Michael Voss has struck a defiant tone after leaving Carlton, insistent the AFL club is in better shape than when he started as coach.<\/p>\n
While Voss said there was no animosity with the Blues and he was at peace with the decision to resign in his fifth season, he admitted to great frustration that the wins did not come.<\/p>\n
Voss resigned on the back of an eight-game losing streak, with Josh Fraser to take over as interim coach.<\/p>\n
Carlton boss says Voss resignation proof club is in ‘genuine transition’<\/a><\/p>\n Carlton CEO Graham Wright says the club will embark on a thorough process to determine the successor to Michael Voss.<\/p>\n Carlton’s hierarchy said yesterday they remained an attractive destination and a big club in the AFL, even after moving on a fifth full-time coach in 14 years.<\/p>\n “I guarantee you, it’s a better place than when I walked in. It’s like comparing silos with alignment. They’re just two different things \u2026 no accountability to full accountability,” Voss said.<\/p>\n “That’s just a completely different place \u2014 sub-standard training standards to elite training standards.<\/p>\n “The frustration thing within all that is that the actual end-up measure we like to tick over is the ‘W’. We haven’t been able to transfer that enough.”<\/p>\n In his first interview since the news broke on Tuesday morning, Voss told the AFL website he knew last week his time had come.<\/p>\n Loading Instagram content<\/p>\n He spoke with manager Peter Blucher on Friday, before the match against his old club Brisbane at the Gabba.<\/p>\n Pre-game, Voss then met with Blues football boss and long-time colleague Chris Davies.<\/p>\n But a dinner with president Rob Priestley and chief executive Graham Wright a few days earlier reminded Voss of his plight.<\/p>\n “You read in these situations is often what they don’t say, not what they do say. I read enough into what they didn’t say to know that it was on shaky ground,” Voss said<\/p>\n “The inevitable was starting to become clearer, but the fighter in you and the competitor in you wants to take that as far as you possibly can.<\/p>\n “There’s no animosity here, there’s no anger. I’m at peace with the decision.”<\/p>\n In a wide-ranging interview, Voss took aim at former Carlton captain Sam Docherty for public criticism earlier this season.<\/p>\n “He just should know better \u2026 about what it’s like to be that person inside the building,” Voss said.<\/p>\n