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

[The Dingrel]

So we like robbo again?

The bloody media is more bipolar than we are

Damn right that flog only last night said he’d be * coach by Friday. It’s all a media beat up, with zero fooks given to long term credibility.

 

[king rising]

Robbo always seems to back us. Don’t know why people pot him.

 

[see see]

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

​

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.

 

[Disco Dew]

What if there is dip involved?

Oh boy, there’s a rabbit hole we absolutely must go down!
Get me some chili red baby!

 

[Samsquanch]

It would be almost impossible for Rutten to stay on given it's public knowledge they are chasing Clarko. Untenable.

The media went mad. The whole lot of them are vultures and are not worthy of being called journalists or even reporters. They are opinionists. And their opinions are collectively worth about the same as a bag of dog sh*t.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Robbo always seems to back us. Don’t know why people pot him.

yeah he's on our side generally, just this time he's torn as the opposing side is his bombers

 

[roos_tt29]

So how real is this deadline? If we don’t hear anything tomorrow, is that good news or bad news? Or no way of knowing?

Where did the deadline come from? The media.
How correct have they been on their “news”?

There’s your answer


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[Roo202]

Robbo may be a bit Homer, but I think Clarko is a little sharper than Bart!

 

[TheKanga]

Robbo playing 4D chess

Hes had a couple wines when he wrote that article.
I like it though.

 

[The Dingrel]

Chills!

Can they release a twin turbo AWD tuned version of the mx 5 in metallic royal blue with white leather trim?

 

[zoomba23]

Starting to notice a pattern here. Morning, Clarko's coming to us. By midday and throughout the afternoon, he's going to *. But in the evening, he's coming to us again. I hope, if his final decision isn't made yet, that he doesn't make it in the afternoon

 

[Devington]

Really not sure how to take that Robbo article. Has the sugar rush of the "what if?!" dissipated since last night and now he's able to be more objective? Or did he get some good mail and wrote something with that in mind?

 

[koshari]

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

​

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.

Paywalled

 

[giantroo]

North Melbourne is steadfast it wants an indication from Alastair Clarkson on Wednesday about whether he remains in play to coach the club in 2023.
The Kangaroos hard line stance comes after it was revealed Clarkson had told Essendon he has interest in coaching the Bombers next year.

Talks between Clarkson and Essendon were poised to ramp up.

North Melbourne has offered Clarkson a five-year deal and were seen to be favourites to secure his signature.

GWS pulled out of the race for the Hawthorn coaching legend on Tuesday, leaving Clarkson a decision to make between the Kangaroos and the late-charging Bombers.

North president Sonja Hood has been in discussions with Clarkson and his manager James Henderson for about a month.

 

[Only Forwards]

Not at all the other flavours of chip taste like s**t

Coprophiles may be into that.

 

[William Caresser]

He said he believes that Clarko will be at * by the end of this week. Gerard agreed.

Seems like Robbo's been stroking and caressing it Rod, Cheers Willy

 

[marklovesbeer]

Oh boy, there’s a rabbit hole we absolutely must go down!
Get me some chili red baby!

After the tuna discussion earlier (I almost never buy it), I was at the shops & would you believe it John West was half priced, so I bought 5 different styles/types/flavours/alternative guernseys.

Will report back in 2 weeks.
Assuming this thread will still be going at that point.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

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

​

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.

Robbo might just have a multiple personality disorder.

 

[JGreezy]

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

​

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 article should be three words long.

LUKE DAVIES UNIACKE

We have one. They don't.

 

[krakouers]

Paywalled

giantroo posted it in that post

 

[DesertRoo]

Question: which bear is best?

No idea but I’ve been drinking shinobu 10yo pure malt lately and it’s delicious

 

[Samsquanch]

It was mentioned one day ago…….where is that widely reported……and common knowledge - it’s only reared it’s head after yesterdays s**t show..

After some non-entity posted a joke that was then presented by NEIL MITCHELL as if it was a fact.

Unverified.

3AW reported that Ben Rutten had been sacked.

That was picked up my multiple sports reporters. Tony (Chompers) Jones then categorically lied stating that he had confirmed that Clarkson and his manager met on that same day with the Essend*n board.

The media frenzie was based on a lie.

They have since toned it down but not one has had the guts to issue an apology to Rutten, admitting that they were wrong.

They are cowards.

They are low-life gutter crawling grubs.

 

[The Dingrel]

So we're up to what, three bombers board meetings now and they still havent fired Rutten?

Probably still trying to figure out who has the authority to do so and reviewing KPI’s and may have discovered they may face court action for wrongful dismissal.

 

[Hatchy1992]

Me trying to keep up with you damn campaigners

 

[Devington]

Robbo might just have a multiple personality disorder.

Both articles make sense through the lens of "Clarko has said he is signing tomorrow".