Certified Legendary Thread Alastair Clarksons.

Alistair to North in 2023?

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    Votes: 257 77.4%

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    Votes: 75 22.6%
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Obviously, his prior coaching successes make him both sought after and expensive. However, for mine, the main reason I’d like to see Clarko is that at long last, once again, we’d get to nab an ex-North player as our coach. For the last 30 years, ex-North players have coached 10 Premiership winners + countless preliminary and GF appearances. I’m talking about:-

Clarkson - 4 Premierships + prelims and GF
Blight - 2 Premiers + 3 GF’s
Pagan - 2 Premiers + 1 GF + 4 other prelims
Simmo - 1 Premier
Longmire - 1 Premier + 2 GF’s
Laidley - 1 Prelim ( not much there, to be fair)

So, I want Clarko, mainly because he’s “one of us”.

Gabba gabba we accept you we accept you one of us…
 
King Corey said:
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Ah, his big game hunter period.
 

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kool kangas said:
Gazey on SEN reckons that Clarko has spoken to Fagan in regards to taking over Brisbane and Fagan likes the idea of passing on the batton to him.It seems he also upset Whately as Gerard was doing more checking into the allegations before he was going to mention it...He's not happy with Andrew Gaze needless to say...;) Also Clarko's daughter is living in QLD ...
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The rumour has been going around a few days (the Lions board has a thread on it). It's certainly a good list to take over but surely Fagan has done enough to see it as far as possible. Our biggest threat IMO even if I can't see Clarkson leaving the kids and farm to head up to Brisbane (but who am I to know)?
 
The Filth Wizard said:
The rumour has been going around a few days (the Lions board has a thread on it). It's certainly a good list to take over but surely Fagan has done enough to see it as far as possible. Our biggest threat IMO even if I can't see Clarkson leaving the kids and farm to head up to Brisbane (but who am I to know)?
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Anyone you want to be mate, anyone you want to be.
 
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Robbo: The $1.6 million North blunder waiting to happen​


Mark Robinson

5-7 minutes


Alastair Clarkson stepped off the plane from Europe this week to the raging headline he would ask for up to $1.6 million a season to coach the Kangaroos.
Let’s hope he was bemused by that.

Brodie Grundy woke this week to news Collingwood was open to the idea of trading him out.

We know Grundy was bemused by that.

And we woke to the speculation that Jordan De Goey is probably out of Collingwood next year and that St Kilda is the likely destination.

Well, that was amusing more than bemusing. The Saints told us this week they can’t trust each other as a playing group and now, we’re told, they want to bring in a bloke who can find trouble at a convent. OK then.

The Clarkson revelations simply can’t be true because Clarkson is not worth $1.6 million.

Nor can he ask for that much money.

That’s too selfish from one person — even if it’s the generational coach that is Clarkson — in an environment which allows only $6.9 million to be spent on the whole football program in 2023.

No, if Clarkson is asking for that much money then he is not the person to coach the Kangaroos.

AFL great Leigh Matthew said in 2015 that coaches salaries should be capped at about $500,000 in the wake of Carlton’s then payment to sacked coach Mick Malthouse.

Seven years on, Matthews has lifted his figure to $700,000, although he argues that if Clarkson was to join the Kangaroos, a figure of $1 million was understandable.

“One million dollars is top of the heap these days, absolutely,’’ Matthews told News Corp

“As a general rule, 10 per cent of the soft cap ($700,000) seems to stick in my mind.’’

He says the football manager’s position (the head of football) was the position which “was underpaid’’.

“That position is as critical as the senior coach and from my experience the footy manager should get at least half of what the senior coach is getting.’’
And that’s $700,000?

“The first-time coach gets you more like the $400,000-$500,000 and your premiership coach might get, because of his record, up to $1 million. But when I read this $1.6 million, you think, there’s no club which could possibly devote more than a million dollars (to their coach).

“I’ve said on 3AW desperate people do desperate things and North Melbourne are a desperate footy club and they do need to buy credibility, and Clarko’s got the credibility. So if you have to spend a million dollars then that’s OK, you have to spend 15 per cent of your soft cap.

“You might do that in extreme circumstances and Clarko might be one of these extreme circumstances.’’

It’s believed Clarkson’s manager James Henderson will speak to North Melbourne president Sonja Hood in Tasmania on Saturday, as both parties explore possibilities.

