Mick Malthouse, three time premiership coach at West Coast (1992, 1994) and Collingwood (2010), has finally had his time at Carlton come to an unceremonious ending, fired today after bringing the issue to a head himself the previous morning.
Malthouse coached 718 games in the AFL, passing "Jock" McHale earlier this season. But with Carlton mired at the bottom of the ladder with minimal talent, and the hopelessness and in-fighting between coach and board and media reducing the players to a shell of their former selves (effort was marginal the last few weeks, with tackle counts unbelievably in the 30s the last two games), a change had to be made. Originally, it was "we'll evaluate at the end of the season", but as things got worse it became, "well, we'll look at it during the bye week in Round 11", to which Malthouse angrily asked, "What are you going to learn about me in the next two weeks you don't already know?" Essentially, once Malthouse understood the writing was on the wall, he engineered his own early firing so as to let everyone "get on with it" (in my opinion).
Now, the situation is more clear cut, if still dire for the Carlton Blues...
- The press conference and firing by the Carlton board.
- Mick Malthouse's statement - my coaching career is over.
- Where do they go from here? Who do they get to coach? (The back-line coach takes over interim duties immediately, btw.)
- How did it get THIS bad in the first place?
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