One of the recent newspaper stories mentioned Shaw is being courted by a Melbourne based club. Wonder if we could be looking at him as an assistant?

Robert Shaw is a very astute football brain. He could be anyting as a senior coach if the cards fell into place.

Um - he was a senior coach...

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And that was one of his better posts!!!

But the cards didn't fall into place when he was.

They did at North for Pagan, but not at Carlton. You could be the most brilliant mind in the universe, but you're never going to win a premiership if your players are crap.

I have read quite a few things over the past five years which have told me Shaw is head and shoulders above many of the current senior coaches going around. His insight into the caper is quite exceptional.

After Fitzroy he had two years at Adelaide with a state list at his disposal and did FA.

Malcolm Blight took over and immediately won two flags.

Or was that all Shaw's great preparatory work.

Adelaide

1995: 11th
1996: 12th
1997: 1st
1998 1st

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Rhys26, 95% of your posts are having a go at other posters. It's quite psychotic of you. Some may have thought David was psychotic (hence your weird and loony approach to posting here), but he is actually a well-adjusted person, unlike the...

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Well in that case we should get him to mentor Voss

It is quite feasible to say yes, it was.

Voss doesn't need a mentor. Either he gets in and does the job, or he takes on a assistant role and learns what's involved. There is no middle ground.

Wow............

everybody knows Robert Shaw was the second worst
AFL coach EVA............!

complete IDIOT..............!


kindest regards tommi

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Michael Voss said today he's looking for ''What's right for Michael Voss'' and if he were to coach it would be with a club with ''Resources''.
If he isn't commited, and as keen as mustard to coach our club right now then we should go on with what we've got . And in Ratts what we've got is the man we need.
What this club needs right now is a coach that is desperate to succeed, someone who has a deep love of this footy club, someone with a great football brain.
I cannot remember the last time I was happy after a Carlton loss, but today I was proud of the boys and reminded what a great club we support.
Vossy, I've got news for you, this is not about "what's right for Michal Voss'' it's about WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THE CARLTON FOOTBALL CLUB.
Forget the glitz and glamour , I think Ratts is the man .

I had to chuckle when Sheahan said on AW that we had a shocking list & then when Voss was interviewd he said there wasn't much between the 16 teams. He said they were all capable of beating each other

IMHO the deal is done Voss is the man

If Voss wants the job a carlton i rekon he'll get it

It's kinda hard to know how to interpret such comments though. As with the suggestion that reports of us chasing Judd and Pavlich hard being a smokescreen to allow us to lure other uncontracted types with less fanfare. Certainly on face value the interview Voss gave on Ch10 indicated he was probably less than 50/50 to coach in 2008, but the reality might be quite a bit different???

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On 3aw Caro mentioned this about our Ratt's.

A senior Carlton person conveyed to the playing group (either as a group or individually) that if they won 4 of the remaining games then Ratt's would be installed as coach from next year.

Tony Shaw then went on to say "what happens if they win 3?"

Caro's reply was that she had it on good authority "that is what I have been told"...

Anyway right, wrong or indifferent thought I would bring it to your attention.....

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Pratt said it and it was posted here a day or two ago.

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I thought we were tanking.

Give it to Ratts anyway. Voss doesn't have the fire in the belly.

..yeah i agree, Vossy isn't the most media savvy, and all this latest talk could just be his way of throwing off the scent, because in truth he might already be signed up and now him and club are trying to act like they didn't do anything prematurely..

..personally i'd rather ratts..

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