AFL great says Blues should entertain blockbuster captain trade<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI think we should take a step back and be more careful about it. They\u2019ve spent a long time setting this season up \u2013 it\u2019s no good going into caretaker mode with 18 games to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it would be reprehensible to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whateley believes the Blues have been \u201caccidentally fuelling the narrative\u201d surrounding Voss and his future at the club in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have the president and the chief executive come out after you\u2019ve seen two games and \u2013 you know they\u2019re not very good \u2013 saying we\u2019re in it to make the 10 and we\u2019re going to win more than we lose nonsense,\u201d Whateley said.<\/p>\n
Blues choke 22-point lead to Roos | 01:40<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you\u2019ve got the GM of footy answering questions \u2018would you guarantee that he\u2019ll coach this week?\u2019. I mean come on! Don\u2019t indulge that. Don\u2019t fuel it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is bad enough as it is.<\/p>\n
\u201cVossy said the other day \u2018I\u2019m not giving three-day updates\u2019 \u2013 well the rest of the damn club is! Stop it already!<\/p>\n
\u201cBack your guy, give him a suitable amount of time and then make your judgments when that time comes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow AFL360 host Garry Lyon believes Voss \u201cisn\u2019t hiding\u201d from the drama surrounding his team\u2019s start to 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are heading towards probably inevitable parting of the ways so that gets everyone in the footy world up and about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you keep doing the same thing over and over and you can\u2019t fix it, I know the players have got to take responsibility. But it comes back to Michael and he knows that \u2013 he\u2019s not silly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe understands that this is a story.<\/p>\n
Voss speaks on fumbling lead v Roos | 09:54<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not leading the charge for sacking a coach\u2026 It\u2019s not as if he\u2019s trying to shirk the responsibility \u2013 he just can\u2019t get the results.<\/p>\n
\u201cI get supporters\u2019 frustrations \u2026 (but) that doesn\u2019t give you the right to make a sport of killing a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n
Voss\u2019 task doesn\u2019t get any easier this week when the Blues take on Gather Round hosts Adelaide at Adelaide Oval on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
His career stats show of the 98 AFL games coached at Carlton, Voss has won 49 of those \u2013 taking the Blues to finals in two of his first three years at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlton are staring down the \u201cbleak\u201d reality of just one win in their opening four games, but Gerard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2095,64,63,689,209258,287905,3239,9203,11387,31208,287904,659,287903,10145,59975,61,2105,7492,287908,287907,19125,287906,647,7804,3257,2041,7204,2067,677,28008,6858,85,2614,660,4899],"class_list":{"0":"post-589183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-career-stats","13":"tag-caretaker-mode","14":"tag-carlton-blues","15":"tag-catherine-healey","16":"tag-chief-executive","17":"tag-club-needs","18":"tag-emotional-plea","19":"tag-footy-world","20":"tag-fumbling-lead-v","21":"tag-garry-lyon","22":"tag-general-motors-company","23":"tag-gerard-whateley","24":"tag-getty-images-inc","25":"tag-hawthorn-hawks","26":"tag-incredible-final-quarter","27":"tag-inevitable-parting","28":"tag-jay-clark","29":"tag-marching-coach","30":"tag-melbourne","31":"tag-melbourne-demons","32":"tag-michael-voss","33":"tag-north-america","34":"tag-north-melbourne-kangaroos","35":"tag-northern-america","36":"tag-oceania","37":"tag-quinn-rooney","38":"tag-richmond","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-united-states-of-america","41":"tag-victoria","42":"tag-virginia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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