In an alarming mix up, the Carlton Football Club have appointed James Hird as their new senior coach.
The mistake is arguably one of Carlton’s biggest in the last few months.
A source close to the club said the appointment was a result of a ‘comedy of errors’ which were still not fully understood by those involved.
Blues CEO Steven Trigg said he was keen to get to the bottom of how he offered Hird a ten year, $8 million contract.
“While I’m not sure how this happened and admit it wasn’t intentional, I think it’s going to be terrific for the club. James has a proven track record of being a coach.”
“It’s possible I sent Brendon Bolton’s contract to the wrong address. I’d spilt a bit of wine on it, so the figure could have look like $8 million.”
Moves to void the contract have been blocked by lawyers acting for Hird.
Carlton fans have reacted with anger at the announcement.
“I guess we all make mistakes but I’m not happy about this at all,” said long time member Sharon Paulson.
“I’m used to this club being badly run but this is ridiculous. I never thought I’d say this but I’d prefer Mick.”
“Still, I guess Essendon are above us on the ladder.”
Caroline Wilson has called for Hird to be sacked.
COMMENTS
FrancisOKC
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily Conners17 seancallanan
mwhiteind
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily going by the newspaper headlines, I thought the clubs had merged? "Essendon Blues""
twoshea80
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily what does Jeremy Ellis the shopfitter and casual racist think of all this?
DennisCricket_
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily Make my day and tell me this tweet was your inspiration?
https://twitter.com/DennisCricket_/status/633483528403992576
webbpleb
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily "Caroline Wilson has called for Hird to be sacked." Brilliant
fmcbill
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily wouldn't rule it out - it is as silly as appointing Steven Trigg CEO after his own AFL suspension & European holiday.
NMRoos75
Aug 20, 2015
mwhiteind TitusOReily even more reason to hate them both U0001f604
peteguley
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily Just cancel the contract and pay him out. That's Hird's MO these days.
hankerator
Aug 20, 2015
Brilliant
Bonjour_Pippy
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily Carlton like people that don't leave the club.
megacolour
Aug 20, 2015
siandart TitusOReily This is a joke, right?
Sean Stryker
Aug 20, 2015
Ryan Johnston Stuart Buckingham Neil Kirkhope Grant Arnott Adrian Carle Jess Stryker Barry Thomas Nick Harris WHAT?????
Jacob Scott
Aug 20, 2015
Richard Gates
Pat Foca
Aug 20, 2015
Marco Mercuri
Will Davidson
Aug 20, 2015
Steven Morrissey
Stel Haranas
Aug 20, 2015
Andrew Walpole Evan Haranas
Ryland Head
Aug 20, 2015
Jordan Gwynne Liss Cairns this is awks as
Anthony Merritt
Aug 20, 2015
Gold!!!! It's going to be hilarious if Trigg manages to get his mate Craigy the head coach job!
Phoebe Elizabeth
Aug 20, 2015
Chloe Penn
Cameron Brattle
Aug 20, 2015
Richard Harvey
Chris Wood
Aug 20, 2015
James McKenzie
Ross Tsouflidis
Aug 20, 2015
Cameron Dienelt
Evan Haranas
Aug 20, 2015
Kristy Zaeza lol
Anthony Connelly
Aug 20, 2015
Steven Reid.... true ??
Rich Williamson
Aug 20, 2015
Alex Trudzik
Alex Sibbald
Aug 20, 2015
Nightmares. Sam Ryan
James Dantalis
Aug 20, 2015
Carlton appointed Trigg, appointing Hird would be no different!
Both have a chequered past, that would appear to be a key criteria in Carlton's selection process!
