Alastair Clarkson

ALASTAIR Clarkson will coach North Melbourne for the next five seasons, with the Roos beating Essendon to the four-time premiership coach's signature after ...

I have to get back to the coalface of footy." I'm really excited with that challenge, but it's going to take a lot of hard work. Due diligence takes a lot longer than four days, for me," he said. Alastair’s coming home. "Today is a good day. "We know we have a lot of work to do …

Four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson will lead his former club North Melbourne from 2023 and beyond, turning his back on a potential deal with ...

Great, so Essendon manage to totally undermine the current coach to the point where his position is basically untenable, and still didn't manage to land Alastair Clarkson. He was calling a lot of people and wasn’t getting much response back.” “Change happens at every club, but as we‘ve seen with Collingwood and Carlton, it doesn’t take much to turn it around. “I can’t speak highly enough of the professionalism of Alastair and his manager James Henderson over this past four weeks. I don’t like being the centre of attention. So good for the Kangas.

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“I can’t speak highly enough of the professionalism of Alastair and his manager James Henderson over this past four weeks. “I spent a a lot of time with the Golden State Warriors and (their coach) Steve Kerr ... I thought to myself, ‘this is what I do, this is in my DNA’.” “This is a real watershed moment for our club. this is a moment for all of us. To our home.” I hope somehow that can be resurrected as a result of the decision today.” I‘m really excited with that challenge, but it’s going to take a lot of hard work. But I feel like there’s real optimism of where we can go over the next few years. I came back from there so inspired by what Steve was doing and their success. I don’t like being the centre of attention,” he told reporters. I feel comfortable here.

Four-time AFL premiership coach Alastair Clarkson has chosen North Melbourne as the club he will lead in 2023.

Hood was delighted to secure Clarkson, who follows in the footsteps of his idol and fellow Hawthorn legend John Kennedy Sr. Clarkson met with North and GWS, before this week telling the Giants he wanted to remain in Melbourne instead of relocating to Sydney. “We need to fill some holes and we’ll build that over a period of time, but some hard work has already been done in that space,” Clarkson said. Clarkson coached Hawthorn for 17 seasons, leading the Hawks to premierships in 2008 and the 2013-15 three-peat. “This just felt right and I feel really, really comfortable in this environment,” Clarkson said at Arden St on Friday about his decision to choose North. Clarkson ended fierce speculation over his future by confirming on Friday he would return to the club where he began his playing career back in 1987.

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Essendon will be all the talk, but this is a great day for North Melbourne." "You talk about hope for fans, what about the players? "This is so good. "Can I say well done Sonja Hood. "All of a sudden now Clarko is there, I'd imagine that dramatically changes the conversation and the narrative around what's going to happen with the North Melbourne Football Club." Clarkson is likely to earn somewhere in the region of $1 million a season, which is a fair chunk out of the club's soft cap of around $7 million. "It's just a tremendous shot in the arm for the footy club," McKernan said. "This is a massive day for the North Melbourne Football Club. "Today is a good day. Alastair's coming home. She was prepared to cop the backlash that was going to come if the attempt was a failed one," King told SEN. North Melbourne great David King says Clarkson's appointment is the start of a fresh, exciting chapter for the club.

Clarkson was at the helm of Hawthorn for 17 years, leading the club to flags in 2008 and the famous three-peat of 2013-15. He will return to the club where he ...

I have to get back to the coalface of footy." I'm really excited with that challenge, but it's going to take a lot of hard work. Due diligence takes a lot longer than four days, for me," he said. Alastair’s coming home. "Today is a good day. "We know we have a lot of work to do …

Alastair Clarkson says he never truly considered joining the Bombers, as a decades-old story explained the pull of Arden St.

It is an exciting time to be involved in the club.” “But the due diligence to actually consider coaching a club takes a hell of a lot more than four days for me. “But I’ve got so many wonderful memories of this place and it’s changed a little bit since I was last here, I might add. Different set of circumstances, different time, who knows, but this (North Melbourne) was the right fit for me.” “The alignment through the president, the CEO, to the general manager of football to the coach to the captain is the important thing I always look for in a football club. “I met briefly with David Barham on Tuesday. It’s a brutal and ruthless game. “That’s football, you can’t be in control of that. “There were guys there like Tim Watson and Dave Barham, who I’ve got enormous regard for. “They’ve been a great club and it was really out of respect for those people that I had to repay that in a dignified way to at least listen to what they had to say. Stream them all for free on I’d be silly not to explore it if it was there.

