Ratten joins Hawks

Updated October 05, 2012 17:04:24

Sacked Carlton coach Brett Ratten has joined Hawthorn's staff for the 2013 season.

Ratten was forced out of the Blues last month after the club failed to make the finals and opted to appoint Mick Malthouse to the senior coaching position.

He will join the Hawks as an assistant to senior coach Alastair Clarkson.

The announcement comes a day after Clarkson's former assistant Leon Cameron joined Kevin Sheedy's staff at Greater Western Sydney.

"Brett is an excellent addition to our coaching line-up and will bring a great deal of experience and coaching nous to our Club," Clarkson said in a statement.

"With Leon's recent departure, it's pleasing that a coach of Brett's calibre can step in immediately and I'm sure he will complement our team of coaches well."

Ratten took over as Blues senior coach in mid-2007 and led the club to the finals from 2009 to 2011.

He was also a premiership player with the Blues in 1995 and a former captain, having played 255 senior matches in total.

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First posted October 05, 2012 17:04:24

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Ratten says no to Port

Updated September 20, 2012 21:38:50

Brett Ratten has joined Rodney Eade in pulling out of the field for the senior coaching job at Port Adelaide.

The Power confirmed media reports on Thursday that Ratten had told them he was no longer interested.

Eade did the same on Wednesday.

At the start of this week, the pair were considered the leading candidates for the job.

Losing Ratten and Eade is another massive blow for the Power and they will now most likely appoint a first-time senior coach.

Carlton sacked Ratten as coach late last month and then installed Mick Malthouse as his replacement.

Since his axing at Carlton, Ratten had expressed a strong interest in going to the Power and had met with club officials.

Eade, the former Sydney and Western Bulldogs senior coach, joined Collingwood this season in a football and coaching strategy position.

While Eade had also given the Power job strong consideration, it is well known that he has enjoyed his new role with the Magpies.

The Power sacked Matthew Primus at the start of last month and Garry Hocking coached them for the rest of the season.

Hocking decided against applying for the full-time role, while Gold Coast assistant coach Ken Hinkley and outgoing Carlton assistant Alan Richardson are among those understood to be in contention.

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First posted September 20, 2012 21:38:50

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Ratten admits to tanking interviews

Updated August 01, 2012 15:21:44

Carlton coach Brett Ratten has admitted he was interviewed twice by the AFL over tanking rumours.

Ratten said on Wednesday that the league had every right to talk to players, coaches or officials if they suspected clubs were throwing games.

And he said he had no issue with the league interviewing his player Brock McLean after the midfielder said he left Melbourne when he realised the Demons appeared to be deliberately losing.

McLean played for Melbourne in 2009, when they lost six of their last seven games to finish bottom of the table with four wins, and snared star draft picks Tom Scully and Jack Trengove.

"Circumstances that happened in the second half of the year never really sat well with me," McLean said earlier this week.

"They don't call it tanking - we would call it experimenting or whatever it was. It just went against everything I was taught as a kid, taught as a footballer and as a person."

The AFL says it will interview McLean over his claims but Ratten said on Wednesday he never took offence when the league spoke to him.

"They've investigated Melbourne, they've investigated us," Ratten said.

"Personally as a coach, I got investigated twice in regards to this, so I've gone through that procedure and the AFL have ticked it off.

"They've done their findings behind the scenes and everything's clear.

"If the AFL want to speak to anyone at any time, they've got the right to ... they are the chief of the game, you could say, and they can call upon any person at any time."

"They interview you for a reason, whether it's a rumour, or something's there or someone said something. I didn't find it offensive at all."

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First posted August 01, 2012 15:21:44

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Ratten gone, Malthouse on the radar

Updated August 30, 2012 17:13:08

Carlton has confirmed former Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse is under consideration to take over from the sacked Brett Ratten next season.

Ratten could finish with a 12-10 record if the Blues beat St Kilda on Sunday and there is mounting speculation Ratten would have kept his job if Malthouse was not available.

But while denying Carlton had formally approached Malthouse, Blues president Stephen Kernahan admitted the three-time premiership winning coach was on the radar.

"We'll be speaking to people like Mick Malthouse," Kernahan said.

"We're looking for a respected senior coach who has hopefully coached a team to a premiership."

Other names linked to the post include former Sydney Swans coach Paul Roos, current Greater Western Sydney assistant coach Mark Williams and former Geelong coach Mark Thompson.

Ratten was sacked after days of speculation he would not be at the helm next season.

The final straw was the Blues' dismal 12-point defeat to Gold Coast Suns last weekend which sparked intense media scrutiny on Ratten's role.

The former Carlton midfielder, who in 2012 became just the third former player to play and coach in 100 games for the club, says he feels responsible for the Blues' poor season.

"This club is built on success and playing finals and winning premierships is the ambition," Ratten said.

"I suppose as a club we set some really strong goals at the start of the season to play finals and we didn't achieve that.

"The club has been ruthless in its quest for success and that is one of its strengths."

Ratten had no preference for who takes over next season, saying it makes no difference to him.

"I don't really care who coaches next year," Ratten said.

"It's not me ... I wish it was, but it's not."

Kernahan said sacking his close friend and former team-mate was a tough decision but one which needed to be made.

"It's a close call, it's a harsh call, it's an each-way call," he said.

"Our standards are high. We don't apologise for that.