James Moran
Aug 20, 2015
Yanni Baveas
Jordan Gwynne
Aug 20, 2015
U0001f60fU0001f60fU0001f60f
Ryland Head
Aug 20, 2015
Well im dead
Had a good run U0001f60f
Jordan Gwynne
Aug 20, 2015
U0001f44aU0001f44aU0001f44a
Matthew Minski
Aug 20, 2015
Sam Neufeld
Clinton Savage
Aug 20, 2015
Luke Drenen
Mat Trost
Aug 20, 2015
Jimmy Junior Ricky Sumeet Arora
Richard Gates
Aug 20, 2015
Jacob Scott
Cameron Nankervis
Aug 20, 2015
Jodie Notjust
Keith Conn
Aug 20, 2015
Blake Wall Ben McGrouther
Darren Clifford
Aug 20, 2015
Warren, Dan & Tracy
Elaine Mular
Aug 20, 2015
hahahaha
Nigel Cracks
Aug 20, 2015
Grant Lethborg you would be happy with this
Blake Wall
Aug 20, 2015
i lost it at the last line
Matt Lewin
Aug 20, 2015
Zar Saccutelli
George Britten-Jones
Aug 20, 2015
Kumar Achu Jeyakkumar Robert Perry
Liss Cairns
Aug 20, 2015
You're a very brave man Ryland...
Colin Rowston
Aug 20, 2015
How do you feel about this Damian Joyce lol
Ryland Head
Aug 20, 2015
I think stupid is the word for it actually...
Keith Conn
Aug 20, 2015
Was quality
Jordan Gwynne
Aug 20, 2015
I'll get you back
Damian Joyce
Aug 20, 2015
About as good as I would if the cows won the flag
Gary Hancock
Aug 20, 2015
Christine Dunn OMG ROTFLMFAO
Kumar Achu Jeyakkumar
Aug 20, 2015
brilliant
Max Stainkamph
Aug 20, 2015
Alana Christensen
Paul Schultz
Aug 20, 2015
Shane Glazbrook Phil Meng Nat Hill... Worth the read
Alana Christensen
Aug 20, 2015
This is the best.
Tim Fox
Aug 20, 2015
Neeld not available?
Luke Selkrig
Aug 20, 2015
Brett Woods
Charlie Randles
Aug 20, 2015
Will Randles Paul Randles
Matt Harvey
Aug 20, 2015
Will Rice
Jarrad Read
Aug 20, 2015
Mackenzie Morgan
Aaron Gersch
Aug 20, 2015
Lewis Wyatt
Angelo Herft
Aug 20, 2015
James Foord
Henry Brunskill
Aug 20, 2015
Billy McLean
Will Rice
Aug 20, 2015
Haha 10/10
Caitlin Therese
Aug 20, 2015
Adrian Nigro #standbyhird
Alan Morecroft
Aug 20, 2015
Classic !
Klay Giovannini
Aug 20, 2015
Gus Varley
Tanya Hetherington
Aug 20, 2015
Brad Lederman Stephanie Elizabeth lol
Alex Nicholson
Aug 20, 2015
Garth Rhys-Jones
Michael Charlton
Aug 20, 2015
Jason Hay
Golby Thomson
Aug 20, 2015
Jeff Mills
Matthew Cattuzzo
Aug 20, 2015
Nick Calrissian Corso it's funny because it's Trigg!
Stephen Woolfe
Aug 20, 2015
Ted McLean
Maria Ayles
Aug 20, 2015
That made me laugh!!!!
Penny Beitzel
Aug 20, 2015
"We'd give anything to be 15th on the ladder, and James is the man to get us there."
Ted McLean
Aug 20, 2015
Be better than Malthouse
Peter Michailaros
Aug 20, 2015
Carlton should SACK Trigg
Matt Rasmussen
Aug 20, 2015
Have a heart Titus, what's Caro going to write about now that James Hird is no longer involved in football. I don't think you realise how difficult the last 3 years have been for her
Janine Dodds
Aug 20, 2015
glenn dol
Stephen Staines Sharman
Aug 20, 2015
Accidently?? Surely thats a Trigg type of move foshooooo
Daniel Marano
Aug 20, 2015
Mark Mitchell
Brainy Tim
Aug 20, 2015
Dont even joke about it Titus! Dont want him anywhere near our grand old club!!! Daniel Michael Ficco
Brad Lederman
Aug 20, 2015
Like they accidentally appointed Malthouse
Scott Buckle
Aug 20, 2015
Steven Brown
Craig Cooper
Aug 20, 2015
Gavin Michael O'Reilly
Frank Samohel
Aug 20, 2015
I heard that Mick Gatto is lining up a new supply chain. At least we might win oneU0001f60e
Kelly Stanton
Aug 20, 2015
Glen Dudajek
Sally Schwarz
Aug 20, 2015
Nic Schwarz Adrian Schwarz
Glen Dudajek
Aug 20, 2015
Joke right?
