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The Mick Malthouse coaching milestone

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What are the odds for him getting sacked next week?

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    So Mick passes Jock McHale's all-time record for games coached this weekend, setting a new mark that will surely never be beaten again.

    Love him or hate him, it's a tremendous achievement.

    Cue Simon Goodwin after his 35th consecutive premiership with the Dees.

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    I believe pre-match festivities will be a celebratory 'abusing of the journalists' performed by none other than Mick himself.

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    There really should be a medical study done on Mick's body to see how it could take so much punishment from stress hormones over the years and still be ticking.

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    Great achievement, but something about him makes it so hard for me to give a [censored].

    Congrats! I spose...

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    I don't particularly like the guy and I suspect he's coaching at Carlton fore the wrong reasons, but even so, I think its a great achievement which should be respected.

    Nevertheless, I do note that he has now lost more games as coach than any other.

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    There really should be a medical study done on Mick's body to see how it could take so much punishment from stress hormones over the years and still be ticking.

    After you take away 715 days of intense pressure - in the coaches box and in the media room is it really that stressful?

    If you don't read the papers or turn on talkback radio I think the day to day stress of life as an AFL coach is overblown. Footy training is footy training, you get outside, direct blokes where to go and encourage them. The meetings drag on I'm sure but they are breaking down games of footy. Delistings at the end of a year would certainly be stressful but coaches aren't the only people who have to routinely hire and fire.

    Particularly the last 10-20 years, since about the start of and the probably the end of the Daniher era we've seen an explosion in recruiting, development coaching, sports science, leadership (pseudo)science, TV and technology to review games. But before that when Mick was at Footscray, Richmond and probably even the formative Collingwood years I reckon footy coaching would've been a pretty good gig. Although the pay was nothing back the compared to now so it evens out.

    Personally I'd love to be an AFL coach, but I'd take the Paul Roos advice/method if I could. Serve a long and varied apprenticeship then put a limit on how long I'd do it for. Pretty much as long as you aren't terrible you then get either decent media opportunities or a job at another AFL club with usually much less pressure.

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    Pfft.

    715 games of coaching is nothing.

    715 games of making journos wet their pants is a record that will never be beaten.

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    What are the odds for him getting sacked next week?

    The president has every confidence in Mick and is backing him in

    In other words he is GAWN

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