For Kennett's part, the pressure is now all his. In freeing themselves from Clarkson's shadow, as Clarkson himself put it, the club and the man who run it are now at the mercy of the seeds they have sown. Even the best coaches come and go, but it is hard to look at Clarkson's jettisoning in any other way than distasteful. Kennett primarily, but Reeves also, will have to live with the fact the coach who started with nothing and won Hawthorn four premierships was casually undermined and then discarded. "Jeff Kennett clearly thinks he walks on water and it would work for him," Mick Malthouse, who knows a thing or two about succession plans, told the ABC. "It hasn't and was never going to."