Ben Rutten - sacked

[Bombers2013]

Who would have thought that the coach of one of our greatest enemies would be in contention for the coaching job at Essendon! Wow - life is strange at times

[saladin]

Maybe he is. Maybe he’s not.

Everyone has an expiry date at an organisation, but i hope we’d be looking pretty deeply and broadly , not just assuming Clarko is the only/best solution.

Especially when a major cluster ■■■■ at this club is due to a complete lack of broad and due process ever since Sheeds departed.

[Dunnybrush]

@Nocturnal

Won’t care, as we will be 3-10 with a clear indication of why and a solid plan to improve. Nobody cares about the W-L when you can see a consistent plan.

Tough crowd! OK, then… stick with me here, imagine we’re 3-10 and the losses are 10 goal mauling’s, where we’ve kicked 5 goals. 2MP is being played at full-back, Langford is attending 100% of centre bounces and Heppell, Ham and Cutler have played every game. What about then, huh? That’d be pretty bad. Right?

[Coastalpipeline]

Clarkson & friends casually smoking the pipe.

[andrewb]

@RedandBlackPartisan

Can we bring in Roos as a mentor

X Campbell:

‘This is our line in the sand moment, a chance to show the competition that we are serious about things.

The 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th appointments that I’ll be making in my failed tenure as CEO are Al Clakson as senior coach, with Ben Rutten taking a senior assistant position in a managed succession plan. Clakson will coach the team with Truck taking press conferences.

Paul Roos will join the team as a director of coaching to provide young Clakson with advice and guidance in a mentoring role.

We will be bringing Neil Craig and Mark Neeld back into the organisation in a dual footy manager / robotic process automation role. The aim will be to automate all coaching by 2029 through purposeful innovation.

In order to see this through I’m announcing that my own role has been extended forever.’

[darkknightpheonix]

@nickers

Mate. We’re literally reviewing every key department in the organisation.

How can you possibly argue that any coach - especially a first timer - has been given the best chance to succeed if we’ve now admitted to having surrounded them with the wrong people in the following roles:

• President
• CEO
• Head Of Football
• List Manager
• Head of Fitness/Medical

Let me put it to you another way: do you think the club would be well set up for success if the only change made was Clarko in for Rutten?

Or do you think that other executive/football department changes need to be made in order to give Clarko the best chance to succeed?

do i think clarko would be set up for success if nothing else changes ? yes because i’d back him in to make the right calls when needed. he literally spent the better part of 10 years with a ■■■■ president trying to sack him FFS.
but yes also agree changes need to be made.

but you do realise 3 of those roles, ceo, president and i’m guessing head of football were on ruttens side, what do you think they appointed him without any sort of process for the hell of it ?
They are the ones who got him the gig, backed him in, have LOWERED the bar of what is expected to be so low that you couldn’t possible fail, and he’s still on the verge of doing so.

you’re literally arguing that the people who gave him the job, have made every excuse under the sun for him, are the reasons he’s not successful, he woulnd’t even be in the job if it weren’t for them.

[handypoint]

@BakerWasAStar

Rutten didn’t have them breathing fire against Port, after the dismal GWS showing, because he has lost the players as a whole.

Yeah I was being a touch rhetorical with that one!

[prezzal5]

The club needs a proper foot up the a$$. Clarko with his size 5 foot will be right person to deliver said foot

Edit - please don’t bash me clarko if you read this

[Houli_Dooley]

We should just make sure we get a character reference from Ian Aitken before we formally offer Clarko a contract.

[rama2000]

Truck will get sacked right after we get mega belted on Saturday. Theres nothing surer.

[opz123]

All 5 of their supporters are going to go Troppo!!!

[stir_fried_ewok]

I suggest you delete that before you get banned. this is not a salacious gossip site.

[Humbert_Humbert]

@saladin

There are very separate layers to all of this. If Rutten goes, Campbell has to go too. He’s set all of this up, it’s his appointments that have failed at every turn.

But that doesn’t necessarily equate to Clarkson having to be part of the equation.

We’re more or less the youngest list in the comp. Clarkson spent most of his time at Hawthorn with a mature group and an aversion to going to the draft. I’m not 100 percent sold that he’s the fit for this club, despite the ferocious personality we seem to think is key.

Me neither. Feels a bit old for this group.
Actually I’m a bit torn - there’s no denying his ability as a coach and tactician, I just can’t stand the guy.

[Lawry]

North is a VFL club pretending to be an AFL club……they are p1$$ ants

[bltn]

Needs to stand in the corner facing the wall for a little while longer.

[Gate4]

Anyone know where CLAKO is?

[Lawry]

Hopefully they’ve smuggled him into the Hangar and he’s doing push-ups on our spongy floor

[stir_fried_ewok]

@Humbert_Humbert

Me neither. Feels a bit old for this group.
Actually I’m a bit torn - there’s no denying his ability as a coach and tactician, I just can’t stand the guy.

I don’t believe Malthouse could have ever come to Essendon because he was our natural enemy (not that we ever wanted him). It would be too big a turnaround. We don’t tend to do much trade with our 2 biggest traditional rivals.
Clarkson is similar, but I think we’ve overcome any aversion because of his resume, persona and the fact he doesn’t get along with Kennett.

[up-the-planes]

Dwayne's World

[Tagger]

To play devil’s advocate, here are the coaching records for Clarko, Dimma and Rutten in their first 3 years as head coach (this assumes Rutten, not Woosha was coach in 2020)

You can guess who is who.

41% win percentage, 92% point percentage

41% win percentage, 93% point percentage

36% win percentage, 89% point percentage