Coach Alastair Clarkson - NMFC Senior Coach - Coaching & Football Discussion

[Kciza]

The team has trained to play a very attacking brand of footy. When you play an attacking brand your foot skills need to be great, and you need a really solid defensive group to cover for the inevitable turnovers.

A lot of our players have average to poor footskills, and our defensive third of the ground is our weakest. Has the coach set us up to fail?

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Playing 4 poor defenders across half back is perplexing to me. We can’t have all of Sheezel, Fisher, McKercher and Scott playing in the back 6. Can only be one or two of them back there.

For the love of god, get us a proper CHF in the side

 

[Spud11]

He doesn’t have it anymore. He was happy to sit at Hawthorn doing nothing for 5 years and now he’s doing the same with us, only we’re probably paying him more.

 

[pupstar]

He doesn’t have it anymore. He was happy to sit at Hawthorn doing nothing for 5 years and now he’s doing the same with us, only we’re probably paying him more.

So who should be coach then.

 

[Spud11]

So who should be coach then.

Not sure.
By the way, I’m on record as being extremely pro-Clarko coming to us.
This is bad though.

 

[pupstar]

Not sure.
By the way, I’m on record as being extremely pro-Clarko coming to us.
This is bad though.

Yeah looks bad on paper cant deny that but I'm looking at 2026 which i believe when we will see a outstanding team.

 

[Spud11]

Yeah looks bad on paper cant deny that but I'm looking at 2026 which i believe when we will see a outstanding team.

If I’m honest, I’m losing faith and I’m looking at his last few years at the Hawks feeling vindicated.

 

[Passmore]

So who should be coach then.

If it wasn't Clarko, it was going to be another Noble type appointment.

No young coach would touch thus joint with a 10 foot pole. Career killing.

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[pupstar]

If it wasn't Clarko, it was going to be another Noble type appointment.

No young coach would touch thus joint with a 10 foot pole. Career killing.

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Plenty to look forward to in my opinion example look at Combens game today. Powell improvment Xerri just to name 3.

 

[tricknologist]

If it wasn't Clarko, it was going to be another Noble type appointment.

No young coach would touch thus joint with a 10 foot pole. Career killing.

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Yze wouldn't coach us for this exact reason and I don't blame him

 

[pupstar]

Yze wouldn't coach us for this exact reason and I don't blame him

Was he ever in the picture.

 

[Gasometer]

Oh dear

I sense a BBC thread

 

[tricknologist]

Was he ever in the picture.

The point is more those candidates would put themselves in the picture because we're a career death sentence

 

[DarkPhoenix]

At some point you have to stop blaming the coaches for everything. Weve had what? 22 in the last 5yrs. One of which is a multi premiership winning master coach.
Heat has to come on the playing group at some point.

 

[pupstar]

The point is more those candidates would put themselves in the picture because we're a career death sentence

So are you saying we are knacked no hope for the future .

 

[Spud11]

At some point you have to stop blaming the coaches for everything. Weve had what? 22 in the last 5yrs. One of which is a multi premiership winning master coach.
Heat has to come on the playing group at some point.

We’ve had

• Brad (who’s record is looking better by the day)
• Shaw (mental health)
• Noble (out of his depth but thanks for being the fall-guy for this rabble organisation)

Now Clarko who has been given a stack of talent. The heat absolutely comes on him to turn this around.
I agree it’s on the playing group. But it’s on him to get the most out of the playing group. That’s coaching. That’s why we went and got him, and why he’s being paid the big bucks.

 

[rooboytom_90]

Disgraceful selection by the coaches and disgraceful gameplan on a ground with no wings. Deserves a whack. **** you Clarkson, lift you little ****ing dog.

 

[Spud11]

If it wasn't Clarko, it was going to be another Noble type appointment.

No young coach would touch thus joint with a 10 foot pole. Career killing.

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I wish we could’ve kept Ratten. Weird that he went to Hawks btw.

 

[Passmore]

Plenty to look forward to in my opinion example look at Combens game today. Powell improvment Xerri just to name 3.

I agree.

It's just too much of a job for a rookie coach. This needs a bloke who can take a bit of heat.

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[apollo_creed]

At some point you have to stop blaming the coaches for everything. Weve had what? 22 in the last 5yrs. One of which is a multi premiership winning master coach.
Heat has to come on the playing group at some point.

The playing group and what about the campaigner rawlings who is recruiting these duds on big money and long ****ing contracts?

 

[pupstar]

I wish we could’ve kept Ratten. Weird that he went to Hawks btw.

Why what has he done that Clarko hasn't

 

[Spud11]

Why what has he done that Clarko hasn't

I think the team immediately lifted when he took over. The wins didn’t come but there was a definite difference. He tried things.
I still really hope things work out with Clarko. If they don’t, and you ask me “Well, who should’ve coached us for these five years instead?”, I will probably say Ratten. We’ll never know.

 

[Merlin007]

Disgraceful selection by the coaches and disgraceful gameplan on a ground with no wings. Deserves a whack. * you Clarkson, lift you little ******* dog.

sure tough guy, you can find Arden street on Google maps and go down and tell him yourself

 

[William Caresser]

If your players get beaten so badly in contested ball, as we have been in all the games so far, there's no game plan rabbit you can pull out of a coaching hat. You have to make changes at the selection table and pick guys who can win their own ball. Problem is, who are they?

Obviously we have some young, immature bodies but it's the raft of older players who keep losing contested ball, or turning it over by hand under pressure, or not competing aerially who are killing us.

Definitely trust Clarkson and that group of coaches to weed out the non-competitors, the guys who can't win contested ball in and out of season.

 

[Cyber_punk]

I'm not giving him a whack but I will repeat I'd have preferred it if he chose the captain, and not the players who will just choose their mates. If that angers the players then tough shit.