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He coached from the 80s till 3 years ago and was going great guns till he came to our rabble of a club. It was us not him.

When he delayed coming to The club due to his book launch I knew he wasnt fair dinky.

The truth is we should have stuck with Malthouse.

There was that, but he didn't get a fair crack at it anyway.
What strikes me is that we can seemingly take highly experienced, highly successful premiership coaches and turn them into hacks, yet here we are all these years later languishing on the bottom of the ladder after a new broom supposedly swept all of our error ridden past aside.
There's something very wrong at the CFC.
As for those defending Ratten, another abysmal coaching appointment in my view, they should ask themselves whether they would be so strident in their defence of him if he'd played his football at Richmond.

Yes.

The truth is any coach is only as good as the club. Malthouse had the best talent at the Eagles, and the best support network possible at the Pies. The Pies team from the early 2000's were not elite, but they had Buckley (their Judd) and recruited tough accountable players who could play to  a system, and Malthouse coached them well. The talent profile had certainly changed for the better by 2010, 2011.

He coached for too long. The year off (2012) was a big thing that is underplayed IMO. Once you lose the momentum, especially at his age, it's very hard to get it back.

You need to ask yourself why we were the only club interested in his services, before he came to us and also after. No other club went near him. It's a big tell.

Last year, while we won 6 games, we led 7 times in last qtrs and lost. Fair effort for a young side. Despite injuries, this year is a failure so far and if we finish with just one win then you'd have to convince me hard as to why Bolton should stay. That's unacceptable. If we get a few wins, well, that might be different.

Might just be Gibbs
Eddie B and big Sam didn't have the same spells.

There was that, but he didn't get a fair crack at it anyway.
What strikes me is that we can seemingly take highly experienced, highly successful premiership coaches and turn them into hacks, yet here we are all these years later languishing on the bottom of the ladder after a new broom supposedly swept all of our error ridden past aside.
There's something very wrong at the CFC.
As for those defending Ratten, another abysmal coaching appointment in my view, they should ask themselves whether they would be so strident in their defence of him if he'd played his football at Richmond.

Another hypothetical.....as I love going over completely useless scenarios from the past in my mind....helps stave off insanity....or maybe it's an indication of the onset of it.  Anyway....

Would Hardwick still be coaching us if we'd appointed him around the time Ratts was extended ?