gerry atric wrote:
Why on earth are we discussing Ratten. Whatever capability as coach he was is irrelevant to how MM is going. For the record I thought at the time that we should never have appointed such an inexperienced coach with such inexperienced support staff without any proper process. All we have to do is assess all candidates without fear or favour and pick the one we think is best. We may not get it right, but we are more likely to get it right than if we grab a favourite son who happens to be an assistant, or throw $1m at a retired coach who seems driven as much by bitterness at his former club as he does by commitment to our club. Discussing which was the worse appointment seems utterly irrelevant. I don't think either of them were right, and unless we put a process in place that at least gives us the best chance (but not a guarantee) of a great new coach we will continue to be lost somewhere last century. I think for the record the two really bad recruiting decisions I think ratts was heavily involved in were the Warnock who has been an overpaid underperformer and our strategy left us (with the decision to trade out Josh K rather than the pick we used on Big K) with 4 similar rucks at similar development, and the McLean one which seemed to be all Ratts and we gave up way to much for a battler. I still can't believe that we had picks 11 and 12 in that draft and failed to get a good long term player with either, that was a deep draft and we got very little. With the Hendo trade for Fev that could have been the draft that set us up, alas not
You make excellent points - but the discussion is why we're at this point and I think our recent history has a lot to do with it.
IMO it's no good throwing out a coach after 2 years based on a theory that he came from the enemy therefore he's evil, and that Ratts was Carlton through and through and should be returned.
Being a bit facetious there, but you know what I mean. The CFC is/was a car wreck in slow motion.
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