Blues, Teague to talk turkey

CARLTON interim coach David Teague will sit down with the Blues post-season to discuss his prospects of becoming their long-term head coach.

Teague currently boasts four wins from his six games as caretaker at Princes Park — with the latest being last week’s comfortable four-goal win against lowly Gold Coast — and expressed his drive to become a senior coach of a football club.

“I’ve said all along I’ll coach the 11 weeks and then at the end of the 11 weeks I’ll learn a lot about myself along the way,” Teague said at Princes Park yesterday.

“I’ll then sit down with the club and we’ll see where they’re at.

“I’ve got full faith that this football club will make the right decision going forward. That’s their job and that’s what they need to do.”

“I definitely want to be a senior coach, just when is probably the question. Since I coached the Northern Bullants I’ve always had a passion to be a senior coach and right now I’m learning a lot and I’m enjoying the challenges we face at the moment.”

Teague added that his motivation at the club from now until the end of the season is to extract the strengths out of his playing group and he believes his players have brought into the messaging he has put forth to them.

“We wanted to play really solid consistent football. I know, personally, and I think the coaches believe in the talent we’ve got at this football club,” Teague said.

“It was about executing and bringing their [the players’] strengths to the table.

“I think the players are doing that now. We’re seeing a lot of players playing to their strengths now. We didn’t set a win-loss goal at all.

“What we do know is that we go out there every week to win.”