AFL Rd 17 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs West Coast

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Lets be realistic Voss was last man standing territory after Clarkson, Lyon all bailed on the job for different reasons and wasnt a popular pick with a lot of supporters either given his previous history as a coach at Brisbane where he made some horrendous recruiting decisions and buggered the club up for a fair period.
However his skillset has proven what we need given he was an aggressive hard midfielder himself and we were a talented list in the making but playing a soft bruise free brand. He seems to have learned to leave the recruiting to the experts and has a good team of assistants headed by Hansen and off field he doesnt have to think about much with Cook running a stable administration finally and the Prez after a poor start also learning to leave it to the experts.
Its about building a finals team that can play repeat finals series now and stay in the window imho,

I think that's largely false media speculation EB.  Clarkson, Buckley and Scott were never genuine candidates and Lyon ruled himself out when he realised that Greg Williams was intending to go through a proper selection process (Lyon probably realised that Diesel would see right through him).  The real contenders for the job were Voss, King and Giansiracusa.

A few supporters may have thought that Voss's time at Brisbane meant that he would never be a senior coach again.  Many thought that his experience as Brisbane's senior coach, his highly valued work as an assistant coach at Port Adelaide, and his stellar playing career made him the ideal person to make our club competitive again, and that has proved to be the case.

Of course, Voss's assistants are a huge improvement over what Bolton and Teague had (with the possible exception of Craig), but that's largely down to Voss understanding what was required and getting his own way.

And I don't think we played soft, bruise-free footy under Bolton and Teague; we played hard but without much purpose or direction.