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

[The Dingrel]

At least they'd be able to report on the parma, rice cooking, dimmies, tuna, sauces, oh and Clarko is coaching the Kangas

Pastizzis.....Ricotta or Pea?

 

[Gumble Frankieton]

Learn something everyday, that looks like a shakshuka sometimes I do for breakfast..

Shakshuka: The Origin and an Easy, Healthy Recipe

Shakshuka: The Origin and an Easy, Healthy Recipe! This one pan Shakshuka is bursting with aromatic spices and flavour. Serve with bread.

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Just looking at that makes me hungry

 

[Del191229]

I've only been a paying member of 2 clubs. Essendon and North.

I have been a member of 9 clubs though.

Member of the Mile High Club?

 

[blackshadow]

Member of the Mile High Club?

Are residents of Denver members by default?

 

[FlyHigh18]

Trust, power: what Essendon will need to give Clarkson​

By Jake Niall​

August 17, 2022 — 5.00am


If Essendon match the formal terms offered to Alastair Clarkson by North Melbourne, the Bombers will have a significant advantage over the Kangaroos, simply by dint of their size and underlying institutional strength.

The Essendon playing list, while lacking in superstar quality, is closer to finals and premiership contention than that of North, who face at least another two years of rebuilding before September is feasible.

Given a choice, most coaches would fancy that Essendon are the more enticing proposition.

“I think he will go for the club with more resources at their disposal,” predicted Dermott Brereton, one of two board members who voted against Clarkson’s appointment at Hawthorn in 2004. Brereton left the Hawthorn board after Clarkson’s first year because he felt the coach needed a clean slate and only directors who had backed him.

Assuming Essendon come to the party with a similar deal of at least five years - and they will not get Clarkson if they don’t - North will only have a couple of selling points in comparison with the more powerful club.


One is that the Kangaroos will give Clarkson as much control as a coach can have in 2022, making him Denis Pagan redux. While handing a coach near-total control is often unhealthy, it is hard to see how Clarkson wouldn’t exercise that power at Arden Street.

North are approaching Clarkson on bended knee. The relationship will therefore be on his terms.

The other positive point of difference North can offer - and the romance of returning to his old club won’t count for much - is lower expectations. Clarkson would be expected to lift Essendon into finals immediately; at North, he will have a two- or three-year amnesty.

Based on his Hawthorn history, Clarkson will want to be sure that key figures at Essendon have his back. At Hawthorn, he had club legend Jason Dunstall, on the board from 2004 until 2013, in his corner and acting as human shield against Jeff Kennett.

Further, for most of his reign at Hawthorn, Chris Fagan was not only a rock in support, but also a voice who could temper Clarkson’s domineering excesses.
Essendon, thus, will need to demonstrate to Clarkson that his career won’t founder on club instability, divisions - such as those that have been exposed this week - or blunders in list management, conditioning and player welfare.

Clarkson withdraws from Giants race, open to talking to Essendon​

If true to his Hawthorn ways, people who worked with Clarkson at the Hawks reckon he will need to be assured that there are sufficient people he can trust, staff who will back him against all foes - foreign and domestic.

He would know that the Bombers have already treated their coach Ben Rutten shabbily and is entitled to know that if expectations aren’t met by the middle of 2024, that the Dons won’t diminish his authority. It is quite remarkable that Operation Clarko is in train while Rutten is the coach and contracted for 2023.

Essendon will need to earn Clarkson’s trust and hand him power. The club has not succeeded with any coach since Kevin Sheedy, having failed to date with two outsiders with Richmond pedigrees (Rutten and Matthew Knights), a big-name premiership coach (John Worsfold, imported in a crisis) and a deified favourite son (James Hird) whose tenure was undone by the drugs saga.

To land Clarkson, Essendon will need to hand him more authority than any coach since Sheedy (possibly excepting Hird). In effect, this means facilitating his choice of assistants, his fitness/conditioning man (he’s worked at Hawthorn with Essendon incumbent Sean Murphy) and, not least, he will want a say in the person managing the list. Some assistants, such as Blake Caracella, are contracted for next year.

Todd Viney is viewed as a probable Clarkson lieutenant. Viney worked at Melbourne with football boss Josh Mahoney, whom Clarkson knows from their time at Port Adelaide.

New Essendon chairman David Barham, is a veteran TV sport producer.Credit:The Age

If Clarkson lands at Tullamarine, it will be fascinating to see whether he is willing to work with the charismatic, yet contentious list boss Adrian Dodoro, who is heavily aligned to Sheedy, now on the board and a paid consultant/ambassador with institutional clout.

If Clarkson and/or Viney want someone other than Dodoro, I doubt that Sheedy or any influential supporters - or even the board - would be able to veto his wish.
For the new president David Barham, the Clarkson equation is as follows: To get him, you hand him the keys and other forces within the club - coteries, past players and legends - will see their voices muted.

Apparently it's only ok for a coach to have full power if it's *

"One is that the Kangaroos will give Clarkson as much control as a coach can have in 2022, making him Denis Pagan redux. While handing a coach near-total control is often unhealthy, it is hard to see how Clarkson wouldn’t exercise that power at Arden Street."

then goes on to say....

