Opinion Commentary & Media VI

[King Corey]

Mate can you imagine that fat turd at the morning meetings?..

3 weeks ago: “ok team, we need to really push the ‘why would Clarko go to a minnow/basket-case club’ narrative hard and talk up what a magnificent and powerful club the *bombers are. If Clarko ends up at North, all those hard yards we’ve put in to make them the AFL’s bitches will be undone overnight. Big quarterly bonuses on offer if you can convince the public and other media to agree with us. Go get em clicking team”.

2 weeks ago: “s**t, s**t, s**t…. this is not good, noooooot good at all.. fcuk I can’t believe Clarko has signed with those muppets and now the fairytale ‘going home’ narrative is sweeping the airwaves.. geez I’m bloody disappointed in you lot, the fingers are clicking, but on Robbo’s feel good story FCUK!!!… I can’t believe a President outsmarted me too.. and she’s a woman..”

Present: ok, I’ve had time to calm down and reflect - BTW I can highly recommend completely filling your bath tub up with Krispy Kremes, burying yourself under them and then eating your way out as a relaxant.. wonderful appetiser..
Alright, we need to reset. Serpent and Corn switch the narrative to Clarko wielding too much power - create a power struggle between him and Amarfio story to heat things up - that could become our new one wood, and there’s always the soft cap ‘issue’ for us to keep chipping away at too, stick the knife in and twist. Ok team get those fingers clicking and supporters arguing, theres big bonuses to be made!..

At meeting's end, slurping noises are heard as he submerges once more.

 

[Le Grille]

At meeting's end, slurping noises are heard as he submerges once more.

**** sake

 

[Tas]

The Front Bar was on and you watched FC?

The whole segment on Woofs on AFL grounds gave me the hysterics of the week and was far more entertaining than anything FC has dished up in 24 weeks.

What a choice, Front Bar to watch the comedians or FC to watch the clowns.

 

[Patchterrier]

I thought it was more to do with him not wanting to go beyond 2022 combined with Sam Mitchell being next in line, so they did the handover a year earlier so they didn’t lose him.

Yeah I think Mitchell was always part of the plan post contract, though it was expedited due to ongoing issues with behaviour and conflict between Clarko and many staff (both senior and other staff) and definitely a big power struggle at Hawks . Relationship became untenable so paid out final year - doesn't matter how rich your club is, it's a big hit on your soft cap to pay out a year of a contract.

His temper is well known, and even he has stated repeatedly he needs strong people around him , hopefully our Board and senior executives etc can keep him in check. I still believe he is probably worth the risk given our on field performance, as long as it isn't at the expense of more instability and off field issues. Both (on and off field) working together would be awesome. Time to be focusing on contracts / draft and trade now which looks pretty interesting.

Hoping we can keep Zurhaar and Goldy

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[Le Grille]

Yeah I think Mitchell was always part of the plan post contract, though it was expedited due to ongoing issues with behaviour and conflict between Clarko and many staff (both senior and other staff) and definitely a big power struggle at Hawks . Relationship became untenable so paid out final year - doesn't matter how rich your club is, it's a big hit on your soft cap to pay out a year of a contract.

His temper is well known, and even he has stated repeatedly he needs strong people around him , hopefully our Board and senior executives etc can keep him in check. I still believe he is probably worth the risk given our on field performance, as long as it isn't at the expense of more instability and off field issues. Both (on and off field) working together would be awesome. Time to be focusing on contracts / draft and trade now which looks pretty interesting.

Hoping we can keep Zurhaar and Goldy

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You can’t discount the Jeff Kennett factor either

 

[Gasometer]

What a choice, Front Bar to watch the comedians or FC to watch the clowns.

Oh sorry to upset you

You can return back to Wuthering Heights

 

[Samsquanch]

Yeah I think Mitchell was always part of the plan post contract, though it was expedited due to ongoing issues with behaviour and conflict between Clarko and many staff (both senior and other staff) and definitely a big power struggle at Hawks . Relationship became untenable so paid out final year - doesn't matter how rich your club is, it's a big hit on your soft cap to pay out a year of a contract.

His temper is well known, and even he has stated repeatedly he needs strong people around him , hopefully our Board and senior executives etc can keep him in check. I still believe he is probably worth the risk given our on field performance, as long as it isn't at the expense of more instability and off field issues. Both (on and off field) working together would be awesome. Time to be focusing on contracts / draft and trade now which looks pretty interesting.

Hoping we can keep Zurhaar and Goldy

On SM-G996B using BigFooty.com mobile app

Wasn't it because Hawthorne were panicked by the possibility that the magpies might lure Mitchell?

 

[Samsquanch]

Oh sorry to upset you

You can return back to Wuthering Heights

Stay on the road Heathcliff. Keep off the moors.

 

[LB2Snake]

Yeah I think Mitchell was always part of the plan post contract, though it was expedited due to ongoing issues with behaviour and conflict between Clarko and many staff (both senior and other staff) and definitely a big power struggle at Hawks . Relationship became untenable so paid out final year - doesn't matter how rich your club is, it's a big hit on your soft cap to pay out a year of a contract.

His temper is well known, and even he has stated repeatedly he needs strong people around him , hopefully our Board and senior executives etc can keep him in check. I still believe he is probably worth the risk given our on field performance, as long as it isn't at the expense of more instability and off field issues. Both (on and off field) working together would be awesome. Time to be focusing on contracts / draft and trade now which looks pretty interesting.

