The simmering public stoush between former Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse and Magpies president Eddie McGuire has continued on Melbourne radio on Sunday.
The former coach responded angrily to McGuire saying Malthouse's premiership winning game-plan went from "revolutionary to middle class" in the space of two years in the Sunday Herald Sun.
Malthouse fired back at McGuire on 3AW before saying ...he felt Collingwood players were torn between following new coach Nathan Buckley's game style and his own.
The three-time premiership coach rubbished claims his game-plan was picked apart by opposition teams before the end of 2011.
"Well I don't remember the president being in on the match committee," Malthouse said.
"So he was saying [the game-plan] was too familiar.
"If that's the case, then the [Hawthorn] great John Kennedy had it wrong.
"Predictability is your greatest asset because everyone knows your game structure but you know it better than most.
"If that game-plan was finished then it was finished. If it was no good, I'm sorry we did our best."
Malthouse said he noticed a 'massive difference' in Collingwood's play this season.
"I believe there's been a shift with the game-plan to start with and I think that any coach that comes in to introduce a game-plan is going to have, not resistance, but sometimes uncertainty and an adjustment," he said.
"Nathan Buckley is a strong willed person, he's got his own ideas about how the game should be played, he's playing more corridor and they appear to want less stoppages.
"Secondary stoppages were, I believe, fundamental to our structure.
"There's a different forward line structure, marginally, because it doesn't have, probably, the same intent."
Malthouse touched on one example from Friday night's game against Collingwood, where defender Alan Toovey tried to clear the ball from defence, only to land in the lap of a Carlton player and a resultant goal.
Toovey's former coach suggested he might have been caught in between following the new coach's instructions of trying to bring the ball back through the corridor and old habits during the Malthouse era.
"When players instinctively work to the game structure they've been used to for some time and all of a sudden they have this slight change… [then that] creates uncertainty," he said.
"I watched Alan Toovey under pressure [on Friday night], last year he would have put that ball within inches of the boundary line.
"It's a massive difference in my view to the game structure, that player chose inboard as opposed to boundary."
The former coach responded angrily to McGuire saying Malthouse's premiership winning game-plan went from "revolutionary to middle class" in the space of two years in the Sunday Herald Sun.
Malthouse fired back at McGuire on 3AW before saying ...he felt Collingwood players were torn between following new coach Nathan Buckley's game style and his own.
The three-time premiership coach rubbished claims his game-plan was picked apart by opposition teams before the end of 2011.
"Well I don't remember the president being in on the match committee," Malthouse said.
"So he was saying [the game-plan] was too familiar.
"If that's the case, then the [Hawthorn] great John Kennedy had it wrong.
"Predictability is your greatest asset because everyone knows your game structure but you know it better than most.
"If that game-plan was finished then it was finished. If it was no good, I'm sorry we did our best."
Malthouse said he noticed a 'massive difference' in Collingwood's play this season.
"I believe there's been a shift with the game-plan to start with and I think that any coach that comes in to introduce a game-plan is going to have, not resistance, but sometimes uncertainty and an adjustment," he said.
"Nathan Buckley is a strong willed person, he's got his own ideas about how the game should be played, he's playing more corridor and they appear to want less stoppages.
"Secondary stoppages were, I believe, fundamental to our structure.
"There's a different forward line structure, marginally, because it doesn't have, probably, the same intent."
Malthouse touched on one example from Friday night's game against Collingwood, where defender Alan Toovey tried to clear the ball from defence, only to land in the lap of a Carlton player and a resultant goal.
Toovey's former coach suggested he might have been caught in between following the new coach's instructions of trying to bring the ball back through the corridor and old habits during the Malthouse era.
"When players instinctively work to the game structure they've been used to for some time and all of a sudden they have this slight change… [then that] creates uncertainty," he said.
"I watched Alan Toovey under pressure [on Friday night], last year he would have put that ball within inches of the boundary line.
"It's a massive difference in my view to the game structure, that player chose inboard as opposed to boundary."
) because I just don't wanna watch Eddies ugly face on tv any more lol.
