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Well, it's a long time to have an interim, isn't it, from round eight on?
I think in an ideal world, you wait until the back...
Haven't we seen that?
Wasn't that the Damien Hardwick scenario at Gold Coast?
I have to recheck that timeline, but I've got a vague recollection that Stephen King was in the chair when Damien Hardwick was appointed, I think.
I'm pretty sure that was the case.
It doesn't experience matter anymore.
Well, Carlton have it in the past.
I mean, they've had a bit each way, but they've gone down this path multiple times before with coaches who have started again and it hasn't worked out.
Vossi, you can go back to Pagan, Malthouse.
So they've had a few cracks that way.
I know they appointed David Teague after that period where he had success as an interim, but it feels like Carlton have been down this path before.
So the league is going to release the next block of games in mid-May.
This will be straight after the conclusion of round nine.
But whereas in the past they've revealed round 16 to 23 with that floating final round,
Now, this would allow them, their fixture boffins there, to guard against the primetime fizzes late in the season, of which we had plenty last year, given it just completely fell away at Essendon and Carlton late last season.
Yeah.
So this guards against that.
But also, you know, people are on the back of these contentious Friday night doubleheaders.