Mick Malthouse. Picture: Wayne Ludbey. Source: Herald Sun
NEW Carlton coach Mick Malthouse said the Blues' hands were tied by the salary cap but has also taken a swipe at free agents.
Carlton was virtually invisible in the past month, only involved in one trade during the entire trade/free agency period completed yesterday, trading departing Jordan Russell to Malthouse's old club Collingwood for pick 71.
"Our salary cap is topped up and the player list is contracted so there wasn't a lot of maneuverability," Malthouse said.
"Disappointing? Maybe but at the end of the day you don't trade for the sake of trading.
"The bigger names, (Brendon) Goddard and so forth, they have changed over in the free agency period.
"Is Gary Ablett out there? No, it is more mix and match - too many ruckmen, not enough flanks or vice versa so you swap over.
"We spoke from the word go we probably wouldn't be doing much trading and it has turned out we've done none. Our salary cap is where it is and our players are contracted so there was not much we can do."
Malthouse refused to be drawn on the controversy surrounding Adelaide and its former key forward Kurt Tippett.
With no trade completed yesterday, Tippett may be forced to enter the national or pre-season draft.
Despite crying out for a big-bodied key forward, Malthouse said there was no way Tippett would be in the navy blue next season.
"We can't get him," he said in Hobart yesterday promoting his daughter Christi Malthouse's book A Football Life.
"If he's in the draft he's not going to get through to Carlton and if he did our salary cap is restrictive."
This year saw the introduction of free agency that allowed some players easier access to the club of their choice, but the former Footscray, West Coast and Collingwood coach was not impressed.
"I don't like it at all," he said.
"It helps the top clubs and doesn't do any favours at all for the bottom clubs."
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