AFL 2025: Carlton coach Michael Voss downplays board discussing and confirming his future
The Carlton board sat on Wednesday night and on Thursday confirmed that Voss would start the final year of his contract next season.
It comes as the Blues finish this home-and-away campaign out of the eight and well below the lofty expectations they entered with in 2025.
Voss said 'the theatre' of the board meeting with his future top of the agenda was 'quite different' to how he and the club internally viewed the discussion.
'I think the theatre on the outside is very, very, very different to what has happened on the inside,' he said.
'I reckon as a coach when you come into this role, you've got to understand and be quite content that there's an end at some point in time.
'When you're content enough with that, you tend to focus a lot on the way you want to do it and what's important to you and what you want to be able to bring.
'While that discussion goes on on the outside, that's for them to talk about, it's not for me to talk about – it's about getting on with the job that's in front of us.
'Nothing changed, that might come as quite surprising to you, but that's certainly what I felt. It was business as usual and that's what we carried on with.
'Again that theatre of what was happening and what was being spoken about, 'five-hour board meetings', quite different to what it has felt like inside.'
Voss answered seven minutes of questions about the board meeting before insisting his press conference moved on to this week's game against Gold Coast.
'I can't stress this enough guys, you're giving it actually much more credibility than it needs to. I know it's an important decision but for us it was business as usual,' he said.
'I was announced in front of the group as you would've seen and then we focus on our game.
' … I think let's move on to the game and we'll deal with the other stuff when it comes. I've answered it about five times now, we'll try something else.'
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