Hoping we can keep Zurhaar and Goldy

On SM-G996B using BigFooty.com mobile app

Barassi and Pagan were quite big personalities. Won’t be an issue at all. It’s exactly what we need. I hope Clarko is a demanding tyrant. Set on one goal and one goal only.

 

[Gasometer]

Stay on the road Heathcliff. Keep off the moors.

I meant his read

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Clarko is worth 1.6m a year! Unless the club we don't want to get him pays 500k less than that, then it's a rip off and destroys the soft cap!

 

[Samsquanch]

Clarko is worth 1.6m a year! Unless the club we don't want to get him pays 500k less than that, then it's a rip off and destroys the soft cap!

When they were barracking for him to go to Essendon the rhetoric was that the price meant nothing. Essendon could easily pay Clarkson, pay out Rutten, employ assistants and then just pay the tax. No question about it, big clubs can do that easily.

 

[Lomas]

When they were barracking for him to go to Essendon the rhetoric was that the price meant nothing. Essendon could easily pay Clarkson, pay out Rutten, employ assistants and then just pay the tax. No question about it, big clubs can do that easily.

We can't have nice things.

 

[Samsquanch]

We can't have nice things.

We don't deserve nice things either.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Hope Jack had run his speech by the club, otherwise dropping the names of delistees like that wasn't a great look.

 

[Supreme_Chancellor]

Hope Jack had run his speech by the club, otherwise dropping the names of delistees like that wasn't a great look.

Are we talking about Ziebell?

 

[Patchterrier]

Barassi and Pagan were quite big personalities. Won’t be an issue at all. It’s exactly what we need. I hope Clarko is a demanding tyrant. Set on one goal and one goal only.

Big personalities are great and we need him to be demanding on field and setting the highest standards, no question. It's the off field and behind scenes stuff that's concerning - I hope the Board can control him (behaviour and his authority), Kennett and others at Hawks certainly couldn't.

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[Roo202]

The Front Bar was on and you watched FC?

The whole segment on Woofs on AFL grounds gave me the hysterics of the week and was far more entertaining than anything FC has dished up in 24 weeks.

Front Bar literally had vision of a German Shep parking a barker's egg on the half forward flank of Lakeside Oval, then spent the next few minutes discussing how kids today are missing out never seeing dried out white dog cr@p, but somehow over on nine they still managed to devote more of the show to talking absolute sh!t!

 

[Hojuman]

Trout from Woodend rung SEN yet ?

 

[1975]

Don’t know why all the controversy over Lynch’s point.
He knew it wasn’t a goal and the replays confirmed it.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Yeah I think Mitchell was always part of the plan post contract, though it was expedited due to ongoing issues with behaviour and conflict between Clarko and many staff (both senior and other staff) and definitely a big power struggle at Hawks . Relationship became untenable so paid out final year - doesn't matter how rich your club is, it's a big hit on your soft cap to pay out a year of a contract.

His temper is well known, and even he has stated repeatedly he needs strong people around him , hopefully our Board and senior executives etc can keep him in check. I still believe he is probably worth the risk given our on field performance, as long as it isn't at the expense of more instability and off field issues. Both (on and off field) working together would be awesome. Time to be focusing on contracts / draft and trade now which looks pretty interesting.

Hoping we can keep Zurhaar and Goldy

On SM-G996B using BigFooty.com mobile app

If you upset enough fragile egos at a football club over a long enough time period, then no matter how successful you are, as soon as your results begin to wain, those egos will come for you. That's what happened to Clarko and it has happened to pretty much every coach at every club before him. It happened to the great Norm Smith FFS.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Don’t know why all the controversy over Lynch’s point.
He knew it wasn’t a goal and the replays confirmed it.

Yes, if the goal umpire had soft called it a point, there's nothing to discuss.

 

[Roosurgence]

Yes, if the goal umpire had soft called it a point, there's nothing to discuss.

100%

That’s the whole point. Regardless if the decision is right or wrong, you have a system in place that was pretty much thrown out the window.

Soft call is a goal, so the system dictates that there must be conclusive evidence to overturn the soft call. Now if they think that crappy vision from down the ground is sufficient to overturn the soft call, then you may as well scrap the system, as that vision was not even close to definitive.

I don’t think anyone is arguing the final decision, but more the point on why we have a system and then totally ignore that system pretty much based on a hunch from a players body language.

FoxFooty was right we need the……..

 

[Hardcore North]

100%

That’s the whole point. Regardless if the decision is right or wrong, you have a system in place that was pretty much thrown out the window.

Soft call is a goal, so the system dictates that there must be conclusive evidence to overturn the soft call. Now if they think that crappy vision from down the ground is sufficient to overturn the soft call, then you may as well scrap the system, as that vision was not even close to definitive.

I don’t think anyone is arguing the final decision, but more the point on why we have a system and then totally ignore that system pretty much based on a hunch from a players body language.

FoxFooty was right we need the……..

started to respond along these lines, to find you summed it up perfectly.
They literally threw the rules out the window. In a clutch moment in a final no less. Farcical this gets the obligatory 'tick off' by the AFL. Shambolic organisation.
Have no love for the tiges but they were stiffed.

 

[koshari]

Front Bar literally had vision of a German Shep parking a barker's egg on the half forward flank of Lakeside Oval, then spent the next few minutes discussing how kids today are missing out never seeing dried out white dog cr@p, but somehow over on nine they still managed to devote more of the show to talking absolute sh!t!

i dont mind the front bar but lawrence mooney is to comedy what caro and cornes are to journalism.