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Danni_Benson said:
I would say he’s also mindful to a degree of his interactions with the players because he’s still building relationships with his players.

We also know if he’s breathes the wrong way in the coaching box on match day it makes front page!!
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Well you only need to look at the bold headline articles about Sam Mitchell over the past 24 hours to see how these reporters are salivating over the prospect of a coach giving a player some fierce but honest feedback in public view.
 
The PP talk is funny. They know full well we got this years package last year. We ain't getting more.
It also unfortunately adds to the woe is me vibe around the club and players.
Use all the mechanisms we can (MSD, FA, players or picks trades) to get ourselves to get out of it.
If players don't want to join just go to the draft and balance the list out. That's all we can really do.
 

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Colby Cheer Squad said:
Maybe if we didn't have people like yourself starting ultra negative threads about sacking the bootstudder after every loss, then fan sentiment wouldn't be as low as it is. Or here's another idea... why don't you make it your mission to help instead of hinder those trying to improve the club. Possibly come up with something to help lift fan sentiment.
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If you're relying on me to save the club, we're in worse trouble than I realised.
 
big_e said:
The bit I disagree with was the suggestion to trade out the priority pick to bring in the senior pro.

Daniel Cross was a DFA, Hodge was basically pick 75, Jordan Lewis was a swap of picks in the 3rd and 4th rounds.

Whoever it is doesn't have to cost much.
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Ya just gotta pick ‘em 🤣
 
Colby Cheer Squad said:
Well you only need to look at the bold headline articles about Sam Mitchell over the past 24 hours to see how these reporters are salivating over the prospect of a coach giving a player some fierce but honest feedback in public view.
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Exactly. They live for it.

Even the pathetic angle some journo’s ran with in respect to the Swans player getting snubbed by his teammates after kicking a goal when the game was truly done and dusted, but totally ignoring the fact he got a 100 (so to speak) high fives when he kicked his earlier goals.

Take the majority of these articles with a grain of salt! Nothing more nothing less!
 
Chadwiko said:
Week's spent on the bottom of the ladder since 2000:

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So from 2000-2020 we spent a total of 6 weeks on the bottom and what have we got to show for it? Sweet heck all, but man I miss those days. Being mid (am I using this right?) shits all over where we are now.

Anyway, 6 weeks in 20 years and 37 weeks since the end of 2020. Solid effort
 
Disco Dew said:
So from 2000-2020 we spent a total of 6 weeks on the bottom and what have we got to show for it? Sweet * all, but man I miss those days. Being mid (am I using this right?) shits all over where we are now.

Anyway, 6 weeks in 20 years and 37 weeks since the end of 2020. Solid effort
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Yep should have gone for Bronze 👍
 

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Disco Dew said:
So from 2000-2020 we spent a total of 6 weeks on the bottom and what have we got to show for it? Sweet * all, but man I miss those days. Being mid (am I using this right?) shits all over where we are now.

Anyway, 6 weeks in 20 years and 37 weeks since the end of 2020. Solid effort
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Nah I dont. Its a place of nothingness. Mediocrity is worse than this.
 
North should target .. I’d probably say Duncan. Still playing good footy and I hate to say it. Probably knows a thing or two about culture.

I’d really love to sit here and say, in Jy we must believe.. but it just aint gonna happrn
 
Uncle_Leo said:
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Wayne Carey and Alastair Clarkson: a history of the fiery footy feud

AFL heavyweights Alastair Clarkson and Wayne Carey are embroiled in a public argument yet again.
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I read and then saw how Buddy treated women.. he makes Tarryn Thomas look like a ******* saint. I have some factual information about Buddy, his time at Revs and his treatment of women before he moved to sydney. A real piece of s**t. If you lot hate Tarryn, then you wouldn’t think much better about Buddy. Wow wee boy oh boy
 
I think the answer to these issues plus leadership guts and commitment has really been staring us in the face for years
and that is to bring in the core of our ‘90’s premiership sides to start working with the playing group. So I’m talking 5-6 guys including Carey, Archer, Stevens and McCartney. We invite them into the club for burying the hatchet talks and aspiring to a greater cause, the future of NMFC. We get them onboard and then they work with the players to improve their performance on the ground by improving their performances between the ears and inside their chests. I would structure it something like this:

Phase 1: get the greats on the same page with a mandate to lift all aspects of our culture and performance.

