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With the parting of ways between Carlton FC and Mick Malthouse, there looks to be a race to reject the job at Carlton.
In the last 72 hours John Worsfold and Mark Thompson have both stated that the Carlton board should look elsewhere for there next coach. So who is left and who is putting their hand up?
Well to start there are the nine that have done Brendon Bolton, Stuart Dew Matthew Nicks, John Barker, Blake Caracella, Robert Harvey, Adam Kingsley, Simon Goodwin and Simon Lloyd.
Out of them, you can cut Goodwin out. He will take the coaching role at Melbourne at the end of 2016.
John Barker would have to show that he as improve the way the team plays over the next 14 games if he wanted to hold the spot in 2016. The only people in the modern game that has gone on to coach after taking over mid season are Paul Roos and Brett Ratten.
So for Barker to on he will be going against the odds.
Brendon Bolton’s record as a coach from the coaching North Hobart in the SFL then Clarence in the TFL and on to Box Hill give him a record across his coaching career of 95–47.
Stuart Dew would also be on of the frontrunners for the job and was in line to take over from Paul Roos at Melbourne but declined the offer. With his time under Roos and Longmire, he has had great coaching experience.
Robert Harvey – one of Saint Kilda’s greats – has been the understudy of Ross Lyon, Brett Ratten and Nathan Buckley. He has the advantage of knowing some of the senior players. With his playing career, Harvey has seen what it takes to rebuild a team but will he be able to bring that to his time as a coach if he gets the job?
Then they could do what they did in the 80s and 90s and go back to a coach that they had before – by this I mean Ratten. But I think it would be very doutfull that Ratten would want to go back there after the way he departed the club.
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