News Clarkson to step away from football indefinitely

‘Heavy toll’: Roos blindsided by Clarkson decision to step away

North Melbourne are unsure how long Alastair Clarkson will need away from the game, but the club’s football boss Todd Viney, a friend of the master coach, is confident he will not be lost to the sport.

www.theage.com.au

 

[ep2018]

I'd be surprised if he came back

 

[Lingsface]

Better than those going half cocked but absolutely sure their opinion is right.

And even if I was right I would say good on him push back as hard as you can.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

Best wishes to Clarko. He badly needed a break. This news is bit of a blow to the Roos, but they have a good and capable footy man in Brett Ratten

Brett Ratten

Age

54

Ht

184cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

22.4

5star

K

12.1

4star

HB

10.3

5star

M

2.9

3star

T

3.0

5star

No current season stats available

D

26.4

5star

K

13.8

5star

HB

12.6

5star

M

3.4

4star

T

1.6

4star

to take over.

I have great time for Ratts. The man comes across to me as being one of life's good guys, and he was wrongly and disgracefully sacked as coach at Carlton.

Hopefully both Ratts and North Melbourne get themselves a couple of wins before the year is out.

 

[tombstone_of_a_neurone]

You can’t win in this situation.

Hird did the opposite and was public enemy #1 because he wouldn’t follow the AFL’s narrative.

Yeah this is about Hird facilitating and engaging in a drug cheating program. Essendon sycophants jumping on North’s current misery.


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

 

[maskmcgee]

Second time this happened to A North coach in 3 years. Clearly massive problems at North.

 

[Lsta062]

Accusations alone are very rarely evidence for guilt. It’s time the media and general public understood this because we as a collective are causing the accused too much stress and anxiety. There is such a thing as giving the benefit of doubt, so that’s what we should be doing in this case.

 

[joy division]

Yeah this is about Hird facilitating and engaging in a drug cheating program. Essendon sycophants jumping on North’s current misery.


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

Not really. There’s help out there to help you work on your issues

 

[GreatBradScott]

Second time this happened to A North coach in 3 years. Clearly massive problems at North.

Jesus. You think mate? What would make you say that?

 

[Brodes_Loves_Footy]

Reckon Bevo might have something to say about that

Who?

 

[Captivating]

If I started throwing a tanty at work and breaking stuff, I'd be sacked.

He gets paid leave and sympathy. What a world we live in.

That's because no one cares about you and your job.

 

[South of the Yarra]

Accusations alone are very rarely evidence for guilt. It’s time the media and general public understood this because we as a collective are causing the accused too much stress and anxiety. There is such a thing as giving the benefit of doubt, so that’s what we should be doing in this case.

And we should just forget the alleged victims? We seem to do that a lot to Aboriginal people.

 

[Outtatym]

Second time this happened to A North coach in 3 years. Clearly massive problems at North.

They aren't exactly the same situations.
One in a covid bubble and one from a investigation that has nothing to do with North.

 

[Ry009]

And we should just forget the alleged victims? We seem to do that a lot to Aboriginal people.

Been the sad thing about all this.

I don't expect much from BigFooty - this board in particular doesn't engage in any meaningful discussion on any topic. But it's been disappointing that the media haven't put the pressure on the AFL to make more postive systemic changes for indigenous players.

Regardless of the outcome of this situation, it should have been the catalyst for major changes and it doesn't seem like that's happened. I don't expect the average BigFooty poster to think further than their next post, but I expected more pressure from the media in this regard - sad to see and indicative of current day journalism.

How many people around here have knowledge of the indigenous deaths in custody or give it more than a fleeting thought?

We're slowly become a broken fractured country like the US.

 

[Hawthorn1971]

Hawthorn need to admit their many failures properly. The sort of thing Essendon have still failed to do re their scandal.

Hawthorn should also make reparations to individuals, groups, the AFL community as a whole for massive and lasting damage done in their name, for their benefit, at their hand, at the expense others, and to the detriment of the game.

Hawthorn have benefitted from their own bad behaviour - there should be recompense commensurate with those facts as well. There are consequences for such terrible failures.