Phase 2: open kimono session with the playing group, no coach’s, no cameras no phones. Any questions allowed all answers are honest.

Phase 3: the greats work with the current leadership group 1on1 and as a group 2-3 times a week.

Phase 4: after 3 weeks of the above reconvene the playing group have another question and honest answer session, implement any changes to leadership group that result. Set up a time for an all attendance team/leadership/endurance building camp with group must be at least 4 days, run by the greats no phones etc only outsiders cooks/cleaners

Phase 5: next match the greats are all in attendance together highlighted by club and media whatever the results everyone agrees NMFC are on the right track, prodigal sons, redemption stories ya da ya da ya da

Phase 6: maintenance visits by the greats with the leadership group ( they can take it on turns) once a week. Greats maintain any individual relationships they have developed with players.

Phase: 7 end of season get together with the greats initially focused on reflection on the season and how they’re feeling, then open it up to coaches and support staff then end with all NMFC staff players and partners kids bbq and piss up!!!

Season 2025 run a modified program of the above to enhance culture, support leaders and induct new players.
 
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NORTH Melbourne hasn't been able to get near creating a successful culture in the past eight disastrous seasons, and now has no choice but to buy it.

It presents perfectly in the form of Scott Pendlebury. A deal to play for one season, maybe two, effectively as an on-field coach, and a commitment, if requested, beyond that to fast-track coaching credentials under one of the greatest of all time, Alastair Clarkson.

The AFL itself should encourage the plan, maybe even help facilitate it, as it can only offer so many national draft compensation packages.

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But without the injection of someone of Pendlebury's calibre into North Melbourne's very broken football operations, the Kangaroos will continue to be not merely an embarrassment but a spectacle drain on the entire competition.

Pendlebury has unfinished business with Collingwood in 2024, his 19th season, hoping to add a second consecutive and third overall Magpies premiership to a CV which is now 10 games short of a magical 400.

He will be 37 in January. So what? Eight matches ago, he played one of the finest final quarters in Grand Final history. In 2024, he's clearly not at peak agility nor impact, but he is still very, very good, and better than most.

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Scott Pendlebury in action during the Anzac Day match between Collingwood and Essendon in round seven, 2024. Picture: AFL Photos
A role across half-back at North Melbourne, which would be made more appealing if another aged-but-still-very-good veteran came with him, would be of immeasurable benefit to a young playing list getting belted every match.

If Pendlebury said no, Travis Boak and Callan Ward should be considered. If he said yes, they should be considered anyway. Any two of that trio would work better than one operating solo. Standards on the training track and, more importantly, game day would be lifted ten-fold.

Imagine the benefits of having Pendlebury, and/or Boak/Ward playing and teaching alongside North's first and second-year players, including Harry Sheezel, George Wardlaw, Colby McKercher and Zane Duursma. Ponder the positives for the more seasoned but demoralised Luke Davies-Uniacke, Jy Simpkin and Bailey Scott. Consider the effect on Nick Larkey, who somehow kicked 71 goals last year in a three-win season.

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There would be zero negatives attached to Pendlebury playing for North in 2025, even if he demanded $1.3 million-plus to do so.

North is paying minimum requirements on total player payments in 2023. It has money to burn. But in its current state, no one of any quality in the prime age zone wants to go near the club, given its deplorable formline, which has seen it win just 12 of 91 matches since the start of 2020.

A commitment from Pendlebury would assist player recruiting drives, as very few players currently on any AFL list boast the respect commanded by the Collingwood champion.

I'd be highly surprised if a pitch hadn't already been made to Pendlebury, at least to people around him, at some stage of the past 18 months. North went for a Pendlebury-lite plan when it added Liam Shiels to its list for 2023, so the club would be clearly open to the idea. Shiels is still rookie-listed this season, and while he has been valuable off-field, not surprisingly he has struggled with form.

