Certified Legendary Thread Alastair Clarkson II - signs 5 year contract w/ North Melbourne 19 August 2022 - news breaks p360

[HARPSichord]

Seems we may have an idea by this time tomorrow. Aldi champers is going back in the fridge!

 

[Lomas]

Seems we may have an idea by this time tomorrow. Aldi champers is going back in the fridge!

Mote is a great drop.

 

[The acurate one]

There it seems will be some media types seeking counselling when this is over .

Oh well

 

[KickItAnywhere34]

So the North 'ITK' is KickItAnywhere34 and going of the avatar it's in reference to David King.

34 is also a number that has strong links to Essendon.

It couldn't be, could it.

Troll to end all Trolls.

This was on the essendon bigfooty page lol

No - and I’ll say it again I am in this pic from the 96 Prelim. Have been a member since 1973.

 

[BigRedRoo]

 

[tazaa]

Mark Robinson: Essendon wants Alastair Clarkson but he should pick North Melbourne​

Embattled power club Essendon has made a late play to pinch Alastair Clarkson from the clutches of North Melbourne but he should still pick the Roos, Mark Robinson writes.

Mark Robinson
@Robbo_heraldsun

4 min read
August 16, 2022 - 6:41PM
News Corp Australia Sports Newsroom

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Football is a dog eat dog world and suddenly Essendon believes it is well placed to cut North Melbourne’s lunch.

Just why they think that is a curious question.

Is it because the wealthy conservatives in the northwest corridor of Melbourne, who grow the big hedges and own the bigger house, believe no man worth his salt would reject such a famous football club?

Essendon wants Alastair Clarkson, and Clarkson might want Essendon, but that doesn’t mean Clarkson is headed for — or should head to — Tullamarine.

No, Clarkson should coach the Kangaroos.

For many reasons, not least being the belief that North Melbourne needs Clarkson more than the Bombers do.

The Bombers might beg to differ — they are a mess — have been for a while now.

Robbo believes Alastair Clarkson should pick the Roos over the Bombers.

The supplement saga tore the heart out of the club for any number of reasons and, at the end, those willing to fight finally lost the will to fight. And in doing so almost their lives.

Since then, Essendon became a vanilla club, meandering through season after season with hope more than conviction.
The move on Clarkson is not a surprise, although the surprise is it took so long.

It doesn’t make it a match made in heaven, though.


Clarkson is a killer, but more than any other time in his career, the public has seen a gentler, warmer football person.

He’s speaking about the essence of footy rather than the business of football and all that entails.

Like how he talks of a team in Tasmania and what it would do for the state like he has spoken of the importance of sport in his hometown of Kaniva.


“My father was a builder and my mother was a kindergarten teacher, and we had the benefit of a really strong, sporting and farming community, and that’s what drove the culture of the town,” Clarkson told the ABC.

“The old adage ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ was very apt where I grew up.”

In May this year, after Tasmania launched a TV advert with a young girl kicking the footy around different places in the state, Clarkson said: “It (the ad) just reminded me of, albeit in Victoria, of doing the exact same thing as a kid.

“You see the footage of that little girl kicking the footy on that oval … and it just reminds me so much of my childhood.


“And it doesn’t matter where it is in Australia, it’s our national game. And we’ve got a heartland in Tasmania that’s not featuring in our national game. It’s just wrong. It’s just wrong, and we’ve got to do something about it.’’

He’s shown he has a big heart, a big enough heart to return to the club he started at and to the club that really needs him.

Clarkson has shown many times that footy is not always about the best opportunity, but the right opportunity.

After all, he moved on his champs at Hawthorn because, he said, it was the right opportunity for them and the Hawks.

The pragmatic and practical people would say I’m being far too emotive in what should be a purely business decision. But footy isn’t your normal business.

Clarkson started his career at the Kangaroos after Essendon, who controlled the zone which included Kaniva, passed on him as a young man.


North Melbourne president Sonja Hood is a businesswoman and heartfelt supporter, and she no doubt would have spoken to Clarkson about his formative years at Arden St.

Does that count 30-odd years later?

In the four weeks Hood has courted Clarkson and his manager James Henderson, the discussions have ventured to all kinds of places, like character, personnel, ambition and opportunity.

She would’ve heard former Hawks skipper Luke Hodge describe Clarkson as a difficult person to deal with, but still she was determined.

She has done her due diligence and so has Clarkson on North Melbourne.

Clarkson wants to add to his legacy. He wants to work at a big club. He wants to win a fifth flag.

John Kennedy is a hero for Clarkson, and it was Kennedy, after departing the Hawks, who rebuilt the Kangaroos footy club in the 1980s.

