Resigned Carlton coach Michael Voss sensed \u201cthe inevitable was starting to become clearer\u201d after a meeting with club executives.<\/p>\n
Voss met with his manager last week in Brisbane and made the decision to resign before coaching the club for one last time.<\/p>\n
The former champion player left an earlier dinner with Graham Wright (CEO) and Rob Priestley (president) feeling he needed to \u201celevate\u201d discussions about his future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think your read in these situations is often what they don\u2019t say, not what they do say,\u201d Voss told AFL.com.au in part.<\/p>\n
\u201cI read enough into what they didn\u2019t say, it was on shaky ground and the inevitable was starting to become clearer.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the fighter in you and competitor in you wants to take it as far as you can.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think during the week last week was the first time I sort of sat with a result the week before and thought about where the group was it, where the club currently was and where they needed to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cThinking about that more deeply, reflecting on that I felt like it was time to elevate those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Voss said he wanted to have made the decision before coaching against Brisbane to avoid the risk of acting on emotion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d just been feeling, particularly the last week, that it was time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy that conversation was important was because I didn\u2019t want the result, whether we got the result done or we didn\u2019t get the result done, to be the emotional or acute response to change my mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe if you won under those circumstances, and it\u2019s all hypothetical right, you sort of think, \u2018I\u2019ve been swept up in that emotion and maybe I hang a little bit longer\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I didn\u2019t want the game to do that, if I was feeling that, which was the first time I felt that, I was getting to a point where a decision had to be made.<\/p>\n
\u201cI talked to Chris Davies soon afterwards and the wheels got put in motion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Voss spoke to AFL.com.au instead of facing the media alongside Wright, Priestley and Dawes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He being \u201cat peace\u201d with the decision hadn\u2019t made telling the playing group any easier.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a few days to think about it and then you get the final pieces of the puzzle but there\u2019s one thing knowing it and another saying it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday you obviously get to say it.\u201d<\/p>\n