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

[Engimal v3]

Can any current players confirm they're watching this thread obviously no need to reveal who you are.

Yes. I'm Josh Kelly, and if Clarko signs with North then I'm going to sign with North.

 

[Le Grille]

I am 100% certain he will land at Tullamarine.

Unless he drives back from Adelaide...

Flies in to Avalon for the lols

 

[Flawed Genius]

The soft deadline just smells like a media beat up to try and force us to break our cone of silence. The club has said nothing at all so far, and it’s driving the journos mad. So what do they do? Invent a deadline and pretend that it’s real so they can try and force something, anything, out of us. The deadline will pass and neither Clarko or North will say anything, because it’s a made up piece of crap.

****ing yep

 

[Massive Unit]

What street is that? Puckle?

**** that! Puckle Street is in Moonee Ponds, not their scumbag of a suburb

 

[Mootsy]

yeh

 

[Cool Kangas]

So, what’s the word on the street?..

What’s the word hummingbird?

 

[leighlee13]

I am 100% certain he will land at Tullamarine.

Unless he drives back from Adelaide...

Also there are no flights to Adelaide from Avalon at the moment so he won't sneak in there.

 

[Massive Unit]

So, what’s the word on the street?..

 

[Flawed Genius]

**** me what a load of absolute wank. Surely he's cut holes in his pockets and is fiddling with it while he speaks

 

[Handsome.B.Wonderful]

All I can say here, is for someone that originally got your intel from your daughter, you seem to now be on the front foot of news events with multiple sources.

What if Sonja is his daughter?

 

[ferball]

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.

WTF is this even an article?

This is the first line:

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.

And then everything else contradicts it.

Reality is if everything we've heard so far about Clarkos and this coaching process is true and he goes to * then we've dodged a bullet.

Altho the worst case is pretty bad so it won't really seem like it.

 

[DesertRoo]

I am 100% certain he will land at Tullamarine.

Unless he drives back from Adelaide...

I’d tell Koshie happy to meet in person, if he books a private from Moorabbin.
20 min chat about how he likes his eggs and off for the rest of the day doing what you needed in Radelaide.

 

[Del191229]

LOL I forgot they extended Creepy Xavier Campbell for a another two years a couple of months back.

They'll need to cash in the war bonds to pay everyone out.

 

[Sillygit]

yeh

nah

 

[Tas]

WTF is this even an article?

This is the first line:

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.

I think they mean...

 

[joegreen]

Clarkson ‘moving quickly to a decision’ between North and Essendon

Alastair Clarkson’s management says the in-demand coach would not drag out the process as he is pursued by two clubs.

www.theage.com.au

 

[The acurate one]

* me what a load of absolute wank. Surely he's cut holes in his pockets and is fiddling with it while he speaks

It reminded me of being back at Mazenod College and the Father banging about religious shite.
His voice is grating.

 

[giantroo]

Clarkson decision: North not pushing a deadline ahead of scheduled board meeting​

Peter Ryan

North Melbourne are not giving in-demand coach Alastair Clarkson a Wednesday deadline to decide his future, as the club’s board prepares for a scheduled meeting on Wednesday evening.

Four-time Hawthorn premiership coach Clarkson was in Adelaide on Wednesday morning, as the Kangaroos and Essendon wait on him to decide his coaching future.

The Essendon coaching saga has taken a surprising twist, according to Brendon Goddard.

North Melbourne sources have confirmed to The Age that they were not putting a hard deadline on Clarkson to decide on Wednesday.

The Kangaroos have a scheduled board meeting on Wednesday night, with the Clarkson pursuit and the implications of Essendon’s entry into the chase on the agenda. They have already tabled an offer for Clarkson, but have worked on contingency plans if he does not accept their five-year contract offer.

Clarkson told North Melbourne he would speak to Essendon after the Bombers changed presidents this week, with David Barham taking over from Paul Brasher, and instigated an external review.
Contracted Essendon coach Ben Rutten

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led the team’s training session on Tuesday amid the turmoil at the club surrounding his position, and Bombers star Zach Merrett said Rutten had dealt with the attention matter-of-factly with the players.

“I thought he was pretty strong and courageous to show up, chest out, ready to help us prepare to play against Richmond on Saturday night,” Merrett told AFL 360 on Tuesday night.

