Carlton pasted by Pies (Post Game)

[laj]

No cheap shot mate, you've made no secret of your wish to see Malthouse gone and it colours your judgement, if you can't see it it's not my problem.
Sacking Pagan was the biggest mistake we've made in the last decade, he was a proven coach who was proven as a developer of young players with the ability to build a team from the ground up.
He took over a club that was broke with a shot list then was handed a two year ban from the first two rounds of the draft, the results he achieved in 2004 under those circumstances were a minor miracle.
But football supporters are fickle and we had a weak kneed board, so rather than tough it out we sacked him and put a bloke in his place with almost zero experience to keep the members happy, he was the man who was going to bring back the Carlton swagger if my memory serves me correctly.
The swagger never arrived and five years of lacklustre results later we sacked him to employ the Messiah, and if history is any guide we'll cave in again and sack the Messiah as well, rinse and repeat.
We just don't have the cojones to stick it out, we're always chasing the miracle fix and harking back to the old days when we could buy flags, but those days are long gone and they won't be back.
Don't worry about who the coach is, the club and its supporters need to grow a pair and see things through for a change, that or accept the fact that we'll never be a power again.

No offence but anyone that thinks sacking Pagan was the worst thing we did is, well, struggling. How many spoons, 100pt defeats, 10 goal defeats, record losses could you stomach. It's unbelievable that anyone with any knowledge of the game could think that sacking Pagan was a bad move. No list is ever that bad to go as badly as we did under him. Soon as Ratten came in we went up the ladder and played finals 2 years later, with what was probably an average list too. that alone proved getting rid of Pagan was a good move.