Clarkson LEAVES North Melbourne | The Agenda Setters
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What sparked the discussion about Alastair Clarkson’s departure from North Melbourne?
Welcome, an unbelievable weekend of footy. Let's dive in on the agenda setters. Football's biggest opinionist is Caroline Wilson, multiple Elf Brown Walkley Award winning career of domination and arguably story of the year with Alistair Clarkson. Interview on Saturday, more on that in a moment. Four BNFs, 300 games and two Elf Browns, if you don't mind, his mini career for Cain Corns. Of course, six best and first and five All-Australians. I lose track of your awards every week, Nick. There's been so many. We start tonight with the Kangaroos. Alistair Clarkson, the fallout continues. Caroline, you've been a central figure on this in recent days. We saw some stunning images today of the St Vinnie's and the North Melbourne clothing being dropped off after seemingly being donated by or given up by Clarkson in a...
A magnificent gesture, but a sad footnote to a very sad reaction from Alistair, which you depicted in The Age on Saturday.
Yeah, well, Alistair is clearly shattered and remains shattered. It was interesting listening to Ken Hinckley tonight on Melbourne Radio on SEN talk about the fact that he gave all his Port Adelaide memorabilia and gear back to the club and back to Port Adelaide supporters. Now, I'm not saying Alistair hasn't been generous in donating this to charity, but to me it was just another really poor look in what has been one of the worst partings I can remember in recent football memory. And Made worse, Craig, by the fact that Alistair still remains largely estranged from the Hawthorne Football Club. I'm sure that that will be mended as time goes on. And I'm sure that the AFL community will reach out to him and look after him.
But, you know, even I was pretty shocked and quite stunned by the enormity of his grief.
He must have had a lot of angst on his chest because he hasn't always had a perfect relationship with you, to be fair, but he saw the opportunity to share his story. The quotes will live in memory for a long time. He mentioned his relationship with Hawthorne. He spent a lot of time trying to mend those bridges with players this year and fight them out socially. He didn't see
this coming at all? He says not. He says not. I mean, North say that he had received plenty of feedback over the journey. Alistair feels he never had a full-on official performance review. Alistair said he provoked the 360 feedback meetings with players and staff the club embarked upon three or four weeks ago. He felt they'd gone really well. I think one of the decisions he chose to talk to me, Craig, was because I had heard that Todd Viney in Addressing Staff and Jen Watt, but I think it was Todd Viney, talked about cultural behaviour as being one in a myriad of reasons for his sacking. And I think he really wanted to set the record straight. He was... Absolutely horrified by the initial reporting of the Sydney Swans, not the Sydney Swans, the AFLW lift story, which occurred a few days before North Melbourne's final game, a day before, in fact, North Melbourne's final game.
And he was upset when he learnt that I had been told about a meeting with players in which he attempted to explain the perils and the pitfalls of what had happened to the Sydney Swans at the Pullman Hotel.
It was the most extraordinary article, so congratulations to you. I was gripped by it. I couldn't believe that you'd got it for that reason. There'd been a bit of angst, and I read every word of it. There was just one area that I wanted to...
I've always had huge respect for Alistair, and I hope there is some respect back.
even though there's been criticism. Clearly there is, because I can only imagine how many people were trying to get that interview and you got it. There's just one section of the article I wanted to ask you about in relation to the President, Sonia Hood, and it was this part in here to suggest Hood too should fall on her sword at North is nonsensical, but she should reflect on the, I guess, the failures in the next coach search. Why would it be nonsensical? Like, can I... Before you answer, but she is the one that made this call.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What sparked the discussion about Alastair Clarkson’s departure from North Melbourne?
0:00–9:58
2
How did the panel evaluate the impact of Clarkson’s exit on the Kangaroos’ future?
9:58–15:23
3
Why did the hosts criticize Sonia Hood and the club’s board decisions?
15:23–22:57
4
What were the main controversies surrounding Andrew Pridham and the Sydney Swans?
22:57–31:52
5
How did the panel break down the finals performances of the Swans and the Lions?
31:52–40:24
6
What is the debate over wildcard games and the Gary Ayres award?
40:24–43:17