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It's not about image, it is about reality.

Sack everyone and then do what? Let Cripps player coach? Just not bother with assistants?

'if we have to sack another coach to become a good team' sounds eerily familiar to 'The beatings will continue until morale improves'.

Maybe Voss isn't the Messiah. I am actually ok with that. We don't need a messiah. Voss still has the best record of any Carlton coach this century, and one thing I know for certain is that if there is a really smart, insightful, thoughtful coach out there they will be watching us very closely to see how we handle this situation. If I were the coaching messiah, I'd be watching everything Carlton supporters are doing right now and putting a big red line through the club. Why try to live up to the impossible expectations of what is right now the worst fan base in Australian sport, instead of waiting for Chris Scott to finish up at Geelong, or Beverage at the Bulldogs or any one of the 5-6 more appealing coaching jobs that will come up in the next few years. Across the past two decades coaching Carlton has been career suicide, as Teague found out and Voss is probably learning, as Malthouse and Pagan and Brittain and even Barker found out before.  We should be on our knees grateful to Voss for having the balls to take on all of this and giving us even a few moments of joy.

If we want a better coach than Voss, we need to become a club that better coaches want to join. If we want our assistants and development and high performance coaches to do better we have to become a club that supports and helps people to do better, not turns on them in a blink of an eye and demands their sacking because the team lost a couple of early season games.