If anything..Im impressed. Would take real understanding of self and quite frankly some guts to say NO. especially after all the hype etc.( without even mentioneing the Silly money probably on offer ) He knows some will call into question his abilities , backboneetc. He is playing the Voss card, for Voss. Good on him !!

Pagan was a dead man walking at Carlton and has been so for at 12 months prior.

You could send those signals to Thompson without playing your hand.

Harvey is assistant at Freo so he wont be available until year end.

Daniher is a free agent and they could have spoken to him on the quiet.

It does not add up why they did it when they did.

Despite my previous defence of Denis Pagan, there is no doubt you are correct on that one. It has been abundantly obvious that he was on the outer at Carlton since the Barry Mitchell fiasco.

I do disagree with the others though. Essendon have copped a reasonable caning from the media as it is - that would have been magnified a hundredfold if they were caught tapping up or interviewing other coaches while Sheedy was still a chance to coach next year (at least from a public perspective). The aforementioned Carlton/Mitchell scenario is a case in point.

Daniher indicated very early on that he would not speak to a club with an appointed full time coach and all three of Daniher, Thompson and Harvey had their entire playing careers under Sheedy. To paraphrase a quote made by Freddy Shepherd (ex Newcastle United chairman) in fairly similar circumstance, it would have been like shooting bambi. This way, particularly with Harvey in my view, they can now make a real play for any of those three whereas they could not before.

If anything..Im impressed. Would take real understanding of self and quite frankly some guts to say NO. especially after all the hype etc.( without even mentioneing the Silly money probably on offer ) He knows some will call into question his abilities , backboneetc. He is playing the Voss card, for Voss. Good on him !!

Well said bub I agree with you........

It was probably not the easiest decision to make, especially given the pressure surrounding him, and his choice of club, rather than the decision whether to coach.

The automatic assumption that existed would have been hard to go against, given he would have definitely had a gig of his choice next year.

Hopefully he will be the better equipped for the position in the future, if he decides to go that route when he is ready.

Apropos......

Voss vetoes coaching role

wonder if the tim watson experiment was in his head as well

If Voss turned down the Carlton job, he won't want any senior coaching role. In my opinion its clearly the best option for a wannabe coach

Hopefully we'll try and get him as an assistant, if he is half as good as everyone makes him out to be

why do you think the carlton job was the best? yes there is money ut there is also the fact that the team is a long way from anything, have spent a number of years on the bottom without any upside and carlton are scumbags (fact).

where is the upside?