Carlton chief executive Steven Trigg is confident speculation over Mick Malthouse’s coaching future will not affect the Blues’ onfield performances this year.
Malthouse, whose contract runs out at the end of the season, asserted in an interview on Channel Nine on Thursday night that his uncertain coaching status would eventually become a distraction to players and assistant coaches as it had done at Collingwood.
Trigg said Malthouse was doing a fantastic job, and while he acknowledged “there will be some conjecture”, he reaffirmed the club’s decision not to speak to the coach about his future until the second half of the season which, he added, would be the last thing on players’ minds during a game.
“If it was fleshed out with Mick I have no doubt that he would say that when a player has his head over the footy he’s not thinking about that contract,” Trigg said from the club’s season launch on Friday.
“They’re simply not.
“They’re thinking about getting the ball, the next play etcetera.
“It will be in their minds because frankly (the media) will bring it up, but in terms of the way they go about playing, at that level, it’s not a distraction.”
Trigg said that he spoke to Malthouse almost daily about the future direction of the club and his role in it, with his contract situation to “take care of itself” at a later date.
Malthouse has undertaken an extensive remodelling of Carlton’s list over the past two years and raised some eyebrows at the launch when he said “it’s very, very difficult to see where we’re going to lose a game” this season.
“I loved it – that’s how coaches should think,” Trigg said.
“Our list has some work to do on it, we need to build some depth, we know that.
“That’s the reality, but I would like to think that Carlton supporters will see that growth through the year.
“I love a coach who thinks `I can’t see where we’re going to lose one’ – that’s exactly the way he should be thinking.”
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