04-05-2021, 08:32 PM
I think Nick is salty and has his own version of events that explain away a few things.
1. Nicks version of events state that malthouse wasn't in it for the right reasons but stopping short of the line on run throughs states to me that malthouse was big on standards and making sure that players upheld them.
2. Nick allows himself to externalise the blame for his afl career. He was no longer in the young bracket when Bolton came along. Is a bit of rubbish. Nick Holman was delisted ahead of him when bolts came aboard and we were recruiting older blokes for specialist roles. We ended up attracting in a superior version of Graham in gibbons.
3. Malthouse played the older guys because as we can see from when Bolton took over we didn't win too many with too many youngsters playing. Ive never heard of a coach that didn't play favourites. Understanding why a player was favourite was key to working your way into a team though and its usually got to do with trust, attitude and professionalism in getting jobs done not because he likes the person or the way they look.
Ultimately, nicks opinion is a fans opinion, and its not completely wrong because there are elements of truth to everything but setting the club back 5 years wasn't done by mick, it was done by the club and each individual who failed to really step up and peform. Our issues were more to do with archaic styles of management and recruiting. Mick was mick. He too is salty which is why he lines up Marc Murphy.
Malthouse wasn't all bad news and there are still blokes playing for us every week that we recruited under mick and thus far he's been one of the few senior coaches we've had who managed to turn a draftee into a bona-fide superstar who everyone would love to have in their team (cripps).
1. Nicks version of events state that malthouse wasn't in it for the right reasons but stopping short of the line on run throughs states to me that malthouse was big on standards and making sure that players upheld them.
2. Nick allows himself to externalise the blame for his afl career. He was no longer in the young bracket when Bolton came along. Is a bit of rubbish. Nick Holman was delisted ahead of him when bolts came aboard and we were recruiting older blokes for specialist roles. We ended up attracting in a superior version of Graham in gibbons.
3. Malthouse played the older guys because as we can see from when Bolton took over we didn't win too many with too many youngsters playing. Ive never heard of a coach that didn't play favourites. Understanding why a player was favourite was key to working your way into a team though and its usually got to do with trust, attitude and professionalism in getting jobs done not because he likes the person or the way they look.
Ultimately, nicks opinion is a fans opinion, and its not completely wrong because there are elements of truth to everything but setting the club back 5 years wasn't done by mick, it was done by the club and each individual who failed to really step up and peform. Our issues were more to do with archaic styles of management and recruiting. Mick was mick. He too is salty which is why he lines up Marc Murphy.
Malthouse wasn't all bad news and there are still blokes playing for us every week that we recruited under mick and thus far he's been one of the few senior coaches we've had who managed to turn a draftee into a bona-fide superstar who everyone would love to have in their team (cripps).
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Paul Hewson
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