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

[The Dingrel]

The image of a random man with a name tag "Sphynx" on his breast walking under an underpass during a torrential downpour, seeking shelter from the unrelenting rains, walking towards a phone box that appears to be mysteriously ringing just for him, only to get within a step of the box before Brady and Will Thursfield emerge from dark bricked service entrances under the cover of darkness, wearing North polos but the ****ed ones with the orange on the sleeves and start just whaling on this bloke, really ****in putting the screws to him, targeting the soft spots, kicking him while he's down .. then Brady calls Will off and leans down and whispers "you shut your ****in mouth and don't you ****in dare post private pork dinner chats on Bigfooty again, Clarko sends his regards" before delivering another swift kick to the kidneys and jumping into a waiting pedal-powered car commandeered by Kevin White, but not before spitting on the lifeless prone body

Send it in to Apple, be great for the next season of Slow Horses.....only question is who does Garry Oldman play?

 

[hilly]

Public Service Announcement Incoming

Please refrain from eating pork. Let's show compassion for these intelligent and sensitive animals.

Yes, I’m one of those…

What about bacon? Ham? Pork chops?

 

[My Left Foote]

This has to be the new descriptor for inner scrote information.

‘So I heard over a pork dinner chat with…’

PDC > ITK

 

[Danni_Benson]

What about bacon? Ham? Pork chops?

Not for this girl!

 

[Twinkletoes]

Private pork dinner chats has done me.

This has to be the new descriptor for inner scrote information.

‘So I heard over a pork dinner chat with…’

Leaves me reminiscing about our many Inner Scrotal “tales from Tender Touch” chats at Chaddy Food Court (sans the apple sauce).

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Leaves me reminiscing about our many Inner Scrotal “tales from Tender Touch” chats at Chaddy Food Court (sans the apple sauce).

Yeah I remember your demands for only slow cooked meats.

 

[Psi-Roos]

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The resemblance is uncanny

 

[The Big O]

I hear they are good for weight loss.

In a uni lecture years ago focusing on flatworms, the lecturer mentioned possible weight loss post infection. Rather large guy in our year sticks his hand up and asks, "So how much weight do you actually loose?"

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[perplexed]

In a uni lecture years ago focusing on flatworms, the lecturer mentioned possible weight loss post infection. Rather large guy in our year sticks his hand up and asks, "So how much weight do you actually loose?"

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You'd lose a fair bit just having them removed. This badboy must have weighed a few kilos in its prime.

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[Ichiro #51]

Everyone sleeping on the brainworm a la RFKjr. Lose a few kilos from the ol’ noggin.

 

[Skarrz]

Did you ask when Dan Houston

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starts pre season with us? And if Simmo will be director of coaching from November or starting in Jan after a break?

Also did you suggest he calls Bailey butcher as a nickname and delist Toby Pink?

 

[Chadwiko]

Thanks Sphynx. Clarko will be 59 and a half at the end of his contract so it wouldn't be a shock if he pulled the pin. I think I'd be happier if he identified a successor (succession plans can work when the head coach actually wants out).

Take this for whatever you decide it's worth, but I've been told on more than one occasion (by those who would know) that Clarko has very much taken Patch Adams under his wing and he's the clear protégé among the current assistants.

 

[Chadwiko]

I love the info and don't doubt the authenticity but if you think publishing a private conversation on an internet forum with a bunch of strangers is okay I'm not sure where you're coming from.

All AFL head coaches understand that there's basically no such thing as a 'private conversation'. If you're at any sort of 'event', even if it's an exclusive event, all the media training that people like Clarkson have done will hammer-home to them the fact that they should assume everything they say is 'on the record'.

I understand your passion and I'm not having a go at you Junky. But I reckon you're making this into something it isn't.

 

[shinboner magic]

I asked him this specifically.

Silverware is always a goal, but the priority is to "get North competitive before I go off into the sunset"

If in his 5th year we win a final and are heading in the right direction, I can’t see him leaving

 

[ferball]

If you sat with any of them and spewed out the content of those meetings on an internet forum I'd feel the same. It's pathetic behaviour. It's extremely bizarre that you think it's okay but it appears you're not alone. Maybe I've surrounded myself with good people in my life or maybe it's country living or not having any corporate involvement but I don't know anyone that would consider that appropriate behaviour. It's a form of snitching and is likely to land you a beatdown in most circles.

WTF is a beatdown? Something that happens in Seppoville?

 

[ferball]

Public Service Announcement Incoming

Please refrain from eating pork. Let's show compassion for these intelligent and sensitive animals.

Yes, I’m one of those…

People who don't eat pork?

Or people who don't eat meat?

 

[Junk yard]

WTF is a beatdown? Something that happens in Seppoville?

