Given a choice, most coaches would fancy that Essendon is the more enticing proposition than North Melbourne. | ANALYSIS by JakeNiallTHEAGE agerealfooty Rutten Clarkson Essendon
, the Bombers will have a significant advantage over the Kangaroos, simply by dint of their size and underlying institutional strength.
Assuming Essendon come to the party with a similar deal of at least five years - and they will not get Clarkson if they don’t - North will only have a couple of selling points in comparison with the more powerful club.One is that the Kangaroos will give Clarkson as much control as a coach can have in 2022, making him Denis Pagan redux. While handing a coach near-total control is often unhealthy, it is hard to see how Clarkson wouldn’t exercise that power at Arden Street.
Essendon, thus, will need to demonstrate to Clarkson that his career won’t founder on club instability, divisions - such as those that have been exposed this week - or blunders in list management, conditioning and player welfare.If true to his Hawthorn ways, people who worked with Clarkson at the Hawks reckon he will need to be assured that there are sufficient people he can trust, staff who will back him against all foes - foreign and domestic.
To land Clarkson, Essendon will need to hand him more authority than any coach since Sheedy . In effect, this means facilitating his choice of assistants, his fitness/conditioning man and, not least, he will want a say in the person managing the list. Some assistants, such as Blake Caracella, are contracted for next year.
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