coaches. It is pretty hard not talking to the coaches when you are the director of coaching, so I thought he doesn’t want me to be director of coaching, There was no point in staying". Carlton: 2013–2015 Malthouse was announced as the senior coach of Carlton on 11 September 2012 for the next three seasons, when Malthouse replaced Brett Ratten as Carlton Football Club senior coach, after Ratten was sacked at the end of the 2012 season. In the 2013 season, the Blues under Malthouse initially finished ninth on the ladder with eleven wins and eleven losses, but were raised to eighth place, therefore being put in the finals after were relegated to ninth position after being penalised for its well-documented supplements scandal, following a one-point win over Port Adelaide in the final round, which kept North Melbourne from overtaking them on percentage. Carlton subsequently defeated Richmond in its elimination final, thus making Malthouse the most successful finals coach ever. But Carlton under Malthouse were however eliminated by the Sydney Swans in the semi-final in the 2013 finals series. Carlton struggled for the remainder of his tenure at the club. His 2014 campaign began the 2014 season with four consecutive losses and at the end of the 2014 season, Carlton under Malthouse finished with seven wins, one draw and fourteen losses en route to a 13th-place finish on the ladder; and in the 2015 season, the club under Malthouse sat last with a record of 1–7 after eight rounds. As the club's on-field performances also deteriorated, there was intense media speculation about Malthouse's position, and the public relationship between Malthouse and club administration of most notably president Mark LoGiudice and CEO Steven Trigg, who had both been in the roles since mid-2014 also deteriorated. On 26 May 2015, hours after giving a radio interview on Melbourne Station SEN in which Malthouse was highly critical of the club's administrators, Malthouse was then sacked as Carlton Football Club senior coach. Malthouse was then replaced by assistant coach John Barker as caretaker senior coach of Carlton Football Club for the rest of the 2015 season. Years later in 2021, Malthouse reflected on his tenure as senior coach of Carlton in the Herald Sun and stated "The biggest disappointment of my coaching career is that I should have looked further into Carlton’s lack of forward thinking, before I signed on to coach the Blues"