Thomas Perrotta
Aug 20, 2015
James Ingram
Michael Thomas
Aug 20, 2015
What are your thoughts there Bradley? Wish it was true?
Hugh Weber
Aug 20, 2015
John Weber Dominic Weber Next level goose ?
Dominic Weber
Aug 20, 2015
neckst level goose achieved
Adrian Schwarz
Aug 20, 2015
Guy Besley
Adrian Nigro
Aug 20, 2015
#givehimabiggercontract
Becksy Adly
Aug 20, 2015
Benny Pettifer
Kelly Stanton
Aug 20, 2015
Yeah I think it is...
Emma Wright
Aug 20, 2015
Leighton Rees
Bradley Grosser
Aug 20, 2015
Haha, they don't do much else right so who knows... Might get Mick back perhaps!
Paul Brasier
Aug 20, 2015
Inspired humor..... almost as good as james hirds claim that adversity d I dnt get to them
siandart
Aug 20, 2015
megacolour TitusOReily so far, yes. Wouldn't put it past them tho.
Ash Rogers
Aug 20, 2015
Alex Howard Sam Gibb Apple Green well done Carlton
markfunkyharris
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily you set a high bar but this is one of you best - keep up the good work
John Francis McGeary
Aug 20, 2015
That would scare the crap out of Carlton supporters.
Stephen Mackintosh
Aug 20, 2015
Jess Anne - see!!
Alex Howard
Aug 20, 2015
Unfortunate
TitusOReily
Aug 20, 2015
markfunkyharris cheers mate.
Stephen Marshall
Aug 20, 2015
Onwards and upwards I say....flogs
Ash Rogers
Aug 20, 2015
Would you give up on Carlton?
Alex Howard
Aug 20, 2015
Never ... not with crippa there anyways
Dylan Costello
Aug 20, 2015
Cody Jed
Jed Kenny
Aug 20, 2015
Neil Craig has to be in the picture
samlindros
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily Classic Carlton
Karl Wellington
Aug 20, 2015
Sara Truman
Cody Kenny
Aug 20, 2015
I hear mick MALTHOUSE is available?
Sam Joseph
Aug 20, 2015
Ben Joseph
Dylan Costello
Aug 20, 2015
Thanks Telf.
Michael Voss does wonders with rebuilding clubs, give him a call.
tsinclair73
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily love this article. If only it would come true. #TriggSucks
wallis_donna
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily Can't stop laughing..This is absolute gold, funny thing is, it could be true..
Richard Harvey
Aug 20, 2015
Hahaha that is awesome. My favorite part was 'Caroline Wilson has called for Hird to be sacked'
James Leversha
Aug 20, 2015
Robert Leversha
doodledogs1960
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily oh dear god...next you will be saying essendon have reappointed stephen dank as sports scientist
chadd11
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily Atko_2
KingSlayer33
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily good. Swamprat73
WinesToTheStars
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily BicknellFC too good too funny..
Swamprat73
Aug 20, 2015
KingSlayer33 read it. Quite amusing.
Macca1728
Aug 20, 2015
TitusOReily TimothyFegan Wouldn't suprise me if CarltonFC made a error such as this haha
Dave Gardner
Aug 20, 2015
Jordan Chamerski... Priceless
Paul Williamson
Aug 20, 2015
Grant Payne U0001f60e
Billious
Aug 20, 2015
I wouldn't be laughing this is no accident this is a deliberate and calculated act to get whatever they need injected into the water most at Carlton have been on the past 10 years.
