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Clarko leaves Hawks

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Gobsmacked, after his impassioned commitment a mere week ago.

"The decision was reached on Thursday after a meeting between the Hawthorn board and Clarkson’s management in which the two parties agreed that the coach would receive a full payout.

The arranged marriage between Clarkson and Sam Mitchell was further-eroded earlier this week when a group of senior players confided to club bosses that the situation was proving untenable".

Senior players. WOW. 

Machiavelli would have been proud of how it has all played out!!

Terrible way to treat a 4 time premiership coach.  Hope it comes back to bite them for decades to come.

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    Hardly a surprise.

    Good lesson for everyone that the media is just used as a tool by clubs/coaches and players. Hawthorn tried to spin the happy family line but it was plain to see that was never going to happen.

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    He won't be out of work too long. I reckon he'll pitch up at the pies next season

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    Caro was right on the money!! Clarko will either be at MAGGIES or CARLTANK next year , unless he takes a year of and does media before embarking on one of the greatest challenges of the modern era!!............................!!

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    1 minute ago, BDA said:

    He won't be out of work too long. I reckon he'll pitch up at the pies next season

    Carlton...

     

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    6 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Gobsmacked, after his impassioned commitment a mere week ago.

    "The decision was reached on Thursday after a meeting between the Hawthorn board and Clarkson’s management in which the two parties agreed that the coach would receive a full payout.

    The arranged marriage between Clarkson and Sam Mitchell was further-eroded earlier this week when a group of senior players confided to club bosses that the situation was proving untenable".

    Senior players. WOW. 

    Machiavelli would have been proud of how it has all played out!!

    Terrible way to treat a 4 time premiership coach.  Hope it comes back to bite them for decades to come.

    The 'Alistair Clarkson Curse' I hope.

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    We're a happy team at Hawthorn

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    Geewhiz.... We would win 3 flags with this guy at the helm.

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    3 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    Couldn't he have left 2 weeks before they played us?

    Melbourne football club must have killed Jesus. Nothing else can explain the endless amounts of crap luck bestowed upon us since birth. 

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    As a Melbourne supporter, I can say from experience that how this has gone down has a 'Norm Smith Curse' vibe about it.
    He definitely deserved better treatment than what he has gotten from that jumped up Scotch College bully.
    Like the NSC, it's not just the sacking in isolation (let's be real, that's what happened here). It's been a series of events dating back to 2006 where Kennett has been looking for ANY excuse to undermine Clarko or get him sacked. There will be a LOT of bad blood coming out of this.
    I just hope that we get a Tony Charlton Football Show style interview. Like that show did with us, it will rip the scab off and lay bare the disloyalty that was shown to Clarko for nigh on 10 or so years by a bloke who was so 'devoted' to that club that he actually considered presidenting another one (thank God, we dodged that bullet).
     
    5 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    Melbourne football club must have killed Jesus. Nothing else can explain the endless amounts of crap luck bestowed upon us since birth. 


    We are technically the antithesis of everything he stood for. It just makes sense. ??

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    It would be peak Carlton for them to sack Teague now, replace him with Clarkson and then discover that the new coach and the rest of the football department are unable to work together resulting in the football team once again going backwards. 

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    Well, how good does Caro look now????

    All those people that doubted her, you might not like what she says but she's right again.

    She doesn't put her reputation on the line unless she can back it up.

    A lot of other football people and Hawthorn supporters look pretty stupid now.

    Not the supporters fault as we all are, we're just pawns in a bigger game.

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    25 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Gobsmacked, after his impassioned commitment a mere week ago.

    "The decision was reached on Thursday after a meeting between the Hawthorn board and Clarkson’s management in which the two parties agreed that the coach would receive a full payout.

    The arranged marriage between Clarkson and Sam Mitchell was further-eroded earlier this week when a group of senior players confided to club bosses that the situation was proving untenable".

    Senior players. WOW.  

    Terrible way to treat a 4 time premiership coach.  Hope it comes back to bite them for decades to come.

    The Clarko Curse has a nice ring to it :lol:

    Let's win the flag this year and hand the baton over to them

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    Kennett and Mitchell faking sincerity.

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    A few egg on faces now in regards to Caro. She was right all along.

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    4 time premiership coach essentially sacked! unbelievable!

    18 month succession plan reduced to 2 weeks.

    Possibly one of the worst club decisions in the history of the game. Mitchell is starting on a hiding to none.

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    1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    A few egg on faces now in regards to Caro. She was right all along.

    It's why I don't just knee jerk reject what David King says when he criticizes us. He was right on Neeld and right on what would happen to us in the 2018 prelim. 
    While we might not like the messenger, we should take them seriously if they have a track record of getting things right.

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    30 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    Couldn't he have left 2 weeks before they played us?

    we drew with the hawks when they were right in the middle of this shambles with all the distractions.  perfect timing to smash them and we still choked.

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