Carlton has sacked coach Mick Malthouse after a meeting between club directors and executives on Tuesday afternoon followed a radio interview in which the veteran coach continued to criticise the Carlton board.

Malthouse later announced his AFL coaching career was now over, bringing down the curtain on a career that included three premierships.

Assistant coach John Barker has been appointed interim senior coach to replace Malthouse who leaves his fourth AFL club after registering a record 718 senior games as coach.

Malthouse spoke on SEN radio on Tuesday morning, claiming his future was out of his hands and that boards sack coaches when they crack under pressure.

On Monday, the club had released a statement to its members saying a decision would be made regarding Malthouse's future in two weeks' time, after the round 10 match against Adelaide and ahead of the club's bye.

Pressure had been building on Malthouse after a poor start to 2015 for the Blues in which they have won just one of their first eight games.

Malthouse's comments on radio antagonised the Carlton board with executives calling a lunchtime meeting in response to the coach's outburst.

When Trigg returned to Carlton's Prince's Park headquarters he called Malthouse out of a match committee meeting into his office and the veteran coach was told his contract was terminated.

President Mark LoGiudice said the comments made by Malthouse had brought the situation to a head and the club needed to act.

"Unfortunately Mick's obvious public misalignment with the football club has resulted in a loss of trust between the club and coach," he said.

"The Board today considered the situation had deteriorated to such an extent that not making a change now would only exacerbate our current position.

"Everyone has their own view on what he said. From a broader perspective, we thought that his views were not aligned with ours."

Carlton to pay out Malthouse's 2015 contract

Trigg quashed suggestions Malthouse is in line for a huge payout from the Carlton club.

"There is no financial impost to the club beyond what would have been a happy senior coach gone through to the end of the year," Trigg said.

"He is entitled to everything he is entitled to."

Trigg refuted claims that Malthouse made on radio that Adelaide hero Eddie Betts had signed with the Crows 18 months before he left the Blues.

" I am hoping it was an error of terminology," Trigg said.

"What Adelaide did from 12 months out in terms of inch marking every forward in the competition to arrive at a valuation and a decision on him, that is a very, very far cry from having an agreement."

Trigg said when he informed the players and staff it was important to be respectful to what Malthouse had done in the game.

"Some people in a room have had relationships with him for 30 years, so it is a difficult day for them," Trigg said.

"When these guys train and play and live together and go into combat, these relationships become really deep and so you need to forgive them for looking at little downcast for a moment."

Malthouse spoke to media as he arrived at Carlton headquarters this morning but had nothing to say when he left in the afternoon.

Senior player Chris Judd told reporters it was a sad day for the playing group.

"We're sad for Mick, he's been a wonderful coach and he's been put through the wringer during this whole process," Judd said.

"Mick spoke with dignity and there was no bitterness. It's time for a change and the club moves on.'

Carlton has endured a horrible start to the 2015 season, winning only one game from the opening eight rounds to leave it sitting at the foot of the AFL ladder.

Blues not in crisis: LoGuidice

But LoGuidice said the club is not in crisis.

"The definition of crisis is where you don't know where you are and you don't have a plan where you are going," he said.

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"We have a plan, a documented plan of where we are going. There is no crisis."

Malthouse joined the club in 2013 after stints with Footscray, West Coast and Collingwood, and only weeks ago broke the record for most senior AFL/VFL games coached, passing Collingwood legend Jock McHale.

In his first season, the Blues were 11-11 in ninth place, but they were admitted to the finals when Essendon was banned over the supplements saga. Carlton beat Richmond in the elimination final but lost to Sydney by 24 points in the first semi-final.

The 2014 season, however, was a big disappointment, as Carlton finished 13th with a record of seven wins, 14 losses.

Malthouse's record in 2015 is his worst in 30 years as an AFL coach. He was contracted until the end of this season, but the board moved to sack him with 14 games still to play.