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Resolution ... Mick Malthouse will meet Kevin Bartlett following their public spat. Source: Wayne Ludbey / News Limited
Having traded public barbs over the AFL's controversial interchange trial, Mick Malthouse and Kevin Bartlett will now thrash out the issue face to face.
Malthouse has accepted an invitation to meet on Wednesday with the league's rules committee, which features Bartlett, and no doubt the league's trial cap on interchange rotations will be the main topic.
The Carlton coach is vehemently opposed to the limit of 80 rotations per team in each game, which was trialled in last weekend's NAB Cup matches.
There will be no rotation cap during the regular season, but there is strong speculation the AFL could bring in a rule for next year.
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Malthouse had accepted the invitation before Saturday night's post-match media conference when he made some pointed comments about the rules committee.
"I sincerely hope that the rules committee are governed by people, who have got an understanding of the modern game, not previous long-ago coaches, or long-ago players, or new players that have no say, or new officials that just make up the numbers," Malthouse said.
"I hope it's not dominated by one or two people who seem to be able to push their way in and around, as a consequence it feels good to be in control, so therefore we'll make it 80 (rotations)."
Bartlett, now an AFL commentator, is an official AFL legend who played 403 games for Richmond and also coached the club.
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He hit back at old Tigers team-mate Malthouse on Monday.
"I really do hope he was talking about me, because that means I would be getting under the skin of the coaches," Bartlett said on SEN.
"Someone has got to be listening, watching and observing what the coaches say or do.
"They babble on at press conferences and after games, (we) have got to make them accountable."
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Malthouse was one of several coaches last weekend who hit out at the trial interchange rule, but Bartlett strongly backed it.
"The big surprise was no player collapsed through exhaustion playing under the 80 interchange rule, or had to be stretchered off because his body had been stressed to the point of no return, and players didn't drop like flies," Bartlett said sarcastically.
"I don't think the game suffered by having on average 100 less interchanges, was it so detrimental to the game that 100 players couldn't sprint to the bench?
"The game didn't suffer or go backwards because rotations were capped.
"Everyone survived and so did the game, and that was no surprise to me."
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