When will Alastair Clarkson get the credit he deserves?

[Laphroaig]

Big difference between tough and dirty.

Dirty was Podsiadly who drove his knee into every defenders kidneys for his entire career.

Tough is Hodge who in one of his first games swung punches face to face with Jonathan Brown.

You think swinging punches is tough. I guess you also think cramming an opponent's head and neck into a behind post is tough too. Or getting back on topic running fifty meters to deliver a coward's punch from behind is really tough. Or trying to bully junior football officials. That's really hard. Super tough. Waiting to get to the door of your hotel to swing a punch, and then running away through the door. Ultra manly stuff.

 

[H2F]

You think swinging punches is tough. I guess you also think cramming an opponent's head and neck into a behind post is tough too. Or getting back on topic running fifty meters to deliver a coward's punch from behind is really tough. Or trying to bully junior football officials. That's really hard. Super tough. Waiting to get to the door of your hotel to swing a punch, and then running away through the door. Ultra manly stuff.

I think winning three premierships in a row (without tanking or cheating) is pretty tough.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

You think swinging punches is tough. I guess you also think cramming an opponent's head and neck into a behind post is tough too. Or getting back on topic running fifty meters to deliver a coward's punch from behind is really tough. Or trying to bully junior football officials. That's really hard. Super tough. Waiting to get to the door of your hotel to swing a punch, and then running away through the door. Ultra manly stuff.

"Bullying junior football officials"

Telling some upstart wannabe umpiring director to "* off!" because he won't let you organize a bunch of kids who are kicking to the wrong end of the ground isn't exactly bullying.

I agree though, Clarkson should've belted that drunk ******* in Adelaide that followed him from the ground long before he eventually did.

 

[Laphroaig]

"Bullying junior football officials"

Telling some upstart wannabe umpiring director to "**** off!" because he won't let you organize a bunch of kids who are kicking to the wrong end of the ground isn't exactly bullying.

I agree though, Clarkson should've belted that drunk ******* in Adelaide that followed him from the ground long before he eventually did.

 

[Laphroaig]

I think winning three premierships in a row (without tanking or cheating) is pretty tough.

Out of ideas. And so quickly.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I do hope you don't go to any local or suburban football matches. You'll be astounded by the amount of "bullying" between players, supporters and umpires.

 

[Laphroaig]

I do hope you don't go to any local or suburban football matches. You'll be astounded by the amount of "bullying" between players, supporters and umpires.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Out of ideas. And so quickly.

Amazing foresight.

 

[H2F]

Lolza ... Owned

 

[sonnywalters]

Is Clarkson the greatest coach of all time? 1 VFL + 1 SANFL + 4 AFL Flags. So far. And he is still only young.

 

[Roddy]

Is Clarkson the greatest coach of all time? 1 VFL + 1 SANFL + 4 AFL Flags. So far. And he is still only young.

Not sure if can fully lay that term on him at this stage. At this point he sits comfortably among the all time greats, and can hold his head very high in their mighty company. Give him another couple of AFL flags before he's done (and who would put it past him?), and we may just have to bestow the GOAT title upon him...

 

[H2F]

So if anyone reading this thread works in football and is looking for someone to sit in on the interview process of your new coach, do give me a call.

 

[wahawk]

F##kin classic selfie
How'd you take the photo Laphroaig ?
I can't see the selfie stick.

 

[Rushed_Behind]

Is that Marc Murphy trying to hide from big bad dirty Luke Hodge?

When you got a soft pea heart as a captain who hesitated for a split second and as a result got his jaw broken don't expect anything less. Enjoy the spoons.

How far the mighty have fallen.

 

[avishka5]

clarkson is one of the greatest coaches to have coached the game. i dont think anyone else will achieve his feat any time soon.

 

[grumbleguts]

This thread is so well bumped, we should call it Hannerbury.

 

[HairyO]

clarkson is one of the greatest coaches to have coached the game. i dont think anyone else will achieve his feat any time soon.

The interesting thing is the same was said of Matthews and Brisbane. Even with equalisation, Draw tampering and all the other crap the AFL does, it still happened in a little over a decade.

 

[MinerBoy]

These last few pages are reeking of the night the ambulance was best on.

 

[Blues_Man]

I think nothing less than a shrine type statue outside Aurora stadium in Launceston ..where all the tassie hawks fans can go and kiss his ring.
Anything less would be an insult to this giant of a man who has brought integrity discipline and good temperament back into the role of coaching.

 

[Roddy]

I think nothing less than a shrine type statue outside Aurora stadium in Launceston ..where all the tassie hawks fans can go and kiss his ring.
Anything less would be an insult to this giant of a man who has brought integrity discipline and good temperament back into the role of coaching.

Translation: 'I am absolutely jealous out of my mind, but all I can think to do about it is write sarcastic, hate-filled posts about it on an internet forum'

 

[grumbleguts]

I think nothing less than a shrine type statue outside Aurora stadium in Launceston ..where all the tassie hawks fans can go and kiss his ring.
Anything less would be an insult to this giant of a man who has brought integrity discipline and good temperament back into the role of coaching.

Another translation:

My butt hurts because there are highschool kids who weren't born when Carlton last beat Hawthorn and my team being reamed by the greatest team of the last 50 years has made me order some colour coded vaseline so I can see just how far the reaming has gone. So I think I'll shriek like an irrational screeching harpy about a man who is clearly the greatest coach of our time, and try and make him look like a failure at life - like me.

 

[Roddy]

Another translation:

My butt hurts because there are highschool kids who weren't born when Carlton last beat Hawthorn and my team being reamed by the greatest team of the last 50 years has made me order some colour coded vaseline so I can see just how far the reaming has gone. So I think I'll shriek like an irrational screeching harpy about a man who is clearly the greatest coach of our time, and try and make him look like a failure at life - like me.

Yep, better than mine.

 

[Rushed_Behind]

I think nothing less than a shrine type statue outside Aurora stadium in Launceston ..where all the tassie hawks fans can go and kiss his ring.
Anything less would be an insult to this giant of a man who has brought integrity discipline and good temperament back into the role of coaching.

Nice sig mate. What are you thanking him for?

Ripping off the country? Adultery? Such a great man with so much "integriteh"

 

[Gunstall555]

I think nothing less than a shrine type statue outside Aurora stadium in Launceston ..where all the tassie hawks fans can go and kiss his ring.
Anything less would be an insult to this giant of a man who has brought integrity discipline and good temperament back into the role of coaching.

LOL. Ordinary people live by the rules. Extraordinary people make the rules. You are just bitter because Carlton have been through a long line of ordinary coaches and footy departments, and haven't seen a passionate coach who is prepared to take risks and do things differently.

 

[Kram]

"Bullying junior football officials"

Telling some upstart wannabe umpiring director to "**** off!" because he won't let you organize a bunch of kids who are kicking to the wrong end of the ground isn't exactly bullying.

Geez bullying and abusing some teenager in a children's match, what a tough guy.

With this sort of attitude and muppets defending it no wonder so few young people want to take up umpiring, then of course people complain about how crap the standard at is at AFL level..