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Weren’t they winning the premiership last year?” You’ve got to look at the human side ... He was calling a lot of people and wasn’t getting much response back.” “It’s been horrible, but my job is to make sure the footy club is the best footy club it can be.” “I think it’s been really disappointing. Respected journalist Ronny Lerner said describing Essendon as a “laughing stock” wouldn’t do justice to the club. If Clarkson is describing the situation as “embarrassing”, what does it say about the Essendon board? “In particular with the situation around Truck, you know he’s still got a year of his contract to run and it’s quite embarrassing being the centre of attention in a situation it’s just so difficult for both him and his club. [Clarkson has since signed a multi-year, multi million dollar deal to join North Melbourne. “It’s quite embarrassing to be fair, to be quite the central figure in all this,” Clarkson told Channel 10. “So the sooner I can do that the better.” He then revealed the Bombers’ offer came “far to late” to stand a chance.](https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-news-2022-alastair-clarkson-decision-north-melbourne-kangaroos-essendon-bombers-ben-rutten-sacked-coaching-situation-press-conference-announcement-future-latest/news-story/cd013ff5685f30f55c110b99d2a76d43)

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“I can’t speak highly enough of the professionalism of Alastair and his manager James Henderson over this past four weeks. “I spent a a lot of time with the Golden State Warriors and (their coach) Steve Kerr ... I thought to myself, ‘this is what I do, this is in my DNA’.” “This is a real watershed moment for our club. this is a moment for all of us. To our home.” I hope somehow that can be resurrected as a result of the decision today.” I‘m really excited with that challenge, but it’s going to take a lot of hard work. But I feel like there’s real optimism of where we can go over the next few years. I came back from there so inspired by what Steve was doing and their success. I don’t like being the centre of attention,” he told reporters. I feel comfortable here.

North was 'pivotal' for Clarko 38yrs ago after family tragedy. Now he wants to repay them.

That was pivotal in us making the decision to come back and help the club get itself back on track again.” “So when it comes time to make decisions as pivotal as this one, you think back to the moments in your life where you really needed some support. I was so fortunate that Greg Miller approached me to come to this club and play and I couldn’t have been blessed with better coaches in Denis Pagan as the Under 19s coach and John Kennedy Senior as our senior coach. I’m really, really excited with that challenge, but it’s going to take a lot of hard work and we’re going to need all these lads (players) to really chip in and have a lot of support from our North members.” In four days, Essendon attempted to achieve what Hood and North had done in four weeks – and as Clarkson brutally admitted on Friday: “Due diligence takes a lot longer than four days, for me.” but I do know that this is a special club that has a really nice link to its history. “I know that two wins and 19 losses is not a great year … Those three gentlemen, Ron Joseph and together with my wife who I met at that point in time, were so pivotal to me at that stage of my life because I was going through a really, really tough time following the death of my brother. His language, though, quickly changed as the presser progressed. “We know we’ve got a lot of work to do at the club to get the on-field fortunes back to where we want this club to be. “This proposal and the precinct of this whole area and our retention of our spiritual roots to the Arden Street area in the developing precinct is really, really exciting to be involved in,” Clarkson said. “There’s so much work that’s been done in this club off the field and the great challenge now is what we can do on the field – and I’m really excited with that as well.

Alastair Clarkson says he was too far down the path with North Melbourne to seriously consider Essendon's approach to become their head coach.

Sometimes it just takes a lot of hard work, getting good people together and really tying them into a vision where you bring a lot of good people along with you and you include your supporters in that. "I look at what transpired at Hawthorn when I arrived there at the end of 2004. We've got a group of guys that have been through a tough year, but I feel like there's real optimism with where we can go over the next few years." "Out of fairness to the people that I know at the Bombers ... He's a good man and he's a good football person. We were just so far down the track with the North Melbourne and the GWS decisions that the whole process just came far too late to give (Essendon) really serious consideration.

Four-time premiership-winning coach Alastair Clarkson will return to the AFL coaching ranks in 2023 after agreeing to terms with the battling North ...

He was calling a lot of people and wasn't getting much response back.' You've got to look at the human side ... He won four premierships with the club in that time. So to Patch, thanks for your hard work and congratulations on a job well done.' 'I think it's been really disappointing. That could pave the way for former Bombers coach James Hird to make a stunning return to the club after the supplement's scandal that stretched from 2011 to 2016. 'In particular with the situation around Truck, you know he's still got a year of his contract to run and it's quite embarrassing being the centre of attention in a situation it's just so difficult for both him and his club. Clarkson spoke to Channel 10 on Thursday night and said he needed to make a decision quickly out of respect for the other coaches involved. Clarkson played 93 of his 134 games in the then-VFL at the Kangaroos, including kicking a goal after the siren to win the game for North in his debut in round 15, 1987. 'She was prepared to cop the backwash that was going to come if the attempt was a failed one. 'Alastair had to make a decision on the basis of what the clubs put to him and we played no role in it,' he said. [Melbourne](/news/melbourne/index.html) in 2023 after a late push from Essendon to lure the former Hawthorn supercoach to Windy Hill.