front runner. Despite recent turmoil, they have been a stable club of the years, are arguably the biggest club in town and will be able to throw massive coin at him and are ready to appoint today if they needed to.

Graham Wright is running Footy at Hawthorn, not sure that relationship was all that sweet when he left Hawthorn to join the Pies unless its all part of some big master plan.

Results under a particular coach are about a lot more than just the coach's ability. It's not even remotely possible that we keep picking coaches with no ability. The various ideas thrown around (this coach is motivated by the wrong things, that coach is out of his depth, the game has passed him by, lost the fire in the belly etc.) have, when it comes to Carlton, all been discredited.

When judging our last 20 years, you can't pick and choose which coach sacking / hiring decisions are correct and which are not, based on whether or not you like the guy in charge. Teague's results are better because the conditions around him are better (Bolton did all the donkey work plus more list stability under Teague, plus better players, plus players who were too young under Bolts are starting to hit their peak) etc. The expectations on Teague were higher because the conditions around him improved.

As an aside, you'd really have to suspect the club is full of inbreeders when the two coaches who have had any kind of "success" are ex players.

Results tell you alot. Bolton had 4 wins from his last 43 games. That's not donkey work, that is just a donkey. No fool in their right mind keeps a coach with a 9% record from his last 50 games no matter what our culture is like. That's just embracing failure.

You'd have to wonder how Hawthorn has started to leak so badly.

At any rate, there's no way Teague could be coaching at his best right now. Swirling media speculation, injuries, the Review, Clarkson's sudden availability - his head must be a mess.

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