Mick Malthouse
Mick Malthouse
Michael "Mick" Malthouseis a former Australian rules footballer and former Australian Football Leaguecoach and current media personality. Although his playing career included a premiership for Richmond in 1980, he is best known for his long coaching career at four clubs...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 August 1953
CityBallarat, Australia
breath cast happen interest last might mind point position time watch wing
Cast your mind back last year, a point is scored, you in your position might use that time and go, 'Gee, someone on the wing is getting slaughtered', you'd take a breath and watch with interest what was to happen next.
ball ben catch far learnt maligned
Ben has been much maligned as far as his helicopters go but we've learnt to catch the ball side-on, so that's a bonus.
assess players tonight
Tonight was just to get the players through, get back to Melbourne, assess where we're at and then make decisions.
bit grace might rid
We were told 30 (seconds) we might give them a bit of grace. Get rid of it. Don't give them any grace or don't give them anything and let them take a minute.
eight four games judge rules
The new rules are now eight games old and we'll have a look at another four games on the weekend, of which we participate in one of them, and we'll judge it at the end of the year.
circumstance fair forum given react wonder
The only forum I know of is the coaches' conference. We're not given a fair say. Under those circumstances, you wonder why we react the way we do.
against career games kid proven start
I think the kid has proven that he can play football, but it's two games and let's let him get into his career before we start making him into something he's not. We'll be guarding against that.
citizens senior
They're senior citizens and we let them have the day off.
game hand injured perhaps played
He went into the game with an injured hand and perhaps that played on his mind.
knows
He just knows where to get the footy.
chris competition frustrated player
Chris Tarrant is probably the most frustrated player in the competition and he has every right to be.
game time
At this time of year, what we want him to do is get some game time and that is what he did.
crowd watch yell
You watch the crowd yell play-on. They get involved.