Speaker 1: It's been long speculated, even mooted and floated, but then despilled.
Speaker 1: Last year, a Ken hint they succession plan for Josh
Speaker 1: Carr to take over. Let's go back to April on
Speaker 1: the ABC. Here's David Costume.
Speaker 2: I think Ken's really supportive of Josh developing into a
Speaker 2: senior coach, and ken Is has publicly said he would
Speaker 2: love to see him as a senior coach in Port Adelaide.
Speaker 2: We have extraordinarily high regard for him. You know what
Speaker 2: sort of bloke he is. He's got away, He's worked
Speaker 2: at other organizations, he knows the Port Adelaide way, and
Speaker 2: we put a lot of effort into coaching development. We
Speaker 2: would rather sort of train uf from internal than outside.
Speaker 3: Does he have an understanding from the board that he
Speaker 3: will be the next man at some point in the future.
Speaker 2: Not from the board?
Speaker 1: Now, Timmy number one, you a fan of of a
Speaker 1: succession planner.
Speaker 3: Look, I thought at the end of last season I
Speaker 3: did say on this show that I thought an announcement
Speaker 3: of some sort would happen or should happen, because you
Speaker 3: have to deflect some of that pressure. It's going to
Speaker 3: come upon the club every time you have a loss
Speaker 3: and we felt it this year in a season where
Speaker 3: Port Adelais finished second after the mine round on the
Speaker 3: ladder I think was seventeen and six. That was the table, which.
Speaker 1: Is take that season all day.
Speaker 3: That's a big deal every day. But there was enormous
Speaker 3: pressure on. It was to the point where we know
Speaker 3: that was booing at Adelaide I on the.
Speaker 1: Like so Port Adelaide Road.
Speaker 3: I think to let some of that air out, something
Speaker 3: had to happen. But it hasn't happened. So it's been
Speaker 3: mooted again, and it's been mooted before.
Speaker 1: It's whether it does happen. You want it to happen.
Speaker 3: Well, I think they need to do something. They need
Speaker 3: to say something otherwise you are going to go through
Speaker 3: a year like last year.
Speaker 1: How will it work?
Speaker 3: How will worked? Well?
Speaker 1: Interestingly, we've had some siders for this. I reckon it's
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3: I think it might be worse than that. I think
Speaker 3: the only one that's got to right is Paul and
Speaker 3: Paul Ruse has done it twice. He did for Longmi
Speaker 3: and he did it into Simon Goodwin at Melbourne, so
Speaker 3: he's the only guy I think that's done it well.
Speaker 3: I don't The mold House Buckley One's probably one of
Speaker 3: the worst examples, and that was very bad. I don't
Speaker 3: think the sam Mitchell Clark's on one work either. That
Speaker 3: was that was very untidy in the end. So look,
Speaker 3: I think he's the best example of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think there needs to be a clause if
Speaker 1: they do go there in that path, if Port were
Speaker 1: to win the flag, can get to defend it because
Speaker 1: I reckon. That's why it ended in tears, because Malta
Speaker 1: house on with it, but I'm not on with it,
Speaker 1: and I'm not and then when they win the flag, I'm.
Speaker 3: Not with it. Yeah, he didn't want to let go no,
Speaker 3: but he didn't admit that, and I think he signed
Speaker 3: the paperwork.
Speaker 1: Probably too regretfully.
Speaker 3: Regretfully so you could say that body language on that
Speaker 3: day they lost to Gelong in twenty eleven, wasn't that
Speaker 3: the best.
Speaker 1: Size sellers removes?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, sell us and.
Speaker 1: Biased eight two three double double O. Ken's succession plan
Speaker 1: is Josh yay or nay, simple as that you're a
Speaker 1: yay Timmy. Yeah, yeah, I'm a yay Yep.
Speaker 3: I think yep Tomon could be I personally probably would
Speaker 3: have done back in the twenty three season before that
Speaker 3: final series, but I think now they've got to take
Speaker 3: the air out of it.
Speaker 1: So Ken's to coach the senior coach. Josh steps up
Speaker 1: a little bit more to take a bit more of
Speaker 1: the pressure and maybe does more press conferences and all
Speaker 1: of that milks him onto it, and Ken can sit
Speaker 1: back a little bit and just said, you've got.
Speaker 3: A great role model in Paul Ruse. Bring Paul Ruse
Speaker 3: in for it, give some advice on it. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's the guy that's done it, I think successfully twice