Certified Legendary Thread Alastair Clarkson II - signs 5 year contract w/ North Melbourne 19 August 2022 - news breaks p360

[Merlin007]

Not necessarily. we could have signed him up already, but not officially starting until a few months time at the end of his Hawks tenure. Happens all the time in the corporate world where I work. That way we've secured him and he's off the market.


Yes the media is fickle, but in this instance I reckon there is more substance to the Clarko to Essendon movement. But I've been wrong before.

All I can say is that your industry must be unfamiliar with employment law; if Clarkson is being paid by Hawthorn to sit out 2022, you can take it as a stone cold certainty there is an exclusion clause in a deed that prevents him from taking another role for the life of the deed

 

[krakouers]

What about a Grolar bear?

 

[sruss]

So how real is this deadline? If we don’t hear anything tomorrow, is that good news or bad news? Or no way of knowing?

 

[Kato]

Didn’t that muppet do our bnf one year



Hope you’re taking names

If he does it again I hope he gets boo’d or Arch lines him up…


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[Le Grille]

So how real is this deadline? If we don’t hear anything tomorrow, is that good news or bad news? Or no way of knowing?

Option 3

 

[Merlin007]

If rutten resigned tonight would * still need to pay his contract for next year or would that then be null and void?

Why would Rutten agree to forego $600,000 just to help out a club that wants him gone?

 

[Le Grille]

If he does it again I hope he gets boo’d or Arch lines him up…


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[muttley45]

Question: which bear is best?

Caramello Koala

 

[north_lad]

Love Robbo's BS about * supporters saying "about bloody time this club was tough enough to make hard decisions" when the most fundamental decision in getting a new coach - removing the old one first - has evaded them. Actually, what hard decisions has * made in the last 36 hours?

They pushed out a guy that looks likely to be pushed out of this mortal realm soon....

TOUGH AND GUTSY CALL BY THE BOMBERS

 

[giantroo]

Mark Robinson: Essendon wants Alastair Clarkson but he should pick North Melbourne​

Embattled power club Essendon has made a late play to pinch Alastair Clarkson from the clutches of North Melbourne but he should still pick the Roos, Mark Robinson writes.

Mark Robinson
@Robbo_heraldsun

4 min read
August 16, 2022 - 6:41PM
News Corp Australia Sports Newsroom

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Football is a dog eat dog world and suddenly Essendon believes it is well placed to cut North Melbourne’s lunch.

Just why they think that is a curious question.

Is it because the wealthy conservatives in the northwest corridor of Melbourne, who grow the big hedges and own the bigger house, believe no man worth his salt would reject such a famous football club?

Essendon wants Alastair Clarkson, and Clarkson might want Essendon, but that doesn’t mean Clarkson is headed for — or should head to — Tullamarine.

No, Clarkson should coach the Kangaroos.

For many reasons, not least being the belief that North Melbourne needs Clarkson more than the Bombers do.

The Bombers might beg to differ — they are a mess — have been for a while now.

Robbo believes Alastair Clarkson should pick the Roos over the Bombers.

The supplement saga tore the heart out of the club for any number of reasons and, at the end, those willing to fight finally lost the will to fight. And in doing so almost their lives.

Since then, Essendon became a vanilla club, meandering through season after season with hope more than conviction.
The move on Clarkson is not a surprise, although the surprise is it took so long.

It doesn’t make it a match made in heaven, though.


Clarkson is a killer, but more than any other time in his career, the public has seen a gentler, warmer football person.

He’s speaking about the essence of footy rather than the business of football and all that entails.

Like how he talks of a team in Tasmania and what it would do for the state like he has spoken of the importance of sport in his hometown of Kaniva.


“My father was a builder and my mother was a kindergarten teacher, and we had the benefit of a really strong, sporting and farming community, and that’s what drove the culture of the town,” Clarkson told the ABC.

“The old adage ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ was very apt where I grew up.”

In May this year, after Tasmania launched a TV advert with a young girl kicking the footy around different places in the state, Clarkson said: “It (the ad) just reminded me of, albeit in Victoria, of doing the exact same thing as a kid.

“You see the footage of that little girl kicking the footy on that oval … and it just reminds me so much of my childhood.


“And it doesn’t matter where it is in Australia, it’s our national game. And we’ve got a heartland in Tasmania that’s not featuring in our national game. It’s just wrong. It’s just wrong, and we’ve got to do something about it.’’

