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

[Supreme_Chancellor]

You can look at it that way, but it in reality it would be a blow of massive proportions to the club. One that could result in board falling apart, an already dysfunctional footy department ending up in a mass walkout and losing key players at the same time. We would take years to recover.


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That timeline is pretty dark.

 

[Nate7]

Cmon Clarksons

 

[danj]

This whole Alastair Clarkson thing better not be déjà vu all over again

 

[Twinkletoes]

 

[Supreme_Chancellor]

Huge week for the club!

 

[Daniltchenko You Beauty]

Just saw Tom Morris in London. He didn't know anything about Clarko but he did give me his top 10 shielas in footy media.

 

[hilly]

That timeline is pretty dark.

Thought it was pretty upbeat by Horizontal Event's standards.

 

[DuckYeah]

The common essendoper is hilarious.

 

[Reagan Smash]

You reckon?


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Yeh.

He’s rubbing it in their faces knowing we have Clarkson and they don’t.

 

[rickety]

This whole Alastair Clarkson thing better not be déjà vu all over again

 

[Hojuman]

Have you posted this before ?

 

[rickety]

Have you posted this before ?

I don't think so, but Top Secret was a funny film

 

[giantroo]

‘COUP’: HOW CLARKO WOULD HELP NORTH ATTRACT RIVAL STARS… AND BRING A ‘PERFECT’ LIEUTENANT

Put your finger in the air and the wind suggests an Alastair Clarkson-North Melbourne reunion is a growing – and, for Roos fans, exciting – possibility.

And should Clarkson link back up with his former club, not only would he help attract gun players to Arden St, he’d likely bring one of the best football minds that’d be “perfect” for the club, according to Melbourne champion Garry Lyon.


Clarkson, the four-time premiership Hawks boss and the best coach of the modern era, is set to return to coaching again next season after a year off. Multiple outlets have reported a decision is expected as early as the end of this week.

The 54-year-old has been courted heavily by both the Kangaroos and Giants, who’ve met with Clarkson in recent weeks.

But while the Giants have been in the market for a coach longer and held more meetings with Clarkson, it’s understood they haven’t offered a deal to him like the Kangaroos have – and the latter’s is a juicy offer.







Herald Sun journalist Jon Ralph reported on Fox Footy on Friday night the Kangaroos have tabled a five-year deal for Clarkson to coach the club – an offer Clarkson is seriously considering.

“No one is officially saying that he will be there, but I think the strong expectation is that by this time next week, Clarko could be the North Melbourne coach – astonishing news and just an absolute fillip for the North Melbourne Football Club, which has had to endure so much over the last 12 months,” Ralph told Fox Footy.


Ralph added a player manager had told him Clarkson, who played 93 of his 134 AFL games with North Melbourne, “would be able to get anyone he wants” from rival clubs because of his standing in the game.

Asked if Clarkson’s presence would assist the Kangaroos snare players from rival clubs, triple premiership Lion Jonathan Brown told Fox Footy: “Absolutely it’ll help them. It’ll help them retain players – (Jason) Horne-Francis is the one everyone’s talking about, but players in general – and obviously attract players, no doubt about it.

“He’s a super coach, four premierships – clearly that will be a motivation for players.”

Ralph asked Brown: “So if you’re a (Jacob) Hopper or (Tim) Taranto and you’re thinking about other clubs, are you all of a sudden thinking: ‘Yeah Arden St is a destination I’d get to?’”

Brown replied: “It’d be a swaying factor, no doubt about it.”

Reports emerged last week that Clarkson had spoken to former lieutenants about their interest in joining him as part of a coaching panel at either the Roos or Giants next season.

One of those ex-lieutenants is Todd Viney, who’s reportedly seriously considering rejoining forces with Clarkson and being his right-hand man in a Neil Balme-style football director role.

Viney, who was an assistant under Clarkson between 2005 and 2009, has been out of footy since departing Melbourne in 2019.

Melbourne champion Garry Lyon, who was a teammate of Viney at the Demons, said Viney would be a “fantastic pick-up” – especially if he were to land at the Kangaroos.

“He (Viney) is a very, very simple man: ‘If you don’t compete, you don’t play.’ He was massive on that at Hawthorn as a premiership-winning assistant coach, he was big on it at Adelaide and at Melbourne that was the recruiting philosophy,” Lyon told Fox Footy.

“I think he’d be almost perfect (at North) … He’s got a property that’s on the other side of town, which would be an easy drive to Arden St I would’ve thought.


“If in fact that’s what happens, Arden St would have the best coach and they’d have the best harness man alongside him – and that’d be a coup.”

 

[koshari]

Just saw Tom Morris in London. He didn't know anything about Clarko but he did give me his top 10 shielas in footy media.

Caro top the list?

 

[viccles]

Please please please

 

[sutcliffe's hotel]

 

[krakouers]

What’s going on with Sportsbet? Clarko out to 2.10..

Plenty of * supporters wanting to lose money

 

[Samsquanch]

Plenty of * supporters wanting to lose money

Bookies gotta live too.

 

[Roo202]

So now supporters of a "big" club are feeling a bit aggreived with their current coach, Clarko has swung away from risky appointment to hot property again!

Gotta love the arrogance of it all, they're all basically talking like had * acted, Clarko would be their coach.

It may be a bit of a stretch for their tiny minds, but imagine if maybe, just maybe, the entire football world didn't follow the script of the big clubs picking and choosing who and what they want and when and smaller clubs didn't stay in their lane and take the "best of what's left".

Maybe * have been making enquiries behind the scenes and have told thanks but no thanks, I've already seen a far better presentation at another club.

We've been told since Clarko become available that he would basically have the pick which club he coached next, if we see him in a royal blue polo in the next few days, it will seem to me like he has picked pretty bloody well!

 

[Event Horizon]

We have acted in a very smart and calculated way and one day this will come out in a wash. To move Noble on when we did, despite plenty of criticism and plenty of idiots asking why not just let him coach out the season - we’ve got to this week and Sonja deserves plenty of credit for it.




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[Ry009]

There may be a thread on the main board asking the exact same question.

Mate, champagne thread created on the main board. Subtle and brilliant.

 

[Shinboner1]

We have acted in a very smart and calculated way and one day this will come out in a wash. To move Noble on when we did, despite plenty of criticism and plenty of idiots asking why not just let him coach out the season - we’ve got to this week and Sonja deserves plenty of credit for it.




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In Sonja we trust

 

[Only Forwards]

I think we’ll be too close having this sorted and * too far away from anything really for them to be a credible threat to this.

Only in nightmares would Clarko halt everything with us (he’s going to be able to almost reshape the club) to look at a half prospect where there is still an incumbent coach.

Taking that we do get this done, this * tanty will give us something to throw at their supporters for years.

 

[Only Forwards]

Mate, champagne thread created on the main board. Subtle and brilliant.

That is a thing of beauty.

 

[The Warlord]

As if Clarko is going to that rabble.