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Daily Mail
10 hours ago
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Footy legend Brendan Fevola calls for drastic change at Carlton - 'the board is just there for themselves'
AFL legend Brendan Fevola has called for fresh faces at Carlton following the club's horror 50-point loss to Port Adelaide on Thursday night. The Blues faithful showed their anger after the Power belting, vandalising the club headquarters early on Friday morning in protest of another failed campaign. Fevola, much like the vandals, took aim at the board more so than under-siege coach Michael Voss. 'Something is wrong, something is going on, the board needs to go, I've been saying that for ages, the board is just there for themselves,' the Carlton Hall of Fame forward said on Fox FM's Fifi, Fev & Nick show. 'Get new people in; get old Carlton people in. 'Everyone is saying, 'Sack Vossy, Vossy needs to go', and I'm like, 'No, I don't think that's the go'. 'It gets to a point where you go, 'I don't think the players are playing for you, mate'. If you're playing for a coach, you don't put up what you put up in that first half. 'They're putting up nothing, they didn't kick a goal for the whole first half. 'They don't look like they've got a system; but they do have a system, they train and they train hard. They are just not performing.' Carlton were in second spot on the ladder in round 19 last year - but have won just seven times since. 'They have the players; if Vossy and the assistants were coaching West Coast, you'd go well, they just don't have the cattle,' Fevola said. 'Carlton were premiership favourites at the start of the year (and) they're not even going to play finals, their season is over. 'I (also) don't know what's wrong with Patrick Cripps. I would just put them all on ice and say you're done, get your body right for next year.' Fevola also took aim at out-of-contract ruckman Tom De Koning, who has been heavily linked to St Kilda on the AFL's most lucrative deal. 'The problem is they have Tom De Koning, who is in our top three players. He's been offered $12million to go to St Kilda and Carlton can't match that,' he said. 'If he's going, don't play him; say to him he needs to make a decision now and if he can't answer that, you're in the twos – get some young kid to play. 'If he doesn't want to stay, just be honest.' Voss' men need to win six of their remaining eight games to qualify for finals - but after a pedestrian performance against the Power, that is highly unlikely.
7NEWS
13 hours ago
- Sport
- 7NEWS
Aussie TV star Dave Hughes makes sad admission about his beloved Carlton
Carlton superfan and TV funnyman Dave Hughes has again addressed the raging crisis engulfing his embattled club. The Blues' season has imploded, fans are fuming, and past coaches and players are crawling out of the woodwork to have their say about the club they once represented. Carlton was belted by Port Adelaide on Thursday night and are now facing brutal clashes against flag contenders Collingwood and Brisbane. The day before the loss to Port, Hughes went viral with an epic rant about following Carlton on Channel 7's hit show The Front Bar. 'We were premiership favourites playing against an under-12 team, we were 40 points up and lost, and our team left at halftime!' he said about the loss to Richmond in Round 1. 'I walked home the MCG to St Kilda in the dark on my own, true story. I was looking for guys with machetes and could not find them, where are they when you need them?' 'This was our year? 30 years! This was it. 'Guys, it's sad. I cannot do it anymore, it's not good for my health. Every weekend from now on I will go to the Wonthaggi area and forage for mushrooms. Cook them up and have a good time. What could go wrong?' That outburst was in the aftermath to Carlton's shock loss to North Melbourne in Round 15. Fans were hoping the Blues would respond against Port, but that ended in a 50-point smashing. On Friday the Hughes tone was more sombre as he admitted it was hard work being a supporter, and his son doesn't go to games anymore. 'I still go to Carlton games because unlike my teenage son I still remember the feeling of winning. Hopefully it happens in my lifetime. I'm trying to keep fit so that I can live another 50 years and see that it does happen. Because the reward if they do get it done will be immense,' he wrote in a News Corp column. 'I'm not blaming individuals. I can't blame individuals. The club has just … it's just … it is just the club. It's the whole club. And it's been going on for 25 years. 