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COLLINGWOOD coach Mick Malthouse has sounded a strong warning to all applicants for the Gold Coast coaching job - don’t sign unless you’re offered a three-year contract.

Pies’ assistant coach Guy McKenna has been mooted as one of the favourites for the post, but the Magpie coach believes current AFL assistants who are candidates need to demand at least one year at the helm of the league's 17th side.

Michael Voss turned down a three-year contract in favour of an assistant coaching role at West Coast as he felt the term, which would have only given him one year in a senior coaching position after two years in the development role, wasn’t sufficient.

“As I said to these blokes (the assistant coaches), be very, very cautious of signing a two-year contract,” Malthouse said.

“If it’s good enough for Michael Voss to be offered three (years), an untried coach to be offered three, surely it’s good enough for an assistant coach to be offered three.
And I mean three as in the third year, you’re senior coach… you don’t want to be setting it up for someone else.”

Malthouse said that he had no problem with any of his staff considering posts at the new club and insisted that anyone who had been approached for vacant positions had informed him straight away.

“I have a very trustworthy staff. They tell me, all and sundry, whose been approached and who hasn’t been approached and when the approach was made. I fully endorse anyone going forward.”

What’s more the veteran coach said he believes Guy McKenna would make a good senior coach for GC17.

“Guy is my direct assistant and he is very good at what he does.”