Alistair Clarkson

I've been able to move on and.

Um, yeah, a lot, a lot more clear in here to, to, to actually focus on what I got to focus on.

Let's get this club back, um, towards the top of the ladder.

Oh, it's just, you got your, you channeling the energy towards the things that, um, you need to, to, to coach a footy club.

You got, um, yeah, over, over 40 young men that are chasing their dream and, um, and

the reason reason i'm involved is a really great passion for the game and i'm trying to help these kids live live their dream too and um that is um that that has never uh become diluted for me uh right right from the get-go it's what attracted me to coaching in the first instance and uh that that hasn't wavered one little bit but when something else happens in your life that that takes you away from that

Um, you can't do your job anywhere near as well as what you'd like.

So, um, it's good that, um, yeah, we can just focus on the things that will help us climb the ladder.

No, no.

It's always been the same.

You've got a good relationship with your players and it's all about getting the very, very best out of them and buying into team and buying into what we expect.

And when the standards are there, we give them a pat on the back.

And when the standards aren't, we give them a kick up the bum.

Um, so it's, it's pretty simple.

And, um, I've always, um, worked on, um, on the theory that if you develop a really, really strong relationship with anyone, whether it's your partner, whether it's your children, whether it's your friends or, or whether it's the players that you coach, you've got a really, really strong relationship.

Then, um, you can cuddle when it needs to be cuddled, which, um, which is, which is necessary.

And when you, when you need to give a shot, especially when.

You're going down the gurgle and you're four goals down at the three quarter time and mistakes have been made in that previous five minutes that has turned a two goal deficit into a four goal deficit.

Then some things need to be pretty stern.

It hasn't.