He didn’t win anything, but North Melbourne people tell you “Kanga’’ set the tone for the 1990s.


Can you imagine Clarkson’s legacy if he took North to a flag?

The satisfaction of arriving at a club at rock bottom on the field, and to build them, lead them and win with them?

True, the Bombers could say the same.

But if Clarkson rejects Essendon, the club will march on.

If Clarkson rejects North Melbourne, Hood will deploy Plan B. She has a plan, but not a name.

And the fans will be devastated.

It will be another kick in the guts for a club that has mostly always been the poor cousin to the mob up Mt Alexander Road.
Clarkson could change that by rejecting Essendon, and helping North Melbourne.

Now that would be a hell of a legacy.

This is ****ing hilarious. He’s been told * are no chance so he’s now done another 180.
How many articles has he written in the last 24 hours?

When this is all said and done there needs to be a timeline of the shitshow that unfolded between round 22 and 23 Flawed Genius giantroo

 

[Bren]

All of them?

yeah, he said people not scum

 

[north_lad]

"oooh the next coach after Sheedy to win a flag... oooh the most successful club in the land!!"

wow, the successor to a senile old campaigner that probably likes the smell of his own shit takes a club that cheated and lied about it back to the top - WHAT A STORY!!! CINDERALLA EAT YOUR HEART OUT

**** off gerard you wannabe intellectual ********

 

[TruRoos7]

Proves that he and other media flogs are trying their hardest to keep us irrelevant so they can continue to use as their own personal boxing bag on slow news week in the future.

I used to enjoy listening to Whately once-upon-a-time, but now I actually despise the little nerd turd.

Agreed when he was on the ABC he seemed very well informed and well balanced, now it’s just media shit show, guy has devolved into the spitting image of the “purple Nurple” Damo.

 

[Pagans Paddock99]

Ever noticed South Melbourne dimmies at South Melbourne market are different to the dimmies sold as south Melbourne dimmies at servos?

Is there a counterfeit dim sim racket in Melbourne?




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[Ligma]

No - and I’ll say it again I am in this pic from the 96 Prelim. Have been a member since 1973.

2 dilfs holding that up

 

[DocSholl]

Not sure if posted, but the Kangas have set a deadline for Clarko.

He has 24 hours to make a decision.

Per Fox Footy.

The actual article just uses Robbo's quote that we are looking for an answer by tomorrow, not that we've set a hard deadline.

 

[SheezNuts]

Oi... thats GiantRoos job

 

[Samsquanch]

Be careful of the share screen and random outbursts of hysterical laughing.

Ha Ha...

An old workmate was doing a powerpoint presentation to an audience of about 200 - 300 in the corporate theatrette. Was looking away while talking about the slide on the big screen when an Outlook email pop-up notification displayed with the heading that was something like, "Hey campaigner - are you coming to lunch?"

The room just cracked up, but he didn't realise why, and he was playing up the humorous side of his speech thinking he was a hit with the crowd.

Our boss was panicking but nothing happened to him. Anybody else might have been sacked though I reckon.

 

[king of the road]

Then release an article within 5mins on the AFL Twitter page about the to and fro/ for and against North v * for added clicks..

Exactly.

No one watches footy calcified. It’s just a means to create story lines to be pursued endlessly via every other associated media entity for the rest of the week.

They don’t believe half the crap they spout. It’s a job. They say whatever they have to in order to generate content to focus attention that can then be monetized into revenue.

Billion dollar TV/media deals have to be paid for somehow.

 

[HARPSichord]

What the hell is that?!?!

 

[northbergs]

Feels again what was actually said had been twisted. Sounds like Robbo was referring to * when talking about arranged marriages.


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[Blacky]

The number of pages on this thread has blown my mind.

What are you guys/girls/quivorirs going to do with all your time when he makes a decision?

Also hello Rich and Chris

 

[Briedis]

They white-anted Knights as well. Abhorrent club.

Can you please not put the words "white" and "knights" in the same sentence around here.

 

[shinboner magic]

Has north confirmed that we’ve put a deadline to clarko or is it media BS

 

[Mr Lloyd Christmas]

What are you guys/girls/quivorirs going to do with all your time when he makes a decision?

Win the next three premierships.

Thank you for asking.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

The number of pages on this thread has blown my mind.

What are you guys/girls/quivorirs going to do with all your time when he makes a decision?

Also hello Rich and Chris

Who the f*** is Rich?

 

[Hojuman]

The number of pages on this thread has blown my mind.

What are you guys/girls/quivorirs going to do with all your time when he makes a decision?

Also hello Rich and Chris

Still hang $hit on *. It's what we do

 

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[Spud11]

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