“He didn’t shy away from the fact, he was open, he brought it up. I won’t go into detail of what he said, but he brought it up, the elephant in the room, and chatted through the situation and I think players respected that.

“I think the common theme in the room was players feeling sorry that we’re in this position, and he was in a position.

“I think he’s guarded us throughout the year with some really poor games and taking responsibility personally and to get to this point is largely on us as players so that’s the disappointing part.”

Former Hawks captain Luke Hodge, who played in four premierships under Clarkson, told SEN it would be unwise for North Melbourne to put an ultimatum to his former coach.

He said the Kangaroos should not give up hope, as Clarkson would be open to talking to Essendon as part of a considered decision-making process rather than as a signal that he definitely wanted to coach the Bombers.

 

[justroyal]

While preferring to play the waiting game, it is quite intriguing to think one guys decision would have impacted three clubs, their staff and operations. Crazy.

 

[DocSholl]

WTF is this even an article?

This is the first line:

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.

And then everything else contradicts it.

Reality is if everything we've heard so far about Clarkos and this coaching process is true and he goes to * then we've dodged a bullet.

Altho the worst case is pretty bad so it won't really seem like it.

They need to keep up their North and * fans clicks and subscriptions.

 

[The acurate one]

I have a feeling we aren't giving a hard deadline today, not sure why but a feeling nonetheless.

 

[Supreme_Chancellor]

Clarkson decision: North not pushing a deadline ahead of scheduled board meeting​

Peter Ryan

North Melbourne are not giving in-demand coach Alastair Clarkson a Wednesday deadline to decide his future, as the club’s board prepares for a scheduled meeting on Wednesday evening.

Four-time Hawthorn premiership coach Clarkson was in Adelaide on Wednesday morning, as the Kangaroos and Essendon wait on him to decide his coaching future.

The Essendon coaching saga has taken a surprising twist, according to Brendon Goddard.

North Melbourne sources have confirmed to The Age that they were not putting a hard deadline on Clarkson to decide on Wednesday.

The Kangaroos have a scheduled board meeting on Wednesday night, with the Clarkson pursuit and the implications of Essendon’s entry into the chase on the agenda. They have already tabled an offer for Clarkson, but have worked on contingency plans if he does not accept their five-year contract offer.

Clarkson told North Melbourne he would speak to Essendon after the Bombers changed presidents this week, with David Barham taking over from Paul Brasher, and instigated an external review.
Contracted Essendon coach Ben Rutten led the team’s training session on Tuesday amid the turmoil at the club surrounding his position, and Bombers star Zach Merrett said Rutten had dealt with the attention matter-of-factly with the players.

“I thought he was pretty strong and courageous to show up, chest out, ready to help us prepare to play against Richmond on Saturday night,” Merrett told AFL 360 on Tuesday night.

“He didn’t shy away from the fact, he was open, he brought it up. I won’t go into detail of what he said, but he brought it up, the elephant in the room, and chatted through the situation and I think players respected that.

“I think the common theme in the room was players feeling sorry that we’re in this position, and he was in a position.

“I think he’s guarded us throughout the year with some really poor games and taking responsibility personally and to get to this point is largely on us as players so that’s the disappointing part.”

Former Hawks captain Luke Hodge, who played in four premierships under Clarkson, told SEN it would be unwise for North Melbourne to put an ultimatum to his former coach.

He said the Kangaroos should not give up hope, as Clarkson would be open to talking to Essendon as part of a considered decision-making process rather than as a signal that he definitely wanted to coach the Bombers.

Just wait until they report St Kilda as entering the race for Clarko lol.

 

[Cool Kangas]

I am 100% certain he will land at Tullamarine.

Unless he drives back from Adelaide...

Nice one

 

[krakouers]

Clarkson ‘moving quickly to a decision’ between North and Essendon

Alastair Clarkson’s management says the in-demand coach would not drag out the process as he is pursued by two clubs.

www.theage.com.au

Media: Board Meeting, Rutten Gone
same Day: Board Meeting, Rutten Safe
Media: Board Meeting, Clarkson to *
same Day: Board Meeting, Clarkson undecided
Media: Clarkson Deadline
same Day: No Clarkson Deadline

 

[Disco Dew]

which one of you blokes just called into derwayne getting stuck into caros lisp?