JLT game 3

[kruddler]

The club has a number of issues - this much we can agree on. Malthouse was, IMO, absolutely was one of those issues. I don't believe Ratts was.

My impression, reading your posts over many years, is that you held Ratts directly accountable for the bad culture that you keep referring to, and that you believed Mick would be instrumental in fixing this "bad" culture. This is what my memory remembers - if that's not right, well then I apologize.

The bold part is right.

I wanted Mick to fix the culture and thought he had enough 'c*nt' about him to force change up and down the hierarchy at the club and enough runs on the board to have the respect required. This was on the back of the rookie coach favourite son who simply didn't have the experience. We were still in "we are carlton f*ck the rest" mode and we needed a culture shock.

I never blamed ratten for the culture.
Denis Pagan however......  >

As i said, i was a fan of Ratten. He did wonders from where he got the club. His only issue was inexperience in both coaching/tactics and inexperience in setting up a club for long term success (partially not his problem, but could have helped).

Ratten as our coach now would be better than Ratten as our coach back then.