When Mick threw his hat in the ring I had the same first thought as most of the rest of the forum. Laughter, followed by an immediate shutting down of the idea.
HOWEVER. There are pros (and also the obvious cons).
Pros:
- He's an experienced coach, 3 time premiership coach
- Carlton list as we all know is
awful and their improvement since Mick left isn't that marked to show me that the problem was 100% him
- Our list on the other hand is full of potential, we can go places with our current list. A heck of a lot more potential stars than list cloggers
- Unfortunately the reality is whoever coaches will be compared to Walshy, how will an inexperienced coach handle this in the Adelaide fishbowl? Mick is a known quantity at least.
- I'd love him to put Rucci in his place
Cons:
- Is he past it? Lots of indicators show that he is.
- How involved was he with bringing in the players he recruited to Carlton? Boekhorst with their first pick, Daisy, Liam Jones. Will he bring in guys like that to us if he was to coach us? It's a concern.
- the perception of being a divisive influence, losing players. Sando clearly lost the players, Craigy lost the players toward the end. We don't need or want that again.
- Age while not of massive relevance is a factor. Is he a career coach? I would say not, more a short term solution, whereas our goals are very much medium to long term.
While I'm not advocating the idea of bringing in Mick, I'm probably 65/35 in the favour of *not* signing him as our coach. But I don't reckon it's as black and white (see what I did there) as I first thought. He's certainly not the worst possible option we could go with.
Worsfold #1 choice for mine. Albeit unlikely.