North Melbourne are not giving in-demand coach Alastair Clarkson a Wednesday deadline to decide his future. agerealfooty
Contracted Essendon coach Ben Rutten led the team’s training session on Tuesday amid the turmoil at the club surrounding his position, and Bombers star Zach Merrett said Rutten had dealt with the attention matter-of-factly with the players.
“I thought he was pretty strong and courageous to show up, chest out, ready to help us prepare to play against Richmond on Saturday night,” Merrett told“He didn’t shy away from the fact, he was open, he brought it up. I won’t go into detail of what he said, but he brought it up, the elephant in the room, and chatted through the situation and I think players respected that.
“I think the common theme in the room was players feeling sorry that we’re in this position, and he was in a position.“I think he’s guarded us throughout the year with some really poor games and taking responsibility personally and to get to this point is largely on us as players so that’s the disappointing part.”
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