Ben Rutten - sacked

I say we have one dedicated wall at the club and one transportable one - he can punch walls till the cows come home.

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When we play a home game against them at Marvel it genuinly feels like we’re playing Gold Coast or GWS, they dont turn up.

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Campbell has to go, he drove the handover idea with Worsfold, hasn’t appointed good support for a young coach (he probably thought that was what he was doing in 2020 but clearly didn’t work). On any reading of the football related KPIs he’s failed.

But for now, Brett Rutten remains our coach

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He’ll also give our starved of success senior players some belief… that’s probably the most valuable part about getting him

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North Melbourne are doing the right thing.

This is our offer, take it or leave it.

Or they actually do, all of them.

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Not unfair, just wrong. He started with a young list like ours at the Hawks. Whether they turn out as good as those players, our list is not in bad shape for a coach who has authority and the experience Clarkson has. Target the missing pieces - that he would be able to attract better than any other coach in the comp - and it’s not at all dissimilliar.

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Farkin disgrace they can’t even get his name right.

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What the hell, this will hurt Ben even more than clarko. His brother/doppleganger from left field. outrageous

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My nephew is a North fan. He came to an Essendon v Sydney game with me at Marvel one time.

He was blown away by how full the ground was.

ā€œLook at all the people!ā€

Spoiler: It wasn’t actually full.

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Yeah that would suck.

Whoever wrote that should be sacked. Who checks these things??

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The ghost of Tim Webster remains

I reckon the messiah complex goes both ways. For Clarkson to bring this club back from the brink and win flag(s) it would be Reynolds, Coleman, Sheedy, Clarkson. He’s also got the drive to stick it up the Hawthorn hierarchy that let him go, and doing it at Essendon would be the best way.

At the same time, he’s the closest coach to Sheedy available at the moment re. coaching nous and being incapable of taking a backward step, or never letting anyone intimidate him. Everything Essendon has been missing for so long.

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North are probably on the phone to cash converters now trying to get finance for a 18% loan to give to Clarko

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Whilst conversations are supposedly happening with his replacement?

Pretty poor.

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Cash Converters would have blocked Norfs number by now

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Probably someone based in Sydney who didn’t realise Ben Rutten and Brett Ratten were two different people.

Like when that guy on Channel 10 years ago was talking about Corey McKernahan. :smile:

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I imagine ā€œBrett Ratten remains coachā€

ā€œIt’s not Ratten, dummy, it’s Ruttenā€

ā€œOh yeahā€ … ā€œBrett Rutten remainsā€¦ā€

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