| Mick Malthouse | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Michael Malthouse | ||
| Date of birth | 17 August 1953 | ||
| Place of birth | Ballarat, Victoria | ||
| Original team | North Ballarat (VFA) | ||
| Height/Weight | 180cm / 76kg | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1972–1976 1976–1983 Total |
St Kilda Richmond |
53 (5) 121 (10) 174 (15) |
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| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 2008–2010 | Australia (coach) | 4 | |
| Coaching career3 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 1984–1989 1990–1999 2000–2011 Total |
Footscray West Coast Collingwood |
135 (67–66–2) 243 (156–85–2) 284 (162–120–2) 662 (385–271–6) |
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1 Playing statistics to end of 1983 season .
3 Coaching statistics correct as of QF1, 2011.
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Michael "Mick" Malthouse (born 17 August 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer and the former coach of three Australian Football League (AFL) clubs. Although his playing career included a premiership for Richmond in the VFL, he is best known for his AFL coaching career.
Malthouse is the most successful coach in the history of the West Coast Eagles, holding several club coaching records including the most grand final appearances (1991, 1992, 1994), most premierships (1992 and 1994, both against Geelong), most games coached (243) and won (146) as well as the highest win ratio.
The 1992 Grand Final win was the first AFL premiership won by a team from outside Victoria and was the West Coast Eagles first ever senior premiership.
He has also coached Collingwood to grand finals in 2002, 2003, 2010 and 2011; with success in the 2010 Grand Final Replay, leading Collingwood to its first premiership since 1990.
He is now an AFL commentator on television with the Seven Network and on radio with 3AW.
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Recruited from North Ballarat,[1] Malthouse started his football career with St Kilda in 1972, playing 53 senior games including three finals. After being told by then-coach Allan Jeans that he would struggle to get a game in the senior side due to a surfeit of similar-skilled players, he departed for Richmond midway through the 1976 season.
At Richmond he played 121 senior games, including six finals and the runaway premiership win over Collingwood in 1980. He was noted for being a tough and solid defender. He retired in 1983.
He was Footscray's senior coach from 1984 to 1989.[2] During his time at the Bulldogs he was known for his tough stance on many players, including Doug Hawkins. The teams final standings in his years in charge were 7th (1984), 3rd (1985), 8th (1986), 7th (1987), 8th (1988) and 13th (1989).[3] He impressed with his dedication and professionalism.
For ten years from 1990 he was senior coach for the West Coast Eagles. During his tenure as coach the Eagles made the finals every year, including 1992 and 1994 premierships and 1991 grand finalists.[2] Final minor premiership ladder positions were 3rd, 1st, 4th, 6th, 1st, 5th, 4th, 5th, 7th and 5th (1990–1999).
Recruited to the Magpies in 2000 by Collingwood president Eddie McGuire, Malthouse has coached Collingwood to the finals in six out of his ten seasons as coach including grand final appearances in 2002, 2003, 2010 (twice) and 2011. In 2010, after the first drawn AFL/VFL grand final since 1977, Collingwood claimed premiership success with a resounding 56-point win over St Kilda in the replay. This was the club's biggest ever win in a grand final and the first since 1990. In July 2009, McGuire produced a succession plan in which Malthouse was to hand over the coaching reins to club legend Nathan Buckley at the end of the 2011 season. In 2011, Malthouse guided Collingwood to another grand final against the Geelong Cats. After the dramatic three point win over Hawthorn in a preliminary final, he was shown on TV in tears in the coach's box after his side came from 17 points down at the final change to book their place in Malthouse's fifth grand final as Collingwood coach and his eighth overall. Collingwood lost the 2011 AFL Grand Final to Geelong by 38 points. The game was his final one as Collingwood coach. Malthouse advised that he would not be taking on the position as Director of Coaching at Collingwood after the loss and that he had made this decision six weeks earlier.[4]
Malthouse's wife is Nanette. Their daughter Christi has been a sports reporter and AFL boundary rider for Network Ten. Christi's son Zachary was born in December 2008 and is Malthouse's first grandchild. The Malthouses also have another daughter, Danielle, and two sons, Cain and Troy.
Mick Malthouse was recently quoted as saying he would like a senior coaching role with Cricket Australia.mick-malthouse-to-ponder-future-in-cricket Mick Malthouse has released an autobiography The Ox is Slow but the Earth is Patient. http://www.michaelmalthouse.com.au/
Mick will join 3AW and Channel 7 in media roles next year.
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| Preceded by Ian Hampshire |
Footscray coach 1984–1989 |
Succeeded by Terry Wheeler |
| Preceded by John Todd |
West Coast Eagles coach 1990–1999 |
Succeeded by Ken Judge |
| Preceded by Tony Shaw |
Collingwood Football Club coach 2000–2011 |
Succeeded by Nathan Buckley |
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