The Defence

[LP]

I disagree. 5 coaching failures in 20 years is enough circumstantial evidence for mine to point the finger squarely at the club. If Malthouse was the only failure, then sure, I would agree. They all come highly credentialed, flag winners, from successful environments etc., but we'll sort them out, don't you worry about that. Like Sylvester McMonkey McBean's Star Off machine.

I'm not excluding the club, I haven't excluded the club. You're basically arguing Malthouse should be exonerated so the club cannot avoid criticism or responsibility.

I'm arguing the problem was Malthouse and The Club;

Malthouse because the game had game day management practices had past him by, his refusal to change, his refusal to adapt his ways cost him his job.

The Club, because it also lived in the past, appointed a tactically dead autocrat thinking he was a silver bullet. The Club saw a problem in the 2000s, and appointed an 80s solution! It shows just how far out of touch our Board and Executive is or was! They made the same mistake four coaches in a row, and kept blaming the coach when they were really putting the coach's head in a noose!

To this day, some of our game day staff remain, people who have been in residence right through this period of failure, a period through which we demonstrate recidivist losing behaviour, it cannot be a coincidence! It looks to me like somewhere someone in our organisation is a Typhoid Mary, there are not many choices left!