Strategy Clarko available for 2022, surely we must have a crack

[Murray2503]

I reckon Clarko might be after a coaching consultant style role. They're presently running with a known failure that goes by the name Neil Craig. I think Dew would be in trouble if Clarko wanted to move straight back into coaching, but I think that's doubtful for 2022.

Clarko would be best to have a good break for at least 12 months. Likely would already have his sights on a job for 2023 and I reckon the crows may be one of them. Hoping so anyway.

 

[Gtowncrow]

Clarko would be best to have a good break for at least 12 months. Likely would already have his sights on a job for 2023 and I reckon the crows may be one of them. Hoping so anyway.

Silvers and Clarkson...
"We're on a mission from God. We're getting the band back together again"

 

[Golumless]

Are we really finishing off the season better than last year?

Is hope higher now than before?

In the final part of last season we were one of the better performing sides, that isn’t true this year

We have not built on the promise of last season

If you (and anyone else) are sitting here, disappointed with this season, then you completely misread the state of our list coming into this year. After all, we did opt to make an already weak list weaker by letting Brad take FA, and getting significantly younger/less experienced.

Is hope higher now then before? No, but then it's likely not a reasonable expectation. The end of last year was a team that had a dramatic upswing in their form after being starved of wins for 13 weeks. A team that was dead looked like it had a bit of life in it. Compared to now where rebuild fatigue/panic is starting to kick in (seeing Adelaide is 9-27 in the last 2 years), we're in a situation where winning has drawbacks (despite being worth their weight in gold), and we're not getting pick 1 is certainly not helping the hope part of things (especially considering it's an SA kid). I would wager if we were 4-15, lost against North/Hawks, and had pick 1, the feeling of hope would be rather improved. 8-11 and the level of hope would be in the negative.

Have we built on the promise of last season? That answer is also yeah, pretty comfortably at this point. The promise was that we've stopped our free fall, and so far, bar a few incidents we have. We've got a few good scalps, we've improved on both our win count and percentage (despite opting to get weaker in the offseason) and we've moved from the clear worst team in the league to one with a bit of intrigue in the future. Effectively we've cemented that late season revival instead of falling back into a heap. That late season burst cannot be treated as a separate entity to the rest of the season. After all, it's its the previous 13 weeks that potentially lead to a 3-1 record when we were playing non-finalists to become overrated. It put us in a position where we had pick 1 regardless what we did (after all, we were miles off the pace), and it starved a supporter group of any positive for long enough that they were going to latch on to anything.

 

[Sanders]

If you (and anyone else) are sitting here, disappointed with this season, then you completely misread the state of our list coming into this year. After all, we did opt to make an already weak list weaker by letting Brad take FA, and getting significantly younger/less experienced.

Is hope higher now then before? No, but then it's likely not a reasonable expectation. The end of last year was a team that had a dramatic upswing in their form after being starved of wins for 13 weeks. A team that was dead looked like it had a bit of life in it. Compared to now where rebuild fatigue/panic is starting to kick in (seeing Adelaide is 9-27 in the last 2 years), we're in a situation where winning has drawbacks (despite being worth their weight in gold), and we're not getting pick 1 is certainly not helping the hope part of things (especially considering it's an SA kid). I would wager if we were 4-15, lost against North/Hawks, and had pick 1, the feeling of hope would be rather improved. 8-11 and the level of hope would be in the negative.

Have we built on the promise of last season? That answer is also yeah, pretty comfortably at this point. The promise was that we've stopped our free fall, and so far, bar a few incidents we have. We've got a few good scalps, we've improved on both our win count and percentage (despite opting to get weaker in the offseason) and we've moved from the clear worst team in the league to one with a bit of intrigue in the future. Effectively we've cemented that late season revival instead of falling back into a heap. That late season burst cannot be treated as a separate entity to the rest of the season. After all, it's its the previous 13 weeks that potentially lead to a 3-1 record when we were playing non-finalists to become overrated. It put us in a position where we had pick 1 regardless what we did (after all, we were miles off the pace), and it starved a supporter group of any positive for long enough that they were going to latch on to anything.

Nah. That’s a lot of mental gymnastics to achieve not much

I do agree with deliberately made ourselves weaker in losing Brouch & Atkins. However, this year post round 4 doesn’t look much different to the first 13 rounds last year

We are NO closer to realising whether our rebuild is on track.

 

[Kezza86]

Had a poor press conference… IF crows get flogged next 3 weeks there will be pressure to seek out Clarke.

 

[thebirdman 24]

We will never get Clarko. We arent a good club. Stop dreaming.

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[Kane McGoodwin]

Had a poor press conference… IF crows get flogged next 3 weeks there will be pressure to seek out Clarke.

