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

[sutcliffe's hotel]

Can't go for another untried coach after the last two, but also can't go for an experienced coach because of Pagan and Malthouse at Carlton.

Just highlights the ridiculous level to which the AFL media commentary has sunk.

Apart from Hawthorn, every AFL club would take Clarko in a heartbeat.

 

[Bren]

Thread #2... only 3 more till the DILF list

 

[murray wrensted]

The mighty boosh is the only show I didn’t find at all funny from that list.

I would add Still Game (Glasgow accent) and the thin blue line.

Surely Peep Show gets a gig

 

[Shinboner1]

Any news?

 

[see see]

Not The Nine O'clock News
Who Dares Wins
Alas Smith and Jones
French and Saunders
Drop The Dead Donkey
The Fast Show
The Office
Extras
The New Statesman
That Mitchell and Webb Look
The Young Ones
Ripping Yarns

 

[Lomas]

Not The Nine O'clock News
Who Dares Wins
Alas Smith and Jones
French and Saunders
Drop The Dead Donkey
The Fast Show
The Office
Extras
The New Statesman
That Mitchell and Webb Look
The Young Ones
Ripping Yarns

No Bottom?

 

[see see]

No Bottom?

Fair call. Filthy Rich and Catflap too.

 

[Gumble Frankieton]

Red Dwarf
Mighty Boosh
IT Crowd
In the thick of it
KYTV

Needs some Toast of London to round off a good list.

 

[DANMAN]

The usuals suspects trying their usual salty spin , there are so many of these “ journalists“ who look at every aspect of our club in a negative way . Never forget these people . Even Nathan Brown taking the piss even though he achieved nothing and left his club for more coin . S**t stains

 

[Themanbun]

Surely Peep Show gets a gig

Rewatching this now. Love it.

 

[DANMAN]

Can’t stand the TJ view of this (and he’s not alone). 6 weeks ago it’s “there’s no way they’ll be able to land Clarko” and now that it looks like we’ve got him, it immediately switches to “oh gee, is he the answer for them? Big risk”.

They hate the fact we might become relevant again

 

[Friday Night Lights]

Partridge

 

[see see]

They hate the fact we might will become feared relevant again

FTFY

 

[Samsquanch]

Minder.

There was another 90s comedy / drama known as "The Battle of Britain".

 

[Kangayroo]

No surprises here but it’s Absolutely Fabulous for mine.
Mr Bean also receives a High Distinction.
And can’t go past Victor Meldrew in One Foot In The Grave…

 

[Samsquanch]

Father Ted.

Is there any further speculation on assistant coaches yet other than Viney?

 

[Roo202]

If the media narrative since Clarko left the Hawks is to be believed, up until it seemed more likely than not that he would end up North, he was the hottest coach available, clubs should be working out a way to sack their coach just to have their hat in the ring, a patch of good form was unfortunate as it made it harder to justify bumping the incumbent coach and making a play for Clarko. Probably a bit over the top, but he was certainly hot property.

It seems the media's salty last resort now is to faithfully report GWS's line about him not being their clear first choice and they are interested in a range of possibilities (makes you wonder why they begged the AFL for extra $$$, it they weren't really that interested!) and Clarko potentially ending up at North, is only due to him having no other option and an offer from the Marby Lions Reserves would have probably been more appealing. No way they could actually acknowledge he is clearly the most in demand coach available and it is a helluva a coup for the bottom placed team to on the brink of signing him.

Now the narrative is already how much of a gamble it is. The nature of the competition, probably unfairly, measures success as winning premierships and everything else as pretty much failure, pretty tough measurement in a comp of 18 teams! There's only one premiership coach each year, and on that measure, there are far more "failed" coaches than successful. We have just had two untried coaching appointments, that even on a far more generous criteria of assessment, would still be judged as complete failures. Any coaching appointment is going to involve risk, there are no guarantees. But a coach that has managed to win 4 flags already, surely is less of a risk than the gamble on another untried coach. All the self important media hacks talking about the risk, are offering nothing as an alternative, if it is such a risky, ill-advised appointment, put yourself on the line and state what should be being done instead!

 

[desie]

Red Dwarf
Mighty Boosh
IT Crowd
In the thick of it
KYTV

Well done on KYTV, an under appreciated classic.

I’d add Only Fools and Horses plus anything featuring Ronnie Barker, an absolute genius.

 

[glenn2479]

Minder.

There was another 90s comedy / drama known as "The Battle of Britain".

Arfur Daly one of the greatest characters ever.

 

[Samsquanch]

Controversial I know but...



There was also Till Death Us Do Part.

Not to mention Are You Being Served. I recall Mrs Slocombe being up all night stroking her pussy...

 

[ajd9 roo]

"Damo" has definitely changed his language and they way he talks about the roos in the last week or so. The other panellists set him for his usual s***-caning of us but then took a more balanced view.

On a side note... there is something very strange about the proportions of his face. His nose is at the same height as the bottom of his glasses and the gap between the bottom of his nose and top of his lip is comically large. Once you've seen it... you can't unsee it!!

 

[Hojuman]

" First time coach Yze outsmart's the Master-coach as GWS kick an after the goal siren from a dubious free kick and 100m penalty at Metricon in rd.1 "

Damian Barrett.

 

[Boner Spirit]

Rewatching this now. Love it.

Are you doing the dob? Oh look I'm doing the dob. Love that show too

 

[Samsquanch]

" First time coach Yze outsmart's the Master-coach as GWS kick an after the goal siren from a dubious free kick and 100m penalty at Metricon in rd.1 "

Damian Barrett.

Did you see that ump award a 150m penalty against the freo player yesterday?

Is that even a thing?

It wasn't 3 X 50m. He awarded the 150 in a single go.

 

[apollo_creed]

Purple kind of admits Clarko is coming to north and GWS are not in the box seat but then proceeds to put a negative light on it, saying Malthouse, Dennis all went to new clubs and were failures so no guarantees (which is fair point)

But cant you just be positive about north for once you miserable ****?

Nah. That was on TJ. The point in itself is not an inaccurate one and everything he said was positive.