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I agree WYL.

And I believe Neeld has positioned us to be in the best position possible for the upcoming draft and FA period. We have identified the stayers and those that need to go, we have a heap of good draft picks and a bucketload of cash to spend.

Come November we should know if 2013 is the start of the rise or just another "development" year. I strongly believe it will be the former.

 

I agree WYL

And I believe Neeld has positioned us to be in the best position possible for the upcoming draft and FA period. We have identified the stayers and those that need to go, we have a heap of good draft picks and a bucketload of cash to spend.

Come November we should know if 2013 is the start of the rise or just another "development" year. I strongly believe it will be the former.

I wish Neeld every success, i heard him on Radio this morning.

But i am stil suprised we did not throw everything at a proven coach last year...maybe we did.

I was happy with Neeld's appointment but the problems within the club were far bigger than any of us knew at the time.

If he can unite the MFC he will be remembered higher than Smithy. That's how bad we are now.

Malthouse is a proven, successful, premiership coach. He has been out of the game less than a year, and two years ago won a flag.

I am not saying Neeld won't be good, I'm just saying that Malthouse is as close to a proven success as you're ever going to get in the AFL, and if right now both were available, 99% of rational people would go Malthouse.

Oh well, less competition for Roos next year I guess.

 
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Hard to see how Malthouse will lose out of this, no matter what happens on the field. He gets $1 million per year; he gets to torment Eddie McGuire; he gets to have lunch with Jeannie Pratt. From his point of view, what's not to like? And if he succeeds at being the only coach to get flags at three clubs, which with Carlton's list and cheque book in the free agency era is far from impossible, he'll go down as the greatest coach ever.

Will three years get him past Jock McHale?

You're correct TPM but who cares? The more pain, infighting, dissent and general shite for Carlton the happier I'll be!

Gidday Bitter!

I'd rather have Malthouse than Neeld to be straight though I know the whole Demonland will come down on me..am used to it:)


Malthouse is a proven, successful, premiership coach. He has been out of the game less than a year, and two years ago won a flag.

I am not saying Neeld won't be good, I'm just saying that Malthouse is as close to a proven success as you're ever going to get in the AFL, and if right now both were available, 99% of rational people would go Malthouse.

Oh well, less competition for Roos next year I guess.

What exactly do you think that Malthouse would have got out of the current list?

Do you think we would have won games this year because he was there?

I hear all these calls for Malthouse but no one has said what they think he would have done; help me out here and tell me where you think we would have finished under him and how many games do you think we would have won.

Also how many of the players that we are about to delist would have been kept because Malthouse is such a good coach and he would have improved them?

The best part out of this whole deal is what happens at Carlton and Collingwood....

Carlton win a premiership under Malthouse = Collingwood not = Collingwood wrist slashing for getting rid of a Premiership coach, and stuck with Eddies love-child.

Carlton don't win a premiership = wrist slashing and sacking another coach.

all good as far as I can see.

Even better, they get in a bidding war for each others players and both wither on the vine.

 

What exactly do you think that Malthouse would have got out of the current list?

Do you think we would have won games this year because he was there?

I hear all these calls for Malthouse but no one has said what they think he would have done; help me out here and tell me where you think we would have finished under him and how many games do you think we would have won.

Also how many of the players that we are about to delist would have been kept because Malthouse is such a good coach and he would have improved them?

Malthouse got the best out of his teams.

He is also a coach players would want to play under. He would be a big draw card for free agents.

He is also the man who invented the game plan Neeld is trying to teach us.

We may not have been or could be any better under him, but experience and success speaks for itself. It also generates interests and support, of the financial kind.

If he was available last year, we would have chased him, as would every other club who was looking for a new coach.

It's just bad timing, especially because nobody wants to see Carlton succeed.

Neeld may be just as good as Malthouse one day, but Malthouse comes with a better level of guarantee if you like.

Anyway, this is a bit boring now.

Fair to say I would prefer Malthouse to coach us. Or Ross Lyon. But I'd also like a house made of gold filled with shoes, and that ain't gonna happen. But one can dream

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