Angry Blight breaks silence
http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/angry-blight-breaks-silence/2008/07/20/1216163245973.htmlJuly 20, 2008
DUAL premiership coach-turned commentator Malcolm Blight has broken his silence about his 2001 sacking as coach of St Kilda, blasting then president Rod Butterss for his admitted naivete at the time.
Sacked after only 15 games in the job, Blight told Channel Ten the suggestion that Butterss felt he had a lack of commitment to the Saints showed what he and his assistants — Peter Jonas and Ken Hinkley — were working against.
"All I did was … try to handle some egos with a very bad football club that had won two games the year before," Blight said.
"I couldn't give a rat's toss bag whether he thought I could coach or if anyone thinks I could coach but … it's an absolute slur on two other guys who went there with me…
"Great blokes, great football people, they left as well, had to. And you know what they have gone on and done. They have been involved in premierships."
On Butterss' comments that the coach was spending too much time out of the office, Blight said: "You know where I was spending it, with Peter Jonas and Ken Hinkley formulating plans to help kids play footy and win games of football. It was a team that had won two games the year before… had some problems off the ground. Commitment no, might not have liked the way I did it, stiff."
