Was talking earlier with a bro-law ( whos filth ) and the subject of Mickey M came up as we discussed the likelyhood or otherwise of possiblky Lyon ® to Melbourne.

He raised an interesting idea or rather conundrum. Where CAN Mickey go ?

Its highly unlikelyhed move interstate. I doubt hed really entertain anywhere that didnt have much of a list or any decent facilities..

Lets assume for a moment that he does indeed want to coach as opposed to mentor. Where can he go ?

Id scrub Adelaide off the list. Youd think Rats would be safe now...but ?? I dont think hed fancy the Doggies list much. A scenario was put that if Lyon came to us then StKilda is open. , but theyd need a rebuild. I dont think Micks interested in a rebuild...a renovation yes perhaps.. but not a whole new shebang.

Where ever he goes it will most likely be his last big hurrah. He will want to go out in a blaze of glory ( sorta) there arent that many jobs going that would attibute hero status more than a piece of silverware for the Dees..

Where does he go ?

If he's not with us next year I reckon he'll spend one year at the filth before walking away. Can't see anywhere else for him.

Lyon gone, one egg left in the basket- Malthouse.

Throw everything we've got at him.

Failing that retain Viney and surround him with Neil Craig and Eade.

Yo know who would shake [censored] up at the dees? Mr "Alan Scott you were wrong" himself, choco williams!

If Dimmer doesn't get the Toigers up next year and Malthouse does in fact take a years hiatus, there's your answer. 2013 will see him at Richmond.

He's said it still feels like home when he goes back to Tigerland.

Today i have heard Ross Lyon is a dead Certainly to coach us next year....Same news about Mick Malthouse Dead certainty.

Which one is it....i want to know?

Today i have heard Ross Lyon is a dead Certainly to coach us next year....Same news about Mick Malthouse Dead certainty.

Which one is it....i want to know?

I have no idea but it seems to me that the longer it goes without a coach being announced the more it looks like MM

The earliest The pies will be finished is 25/9.

So every day that passes without an announcement it seems to me the odds on MM shorten.

Malthouse is hands down without a shadow of doubt the best prospect for a senior coaching position at MFC next year. I am hoping like anything this is what eventuates.

I have no idea but it seems to me that the longer it goes without a coach being announced the more it looks like MM

The earliest The pies will be finished is 25/9.

So every day that passes without an announcement it seems to me the odds on MM shorten.

i reckon you're right old dee - i've got my fingers crossed

A Melbourne supporter mate sits tier 2 northern stand.

All year he has been positive Malthouse is coming to MFC.

His reasoning is he has seen Malthouse at about 8 of our home games this year

And about 3 away games at the MCG.

I have no idea what to make of it but he's convinced.

Get your hopes up at your own peril

After the events of yesterday...We need to get Mick Malthouse.

Mathouse v Sheeds

Scully v MFC

Bring that on...

A Melbourne supporter mate sits tier 2 northern stand.

All year he has been positive Malthouse is coming to MFC.

His reasoning is he has seen Malthouse at about 8 of our home games this year

And about 3 away games at the MCG.

I have no idea what to make of it but he's convinced.

Get your hopes up at your own peril

This would make my whole year. Geez I hope we can get him.

A Melbourne supporter mate sits tier 2 northern stand.

All year he has been positive Malthouse is coming to MFC.

His reasoning is he has seen Malthouse at about 8 of our home games this year

And about 3 away games at the MCG.

I have no idea what to make of it but he's convinced.

Get your hopes up at your own peril

He lives around the corner, and football is his career. Nothing in it.

Offer up an amount you would be prepared to pay Ross Lyon plus half of the additional income that is forecast to be gained by new members signing up if he is coach. Give him a three year deal so he can break all time record and retire to enjoy his family. Hopefully he would be close to a grand final in his last year (heaven forbid maybe even a premiership!). Got to try and do something. He is a unique proposition. Marketing coup for our club on top of being the best coach out there on current form. Special circumstances call for special structures like Harry Kewell....

How about dithering for about 3 weeks?

I want us to sit on our hands - interview every assistant that we can find - and then talk to them again. I don't care what Malthouse's people say and I certainly don't care what Eddie says. He has little power to stop him.

Aedlaide can get Burns, WB can get Cameron, and we can wait to try and convince Malthouse - even as late as mid-October that he can coach Melbourne or he can retire - two choices.

You become irrelevant very quickly and as great as MM has been - a year is an eternity in football and there is no guarantee a club will be available.

If he wants to go out on his terms - rather than Eddie's - then in the second week of October tell the MFC you will definitely coach them.

I want us to dither on this.

Same.

It's only 3 weeks.

Do all the prep possible in terms of interviewing assistants in case it falls through...

But hold out for Malthouse.

Of course, if he's going to come to us, I believe it will have all been sorted out some time ago.

Like the $cully decision.

Could not agree more. 3 weeks is really no time to potentially give ourselves the best shot at making the biggest decision we have made in a long long time. Everyone says he is not available, but we wont really know until this season is all done and dusted.

I hope they win a premiership and Eddie lets him go as a parting gift. It also makes it harder for buckley to have control if MM is there if he is the two time reigning premiership coach!

Please Melbourne "Have a go!".

I think the "dithering" is simply an agreed tactic the MFC is undertaking to keep the heat off Mick and the Pies until their finals are done. Then...

So the whole Lyon thing a distraction to keep the heat of MM for a while?

Fits with a strange article MM wrote in the Oz last week.

Keep Viney next year, with Malthouse as director of football/mentor. In 2013, he takes over.

MM would not do this I reckon.

Neither would Viney i think.

MM would not do this I reckon.

Neither would Viney i think.

Yeah, how you would tell a proud Todd Viney to be caretaker for another for a whole year?

If Malthosue wants to coach again - he can. In October 2011.

Otherwise, we move on.

He ( MM) does seem to have a greater interest in things Melbourne , games & list , than one would suppose of any other clubs coach. Youd just have to think a flag for the Dees would be the cherry on a very good cake.

There is plausibility about al this. Probability is another thing.

Seems all we do this year is wait...lol

Still , all good comes to he who waits ...hehe

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If Malthosue wants to coach again - he can. In October 2011. Otherwise, we move on.

Agree totally. Why would we sit on our hands for a whole year? Now is time to bite the bullet, if it's going to happen.

Keep Viney next year, with Malthouse as director of football/mentor. In 2013, he takes over.

Why would Malthouse come to Melbourne to be a director of coaching?? When that is the exact job he walked away from in the first place!!!!!

If he comes to Melbourne (Please Please Please) It will be as a SENIOR COACH....because he wants to Coach.

Todd would happily go back to his original position.

It fully depends on how much coin the MFC is prepared to offer....(Lots i hope)

The club will be well aware of Malthouses intentions for 2012. We would have sounded him out by now and he knows exactly what he wants to do next year. Is that coaching the MFC only Mick his management and the MFC will know this. If we haven't announced a coach by grand final week lets say the Wednesday expect Micky Maltshake to be relocating his belongings from the Westpac centre to AAMI Park on the Sunday after the Grand Final.