Deadline set for Malthouse
Caroline Wilson | April 17, 2009
MICK Malthouse will know by June whether or not he has a future at Collingwood.
The dual premiership coach, who will have completed a decade at the helm of the Magpies at the end of this season, will have a firm idea of his prospects when the club enters the mid-season bye after its Queen's Birthday clash with Melbourne on June 8.
The AFL's oldest and one of the most respected mentors in the game has become increasingly linked with Richmond beyond 2009. Tigers coach Terry Wallace is fighting to keep his job while the Magpies have a firm eye on their favourite son, the recently retired Nathan Buckley.
.... Malthouse, a Richmond premiership player, has been unofficially raised in Tiger circles as a senior coach overseeing the still relatively inexperienced Wayne Campbell should Wallace fail to lift his team.
The unofficial round 11 deadline sits close to the date being set by the AFL Coaches' Association for senior coaches and clubs to begin contract negotiations.
Mark Williams and Dean Laidley — both out of contract this year — have clauses in their deals demanding some future certainty by the end of June.
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