Which is why we as a member base must instigate something and spill the bastards.
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I think youāve touched on the tricky knot of the problem.
Shuffling coaches, players, and admin officials wonāt change much until whatever cultural issue that infects the club and has been slowly eroding it since Jacksonās time is dealt with.
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No, if nothing else he would straighten out the football department and have the players believe in something. We have to try.
We already let the likes of Hardwick and Goodwin slip through our fingers. The club is a bloody rabble top down.
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If clarko came and it didnāt work out, heād at least have the balls to publicly talk about how ā ā ā ā ā ā the board and the club is.
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At least Hawthorn are out of the market for Clarko
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This is the biggeat issue. It has happened with multiple coaches. It canāt always be the coaches fault. A coach can come in and demand certain things, set demand certain standards etc but if they arenāt supported by the board then whatās the point?
The players know that if they donāt like it, they can go and complain and the coaches pull back. God forbid we get angry or demand non negotiables
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We need to stop poaching other staff from clubs, trying to bring in gameplans that donāt work for our personnel. Itās got us nowhere so far.
What we need is a highly credentialed coach from outside, who can see the strengths and weaknesses of our list, create a unique gameplan for said list based on this, and in turn, recruit and draft additional players that fill a need to suit our gameplan.
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I donāt think heās a guy worried about legacy. He loves to coach and would see a list to work with with us.
Heās over in the states looking at NBA teams and processes, he loves the craft. I donāt reckon heād say never to anyone.
Like many others, I thought once Rutten was in charge full-time weād improve. In 2022, weāre served this rubbish on a weekly basis. Maybe itās time for another āreviewā, or maybe itās time for a new coach and new support staff!
And not only that but we even have our coaches out of position as well as drafting players that donāt fill the gaps.
Gia wasnāt a defensive coach at Bulldogs was he?
Itās Clarkson. We are desperate for Clarkson. Anyone suggesting otherwise is being blinded by their distain for hawthorn.
Uncompromising and an absolute student of coaching as an art form. Heās been over in the US working on his craft.
If heās up for it, bring him in.
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Just woke up, is he gone yet? What about now?ā¦ā¦now?
Thereās some legitimate candidates out there, Al Clarkson, Ross The Boss and Buckley
Sadly we as a club donāt have the balls to make it happen.
And this is the difference between Clarkson and Malthouse when people say it will be Carlton/Malthouse MrkII. Clarko is out about everywhere refining his craft and learning more. Malthouse was just cranky, and just wanted to coach out of spite for what the Pies did to him.
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Heās a genius and the greatest coach of the modern era, ā ā ā ā ā ā ā madness that people donāt want him
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I canāt remember about Gia. But outside of just the Essendon structure, Iāve always thought it strange how a player who played forward their whole career suddenly is a backline coach (for example). Seems to be the way at a lot of clubs and Iāve always found it odd.
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I want Clarkson but he and club needs to come in and be honest with us from the start that the entire playing list and club is a gigantic sh-t show and theres no instant remedy, its going to be a slog to get back up to AFL standard.
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I would atleast trust his opinion, right now I dont have faith in anyone at the club from Brasher to Rutten.
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For sure.
Imagine the legacy he would leave pulling a club like the Bombers out of the shitshow of the last 20 years.
A messiah.
GOAT.
I reckon a challenge like that just might appeal to him.
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This club doesnāt have the balls to have someone like Clarkson at the helm, heāll have people balling their eyes out on his first day
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