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COLLINGWOOD coach Mick Malthouse has admitted to a range of emotions this season in the wake of his drawn-out contract negotiations.

But, after agreeing to a new five-year deal with the Magpies which will see him stay on as senior coach for two seasons before assuming a director of coaching role, the 55-year-old now just wants to get on with the job.

Malthouse was asked his overriding feeling upon the announcement of his contract extension.

Words such as “anger” and “frustration” were raised and Malthouse said he experienced a range of emotions during recent months – a time during which speculation reached fever-pitch regarding the Magpies coaching job.

“I don’t dispute any of those things,” he said.

“Fundamental to all that is to have control and to know roughly where you’re going.”

Just last week Malthouse declared he was still “getting the best out of the players” and himself and refused to put a time limit on his coaching career.

So what if he doesn’t feel his time is up after two more seasons in charge?

“I think we’ll approach that in two years,” he said.

“You can’t speculate now. I mean two years [and I’ll be] 58, and I’ve always said it’s not an age thing.

“This is what I’ve elected to do, through Peter (manager Peter Sidwell). He went to the club and the club accepted that two years. I don’t want to say we’ll re-visit it because we are signing a contract for two and three [years].

“We’ve got to worry about 2009 first. And then 2010 and 2011.”

Collingwood has hired Nathan Buckley to be an assistant coach in 2010 and 2011, then take over the top job from 2012.

Malthouse was asked whether he was prepared for extra scrutiny should the Pies hit a rough patch in the next two years, while Buckley was waiting in the wings.

But club president Eddie McGuire intervened:“Let me answer that.”

“Mick Malthouse is the coach of the Collingwood Football Club for the next two years – full stop.”

McGuire also refuted any suggestion the club didn’t want Malthouse as senior coach.

“As president of the Collingwood Football Club I want all our supporters and members to know that there was only one offer of a coaching position, and that was to Michael Malthouse,” he said.

“Mick has shown just what sort of a man he is … when we sat down to discuss just how this all should work, it would have been very easy for Michael to demand or to jump up and down about certain aspects of the future of the Collingwood Football Club, instead he came back to us with the plan.

“Once we had that in place we then spoke to Nathan Buckley.”