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Tom Morris breaking that Michael Voss has resigned from Carlton (12.05.26)
11 May 2026
Chapter 1: What breaking news does Tom Morris share about Michael Voss?
We're about to go to a man that's going to set the news agenda for today and tomorrow and the day after. If you're a footies fan, if you're a Carlton fan, tune in. Tom Morris joins us. He was going to join us out of eight, but he's here right now. Tommy, what can you tell us?
Morning, Gary. Morning, Tim. Yes, the day has come at Carlton. Michael Voss has decided to resign effective immediately, so he will not coach the Blues again.
Right. Wow. And... Do you think that this is Michael Voss coming to the realisation that his time at Carlton has come or is it a negotiated outcome with the Blues suggesting to him that, look, we've made our decision, we can give you the opportunity to resign because we know that happens in footy?
Yeah, the Blues really respect Michael Voss, clearly. Lots of people doing football. I think they made it pretty clear to him that they weren't going to continue with him beyond this year.
Chapter 2: What were the circumstances surrounding Michael Voss's resignation?
It was up to him. how he proceeded from here, and he decided to resign himself rather than drag it out another few weeks and just put on a brave face. And I think the quote from Chris Davies, their football boss on the weekend, or maybe a couple of weeks ago when he said Michael Voss is a realist, is exactly how this has played out now.
I think that was, I thought that was from the weekend, Tom, but do you think this conversation, do you think this news was delivered to Voss, say, in the last 24 hours, that he wasn't going to be the coach going forward and they've already made that decision?
Look, I'm not sure exactly when the news was delivered to him, but what I do know is that there's been really open dialogue for quite a while now between Graeme Wright and him and Chris Davies and him, and it's
Possibly not too similar from the situation where Graeme Wright went for a walk with Nathan Buckley around Collingwood's training oval in 2021 and just made it pretty clear in the best way possible that the club wouldn't proceed forward.
So, look, the sackings and the sackings, I'm not sure this comes as a surprise to anyone, but I'm terming it a resignation because he's decided that he will step away now knowing that he wouldn't be coaching next year anyway. So you can phrase it however you want, but it's semantics because he won't be coaching Carlton again.
Okay, is there an expectation that they will hold a media conference today or not?
Yeah, there's an expectation this will be announced today. I'm not sure whether Michael Voss will be a part of that. But what I do believe is that Josh Fraser will be the interim coach. And as far as I can tell, that's been on the cards for quite some time as well. I know Caro's been quite big on that.
Tommy, we're going to let you go. You've broken this story this morning, so well done to you. You're going to rejoin us at eight. I imagine that your phone's running hot and you've got calls to make, but well done. Thanks for joining us. We'll talk again at eight o'clock.
Thank you. I'll rush in there. See you guys soon.
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Chapter 3: How did the Carlton Football Club communicate with Michael Voss?
I don't want to dance on the grave of Michael Voss, but it's a coup when a journalist breaks a story like that, Gary. Obviously, the attention quickly turns to, okay, who's going to coach Carlton, that type of thing. But your reaction first to the fact that Michael Voss has decided to move now?
No, no surprise. Well, I don't profess to know, but last week we talked about the options that were open and available to the Carlton Footy Club. And, of course, one of them was that however it comes about, whether he's sacked or whether he resigns, is that Michael's no longer the coach of the Carlton Footy Club. What I will say is this.
So just repeating the news, if you've just joined us, Tom Morris reporting that Michael Voss has resigned effective immediately as the coach of the Carlton Football Club. He suspects that Josh Fraser will be the interim coach for the rest of the season. Tom will be back at eight o'clock. A lot can happen between half past seven and eight o'clock.
So he'll be working the phones and he'll be back with us out of eight o'clock. My immediate reaction is, so I'm not a smart ale, I'm not into the news breaking game, so I'm not surprised, but B, I want to congratulate Michael Voss for the way he has conducted himself throughout the course of this year. So history may judge him as ultimately being unsuccessful from a coaching point of view.
Now, that's harsh, but he coached Brisbane to a final. He coached the Carlton Footy Club to a prelim final. But what he has done under enormous pressure and scrutiny and been the lead story for most of the Mondays throughout the course of this year with the manner they've played and
media camping out at Carlton, all those things, and this is not a knock on the media, the way he's conducted himself and handled himself in front, he never backs away. He fronts up to every request pre-game. He speaks positively. Post-game, he goes to the press conference and tries to explain the unexplainable. I think he's done it in such a manner that he loses absolutely no fans.
And in the end, coaching might not be the profession that he wanted it to be, but I don't think he's lost one fan whatsoever in the process.
I think there were some moments there in recent times where there was probably an inkling as to how he was thinking and where he was going because his narrative around his team shifted. It was that he was doing everything in his power to protect the players from any criticism that might come their way from him. But then it started to shift ever so subtly around the
The players, we've been over that before. That's what we've done before. Whatever it might be, this is what I've been asking the players to do. They haven't been delivering on that. So I think there has been a subtle shift over that period of time. I'm surprised that he lasted this long under that sort of pressure because it wasn't just this year.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Voss's resignation for Carlton's future?
there at carlton over a long long period of time and everyone questioning a lot of a lot of carlton fans questioning you know um him being the coach and then even the conversations around whether or not he was going to continue on this year at the end of last year and then we had the story about the fact that graham wright had actually approached yeah uh craig mccray and which they deny but then others believe that that was categorically 100 true so um
But they also made the decision to go with him after, whether they put some feelers out or not that weren't reciprocated. Then Graeme Wright makes the decision to stay with him. And ultimately, they've stayed with him for nine weeks. That's the next part of it all.
But they gave him nine, say they've given him nine weeks. And maybe they're prepared to give him another month or two. And he just decided, okay, if you've made up your mind now, and you're telling me that there's no chance that I can possibly coach going forward, then I'm just going to get myself out of this vice right now.
Okay, so we're working the phones as well, so we'll get calls in to everyone we need to. People go to ground at this stage, but as Tim rightly points out, the conversation now will quickly turn to who it is. Ken Hinckley linked last night to the Tasmanian job. Does he become a part of this process? There's John Longmire. who you suspect has just got the coaching itch again.
He'll be very much front and square. Adam Simpson, who declared that he's got no interest while Michael Voss was in that role. Did they revisit him, given that he's been down there in an informal role as well? All these balls are in the air right now. So just repeating the news, Michael Voss has resigned as coach of the Carlton Football Club, effective immediately.
Tom Morris breaking that story this morning. We'll be back with more after this.
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