How long did malthouse coached collingwood

And the Magpies, with a team full of talent and youth, proved dominant early in the finals series before one of the most tight, tense Grand Finals in history. So this game plan will succumb at some stage. Malthouse knew would be his last season as Pies senior coach, with Collingwood securing a handover transition in that was meant to ensure Buckley would be the senior coach and Malthouse the director of coaching from But after Collingwood lost to Geelong in the Grand Final in a season derailed a little by injury late in the year, Malthouse opted to leave the club.

There were sniggers and sneers and little chuckles when I said my goal, whether we achieved it or not, was to make Collingwood Football Club the Manchester United of the AFL. About Collingwood Forever. Tell Me More. Home News. Latest News Video Podcasts Photos. AFL Clubs. Adelaide Crows. Gold Coast Suns. GWS Giants. North Melbourne. Port Adelaide. St Kilda. Sydney Swans. There's always a genesis and to me that's when it was. I was disappointed [at the end at Collingwood] because it was a really good group of players and we probably had the potential to maybe pinch one or two more Grand Finals.

You can't guarantee victories or premierships, but you can guarantee having an effort to achieve them, and that group was very dear to me. It was running well, confident, playing together and I thought we had a chance to get another one or two.

But it wasn't the case and Nathan [Buckley] wanted to have a complete new start. Contrary to what people want to say, I didn't leave Nathan Buckley high and dry at all. The idea was to have a coaches' director, but he didn't want me in the box, he didn't want me on the bench and he didn't want me talking to his coaches. So it's very hard to be coaching director if you can't have access to the coaches. I thought if that's the way he wants it — it was contrary to what we'd agreed to — I respect the coach and what he wants to do.

You don't want to be encumbered by something you don't want, so it was best for me to leave. I wanted to go to Richmond [after finishing at West Coast in ], but there was someone at Richmond I couldn't work with.

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire had easily the best case because what he presented was about the future. I'm very much a windscreen person, not a rear-vision mirror person. You can look back too often. You've got to remember Collingwood was on the bottom, 16th, low membership, broke, totally on its knees playing at Victoria Park, when he said, 'This is what our vision is'. I would have loved to have coached Richmond, loved to have. But not while that person was there.

And history is now that I coached at Collingwood for 12 years. When I went to West Coast they had no money. Football was absolutely on its knees in Western Australia, including West Coast.

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Key points: Mick Malthouse said year-old former Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams was a good candidate Malthouse said Hawthorn assistant coach Sam Mitchell was "a great player" but was still unproven as a coach He used NRL supercoach Wayne Bennett, who is 71 years old, as an example of the benefit of experience.

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