'We have torched so many reputations. Talk to Denis Pagan, talk to Mick Malthouse. Two legends of coaching turned up to Carlton and left shattered men. 'I feel sorry for everyone who turns up at the club these days. It's just … it's just so hard. Carlton being bad is actually good for comedy to be honest but I'd still rather not have it happen ... being a Blues fan right now is just hard. It's hard.' Carlton have spent years building the list to a point that was meant to contend in 2025. But there is little hope they will play finals this year and on Friday football boss Brad Lloyd could not confirm if coach Michael Voss would be at the club next year. 'I'm unsure of that,' he said Club great Brendan Fevola says 'something is wrong'. 'Something is going on. The board needs to go, I've been saying that for ages. The board is just there for themselves,' he said on his radio program, The Fox's Fifi, Fev & Nick. 'Get new people in. Get old Carlton people in. Blokes like (former star player) Fraser Brown who would be amazing on the board. 'Everyone is saying, 'Sack Vossy, Vossy needs to go', and I'm like, 'No, I don't think that's the go'. 'It gets to a point where you go, 'I don't think the players are playing for you, mate'. If you're playing for a coach, you don't put up what you put up in that first half. 'They're putting up nothing, they didn't kick a goal for the whole first half. 'They don't look like they've got a system but they do have a system; they train and they train hard. They're just not performing.' Mick Malthouse told 7NEWS it was too easy to 'pot' the coach 'He is a gutsy person who I have the greatest admiration for and I hope he hangs in there,' Malthouse told 7NEWS.
Herald Sun
16 hours ago
- Sport
- Herald Sun
Michael Voss coaching future: Denis Pagan on Carlton coach, culture
Don't miss out on the headlines from AFL. Followed categories will be added to My News. Former Carlton coach Denis Pagan has called on the embattled Blues to hold a club-wide summit in an attempt to fix their decades-long mediocrity instead of sacking Michael Voss. The dual Kangaroos premiership coach, who was sacked by Carlton in 2007 after five frustrating seasons, said the Blues had to stop blaming coaches for their cultural issues and put the collective ahead of personal animosities. While club figures called for calm on Friday, Voss remains under intense pressure to hold his job after the Blues' finals hopes evaporated in an embarrassing loss to Port Adelaide. 'This club has got inherent issues … they keep blaming and sacking coaches,' Pagan told this masthead. 'You could imagine how Michael Voss would be feeling now. I feel sorry for him. How can you coach under these circumstances? They all looked like startled rabbits (on Friday night). 'When I was there, the place was that toxic. It was a snake pit, everyone was potting everyone. There were Chinese whispers, factions and divisions everywhere. 'I reckon there is only one way to go now and that is for everyone to be on the same page.' Pagan urged the Blues leaders to stage a summit in the coming weeks involving the players, the coaching staff, the board, the administration, prominent past players and key coterie heads as a sign of unity, and to push for a series of key indicators to be adopted for the next 18 months. 'You can't sack another coach … that would be stupid,' Pagan said. 'I would bring everyone together in a summit. I'd get them all to work out some key performance indicators, agree to them, and then come together like never before. 'If anyone steps out of life or does not adhere to the plan (the key indicators), then I would give them their marching orders. 'If those key indicators are not met across the next 18 months, and if things are not working, then you can go for it and make a decision (on the coach).' The Blues have sacked six senior coaches this century – Wayne Brittain, Pagan, Brett Ratten, AFL coaching games record-holder Mick Malthouse, Brendon Bolton and David Teague – with Voss under pressure, despite coaching the club to the past two finals series. Pagan also dismissed suggestions the Blues should look at trading out one of their big key forwards Charlie Curnow and Harry McKay. 'I can't understand all the talk about getting rid of Curnow and McKay … you can't get enough talent through the door,' he said. But he stressed Curnow could benefit from tutelage from a star forward of the past, such as North Melbourne great Wayne Carey, 'All I ever see is Charlie putting his hand up and they (the Blues players) put it on his head,' Pagan said. 'Get someone like Wayne Carey down and teach him how to lead … to do a stop-start lead, a diagonal lead, a zig-zag lead. he has only one string to his bow.'
