‘Set the club back five or six years’: Ex-Blue's explosive claims about Mick Malthouse

[n1ck]

Former Blues midfielder Nick Graham has made explosive claims about former Carlton coach Mick Malthouse, questioning his motives about making the move to Ikon Park.

Graham begun his Carlton career at the same time as Malthouse in 2013 and played 48 games for the club before being let go at the end of 2018.

Malthouse had just crossed from arch rivals Collingwood, where he coached 286 games from 2000 to 2011 before being replaced by Nathan Buckley under the now infamous succession plan.

âSet the club back five or six yearsâ: Ex-Blue Nick Graham makes explosive claims about Mick Malthouse

"I thought I went alright and he slammed his hand on the table and he goes 'alright? My brother could play alright AFL football. If you ever dish up another performance like that again you'll never pull on another Carlton jumper."ð¥

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[Kozzie_Magic]

He couldn't get out of the place fast enough once he got the record

 

[Bostonian]

Well that was a nothing story.

 

[RUNVS]

I wonder what happened in the alternate timeline where Carlton didn't sack Ratton.

 

[StonesThrow]

I make it a point to never read something with 'explosive' in the title. 'Slams' is another red flag.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Well done Mick

 

[Kappa]

I wonder what happened in the alternate timeline where Carlton didn't sack Ratton.

Carlton have 19 flags

 

[La Dispute]

He couldn't get out of the place fast enough once he got the record

Malthouse's coaching record or Graham's omission record?

 

[Altum Volantes]

“Most dropped player of all time holds grudge against coach who didn’t rate him”

Seriously though, I think he’s wrong.

Going to Carlton, and Carlton hiring him were driven by the mutually beneficial opportunity to stick it up Collingwood and Eddie McGuire.

Totally what drove that.

Being Carlton, they massively over rated themselves and should have stuck with Ratten for another season at least but they saw the chance to stick it up the Pies and Mick was very keen to do the same.

Didn’t work out but both parties were dreaming of the prospect of pulling off the ultimate ‘one up’ on the old enemy.

 

[Gavin Excell]

I make it a point to never read something with 'explosive' in the title. 'Slams' is another red flag.

Pie Chief lashes out

 

[Toump Ass]

"AFL nobody says what everyone already knows"

 

[iluvparis]

It is a shame we have missed all those flags that Rats has coached his teams to in the mean time.

 

[Rich01]

“Most dropped player of all time holds grudge against coach who didn’t rate him”

Seriously though, I think he’s wrong.

Going to Carlton, and Carlton hiring him were driven by the mutually beneficial opportunity to stick it up Collingwood and Eddie McGuire.

Totally what drove that.

Being Carlton, they massively over rated themselves and should have stuck with Ratten for another season at least but they saw the chance to stick it up the Pies and Mick was very keen to do the same.

Didn’t work out but both parties were dreaming of the prospect of pulling off the ultimate ‘one up’ on the old enemy.

Yep, Matheson and Pratt pulled the strings on this one. They still do on all the important decisions. Anyone out of favour with them doesn’t last long.

 

[theyellowsash]

absolutely agree. ratten had them to finals 3 years in a row, getting close to a prelim and winning a couple finals, and was then dumped after 1 missing out. Literally the same as what hardwick had done for us, except that we hadnt won a final (ratten did) and we did worse in the year we dropped out.

the difference is we kept hardwick, but the blues dumped ratten for malthouse. he absolutely set them back an entire generation.

 

[The Gong]

I make it a point to never read something with 'explosive' in the title. 'Slams' is another red flag.

Mick used these 7 weird tricks to coach Carlton. Try not to cry when you read Number 5.

 

[Pusswah]

Who?

 

[bourbons]

Yeah not sure how 'explosive' that is.

The only even mildly abbrasive thing mentioned was Mick only wanting to coach on to get the games record, reckon people might have joined those dots long before this. The rest would be weekly occurrences at every club in the land, surely - coach gives fringe player a spray, stop the press.

 

[Engimal v3]

Who?

Mick Malthouse

 

[Purple_Turtle]

I imagine he came out with a few more explosive claims as well, such as the sky being blue and Hitler not being a good person?

 

[FRUMPY]

He was on a podcast having a chat, he didn't make any explosive claims etc.....s**t article

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[STFU Donnie]

Only five or six?

 

[The 747]

absolutely agree. ratten had them to finals 3 years in a row, getting close to a prelim and winning a couple finals, and was then dumped after 1 missing out. Literally the same as what hardwick had done for us, except that we hadnt won a final (ratten did) and we did worse in the year we dropped out.

the difference is we kept hardwick, but the blues dumped ratten for malthouse. he absolutely set them back an entire generation.

Same for Geelong back in 2006, we had made finals and done well, then missed out one year and Bomber was under a lot of pressure but we kept him for 2007 and then....

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

As soon as I saw somebody post this on facebook or twitter, I knew it was going to be Nicky G.
I liked Graham. He had his limitations obviously, but I thought he deserved more of a chance. I do find it funny though, that even after all this time to reflect, he thinks that being singled out by Mick for cutting his run throughs short was about Mick showing who's boss and the top dog, and NOT about being a lazy trainer and trying to lift standards for literally cutting corners.
Mick will obviously go down in history as a failure of an appointment for the Blues, but he was also the kick up the arse that most of the players needed.

 

[Pessimistic]

Employed to take the club the ‘next step’ they decided Ratten couldn’t do

one year later told malty to rebuild aggressively. Not what he signed on for, and he didn’t mind saying so

Carlton doesn’t have the cojones to last a ten year hard rebuild, but keep doing it anyway

 

[roacheee]

please send bucks to the blues next............