Mick Malthouse
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| Birth | 17 September 1953, |
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| Playing Career¹ | |
| Debut | Round ?, 1972, St Kilda vs. ?, at ? |
| Team(s) | St Kilda (1972-1976)
53 games, ? goals Richmond (1976-1983) ? games, ? goals |
| Coaching Career¹ | |
| Team(s) | Footscray (1984-1989)
135 games - 67 wins, 66 losses, 2 draws West Coast Eagles (1990-1999) 243 games - 156 wins, 85 losses, 2 draws Collingwood Football Club (2000-) 155 games - 74 wins, 81 losses, 0 draws |
| ¹ Statistics to end of R17, 2006 season | |
| Career Highlights | |
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Michael "Mick" Malthouse (born 17 September 1953) is a legendary Australian rules footballer and current coach of Collingwood
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[edit] Champion Player
Michael started his football career with St Kilda in 1972 playing 53 senior games, including three finals but his career with the club ended after being told by coach Allan Jeans that he would find it hard to get a game with many similar types of player at the club. He departed for Richmond midway through the 1976 season. Whilst at Richmond, Michael played 121 senior games including six finals and the runaway premiership over Collingwood in 1980. Malthouse was noted for being a tough, solid defender.
Michael retired from playing football in 1983, and because of his knowledge, keenness and success as a player, was offered a job as Footscray's senior coach. [1] During his time at the Bulldogs he was known for his tough stance on many players, including Doug Hawkins.
[edit] Champion Coach
[edit] Footscray career
From 1984 to 1989 Michael was the senior Footscray coach and transformed the battling Bulldogs into final contenders. Michael made Footscray one of the most competitive teams in the League and showed the football world the level of his dedication and professionalism.
[edit] West Coast Eagles career
From 1990 to 1999 Michael was senior coach for the West Coast Eagles, based in Perth. Through his motivational skills and coaching techniques he made a new club a feared power within the Australian Football League. Under “Mick Malthouse” the Eagles made the finals every year, including 1992 & 1994 Premierships and 1991 Runners-Up. [2]
[edit] Collingwood career
With his appointment at the start of the 2000 season to one of the AFL’s legendary clubs, Michael arguably confronted his greatest coaching challenge – lifting the Collingwood Football Club from one of their worst ever long-term slumps. Michael has taken Collingwood from the bottom of the ladder to its first finals in nearly a decade when they were Runners-Up in the 2002 AFL Premiership. In 2003 he repeated this result with a disappointing Grand Final defeat, but with one of the youngest teams in the AFL. Back to back AFL Runners-Up, a young team and a hungry culture Collingwood is back on top under Michael Malthouse. [3]
[edit] Awards
- 1985 & 1991 Players Association Coach of the Year
- 1991 Inaugural AFL Coach of the Year
- 1992 Institute of Sport Coach of the Year [4]
[edit] Other Interests
But what made Malthouse stand out was his fondness for quoting Buddhist sayings at press conferences such as "the ox is slow but the earth is patient", and his passion for the environment. His activism in Western Australia in the 1990s against the logging of old-growth forests triggered a political storm, prompting the Court government to amend its forest policies — but not before timber workers responded by burning Eagles jumpers and cancelling memberships. Malthouse has said: "I would rather be remembered as an environmentalist than a football coach." [5]
His outside interests include politics (he says if he was 10 years younger — he turned 53 last month — he would consider running for parliament), history and the reading of atlases for relaxation. He is a strong family man for his two sons and two daughters and has been known to deliver a forgotten lunch to one of his children's workplaces. But it's the occasional human moments caught by TV cameras that have done the most to break down Malthouse's image as the cold-eyed hard man. After the 2002 Grand Final, which Collingwood lost to Brisbane, a tearful Malthouse was captured consoling an equally distraught Paul Licuria, later saying the strain of the previous month "just all belted out"."Sometimes better to release it quickly than release it over a period of time and be dragged down by it," he says now. [6]
One major regret, he says, is the time coaching took from his time as a father. "Absolutely. (The days you miss) you never catch it again. But I've got a great relationship with them. But, absolutely. There's no question in your mind that you think what you would love to have done more of than what you did." He says of his wife: "She's a very good mother and father to them." "I don't think there's a better father," says Nanette Malthouse. "He would always make up for the time he wasn't there — he went on excursions with the school, he would umpire their football games. He judges himself harshly and I don't think he needs to. Our children don't think they have missed out." [7] Malthouse has a daughter, Christi, who is a prominent sports reporter and AFL boundary rider for Network Ten.
For relaxation, Malthouse turns to music. "I listen to Van Morrison, or classical music driving to work. That's something I would seriously advise (to) people who have any contemplation of road rage, put on some classical, it settles you down a little bit. I listen to 1026 to get some news, then ABC at 7 o'clock … I don't have to worry about reading some grisly sporting thing, I can know a bit more about the world as opposed to something isolated like who's been caught at six in the morning at a nightclub." [8]
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| Preceded by John Todd |
West Coast Eagles coach 1990-1999 |
Succeeded by Ken Judge |
| Preceded by Tony Shaw |
Collingwood Football Club coach 2000- |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