Steven Reid
Aug 20, 2015
Absolutely, takes the focus off our on field effort
Billious
Aug 20, 2015
doodledogs1960 TitusOReily why would Danks go back to any role at Essendon lower than Chairman? That role is soon to be vacant and anyone not on something stronger than water won't understand the intracasies of the close relationship between the EFC and AFL who have a secret plan to do a reverse takeover of WADA so they can refuse to give evidence against themselves for fear of incriminating the incrimadator. Danks knows that better than most of us here.
With all EFC home matches in 2016 scheduled to be played in Geneva the timely takeover of WADA is expected to be a crowd puller with the crowd made up of at least 90% ex Russian,Chinese and American athletes led by Lance Armstrong enjoying a holiday in Geneva thus adding to the bonanza 2.5 billion reasons why any publicity even bad publicity is better than no publicity.
Billious
Aug 20, 2015
Hird to Carlton makes a lot of sense, Carlton by annointment believe it is their right to be number 1 at everything. Adding Triggs ban for 6 months to Hirds ban of a year together with Carltons ban for two years of draft choices makes Carlton the most banned congregation in AFL history aside from the outcome of David Reece Jones's tribunal visits.
Kristie Wilkins
Aug 20, 2015
Roseanna Khabbaz...show my BFF for me xxx
Aaron Tai
Aug 20, 2015
Ollie Broadbridge Sampath Narayana
James Howgreat
Aug 20, 2015
Kirstin... Unlucky..
Ingrid Smith
Aug 20, 2015
Well written Paul. You must be awfully clever.
Andy Mac
Aug 20, 2015
If only... Felix Koutsoukis
DocSherrin
Aug 21, 2015
TitusOReily I fully expect John Barker to be appointed by Wednesday afternoon. Which many Carlton supporters will think is just as bad!
PeteC1969
Aug 21, 2015
DocSherrin I don't know what makes a good AFL coach but could Barker be any worse than the last two? He at least sounds ok in grabs...
DocSherrin
Aug 21, 2015
PeteC1969 It's John's 6th year at the club and his main role has been to develop forwards and defenders. I believe he's failed.
PeteC1969
Aug 21, 2015
DocSherrin a fair assessment but has he had the cattle or the internal support to do that. I don't know but the club has failed in that
Daniel Fornarino
Aug 21, 2015
Alice Kelly XD
Daniel Fornarino
Aug 21, 2015
Tom Speakman Chris Marulli Alex Barilaro XD
Alice Kelly
Aug 21, 2015
I would laugh but it's actually a scary possibility U0001f62cU0001f62cU0001f62c
Josh Tucci
Aug 21, 2015
Alec Kajewski James Weatherlake Jamie Conlon Brydan Meredith
araratboy12
Aug 21, 2015
TitusOReily mnel2833 iamKingArthur
Joanne Everett
Aug 21, 2015
Oohps! Family ties?
Sean Walsh
Aug 21, 2015
Woody Longford
Tony TC
Dec 30, 2015
Kinda makes you question which party would have been worse off.
Mark Millington
Dec 31, 2015
carlton have neil craig
Bruce Kingshott
Dec 31, 2015
ri mus would have been a good choice (oops Primus.)
Mark Millington
Dec 31, 2015
stop crying coz craigy (gun) left the cows...(oops Cows)Bruce
Nick Speechley
Dec 31, 2015
Tom Davy lolz
Bruce Kingshott
Dec 31, 2015
Well I know you're not crying about Ptimus leaving the smears! Still got that GWS game on IQ if you want? 07 Grand Final another collectors item. Stay in the now haha.
Mark Millington
Dec 31, 2015
haha, chip ?? shoulder ??
Mark Millington
Dec 31, 2015
wood or potato ?
Michael Barclay
Dec 31, 2015
Your a bad man
Nathan Hanrahan
Dec 31, 2015
Hird cracked a massive fat when he saw this I'm sure....