Sydney Morning Herald
21 hours ago
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
Whisper it, but the Panthers can pull off the sports story of the year
I knew it would happen, and it didn't. After my rant last week about the immoral insanity of the Roosters continuing to put Victor Radley out there given his history of concussions – with several particularly troubling ones lately – I knew that the club would come back all guns blazing, insisting they had taken immaculate care of the fiery forward. I knew they would say it was like anyone's damn hide, and particularly mine, to infer otherwise. Instead, not a peep – other than announcing this week that Radley has been stood down for a month before they reassess. Bravo. But I do invite them to think of the consequences of putting him back out there again in late July, only for him to go down once more to concussion, if that happens. It is the very nature of successive concussion and sub-concussive impacts that it takes progressively fewer impacts to do ever more damage. It ain't like healing from a broken bone or a bruise, where you start again virtually as good as new. It's brain damage. That's it. And each new concussion is simply more brain damage. Campo, please put a sock in it … again I gather David Campese isn't talking to me for some reason, so can someone pass this on, gently, please? Campo, mate, any chance you can put a sock in it? I refer to your latest rant on the Wallabies, published in The Oz, on this, the very week that the British and Irish Lions landed in Australia. 'In Australian rugby we haven't got any culture,' you said. 'No-one cares, no-one knows who we are. If you haven't got culture and history, you haven't got anything. Unfortunately, that's where we are in Australia. We've got Joe Schmidt, who still doesn't know about our culture and history. 'He wants to play Joe Schmidt rugby. Now he's got Les Kiss involved, who's a rugby league guy who went out and played and coached in Ireland.' Blah. Blah. Blah. Campo, haven't we heard it all before from you? And many times at that? Loading We get it. Since the day you retired, nothing good has ever happened in Australian rugby, and no-one of remotely your worth has ever worn the jersey. You just don't get respect round here – HEY, YOU KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN! – and you're jack of it. Campo, in a quarter of a century, none of us can recall a single positive thing you've said, while at least being amused that your last major rant was just before the Wallabies exploded into action to beat England at Twickenham last November. I think I mentioned that? Your stuff is so repetitive, I think we can all just assume from this point on that it was better in your day, and everything's rooted now. Let us know if that changes. That would be genuine news. This stuff is just tedious more-of-the same Campo-carping, and, indeed, nobody does care. Just trying to help, mate. Blue Sunday There was a lovely bit of commentary as North Melbourne were giving Carlton a whupping last Sunday. With the Blues ahead by 46 points, the camera panned to a young Carlton supporter bawling his eyes out. 'That is a summation of what's happened to the Blues for that poor young fella,' Fox Footy commentator Mark Howard intoned. 'Mum and dad have brought him to the footy today full of hope.' At this point, his co-commentator Jonathan Brown lightly observed: 'It's bad parenting.' What They Said Manly coach Anthony Seibold: 'What is pressure about? Let's put perspective on it. What's going on over in Israel and Ukraine, that's pressure. The reality is, guys, if you think about life, every single one of us is going to die. Every. Single One. Of. Us. Right? And so if you work back from that point, it's not to be morbid, but you really work out what's important in life. I'm really passionate about coaching, but I'm also passionate about other things as well.' Shades ofWWII fighter pilot and cricketing great Keith Miller's famous line about the 'pressure' of cricket: 'Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not'. Usman Khawaja 's words on the Gaza catastrophe were recalled this week, as he declined to be interviewed by SEN in protest at them standing down cricket commentator Peter Lalor for his own comments on Gaza: 'Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic nor does it have anything to do with my Jewish brothers and sisters in Australia, but everything to do with the Israeli government and their deplorable actions. It has everything to do with justice and human rights.' Precisely. Nick Kyrgios on Wimbledon: 'I don't always feel so comfortable there either because I don't act like the normal tennis player. Wimbledon takes note of that a lot. I definitely feel like a snowman in the desert there but I enjoy it.' Kyrgios on if he could have won the Wimbledon final against Novak Djokovic: 'Definitely. It was only a couple of