Former Carlton coach Mick Malthouse believes the club has been “unnecessary pressure” on David Teague.
Malthouse, who was sacked by the Blues in 2015, feels the external review and the commentary on the situation has put Teague in an awkward spot.
“Once you start announcing reviews and things start appearing in the paper, you know that the coach is wearing totally unnecessary pressure,” Malthouse told the Herald Sun.
“And where there’s smoke there’s fire. There’s enough pressure on a coach as there is, particularly now during Covid and not even knowing where games are going to be played – and then suddenly there’s a review being led by external people.
“It does not leave the coach with any certainty and when you don’t have certainty you have uncertainty and when you have uncertainty you have suspicions – and then those suspicions run wild through the playing group.
“Then every time you open the paper it’s about Carlton and about Teague. A football club needs to protect its coach as best it can. The club has failed him. They have betrayed him.
“If you want to go in the one direction then you need the board, the administration and football department all with their hands at the wheel knowing where they are going.
“Once you start to question things the trust is broken – and once the trust is broken it is very difficult to restore.”
Malthouse also took aim at the Carlton board, suggesting the club’s ongoing issues circle back to them more than the coach.
“In the end I felt very isolated at Carlton. The board was built on business acumen rather than football IQ,” Malthouse said.
“The Carlton board has been infiltrated by people from the outside. We all know who they are and they are not accountable to anyone,” he added.
“And until those people no longer have a say you are continually going to have these discussions.”
Carlton is reportedly holding a board meeting on Thursday to go through the findings of the external review, led by Geoff Walsh, Matthew Pavlich and Graham Lowe.
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