He’s shown he has a big heart, a big enough heart to return to the club he started at and to the club that really needs him.

Clarkson has shown many times that footy is not always about the best opportunity, but the right opportunity.

After all, he moved on his champs at Hawthorn because, he said, it was the right opportunity for them and the Hawks.

The pragmatic and practical people would say I’m being far too emotive in what should be a purely business decision. But footy isn’t your normal business.

Clarkson started his career at the Kangaroos after Essendon, who controlled the zone which included Kaniva, passed on him as a young man.


North Melbourne president Sonja Hood is a businesswoman and heartfelt supporter, and she no doubt would have spoken to Clarkson about his formative years at Arden St.

Does that count 30-odd years later?

In the four weeks Hood has courted Clarkson and his manager James Henderson, the discussions have ventured to all kinds of places, like character, personnel, ambition and opportunity.

She would’ve heard former Hawks skipper Luke Hodge describe Clarkson as a difficult person to deal with, but still she was determined.

She has done her due diligence and so has Clarkson on North Melbourne.

Clarkson wants to add to his legacy. He wants to work at a big club. He wants to win a fifth flag.

John Kennedy is a hero for Clarkson, and it was Kennedy, after departing the Hawks, who rebuilt the Kangaroos footy club in the 1980s.

He didn’t win anything, but North Melbourne people tell you “Kanga’’ set the tone for the 1990s.


Can you imagine Clarkson’s legacy if he took North to a flag?

The satisfaction of arriving at a club at rock bottom on the field, and to build them, lead them and win with them?

True, the Bombers could say the same.

But if Clarkson rejects Essendon, the club will march on.

If Clarkson rejects North Melbourne, Hood will deploy Plan B. She has a plan, but not a name.

And the fans will be devastated.

It will be another kick in the guts for a club that has mostly always been the poor cousin to the mob up Mt Alexander Road.
Clarkson could change that by rejecting Essendon, and helping North Melbourne.

Now that would be a hell of a legacy.

 

[Engimal v3]

So how real is this deadline? If we don’t hear anything tomorrow, is that good news or bad news? Or no way of knowing?

No way of knowing, despite what nuffies in here might say.

Only good news is if he signs with us and the bad news is if he doesn't.

 

[Engimal v3]

Robbo playing 4D chess

 

[blackshadow]

It was definitely mentioned on Footy Classified for one, but they aren't the only ones.

And none of it confirmed. Just innuendo coming out of *.

And the stuff that was reported on C9 yesterday about Clarko meeting * has since been debunked.

 

[Supreme_Chancellor]

Didn't Robbo say Clarko should join * last night?

 

[blackshadow]

So we're up to what, three bombers board meetings now and they still havent fired Rutten?

Has Rutten found the spreadsheet?

 

[Le Grille]

Robbo playing 4D chess

He doesn’t know if he’s playing, chess, checker, halo or a combination of them all

 

[Only Forwards]

So how real is this deadline? If we don’t hear anything tomorrow, is that good news or bad news? Or no way of knowing?

is there ever really a way of knowing anything?

 

[Le Grille]

Has Rutten found the spreadsheet?

I think dorado has

 

[Only Forwards]

He doesn’t know if he’s playing, chess, checker, halo or a combination of them all

He's definitely just playing with himself though. I think we can all agree on that.

 

[Marstermind]

Didn't Robbo say Clarko should join * last night?

He's been drunk and sobered up 3 times since then. A lot can change.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Didn't Robbo say Clarko should join * last night?

He said he believes that Clarko will be at * by the end of this week. Gerard agreed.

 

[blackshadow]

Unless there’s a huge money discrepancy… which the AFL could make happen if they wanted to, find some bullshit ambassador thing… there isn’t a coach alive, including Clarkson, who would choose North over Essendon right now.

WADA Oooga Booga In Over The Top.

 

[Chadwiko]

People who prefer Plain flavour chips over BBQ, Chicken, or Salt and Vinegar are weird.

 

[marklovesbeer]

.A guy who worked there back when he was coach of Essendon said he use to squeal like a pig when he addressed the players after they lost.

Sheeds.

 

[Caracas]

Kevin Sheedy on 5AA has just said Clarko may be coming to North because he wants to move us to Tas.

The guy is such a ******* campaigner.

At least, with Sheedy, you know he’s just trolling and stirring the pot. There’s no debate.


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