points here and there where, if I'd acted a bit differently, I would have had a Wimbledon title. But there's no shame in losing to the greatest of all time. Do I think about it often? Yes. Do I think about what I could have changed? Yes. Could I have prepared better? No. I prepared amazingly.' Loading Ezra Mam on bouncing back from his atrocities last year: 'For me now it's about getting back to who the real Ezra is.' Sounds like a plan. LA Ram Kobie Turner on playing a regular season NFL game in Australia: 'We get the opportunity to put our brand on the line, the Rams, the NFL brand on the line.' Dunno. Wouldn't it be easier to do it as a curtain-raiser to the NRL's Las Vegas game, and get the 100 million viewers some were optimistically hoping for – three times the number of viewers the Super Bowl gets outside the USA! Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on winning the NBA title and finals MVP: 'It doesn't feel real. So many hours. So many moments. So many emotions. So many nights of disbelief. So many nights of belief. It's crazy to know that we're all here, but this group worked for it. This group put in the hours, and we deserve this.' Minjee Lee on winning the Women's PGA Championship: 'I knew exactly where I was in terms of like the scores. But I just want to be clear. Like I definitely was nervous starting the day. I wasn't really sure if it was the heat that was making my heart beat more . . . I looked calm, but not as calm as everybody thinks.' OKC Thunder's Isaiah Hartenstein after they won the NBA title and didn't know how to pop the corks and were going onto YouTube to find out: 'None of us knew how to do it.' Usman Khawaja: 'I still feel like I'm playing really well. I bat at the top of the order, so there's going to be times where I don't score runs, there's going to be times where I do score runs. Stats don't lie.' Tennis player Taylor Fritz considers the possibility of never winning a grand slam title: 'I'd probably think about it forever if I don't do it.' Team of the Week Loading Alex Ducas. The Australian player with the OKC Thunder is now an NBA champion. Canterbury Crusaders. Won their 13th Super Rugby title. Everyone else collectively has just 15. It's getting to the point where an annual Crusaders vs Best of the Rest match would be interesting – and balanced. Nicola Olyslagers. The Australian high jumper won her second straight Diamond League event. British & Irish Lions. Take on the Force on Saturday night in Perth.
The Age
21 hours ago
- Sport
- The Age
Whisper it, but the Panthers can pull off the sports story of the year
I knew it would happen, and it didn't. After my rant last week about the immoral insanity of the Roosters continuing to put Victor Radley out there given his history of concussions – with several particularly troubling ones lately – I knew that the club would come back all guns blazing, insisting they had taken immaculate care of the fiery forward. I knew they would say it was like anyone's damn hide, and particularly mine, to infer otherwise. Instead, not a peep – other than announcing this week that Radley has been stood down for a month before they reassess. Bravo. But I do invite them to think of the consequences of putting him back out there again in late July, only for him to go down once more to concussion, if that happens. It is the very nature of successive concussion and sub-concussive impacts that it takes progressively fewer impacts to do ever more damage. It ain't like healing from a broken bone or a bruise, where you start again virtually as good as new. It's brain damage. That's it. And each new concussion is simply more brain damage. Campo, please put a sock in it … again I gather David Campese isn't talking to me for some reason, so can someone pass this on, gently, please? Campo, mate, any chance you can put a sock in it? I refer to your latest rant on the Wallabies, published in The Oz, on this, the very week that the British and Irish Lions landed in Australia. 'In Australian rugby we haven't got any culture,' you said. 'No-one cares, no-one knows who we are. If you haven't got culture and history, you haven't got anything. Unfortunately, that's where we are in Australia. We've got Joe Schmidt, who still doesn't know about our culture and history. 