"This is a harsh call on Brett Ratten but I stand by that."

Ratten took over as Carlton coach in 2007 after the dismissal of Denis Pagan and led the Blues to finals campaigns in 2009, 2010 and again in 2011.

But Carlton's inability to transform from finals hopefuls to a genuine premiership force placed the spotlight on Ratten.

Despite being asked to step down he said he had no intention to skip Carlton's final game of the season against St Kilda at Docklands.

"Why hide? Why run away? If you want to be a leader ... you sometimes have to confront difficult situations," Ratten said.

"It's not about me, it's about making sure we finish the season on a really good note," he added.

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First posted August 30, 2012 09:45:07

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Media Call: Brett Ratten

Published:Thursday, June 16, 2011 2:50 AESTExpires:Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:50 AEST

Carlton coach Brett Ratten says key forward Jarrad Waite may be an inclusion for Sunday's match against Sydney at Docklands.

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Ratten issues sack warning over betting

Updated May 24, 2011 15:46:00

Carlton coach Brett Ratten said he would sack any player found to be passing on information about the AFL club's tactics for personal gain through betting.

The AFL is investigating a series of recent plunges on exotic bets with fears that clubs may be leaking sensitive information.

News Limited newspapers say there are suspicions that positional selections, such as regular full-backs starting as forwards, have leaked out of clubs.

Bookmakers are concerned about plunges on bets such as first goalkicker, where inside information can be used by punters to win huge amounts of money.

The AFL has confirmed that irregularities had been looked at by integrity officer Brett Clothier and the league has urged the Federal Government to make cheating in sport a crime, punishable by up to 10 years' jail.

Ratten told a press conference he would take a very dim view if he felt any type of insider information was leaking out of the Blues' camp.

"I'd be pretty disappointed if people are (passing on information about Carlton's tactics) and if they are and I find out, they won't be at our football club," Ratten said.

"Yeah I would (sack them).

"From a player's point of view, you'd have to actually look at the evidence before you just react.

"It would be taken extremely seriously and I wouldn't like to be put in that position if I was the player because I don't think it would come out favourably.

"From a staff (point of view), to be involved in an AFL club, it's a very privileged position.

"To really exploit it for personal gain, you shouldn't be working at a football club.

"There shouldn't be any betting from people from football clubs on football games."

Ratten said he backed the AFL's policy of sending messages to clubs warning that internal information can not be passed on to the general public.

AFL general manager Adrian Anderson said the league's integrity unit regularly monitor all betting trends on all games.

"It's very important the inside information rules, because we've seen from other sports such as cricket, that that's often where problems begin," he told the ABC's World Today program.

"Sometimes there is an innocent explanation, like somebody observed something at training, such as a defender training forward, practising goal kicks.

"So it's not always because of a disclosure of inside information, but where there are unusual betting trends we have access to that information and we need to investigate that and make sure that we're satisfied that there's been no improper activity."

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First posted May 24, 2011 15:18:00

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Not all about Judd any more: Ratten

Posted May 10, 2011 16:31:00

As good as Chris Judd was late in Carlton's tight win over St Kilda, coach Brett Ratten is heartened that this time it was not just the skipper lifting the Blues home.

Judd's extraordinary performance at the SCG the previous weekend ensured a tight win over Sydney.

But, after falling in nail-biters in cut-throat finals in the past two seasons, Ratten feels the spread of contributors in Monday

night's three-point win over the Saints is a more healthy sign.

He said it was the type of match his side would have lost in the past.

"We've been in those spots where we've had to fight and dig and find the will to win," Ratten said.

"That's showing through the group that we've matured a little bit as a team across the board.

"It's not just Chris Judd standing up and doing what he has to do, I think the credit has to go to a lot of men in the team, not just one individual.

"I thought his performance last week was outstanding.

"But this week I thought (Michael) Jamison and (Nick) Duigan and (Bryce) Gibbs on (Brendon) Goddard was outstanding, (Chris) Yarran's first half was brilliant, there were a lot of players that played their part and did a great job."

Ratten said it was the sort of win that would build confidence throughout the playing group.

While the Blues lost Ed Curnow to an AC joint injury, their mood will be further boosted by the imminent return of ruckman Matthew Kreuzer.

Ratten said Kreuzer, out since injuring his knee in round 13 last year, could play in the VFL as soon as next weekend, although it might be a week later.

"We haven't fully decided which way we'll go there, but he's within a week or two of playing," Ratten said.

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Betts under pressure to hold spot: Ratten

Posted April 20, 2011 15:43:00

Carlton coach Brett Ratten said small forward Eddie Betts is out of form and under pressure to keep his spot in the Blues' senior line-up.

Ratten says he is leaning towards selecting Betts for Saturday's match against Adelaide at Docklands, but he will come up for review at selection on Thursday.

"Eddie would be the first to put his hand up and say he's not in great form," Ratten said.

"The bit that we need to do as a coaching group and especially me as a coach is to get the best out of Eddie.

"When he is up and going he is in the top handful of players at our football club. We need to get him back to that form and will have to work through that over the next few days to get him nice and sharp."

Betts was the club's leading goalkicker last season.

But Ratten says he has not got enough of an impact from his attack generally in last Saturday's draw against Essendon.

He says one of the main issues is the team's inability to hold onto the ball in their attacking area.

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