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Liam Shiels and Alastair Clarkson after the R1 match between North Melbourne and West Coast at Marvel Stadium on March 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Of course, Pendlebury, Boak and Ward may have no initial interest in playing for the Roos in their rabble state. But at one stage, Leigh Matthews had no interest in coaching the Brisbane Lions at the end of 1998. Before him, Ron Barassi had major reservations about going to North at the end of 1972. Some of the most successful and rewarding partnerships have started with resistance.

Those who have read my views on AFL.com.au of North Melbourne's self-inflicted demise into mediocrity would be aware I have always traced it back to the dreadfully managed sacking of club games record holder Brent Harvey, along with Nick Dal Santo, Drew Petrie and Michael Firrito during 2016. That was a season which for North had followed two consecutive preliminary finals and had begun with a 10-1 scoreline, and one which, out of nowhere, produced the Western Bulldogs as premier.

At the end of 2017, president Ben Buckley and his off-sider Glenn Archer drove a decision to recontract Brad Scott as coach for 2018-20. But they then changed their mind on him, and effectively sacked him halfway through that deal, replaced Scott with Rhyce Shaw, then after one season replaced Shaw with David Noble, who lasted half a season longer than Shaw. Buckley and Archer then disappeared from North operations, eventually leaving Sonja Hood and Jen Watt to clean up an almighty mess.

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CEO Jen Watt and president Sonja Hood at a North Melbourne press conference on May 18, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos
Four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson has been in charge since the start of 2023 (he missed 10 matches when he took personal leave mid-2023). After two consecutive wins to begin the Clarkson stint, the Roos have lost 27 of 28 matches, including all seven this year. There is nothing to suggest that rock bottom has yet been hit.

Five best-and-fairests at Collingwood (as well as nine placings in that award) and six All-Australian nominations are already part of the Pendlebury story. He has nothing left to prove, and nothing he does from here will adversely alter his legacy. Playing a key role in the fixing of North Melbourne would only enhance it.

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Kanga Glory said:
NORTH Melbourne hasn't been able to get near creating a successful culture in the past eight disastrous seasons, and now has no choice but to buy it.

It presents perfectly in the form of Scott Pendlebury. A deal to play for one season, maybe two, effectively as an on-field coach, and a commitment, if requested, beyond that to fast-track coaching credentials under one of the greatest of all time, Alastair Clarkson.

The AFL itself should encourage the plan, maybe even help facilitate it, as it can only offer so many national draft compensation packages.

>> GET THE LATEST FROM DAMIAN BARRETT


But without the injection of someone of Pendlebury's calibre into North Melbourne's very broken football operations, the Kangaroos will continue to be not merely an embarrassment but a spectacle drain on the entire competition.

Pendlebury has unfinished business with Collingwood in 2024, his 19th season, hoping to add a second consecutive and third overall Magpies premiership to a CV which is now 10 games short of a magical 400.

He will be 37 in January. So what? Eight matches ago, he played one of the finest final quarters in Grand Final history. In 2024, he's clearly not at peak agility nor impact, but he is still very, very good, and better than most.


Scott Pendlebury in action during the Anzac Day match between Collingwood and Essendon in round seven, 2024. Picture: AFL Photos
A role across half-back at North Melbourne, which would be made more appealing if another aged-but-still-very-good veteran came with him, would be of immeasurable benefit to a young playing list getting belted every match.

If Pendlebury said no, Travis Boak and Callan Ward should be considered. If he said yes, they should be considered anyway. Any two of that trio would work better than one operating solo. Standards on the training track and, more importantly, game day would be lifted ten-fold.

Imagine the benefits of having Pendlebury, and/or Boak/Ward playing and teaching alongside North's first and second-year players, including Harry Sheezel, George Wardlaw, Colby McKercher and Zane Duursma. Ponder the positives for the more seasoned but demoralised Luke Davies-Uniacke, Jy Simpkin and Bailey Scott. Consider the effect on Nick Larkey, who somehow kicked 71 goals last year in a three-win season.
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I guess if Pendlebury breaks Boomer's games record then at least he might as well do it in royal blue and white.

He had this to say back when we signed Clarko, so maybe he could be tempted

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Scott Pendlebury On Alastair Clarkson Turning North Melbourne Into A Destination Club

With Marty Sheargold.
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