I'm guessing you play dress ups every day for work? Reckon you might get a bit anxious when you step inside a blue collar pub and I bet you're on your best behaviour. Same as your snitch mate.

 

[R00StaR]

Ive got no problem with Clarko finishing up at the end of his contract, just dont cut corners and put us back to a middle of the road team. To go through all this pain to wind up back there would be devastating.

If we lack talent then we have to hit the draft more. Leave the place with solid foundations for the next person.

Maybe many are too young to remember, but early 90s was tough but we all knew we had the cattle to become contenders, off the backs of a huge group of younger players coming through together. They didnt need us to dig up some fossils to show them how to train, prepare and succeed.

 

[ferball]

I'm guessing you play dress ups every day for work? Reckon you might get a bit anxious when you step inside a blue collar pub and I bet you're on your best behaviour. Same as your snitch mate.

I used to work in a blue collar pub where we kept an iron bar with cloth wrapped around one end to keep the crowd under control after beer o'clock on a friday night.

When I lived in the bush some of my neighbours, who still my mates (the ones who are still alive) were serious 1% patched bikers. I lived in a place where the coppers would fly around in choppers stealing next years mortgage payments and where everyone knew what you can or can't talk about. You would have been on your best behaviour there, there's some deep mine shafts and lonely patches of bush.

But everywhere gets gentrified eventually.

And no one ever used the term beatdown after kicking the **** thru someone. LOL. That would earn you a good kicking yourself. Putting a beat down was what the young guys and girls would do to prepare for their bush doofs.

 

[Junk yard]

I used to work in a blue collar pub where we kept an iron bar with cloth wrapped around one end to keep the crowd under control after beer o'clock on a friday night.

When I lived in the bush some of my neighbours, who still my mates (the ones who are still alive) were serious 1% patched bikers. I lived in a place where the coppers would fly around in choppers stealing next years mortgage payments and where everyone knew what you can or can't talk about. You would have been on your best behaviour there, there's some deep mine shafts and lonely patches of bush.

But everywhere gets gentrified eventually.

And no one ever used the term beatdown after kicking the **** thru someone. LOL. That would earn you a good kicking yourself. Putting a beat down was what the young guys and girls would do to prepare for their bush doofs.

Guessing you're an old man then.

 

[KangaRooster]

When he agreed to terms with us, we still had McKay JHF and Thomas on the list, and he was reportedly in talks to bring some quality players across. 5 years sounded perfect for all parties.

There was no racism scandal permanently scarring his love for the game, draining his desire to turn up to work each day, breaking him down to disappearing for 6 months - and which definitely killed any player deals he had in the works.

And the AFL were yet to then neuter the way he goes about it. He had a young team desperate for guidance in some close games this year that he was unable to coach from the bench FFS.

To say he’s had anything resembling a clear run at it would be laughable.

My guess is right now, questioning the man on his willingness to remain in the system and continue to coach multiple seasons into the future, would be akin to asking someone going through a horrible divorce if they’ll ever get married again.



Picking us up off the ground, legitimising the club, setting AFL standards throughout, getting our football competitive every week - and then letting someone take over as we charge back into the finals is just as plausible as -

He gets some distance from / a resolution to the HRC issue that he can live with, the players actually get the job done on the field sooner than later and we start putting wins on the board, those wins turning into a far more positive narrative - and a lot of fun, we start getting quality recruits in cause they all want to play with Sheez and win every week, and the Joeys he’s nurtured turn into some of the best across the league. Suddenly the fire is back in the belly as his competitive nature demands he is the one to get us across the Premiership line and he's extending another 2-3 years.


Way too early to call it either way imo.

 

[The Dingrel]

What about bacon? Ham? Pork chops?

 

[The Dingrel]

WTF is a beatdown? Something that happens in Seppoville?

isn't it a Baz Lurhman produced series on netflix?

 

[The Dingrel]

Public Service Announcement Incoming

Please refrain from eating pork. Let's show compassion for these intelligent and sensitive animals.

Yes, I’m one of those…

I hear you Danni, I was once a vegan .....I genuinely did feel healthier and full of energy in those two weeks!

What happened? Well, a mate was in town I hadn't seen for some time and wanted to go to "The Norman" which prides itself on calling itself Brisbane's Worst Vegetarian Restaurant. Went along with the plan of having a steak and getting back on the wagon, but would you believe the irony of it all,,,,,,I won the bloody meat raffle.....literally the only thing I've won in my life. My wife suggested the universe has spoken. Who am I to argue!

 

[hilly]

Everyone sleeping on the brainworm a la RFKjr. Lose a few kilos from the ol’ noggin.

He should have been in that open top in Dallas.