'He wants to play Joe Schmidt rugby. Now he's got Les Kiss involved, who's a rugby league guy who went out and played and coached in Ireland.' Blah. Blah. Blah. Campo, haven't we heard it all before from you? And many times at that? Loading We get it. Since the day you retired, nothing good has ever happened in Australian rugby, and no-one of remotely your worth has ever worn the jersey. You just don't get respect round here – HEY, YOU KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN! – and you're jack of it. Campo, in a quarter of a century, none of us can recall a single positive thing you've said, while at least being amused that your last major rant was just before the Wallabies exploded into action to beat England at Twickenham last November. I think I mentioned that? Your stuff is so repetitive, I think we can all just assume from this point on that it was better in your day, and everything's rooted now. Let us know if that changes. That would be genuine news. This stuff is just tedious more-of-the same Campo-carping, and, indeed, nobody does care. Just trying to help, mate. Blue Sunday There was a lovely bit of commentary as North Melbourne were giving Carlton a whupping last Sunday. With the Blues ahead by 46 points, the camera panned to a young Carlton supporter bawling his eyes out. 'That is a summation of what's happened to the Blues for that poor young fella,' Fox Footy commentator Mark Howard intoned. 'Mum and dad have brought him to the footy today full of hope.' At this point, his co-commentator Jonathan Brown lightly observed: 'It's bad parenting.' What They Said Manly coach Anthony Seibold: 'What is pressure about? Let's put perspective on it. What's going on over in Israel and Ukraine, that's pressure. The reality is, guys, if you think about life, every single one of us is going to die. Every. Single One. Of. Us. Right? And so if you work back from that point, it's not to be morbid, but you really work out what's important in life. I'm really passionate about coaching, but I'm also passionate about other things as well.' Shades ofWWII fighter pilot and cricketing great Keith Miller's famous line about the 'pressure' of cricket: 'Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not'. Usman Khawaja 's words on the Gaza catastrophe were recalled this week, as he declined to be interviewed by SEN in protest at them standing down cricket commentator Peter Lalor for his own comments on Gaza: 'Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic nor does it have anything to do with my Jewish brothers and sisters in Australia, but everything to do with the Israeli government and their deplorable actions. It has everything to do with justice and human rights.' Precisely. Nick Kyrgios on Wimbledon: 'I don't always feel so comfortable there either because I don't act like the normal tennis player. Wimbledon takes note of that a lot. I definitely feel like a snowman in the desert there but I enjoy it.' Kyrgios on if he could have won the Wimbledon final against Novak Djokovic: 'Definitely. It was only a couple of points here and there where, if I'd acted a bit differently, I would have had a Wimbledon title. But there's no shame in losing to the greatest of all time. Do I think about it often? Yes. Do I think about what I could have changed? Yes. Could I have prepared better? No. I prepared amazingly.' Loading Ezra Mam on bouncing back from his atrocities last year: 'For me now it's about getting back to who the real Ezra is.' Sounds like a plan. LA Ram Kobie Turner on playing a regular season NFL game in Australia: 'We get the opportunity to put our brand on the line, the Rams, the NFL brand on the line.' Dunno. Wouldn't it be easier to do it as a curtain-raiser to the NRL's Las Vegas game, and get the 100 million viewers some were optimistically hoping for – three times the number of viewers the Super Bowl gets outside the USA! Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on winning the NBA title and finals MVP: 'It doesn't feel real. So many hours. So many moments. So many emotions. So many nights of disbelief. So many nights of belief. It's crazy to know that we're all here, but this group worked for it. This group put in the hours, and we deserve this.' Minjee Lee on winning the Women's PGA Championship: 'I knew exactly where I was in terms of like the scores. But I just want to be clear. Like I definitely was nervous starting the day. I wasn't really sure if it was the heat that was making my heart beat more . . . I looked calm, but not as calm as everybody thinks.' OKC Thunder's Isaiah Hartenstein after they won the NBA title and didn't know how to pop the corks and were going onto YouTube to find out: 'None of us knew how to do it.' Usman Khawaja: 'I still feel like I'm playing really well. I bat at the top of the order, so there's going to be times where I don't score runs, there's going to be times where I do score runs. Stats don't lie.' Tennis player Taylor Fritz considers the possibility of never winning a grand slam title: 'I'd probably think about it forever if I don't do it.' Team of the Week Loading Alex Ducas. The Australian player with the OKC Thunder is now an NBA champion. Canterbury Crusaders. Won their 13th Super Rugby title. Everyone else collectively has just 15. It's getting to the point where an annual Crusaders vs Best of the Rest match would be interesting – and balanced. Nicola Olyslagers. The Australian high jumper won her second straight Diamond League event. British & Irish Lions. Take on the Force on Saturday night in Perth.
