JLT 2018 - Carlton v Hawthorn (Sat 10th Feb)

[mateinone]

It's not a strange stat it is just a stat, for coaches with around 500 AFL/VFL games or more the average is 4 flags, it's is a stat without bias or subjectivity.

Like there is only one coach to make it to 300 Home and Away games without a flag!

AFL Coaches Tables

Prior to that last Pies flag, MM had one of the worst coaching averages in AFL/VFL history for a premiership coach with so many games under his belt!

Okay so for coaches above 700 games the average number of flags is 3

So it is a strange state you are taking from the history of coaches a pool of 7 and saying their average is, it hardly counts and then there is coaching in the modern era with the number of teams compared to the era of 12 teams.

Most coaches that have a career coaching record above 50% have a good record as a coach, those above 60% are elite.

I am not a fan of Malthouse, but he was successful at the Bulldogs, Eagles and Collingwood, he was just completely awful with us