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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Tuesday morning. This is your town. This is your station. This is Waitley. Good morning. There has rarely been a clearer case of a coach set up to fail like Michael Voss this year at Carlton. A team deliberately taking steps backwards for the long term, but with a coach in the final year of his contract fitted up for judgement. It couldn't work.
It was near identical to the Giants' handling of Leon Cameron in 2022.
Chapter 2: What led to Michael Voss's departure from Carlton?
Cameron coached his last game in Round 9. Voss coached his last game in Round 9. The lesson here is eternal. A club can't be half-hearted on its coach. You either believe in him or you don't. Crossing your fingers and closing your eyes, wishing and hoping and thinking and praying never works. And as soon as you waver, it's over. Carlton did plenty of wavering and Voss never had a chance.
Carlton has ridden the doom loop from the opening moments of its season. Worse, it has actively spun the doom loop. It was foolish making statements about the top 10 once they'd seen the reality of the team. It set expectations that could never be met. It smacked of a club that couldn't level with its fans base.
And while Voss held his dignity and refused to engage in the three-day updates on his job, there seemed always a willing administrator to do just that. Until ultimately the only question that matters, am I in your future plans? Once the answer was no, it was time to put an end to the misery. Carlton's litany of sacked coaches grows.
Brett Ratton, Mick Malthouse, Brendan Bolton, David Teague, and now Michael Voss. Three of the five in the first half of seasons. None of it has unlocked the path to what modern success looks like.
It's more likely that it's created the leaden weight of consequence that sits so heavily over the Blues and the footy equivalent of PTSD that grips the senior players who have lived through the familiar path to dismissal. There are Blues supporters who have no other ideas than to sack the coach. You have another head on a stick today. Congratulations. Are you happy? Is the club better off?
What happens now? As the epitaphs are written on Michael Voss's five seasons with the Blues, let it be remembered he took the team to its first preliminary final since the David Parkin era. It was a glorious and unlikely late season run that reminded us of what Carlton once was and aspired to be and is not anymore. The stands of the MCG shook at the climax of that semifinal.
It felt like deliverance. In hindsight, it was a miracle. The slide since has been dispiriting and clearly exhausting. Voss's Carlton has the fatal flaw of not being able to halt momentum, whether that be tactical, attitudinal or spiritual. Jacob Wiedering said it with us last week. It's happening again. This morning, it's all happened again. The coach is gone at Carlton in a tale as old as time.
One thing as a senior coach, you never lose hope as much as the ridicule is around you and the pressure's on. I think the day you lose your personal self-belief and hope that you can turn it around, then you're done.
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Chapter 3: How did Carlton's management contribute to Voss's fate?
Well, you never give up. In his private moments, he would now recognise he's not getting another contract, wouldn't he? If that's the case, then you should knock on the door. I think we're a bit weird, the coaches. We're not rational sometimes. I'm sure there's a belief piece there that he's a waver, of course, and there's a little bit of hope there.
But if you lose your hope and your belief, then there's no point.
What is the goal of your board? He needs to ask questions back of them and to find out what they expect from him. And they might not be able to give him the correct answer. But you're the coach. You've got to ask that question. You've got to go and ask a direct question around your future. You know, where am I at? How long can this go on?
Are you strong enough to stand behind me still and with me still? Or is there something that I need to know today in preparation for myself? I would think there's change coming at Carlton. I hope not for Michael's sake, but I think... With what we're seeing, there's probably some sort of change coming and he needs to have that correct answer. 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 in some way.
So Jacob Wettering knew that it was coming on Thursday. At halftime on Friday night, this was precisely what was going to happen. Then there was the fight, but then they had the chat. So there we are. The Michael Voss era is done at Carlton. Another coached sack at the Blues.
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