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Tom Morris - in the studio with the latest on Voss and Carlton (12.05.26)

11 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What recent news did Tom Morris break about Michael Voss?

0.031 - 15.231 Gary Lyon

Breakfast with Gary and Tim. You know, I don't coach for my job. I coach for building a culture and, you know, hopefully by the time I leave here, you know, we've got winning behaviours and I understand clearly what that looks like.

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15.452 - 37.024 Unknown

He knows, he's a realist, that our performance needs to get better and he's working really hard to get that done and I give him great credit for his want to make our team better. Uh... Well, we're a results-based industry, so naturally if you continue to lose games, Gerard, I would say that there's changes would have to be made

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37.983 - 65.425 Unknown

uh in in some way what that looks like is is not up to me um so we'll just focus on on what is next and i've mentioned it it's boring but um brisbane's up next they're a quality side that are doing some very good things at the moment but um it'll be a hell of a way to uh turn things around there's nothing more frustrating when you see a response and you go do it did i have to do that to get this response is that where we're at i'm the one pushing these buttons when are

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65.725 - 87.649 Tom Morris

Okay, so that was Michael Voss in his press conference post the Brisbane game. Chris Davies, the footy manager on 3RW. Jacob Wiedering was with Gerard and Adam Simpson with Gerard as well. Tom Morris this morning reporting that Michael Voss has resigned as the coach of the Carlton Football Club into his fifth year. And Tom's in the studio with us. Newsbreakers, news people, they don't...

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88.287 - 94.973 Tom Morris

live for these moments, but when they present themselves and you break it first, you deserve the congratulations. So I know that's small.

Chapter 2: How does Michael Voss view the current performance of the Carlton Football Club?

94.993 - 97.976 Tom Morris

It doesn't help Michael Voss or the Carlton Footy Club, but well done.

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97.996 - 109.487 Tim Watson

No, thank you, Gaz. I appreciate it, Tim. It's good to be with you again. Coach sacking days or coach departure days are always different, aren't they? Because it's the biggest news in footy for that day, regardless of who gets it and where it is.

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109.867 - 122.102 Tim Watson

And even though we all believe that Michael Voss' time was probably done towards the end of the year, the fact that it's round 10 is very early on historical... I think Leon Cameron was about round eight. Rarely it's before the bye.

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122.142 - 129.313 Tim Watson

But what it does, it speaks to the fact that he's out of contract, the writing was on the wall, they'd won one game, and there was no future for him at the club beyond this year.

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129.454 - 144.197 Tom Morris

Yeah, and the other thing is, is once you have made up your mind as a club, then you must make the decision. If you can't make up your mind and go, yeah, he's not going to coach us beyond this year, and then go, but let's just pat him out for the next three, four weeks. That's unfair on Vos. It's unfair on everyone.

144.177 - 148.704 Tom Morris

Because he's handled, as I said earlier, he's handled himself really, really well under enormous pressure.

149.245 - 168.955 Unknown

How much of this has been brought on in any way by the fact that even Caro had the story last night that Kenny's now moved into maybe favouritism to take the Tassie job. And there are clubs like Carlton who are going to make a change, but they don't want to be left at the altar. At the altar and not necessarily get their first choice. How do you rationalise that?

168.975 - 186.8 Tim Watson

I think that's a tiny percentage, if at all, because I think the main thing here is, as Gaz said, they knew Voss wasn't the guy going forward and he knew he wasn't the guy going forward. It would be very interesting to know what Essendon are thinking this morning or what Tasmania are thinking this morning now that there's a vacancy and whether that changes their plans.

187.221 - 190.105 Tim Watson

But no, I don't think on this occasion it plays into it too much.

Chapter 3: What reasons are given for Michael Voss's resignation as Carlton's coach?

310.58 - 322.026 Unknown

And they had a lot of candidates for that. They did. And I spoke to somebody who was part of that, very much part of that. And they said in their minds, Michael Voss was the best candidate that was interviewed during that process. Yeah.

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322.462 - 333.943 Tim Watson

I think at the time they needed someone, an iconic figure to set the club straight culturally. You don't agree with that? And so Voss was that personality and that leader. He wasn't that coach, but he was that leader.

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334.043 - 350.394 Unknown

Yeah, no, I think there was, I think, I don't know how, I don't know how strongly that element played into it. I think that they had an exhaustive process and they interviewed a number of candidates. Adam Kingsley missed out. Some of them, yeah, he missed out. And I know June Siracusa was one of them as well.

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350.534 - 365.884 Unknown

So there was a number of people, but they thought at that time, and given where he'd been, he'd been, you know, officer at Port Adelaide, he'd been running the cultural part of it as well. And they actually thought that, okay, second time around, this bloke's going to be even better than first time around because he's got more of a rounded approach to it now.

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365.864 - 386.353 Tim Watson

Yeah. And the other one was Ross Lyon last time. Remember they wanted Ross Lyon and then that was, that was a gazumped at board level because of some alleged incidents over in Perth. And so that's, that tells me that, you know, Voss was their second choice last time anyway, because Ross Lyon had the gig if it just got through that last stage, which of course it didn't.

386.333 - 403.836 Tom Morris

Aaron and Paul, who think we're not paying any respect to Michael. Our first reaction, you must have been listening earlier on, was to acknowledge Michael Voss. And I think we did that for about three minutes. So you mightn't have heard that. And now we're moving on to the next part of the phase, which is who's going to coach the footy club.

403.816 - 414.286 Tim Watson

Yeah, and Chris Davies said it recently, as I said to you, Michael Voss is a realist. He's a big boy, and he doesn't leave the club with his reputation in tatters. Not at all. People love Michael Voss.