The Giants, who are also looking for a new coach, won’t entertain a $1.6 million salary for Clarkson, either.

Nor are the Giants panicking over North’s apparent exuberance for the former Hawks coach.

What we do know is that the AFL will not be contributing to Clarkson’s wage, nor will the AFL allow any money paid to Clarkson to be paid outside the soft cap.

The Giants want to undergo a process, although it’s accepted Clarkson won’t be put through the same hoops as current assistant coaches, including Adem Yze and Don Pyke, who are considered candidates for the job.

 
giantroo said:
heraldsun.com.au


Robbo: The $1.6 million North blunder waiting to happen​


Mark Robinson

5-7 minutes


Alastair Clarkson stepped off the plane from Europe this week to the raging headline he would ask for up to $1.6 million a season to coach the Kangaroos.
Let’s hope he was bemused by that.

Brodie Grundy woke this week to news Collingwood was open to the idea of trading him out.

We know Grundy was bemused by that.

And we woke to the speculation that Jordan De Goey is probably out of Collingwood next year and that St Kilda is the likely destination.

Well, that was amusing more than bemusing. The Saints told us this week they can’t trust each other as a playing group and now, we’re told, they want to bring in a bloke who can find trouble at a convent. OK then.

The Clarkson revelations simply can’t be true because Clarkson is not worth $1.6 million.

Nor can he ask for that much money.

That’s too selfish from one person — even if it’s the generational coach that is Clarkson — in an environment which allows only $6.9 million to be spent on the whole football program in 2023.

No, if Clarkson is asking for that much money then he is not the person to coach the Kangaroos.

AFL great Leigh Matthew said in 2015 that coaches salaries should be capped at about $500,000 in the wake of Carlton’s then payment to sacked coach Mick Malthouse.

Seven years on, Matthews has lifted his figure to $700,000, although he argues that if Clarkson was to join the Kangaroos, a figure of $1 million was understandable.

“One million dollars is top of the heap these days, absolutely,’’ Matthews told News Corp

“As a general rule, 10 per cent of the soft cap ($700,000) seems to stick in my mind.’’

He says the football manager’s position (the head of football) was the position which “was underpaid’’.

“That position is as critical as the senior coach and from my experience the footy manager should get at least half of what the senior coach is getting.’’
And that’s $700,000?

“The first-time coach gets you more like the $400,000-$500,000 and your premiership coach might get, because of his record, up to $1 million. But when I read this $1.6 million, you think, there’s no club which could possibly devote more than a million dollars (to their coach).

“I’ve said on 3AW desperate people do desperate things and North Melbourne are a desperate footy club and they do need to buy credibility, and Clarko’s got the credibility. So if you have to spend a million dollars then that’s OK, you have to spend 15 per cent of your soft cap.

“You might do that in extreme circumstances and Clarko might be one of these extreme circumstances.’’

It’s believed Clarkson’s manager James Henderson will speak to North Melbourne president Sonja Hood in Tasmania on Saturday, as both parties explore possibilities.

The Giants, who are also looking for a new coach, won’t entertain a $1.6 million salary for Clarkson, either.

Nor are the Giants panicking over North’s apparent exuberance for the former Hawks coach.

What we do know is that the AFL will not be contributing to Clarkson’s wage, nor will the AFL allow any money paid to Clarkson to be paid outside the soft cap.

The Giants want to undergo a process, although it’s accepted Clarkson won’t be put through the same hoops as current assistant coaches, including Adem Yze and Don Pyke, who are considered candidates for the job.

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Slobbo: "At the very least the Blues should offer Clarkson the biggest contract in football, at least $2 million a year, and let him knock it back. He might take it. They have to try."

The old Carlton would, deep-pockets Carlton would.
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giantroo said:
heraldsun.com.au


Robbo: The $1.6 million North blunder waiting to happen​


Mark Robinson

5-7 minutes


Alastair Clarkson stepped off the plane from Europe this week to the raging headline he would ask for up to $1.6 million a season to coach the Kangaroos.
Let’s hope he was bemused by that.

Brodie Grundy woke this week to news Collingwood was open to the idea of trading him out.

We know Grundy was bemused by that.

And we woke to the speculation that Jordan De Goey is probably out of Collingwood next year and that St Kilda is the likely destination.

