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Carlton coaching panel set to learn their fate in coming weeks
Jaiden Sciberras • August 7th, 2025 3:47 pm
Carlton coach Michael Voss has remained in the driver’s seat following an extensive board meeting, however the future of the club’s coaching panel is set to be determined within the coming week.
On Wednesday night, Carlton’s board met to discuss the future of the club, with the five-hour discussion concluding that coach Michael Voss will remain in charge of the club, however the decision was made without any real certainty for the foreseeable future.
And according to SEN regular Tom Morris, Carlton’s coaching staff may be set for extreme turnover under new CEO Graham Wright, with the extension of Voss’ team to learn their fate within the coming days.
“On the Blues, I’m looking at their assistant coaching panel,” Morris told SEN Breakfast.
“Ash Hansen (assistant coach) is contracted, Aaron Hamill (backline coach) is contracted, although the contracts don’t necessarily mean much, given the three or six months’ pay out clauses. But nevertheless, they are contracted for next year.
“I would be worried if I was Tim Clarke (midfield coach), or Jordan Russell (forwards coach). Even Luke Power, who is the VFL senior assistant. Brad Ebert, the head of development, Tom Lonergan (development and talent manager), Torin Baker (development) as well.
“It’s a difficult situation for these coaches to be in. They are all looking over their shoulders, and my understanding is that they will be told before the end of next week whether they are required next year or not.
“Graham Wright will have had to have made up his mind on all of them now, and the fact that they are going to be told in the next seven days is pretty daunting for them.
“Brad Lloyd is the other one who is under significant pressure to stay, because he was there when Brendan Bolton was there as a coach - didn’t work. He was there when David Teague was coach – didn’t work.
“He’s there when Michael Voss has been coach – it’s worked at times, they made a prelim, but overall, I think it’s fair to say that the Voss era has underperformed.”
With the coaching panel on the verge of a potential shift, SEN Breakfast host Tim Watson laid out his view on the Blues’ decision to keep Voss at the helm, commending their desire for stability following years of unsuccessful turnover.
“My thinking about where Carlton has been though, I think they wanted to stick with Voss,” Watson said.
“I really think that when they appointed him, they wanted to build a really solid, strong foundation, and they wanted to be a really stable, consistent football club.
“I think it will be a really difficult decision for them to part ways because they know that they are going to disrupt their football club again. It means rebuilding again and they would have loved to have thought that maybe even Voss could be the general manager of the coaching, and maybe they need to bring parts in around him.
“I would think that’s what Graham Wright has been trying to decide and work through before he gives a recommendation to the board. Maybe he has got to that point now, and thought, ‘Okay, I’ve had a good look at this bloke, he does all of these things really well as a coach, he is a real leader, he’s very good with the players, but he needs help in these areas.
“'He needs to understand that he needs help in these areas, admit that he needs help in these areas and then maybe we can go about and fill all of those gaps around him with other people that we currently don’t have in our organisation’.
“Graham Wright has been around a long time. He has had relationships with football people for a long, long time. If those people are out there, and that’s why they got him in there in the first place to be the CEO – because he can identify those people potentially that Michael Voss needs around him.
“Bring your team in. Particularly if they’re a more experienced coach and been in the business a while. They’re going to be able to assemble a team more readily than somebody who’s going to be a rookie coach for the first time.”
The Blues currently sit in 13th place, winning just seven of their 20 games in 2025.
They face the Gold Coast Suns at Marvel Stadium this Saturday night.
