Alastair Clarkson

And whilst I can help these kids and sort of repay North for what they did for me many, many years ago, the club needed some help and I was willing to come in and try and steer the club back in the right direction.

And we're on the right path with that, but a long, long way to go.

Well, we mentioned earlier on how the first couple of years held us back a fair bit.

And so, yeah, I think we're starting to show some signs where people are saying, yeah, North are more competitive, lasting the games longer, and actually winning some of those games now where 12 months ago or two years ago we were losing them.

So, yeah, everyone wants to do it as quick as they possibly can, but...

This is a tough game and I think every club in the competition is probably realising that the rebuild side of things is just enormously difficult.

The path and the levers and the mechanisms that you can use now to try to get talent into your footy club.

You can't recruit out of New South Wales, you can't recruit out of Queensland, you can't recruit out of Northern Territory.

In 12 months' time, you can't recruit out of Tasmania.

Um, yet all those, all those clubs can still recruit out of, that get that benefit of, um, isolated recruiting in those areas.

They can still recruit out of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria.

So to get your, to get your talent is enormously, enormously difficult now.

So a total revamp, rebuild.

um it's really really difficult but um you know some clubs are placed in that situation where you've got no choice um others if you've got the choice um then um yeah you don't you don't go down that path did you as a coaching group or a footy staff um sort of debrief the elijah holland situation not not for him but for what you as a club may do if a similar situation arose

Yeah, well, these unique things happen in footy.

And, you know, it's disappointed me a little bit that the poll on has come for the Carlton Footy Club because, you know, the number one thing I think that came out in Vossi's press conference yesterday was the number one thing is around the care of the player.

There's no way whatsoever.

No chance whatsoever that they'd have looked at that.

But it's just such an unusual, we haven't seen it in the game.

And so now we're all being critical.