"To land Clarkson, Essendon will need to hand him more authority than any coach since Sheedy (possibly excepting Hird)"

 

[HELLSBELLS]

Well now the weasel wont take my calls or answer my SMS i can only assume that he is clearly Fatphobic as well as a tiny little nerdy Essendon loving weasel.


Its a big get ****ed to him from me and my mate Orangutan

 

[outwecome2play]

that isn't true at all.

LDU
Simpkin
Larkey
McKay
Zurhaar
Cunnington

Then
Goldy ( due to age)
TT
JHF
Curtis

Then
Taylor
McDonald
Stephenson
Corr
Polec
Perez
Young
Scott
Powell
CCJ
Bonar
Anderson

Then

Phillips
Comben
Goater
Xerri

Then

Ford
Bergman
Archer

We've massively underachieved. IMO of course.

Last year when the Collingwood and Carlton jobs were available the media was saying that Carlton had the better list and was closer to a premiership. That aged well.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Apparently it's only ok for a coach to have full power if it's *

"One is that the Kangaroos will give Clarkson as much control as a coach can have in 2022, making him Denis Pagan redux. While handing a coach near-total control is often unhealthy, it is hard to see how Clarkson wouldn’t exercise that power at Arden Street."

then goes on to say....

"To land Clarkson, Essendon will need to hand him more authority than any coach since Sheedy (possibly excepting Hird)"

As I said earlier, just weird big club syndrome.

 

[Mixed Results]

I’d be more nervous if it was literally any other Melbourne-based club that we were up against.

If this was Collingwood, Richmond, or Carton, then sure, maybe we’d have been bullied out of the picture. But Essendon are a laughing stock and the only lure they could offer to Clarkson would be money.

 

[Kangayroo]

In other news, I never knew until I read this thread that f5 was a refresh button. I've been ctrl-r ing all along or clicking the little circle thing. A whole new world is now opening up before my eyes!

Welcome to the 1st century

 

[Sillygit]

 

[Hojuman]

Can people please leave voicemails here for a while ?

Gotta make kimchi so hard to type.

 

[joegreen]

My favourite is windows key D. It brings up the desktop.

Alt tab is handy or click on the task view icon on your task bar, next to the Cortana circle.

Everything's zen.

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Anyone else read it? Hard going and to be honest I think I'd have to read it another 10 times to really understand it. Layers of complexity. Almost as deep as this thread, almost...

 

[Engimal v3]

This is what AFL journos think about us

 

[Uber Roo]

Well now the weasel wont take my calls or answer my SMS i can only assume that he is clearly Fatphobic as well as a tiny little nerdy Essendon loving weasel.


Its a big get *ed to him from me and my mate Orangutan

Call tomorrow from a different phone and change your name lol


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[The Dingrel]

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Here we go!
My Twitter feed is full of this kind of stuff this morning lol

Pass the kleenex

 

[Makeshift Park]

Well now the weasel wont take my calls or answer my SMS i can only assume that he is clearly Fatphobic as well as a tiny little nerdy Essendon loving weasel.


Its a big get *ed to him from me and my mate Orangutan

Did you try turning off caller ID?

 

[giantroo]

 

[The Dingrel]

How will that happen if clarkson was spotted getting off a plane in Adelaide this morning?

Going to offer Fabian Francis a bootstudder gig.

 

[The acurate one]

Last year when the Collingwood and Carlton jobs were available the media was saying that Carlton had the better list and was closer to a premiership. That aged well.

It is all based around as many had said, ladder positioning. We've had poor fitness, training standards, structure and well coaching unfortunately.

While I did tip us to finish last it wasn't about our list by the above points I just mentioned.

We've six players that could win their respective positions weekly, no one would be surprised if that happened. That is a bloody grand start, when you consider we are last.


We have 3 players that need to improve their consistency to join the other six. Then Goldy who is a gun but is 34. If you have NINE players all capable of dominating, you are half way there.


Makes sense you all know it.

Then we have a cluster of players finding their way. Some will make it others won't, happens at every club.

Followed by highly touted Comben, Phillips and Goater- fingers crossed. Should they all come on as expected- oh boy!

 

[Crock Hunter]

My favourite anecdote of this entire process is that “we haven’t even got a coach selection panel if Clarko goes elsewhere”

Of course we’ve got one you buffoons - they just aren’t rolling it out to mainstream media, same way you haven’t heard a thing from our camp on clarko.

Let Caro dribble on national TV - Sonja couldn’t care less about that superficial hog wash. Remember - she’s actually a football person, not a sensationalist.

 

[DesertRoo]

Just looking at that makes me hungry

One of those things like spagbowl too, once you sort of get the principle, you don’t even need a recipe, just cook it in a frypan, then plonk it in baking dish, eggs on top and oven.
Delicious

 

[TheKanga]

Slow news day

 

[Tiberius]

Don't listen to anyone who says he has signed, agreed, nodded and winked, given us a thumbs up emoji react etc.

What about the fingering in the lift though?

 

[Makeshift Park]

Hodge talking to Gerard Weasley here:

Luke Hodge (17.8.22)

Luke Hodge joined Gerard to assess the options that sit in front of Alastair Clarkson, and to outline reasons he could choose North Melbourne or Essendon. He also touched on the Zaine Cordy's tribunal hearing, Carlton vs Collingwood, and Brisbane vs Melbourne.

player.whooshkaa.com