Lol, you think it comes down to 1 poor press conference.

Doubt Clarkson wants to coach next year & it's very unlikely Nicks won't be coach next year.

 

[Murray2503]

We will never get Clarko. We arent a good club. Stop dreaming.

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Neither was Hawthorn when he went there. They were a basket case. The difference is that he has the runs on the board now and can go anywhere but Clarko does like a challenge. We could be the challenge he is looking for. If we could add him to our coaching panel and still keep Nick's as his right hand man it could be a win win for nicks and the club.

 

[Sanders]

Neither was Hawthorn when he went there. They were a basket case. The difference is that he has the runs on the board now and can go anywhere but Clarko does like a challenge. We could be the challenge he is looking for. If we could add him to our coaching panel and still keep Nick's as his right hand man it could be a win win for nicks and the club.

Oh c’mon, how little self respect do you think Nick’s has?

 

[Burtonsgottago]

We will never get Clarko. We arent a good club. Stop dreaming.

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Crows are a loser of a football club

 

[1970crow]

Clarko still technically available. Wonder if Nix would still command 50% of the total vote as preferred coach?

 

[LeftyLuke]

The question is why would he come here? Clarko would want major changes to list management and recruiting before he considered it. Don't overlook Yze, he should have been chosen by us over Nicks. He has been a major part of Melbourne's improvement.

 

[1970crow]

The question is why would he come here? Clarko would want major changes to list management and recruiting before he considered it. Don't overlook Yze, he should have been chosen by us over Nicks. He has been a major part of Melbourne's improvement.

That’s not what’s being posed, the question is whether as a club we should chase Clarko and if he was to magically say yes, we’d deal with Nix after coming to terms with Clarko.

 

[LeftyLuke]

That’s not what’s being posed, the question is whether as a club we should chase Clarko and if he was to magically say yes, we’d deal with Nix after coming to terms with Clarko.

That's no question. Of course we should chase Clarko. We should chase anyone that can make us better. But those in charge back in their own bad decisions so I expect it will need to get worse before they do something. By that stage Clarko will be gone.

 

[1970crow]

That's no question. Of course we should chase Clarko. We should chase anyone that can make us better. But those in charge back in their own bad decisions so I expect it will need to get worse before they do something. By that stage Clarko will be gone.

50% of responders to the poll disagree with us.

 

[moogerfooger]

He's already said publicly he only wants to get back in to win it, not to rebuild. There's your answer.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

This seems like an unnecessary thread bump. It's about as useful as discussing JHF.

 

[1970crow]

He's already said publicly he only wants to get back in to win it, not to rebuild. There's your answer.

No, the question is whether the club should have a crack, not whether he would come.

 

[LeftyLuke]

50% of responders to the poll disagree with us.

That's why those in charge at the club aren't scared about being held accountable. They know that regardless of how poor we are going onfield people will turn up. Tbh I think that many of the supporters don't even expect success anymore.

 

[1970crow]

This seems like an unnecessary thread bump. It's about as useful as discussing JHF.

Disagree, 50% of posters preferred Nix at about the same time last year. Clarko still available, it’s a relevant question as to the rating of Nix against a competitor that is technically available.

 

[Pugsley]

How is his relationship with our CEO?

 

[CrowToon]

You shouldn't be running a football club if you aren't attempting to have a conversation with a 4x time premiership coach if they are available.

You can't be that stubborn. Of course this is AFC we are talking about.

The offer would have to be bankrupting for the club for Clarko to consider it surely.

As an aside, when did it become edgy to write it as Nix?

 

[LeftyLuke]

You shouldn't be running a football club if you aren't attempting to have a conversation with a 4x time premiership coach if they are available.

You can't be that stubborn. Of course this is AFC we are talking about.

The offer would have to be bankrupting for the club for Clarko to consider it surely.

As an aside, when did it become edgy to write it as Nix?

Move Nicks and Kelly on and we could afford Clarko. What does Kelly actually do? Roll his responsibilities into a decent Football director after we move Riccuito on as well.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Disagree, 50% of posters preferred Nix at about the same time last year. Clarko still available, it’s a relevant question as to the rating of Nix against a competitor that is technically available.

I wouldn't say he's technically available. Just the other day he said he's committed to the Tassie project.

 

[1970crow]

You shouldn't be running a football club if you aren't attempting to have a conversation with a 4x time premiership coach if they are available.

You can't be that stubborn. Of course this is AFC we are talking about.

The offer would have to be bankrupting for the club for Clarko to consider it surely.

As an aside, when did it become edgy to write it as Nix?

Clarko knows there’s a cap and every extreme $ he demands reduces quality elsewhere. Coaching is a team game, he knows this.