Mick Malthouse
Collingwood has copped a truckload of bumps - mostly off the field - in its quest to win back-to-back premierships.
A year of troublemakers, distractions and criticisms has added fuel to the Pies’ fire. The players will tell you they’re hungry to win consecutive AFL flags under Mick Malthouse’s leadership.
The Pies’ efforts are working to great effect, and the players realise they are in top nick for another crack at the flag.
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Having Mick Malthouse as your coach is like being punished for a crime you haven’t committed. Malthouse is small-minded, bad-tempered, lacks discipline and shirks responsibility. He’s quite unpleasant.
Now we know that he is a liar, and that’s a problem, because lying isn’t a mistake you make, it’s a character flaw.
It is yet another pointy arrow in Malthouse’s quiver of shortcomings, joining his over-sensitivity, profanity and lack of courage.
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A dose of Reality says:
Read up on Monash again, you’ve got it wrong. Currie was a Canadian. If the war had continued for another year Currie would have been appointed by the allies as the High commander (rather than the butcher, haig) with Monash as his deputy. Their co-ordinated use of the different elements… Read more »
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Sean Williams says:
First of all may i beg the indulgence of the moderators on what is, after all, a “football” thread to give my final right to reply to my friend ADoR. All i was responding to was the snide sneering tone we always get from certain Australians whenever the world wars… Read more »
The AFL and its clubs have had no shortage of moral minefields to tip-toe through this year.
From nude photos to boozy cruises to rape charges to senior coaches abusing opposition players to drug trafficking charges, the league has run the gamut of off-field issues. Or, as I like to think of it, they’re a Christmas Day scuffle away from earning their Charlie Sheen Badge.
Two incidents have dominated the airways over the past five days: The tete-a-tete between Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse and St Kilda’s Steven Milne and Richmond’s late-night hotel ruckus .
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Nigel Catchlove says:
Thanks acker. Looked at the reference and particularly enjoyed definition No 5. Ironical - just like ironic but with an -al. Read more »
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Dunno says:
Dunno .. beating your chest a lot? Read more »
The AFL hit rock bottom on Friday night after claims Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse allegedly called Saint forward Stephen Milne a “f***ing rapist” at quarter time.
Milne and his teammate Leigh Montagna was cleared of rape allegations in 2004 following a much-publicised investigation in 2004. The incident shook up the AFL, which has had its fair share of unsavoury revelations amongst its players ever since.
Malthouse is seen on television footage, engaging in a heated exchange with Milne. Magpies assistant coach Paul Licuria also spoke words that were allegedly unpleasant.
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whatever says:
You are wrong and Chris Cairns (the Kiwi player) denied it. Read more »
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Peter says:
@ acker. I didn’t know that. I reckon we should all pass around a collection tin to raise the money to pay for his fine. And like Shane, can’t believe im sticking up for Collingwood stock.. Julie, please spare us the rule book, Mick shouldn’t have to give up $7500… Read more »
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