Well, that was amusing more than bemusing. The Saints told us this week they can’t trust each other as a playing group and now, we’re told, they want to bring in a bloke who can find trouble at a convent. OK then.

The Clarkson revelations simply can’t be true because Clarkson is not worth $1.6 million.

Nor can he ask for that much money.

That’s too selfish from one person — even if it’s the generational coach that is Clarkson — in an environment which allows only $6.9 million to be spent on the whole football program in 2023.

No, if Clarkson is asking for that much money then he is not the person to coach the Kangaroos.

AFL great Leigh Matthew said in 2015 that coaches salaries should be capped at about $500,000 in the wake of Carlton’s then payment to sacked coach Mick Malthouse.

Seven years on, Matthews has lifted his figure to $700,000, although he argues that if Clarkson was to join the Kangaroos, a figure of $1 million was understandable.

“One million dollars is top of the heap these days, absolutely,’’ Matthews told News Corp

“As a general rule, 10 per cent of the soft cap ($700,000) seems to stick in my mind.’’

He says the football manager’s position (the head of football) was the position which “was underpaid’’.

“That position is as critical as the senior coach and from my experience the footy manager should get at least half of what the senior coach is getting.’’
And that’s $700,000?

“The first-time coach gets you more like the $400,000-$500,000 and your premiership coach might get, because of his record, up to $1 million. But when I read this $1.6 million, you think, there’s no club which could possibly devote more than a million dollars (to their coach).

“I’ve said on 3AW desperate people do desperate things and North Melbourne are a desperate footy club and they do need to buy credibility, and Clarko’s got the credibility. So if you have to spend a million dollars then that’s OK, you have to spend 15 per cent of your soft cap.

“You might do that in extreme circumstances and Clarko might be one of these extreme circumstances.’’

It’s believed Clarkson’s manager James Henderson will speak to North Melbourne president Sonja Hood in Tasmania on Saturday, as both parties explore possibilities.

The Giants, who are also looking for a new coach, won’t entertain a $1.6 million salary for Clarkson, either.

Nor are the Giants panicking over North’s apparent exuberance for the former Hawks coach.

What we do know is that the AFL will not be contributing to Clarkson’s wage, nor will the AFL allow any money paid to Clarkson to be paid outside the soft cap.

The Giants want to undergo a process, although it’s accepted Clarkson won’t be put through the same hoops as current assistant coaches, including Adem Yze and Don Pyke, who are considered candidates for the job.

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In the context of his previous comments I read it as him trying to help us by talking down the market price.
 

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kool kangas said:
Gazey on SEN reckons that Clarko has spoken to Fagan in regards to taking over Brisbane and Fagan likes the idea of passing on the batton to him.It seems he also upset Whately as Gerard was doing more checking into the allegations before he was going to mention it...He's not happy with Andrew Gaze needless to say...;) Also Clarko's daughter is living in QLD ...
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That’s a red herring
 
justroyal said:
At Etihad. God I hated that game. We we’re right in it and they literally jumped us early for no ******* reason. I think it was Lois who got Goldie and since then I’ve been so critical of the campaigner with everything he does in his life.
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That was the game that really put me off Scotts. Practically fellated Hodge for whacking Swallow and criticized our blokes for retaliating.
 
ferball said:
We were a better chance than people give us credit for.
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We would have put up a better fight than the eagles, agreed. But I don’t think that team wins a grand final vs a Clarkson coached side. You sort of alluded to it in the initial post - losing to Brad would have sullied his resume immensely, but was Brad Scott ever gonna realistically be a premiership coach? If we finish top four and get a home prelim we don’t have to play 18 vs 21 in Perth. But we never did…
 
Reading between the lines I think people are over reacting to Robbo's article, and if anything it's working up to giving Clarko a massive blowy.

Lists other rumours with dubious accuracy, says this one can't be true because Clarko isn't that selfish, and then 50% of the article is Leigh Mathews quotes where he talks about the relative value of senior coaches and the head of football.

Now lets do some math. Leigh and Robbo both say Clarko is worth $1m. Head of Football is then worth half of that which is $500k. Put those two sums together and that seems remarkably close to "up to" 1.6m.
 
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big_e said:
Hang on, wasn't the $1.6million figure just pulled out of Tom Browne's arse?
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It is suspiciously close to double what he gets from Daddy for his hard work each year. :think:
 
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