Click here to watch Malthouse's statement on YouTube.
On Wednesday morning before the club’s main training session, senior coach Mick Malthouse made a statement to the media regarding the death of coaching legend Allan Jeans.
Malthouse played under Jeans for 53 games at St Kilda before coaching against him across seven seasons with Malthouse at Footscray and West Coast and Jeans leading Hawthorn and Richmond.
Jeans and Malthouse partnership
Coach and player (1972-76)
23 wins, 29 losses at St Kilda (in the matches that Malthouse played in)
Coach v coach
9 wins Jeans (9 Hawthorn - including the qualifying and preliminary final in 1985)
6 wins Malthouse (3 Footscray, 3 West Coast)
Malthouse on Jeans
It’s a very, very sad day for the football fraternity.
Anyone who has had anything to do with Allan has been touched by his sincerity, his strength, his knowledge of the game, his love of the game and even though it was a long time ago that I was coached by him, close to 40 years ago, I did speak to him yesterday.
His mind was still sharp. He still had a talk about the game that took place the previous week and the season so far.
But to Mary and the family I couldn’t be sadder for them.
What he has been able to do for young people coming through has been extraordinary. Disciplinarian, had great integrity, great strength of character and I think he has touched anyone and everyone who he has come across as a player, a coach or an opposition person. He has had a great bearing on (these people).
It’s one of football’s sad days.
Personally I have been touched by him. Having been coached by him and coached against him. He is one of the great people of Australian Rules Football.