414.306 - 423.815 Tim Watson

He's an icon, and he proved with the Elijah Holland situation what a fantastic leader he is, but he's just not the right coach for this moment, and they are two slightly different things, I think, as you guys would appreciate.

423.936 - 428.94 Unknown

Well, the three certainties are life, death, taxes, and if you coach, you're going to get the sack one day. So that's what happens.

Chapter 4: What are the implications of Voss's departure for Carlton's future?

460.496 - 475.405 Tom Morris

I'll do what I need to do. I'll maybe go to games. I'll sit in a box. Maybe I'll sit in the stand, whatever, and not officially take over till 27. Because it's such an early vacancy, is that a possibility?

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476.294 - 484.003 Tim Watson

Well, yes, it is a possibility. But what about the alternative that you appoint someone and they come in and actually coach the last couple of games?

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484.583 - 499.58 Tom Morris

But this is my point. I don't think there's much to be gained from that. They'd be on a bit of a hiding to nothing, I think. Whereas if they view it... That could dilute the impact of somebody coming in and coaching. No, no. Listen, I'm coming and I'm going to come hard at pre-season on October the 1st or whatever.

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500 - 505.086 Tom Morris

But be aware that I'm just sitting back here for the next six weeks and I'm watching every single part of what's going on.

505.066 - 517.398 Unknown

That might rule out a few blokes, though, too, because if you were looking at somebody that currently is employed by... I don't know if it had happened. No, yeah, I understand what you're saying, but you might rule out others that are currently being employed by other football clubs as an assistant coach somewhere.

517.658 - 531.391 Tim Watson

Yeah, so the only reference point we have for an early sacking like this or a coach departure is Leon Cameron at the Giants in 2022. And Adam Kingsley was announced the day or two days after the Giants season finished. Yeah, they waited. So they waited.

531.972 - 533.233 Tom Morris

Who coached the rest of that year for the...

533.213 - 549.383 Tim Watson

It was McVeigh, wasn't it? Spike McVeigh. Spike McVeigh, yeah, who's now at the Swans. So that's the only reference point we have there. But Carlton gets a run at it. And I think it's still a pretty attractive job, albeit laced with some risk because every coach that's gone there in the last 15 or 20 years has been chewed up and spat out.

Chapter 5: Which candidates are being considered for the coaching position at Carlton?

598.953 - 617.372 Tim Watson

I think as well with Josh Fraser, it gives him the opportunity to sell himself as the next Stephen King. So, okay, if it's not going to be at Carlton, which I think is probably unlikely because the interim coach rarely takes over, although David Teague did, then how can he set himself up to be the next coach somewhere else if a vacancy comes up? And that gives him a run at it, doesn't it?

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617.352 - 628.533 Unknown

Well, Ruckman, flavour of the month at the moment. You've got Cox doing particularly well up there in Sydney. You've got King at Melbourne doing a good job. What about this name? Danny Daly. His name keeps surfacing.

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628.974 - 632.059 Tim Watson

Danny Daly's a highly regarded football figure. He's a fantastic football player.

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632.079 - 636.728 Unknown

Do you think he's on some sort of succession plan promise there at the Brisbane Lions, though?

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636.708 - 649.683 Tim Watson

Not that I'm aware of, but I've wondered that for a while, Tim, because they love him. And he's a really highly regarded football person as the footy boss of the Lions. And I think he still harbours some aspirations to coach. Yeah, I don't think he's put it away.

650.104 - 656.371 Unknown

That's what makes me think that... Because I know there have been clubs out there that have been very keen to talk to him.

656.471 - 670.874 Tom Morris

He's a brilliant football person. Like, understands... Every aspect of the game, every aspect of club land. Now, whether that transfers into a senior coaching role, you'd never really know, but I don't think the Chris Fagan experience is going to work against him.

671.254 - 684.096 Tim Watson

No, but also the David Noble experience probably works against him a bit, who was the footy boss and then went to North Melbourne. So I think Danny Daly would be a great senior coach, but what would I know? I mean, I just think he's an excellent person who has the respect of everyone in the football world.

684.076 - 702.739 Unknown

Luke Hodge, is it possible that somebody like a Luke Hodge who hasn't put himself out there to be a coach, but I listen to him with Gerard, and he makes a lot of sense, and he speaks the language, I think, of the player as well. I think he's a very good communicator, and he's a great leader. He's got this charisma about him as an individual.

Chapter 6: How has Carlton's coaching history influenced their current situation?

849.276 - 865.884 Unknown

Isn't that why Graham Wright was there? Therefore, haven't they already made the moves already that they want to make and put whatever they have in place now as part of it? I mean, they're not actually starting their rebuild today because they've got this news about Michael Voss. I mean, that's already begun. They've won one game though, haven't they? I know.

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866.244 - 886.139 Tom Morris

I think whoever this person is has got two years to do exactly that, is go as hard as they want on reshaping this club. reshaping this list. And blow it up. Introducing the Cody Walkers and whoever else. They're coming through though. They're in the pipeline. Yeah, that's right. But take as many of the draft picks as you possibly can until Tasmania get a moratorium on them.

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886.159 - 887.522 Tom Morris

I think there's a little window still for you.

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887.542 - 904.239 Unknown

I don't reckon the coach has that. I don't reckon he's been given that. That's from the club, I think. I reckon the club's already said, okay, this is the direction we're heading. We now need another coach now to finish off the group of players that we've got and complement what we've already started to do.

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Chapter 7: What factors should Carlton consider in their search for a new coach?

904.46 - 913.782 Tom Morris

All right, we'll take a break. Tommy Morris is in the studio. He's got other stuff to talk about as well. But as to be expected, the biggest story today will be Michael Voss resigning as a Carlton coach.

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