Past Coach Brett Ratten - set to depart NM - Thanks Ratts!

[gokangas]

Didn't see that coming. Great move North and welcome aboard Brett

Really? Has been rumoured. Good move. Bit of risk management here too - insurance I think.

 

[Horace]

Great news. Very smart move.

 

[Shinboner1]

When you're going to be paid handsomely by StKilda for two years to do nothing, you don't need a full time gig.

I think he only got 6 months.

 

[berniemccarthy]

Boomer is part time.

Could be a number of reasons - Ratten might not want to dive head first back into a full time position after what has been a very full on period for him, North might need to manage the soft cap, maybe both.

Soft cap appears to be the culprit.

 

[Psicosis]

Will this affect our ability to get Clark?

Doubt it. If it does, we are probably better off without Hunter.

 

[jay317]

Wasn't everyone saying we hadn't spoken to him...

 

[Val Keating]

Yew - Noble for Rats.

Will this affect our ability to get Clark?

Who cares. Anything can happen next year regarding Clark.

 

[Psicosis]

Soft cap appears to be the culprit.

He could likely get a full-time gig elsewhere though, I know Carlton were very keen. He also is in a more support/development role, rather then a senior assistant role. Hence why I think it's a combo.

 

[Farthers]

Imagine if we got Rutten as well. A collection of disgruntled ex-head coaches getting paid out by their former teams.

 

[DrZaius]

Good get.

Thought we hadn't spoken to Ratten though and was highly unlikely to be approached...

 

[Samsquanch]

From what I know about Ratten through people he's coached, he's really strong with ball movement & spread. His knock has probably been the focus in his coaching of the contested side of things.

If you look at our midfield, we are generally quite strong with on the contest. Where we tend to get burned is when the ball is released on the spread, which is exactly what Ratten will bring.

That's why he will be so good for the guys we have - if they can create targets and transition from defence into attack with the influence and wisdom of Ratten they will make North look like an entirely different team compared to the last few years.

Let it feel like 1993 again!!!!

 

[Kanga Glory]

Clarko is weaving the magic.
Welcome Ratts, we’ll treat you better than your last mob.
Part time, is remember hearing someone speak if we were to get Ratten it would be part time due to the soft cap.

 

[Jasemon]

Brilliant, exciting get!! Ratten a quality individual with so much experience and his players invariably loved him. Probably ideal as an assistant rather than the head coach.

One other thing that needs to be said is how frigging incredible our President has been over the last 9 months. Ratten might have been Clarko’s get but Clarko wouldn’t have happened without Sonya. If there’s any sculptors out there please start working on that bronze statue.

 

[gokangas]

Wasn't everyone saying we hadn't spoken to him...

No.

 

[trooroo4life]

That’s a great get. A really solid coaching group now together, with one to come according to that article.

 

[Sillygit]

Imagine if we got Rutten as well. A collection of disgruntled ex-head coaches getting paid out by their former teams.

I think rutten went back to the tigers?

 

[Sillygit]

 

[4cunningTonneTruck]

Huge!!

 

[shinboner_99]

Let it feel like 1993 again!!!!

Feels more like 1973 again!!

 

[Samsquanch]

Huge!!

Need a chicken parma to celebrate (Ratts might like an extra side of chips to go with it though)...

 

[The Dingrel]

Ratts joins North

Sacked St Kilda coach Brett Ratten joins Alastair Clarkson’s North Melbourne coaching staff​

Former St Kilda and Carlton head coach Brett Ratten has joined Alastair Clarkson’s North Melbourne coaching staff after his sacking from the Saints, writes DANIEL CHERNY.


Sacked St Kilda coach Brett Ratten will reunite with Alastair Clarkson after signing to be a part-time assistant coach at North Melbourne.
And Clarkson is leaning on another old ally, with consultancy firm Leading Teams also joining the Kangaroos.


Ratten, who was axed by the Saints last month with two years left to run on his contract, has been lured back to the fold by Clarkson, with whom he worked for six years as an assistant at Hawthorn.

The 51-year-old will have a matchday role as well as spending some time at Arden Street during the week. He will primarily work with the Roos’ midfield group alongside fellow assistant Jordan Russell.

North’s first-to-fourth year players resumed training this week. Ratten is set to begin at the club on Friday.


The former Carlton star was let go by the Saints in the wake of the club’s football department review. Across three and a bit seasons, he had a 50 per cent winning record; having previously been sacked from the Blues, where he coached the side to the finals in three consecutive season.

Ratten was replaced by Ross Lyon, who returned to St Kilda more than a decade after leaving the club for Fremantle.

While Ratten has thus far kept silent on his sacking, Brendon Lade, who had been Ratten’s right-hand man at the Saints before leaving to take on an assistant coaching role at the Western Bulldogs, told RSN radio on Thursday that the fact Ratten had been sacked just three months after signing a two-year contract extension had left a bitter taste.

“I was pretty disappointed how it played out in the end, as a lot of people were,” Lade said.



Leading Teams, meanwhile, have started working with North’s players, coaches and executive. The firm, who have worked with a host of AFL clubs since the 1990s, had partnered with the Hawks during part of Clarkson’s 17 years at the helm.

Having signed with North in August, Clarkson arrived at the club on schedule but remains embroiled in an AFL investigation over allegations of inappropriate conduct towards First Nations players during his time at Hawthorn.

Thanks Nobes!!!

 

[Kanga Glory]

 

[Farthers]

I think rutten went back to the tigers?

Yeah he did. Got his old job back as defensive coach from memory.

 

[gokangas]

Need a chicken parma to celebrate (Ratts might like an extra side of chips to go with it though)...
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Parma on the chips - I send them back.

 

[The acurate one]

Wasn't everyone saying we hadn't spoken to him...

No, just KicktoKIngy69 he was adamant we hadn't. Every other poster had said we had