The club should be heavily sanctioned.

Still salty over 2008 chump??

 

[DesertRoo]

Want my apology mods for editing my posts thanks.

Something did come up that changed things. Live in denial.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

And we should just forget the alleged victims? We seem to do that a lot to Aboriginal people.

No but the media should report things in a balanced and non speculative way which we they dont.

We are having a go at the media and the system not aboriginal people.

 

[Plugger46]

Who is the liar? 3 seperate aboriginal families?

Why this Clarko persecuted narrative? He was still able to do his job, I think part of it is he just cant be bothered coaching a crappy side while this investigation is going on. If his side was 7-2 like Fagan he wouldn't of stepped down.

100% agree..
If North weren't a basket case I don't think he would have stepped down either.. Dealing with all the crap from supporters and media then having to deal with these allegations would take it's toll

 

[Stax on the mill]

I think the only solution to this shitshow is to sack hinkley.

Koch will be locking him in for the next 5 years after you beat the Dees tonight. And deservedly so.

 

[RAPPA]

In most situations, said person would be suspended with pay while the investigation took place. The length of the investigation coupled with him having to face questions in his gig as north head coach that in some way related to the investigation, was going to make it a very uncomfortable set of circumstances for him.

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Unfortunately Clarkson isn’t Robinson Crusoe in the way he has been treated by the AFL . There is a plethora of people who have worked for the AFL , within the elite AFL competition or merely been involved in the game , who have suffered similar treatment from AFL’s ‘ men in black ‘ as they like to call themselves , aka integrity department .
Mick Warner only touched the surface within his book .

 

[Lsta062]

And we should just forget the alleged victims? We seem to do that a lot to Aboriginal people.

No, I didn’t see anyone say to forget the indigenous people making a complaint. It doesn’t matter the race of the accused and the accuser.

Just like you don’t charge the accused without a proper process, you don’t accuse the accuser of lying without a proper process. The accusations just haven’t publicly been proven as fact yet, so we shouldn’t be speaking on what we don’t know.

 

[mr bagcroft]

Unfortunately Clarkson isn’t Robinson Crusoe in the way he has been treated by the AFL . There is a plethora of people who have worked for the AFL , within the elite AFL competition or merely been involved in the game , who have suffered similar treatment from AFL’s ‘ men in black ‘ as they like to call themselves , aka integrity department .
Mick Warner only touched the surface within his book .

yep, and I'm guessing what we know is only the tip of the iceberg insofar as how they conduct their business.
The AFL is an absolute shit show of an organisation, that loves to parade itself as the arbiter of all things decent moral and right.

 

[MagpieJo]

yep, and I'm guessing what we know is only the tip of the iceberg insofar as how they conduct their business.
The AFL is an absolute s**t show of an organisation, that loves to parade itself as the arbiter of all things decent moral and right.

100% this.

andthe gutter media should be held accountable.

 

[MagpieJo]

If I started throwing a tanty at work and breaking stuff, I'd be sacked.

He gets paid leave and sympathy. What a world we live in.

I guess it would depend on the circumstances, clearly NMFC realise the impossible situation and amount of stress he has been under. Your coach may be next.
this is a witch-hunt.

afterthe do better fiasco, and now this so-called internal ‘investigation’, will any other club be foolish enough to look at history to try to ‘do better’?
someof the public accusations are truly disgusting, but even Charles Manson was allowed to defend himself.

this is bullshit

and hawthorn? What a way to treat a four time premiership coach! Hang him out to dry

 

[South of the Yarra]

No, I didn’t see anyone say to forget the indigenous people making a complaint. It doesn’t matter the race of the accused and the accuser.

Just like you don’t charge the accused without a proper process, you don’t accuse the accuser of lying without a proper process. The accusations just haven’t publicly been proven as fact yet, so we shouldn’t be speaking on what we don’t know.

It matters significantly because Aboriginal people have been pushed to the side and victim shamed for hundreds of years. Had the alleged victims not been Aboriginal but been two privileged non-Aboriginal private school boys then there would have been no doubts cast over their accusations.