After all, it makes perfect sense that anyone coaching a team that seemed to promise so much but delivered as little as Carlton has in 2014 would also hate footy.

Seemingly on the cusp of a new era of greatness two seasons ago, the club now appears light years away from serious contention.

Rather than seek answers in exotic high-altitude places, a trip to the National Gallery of Victoria to see Tom Roberts' iconic Shearing the Rams might be all the Blues need to turn things around.

Heads down and bums up, the shearers' back-to-basics approach would be a winner on the footy field. Tackle a living sheep to the ground and you know you've done well.