Another AFL boss goes soft on Clarkson as history keeps repeating

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For too long the competition’s governors have been sticking Band-Aids on Alastair Clarkson’s behavioural problems, only for the troubled coach to rip them off again.

his foul-mouthed and potentially inflammatory verbal attack aimed specifically at St Kilda’s Jimmy WebsterClarkson’s inner-sanctum both in and outside of Arden Street suggest he is truly contrite. He recognises that he has a problem. The counselling he has received since declaring himself mentally unfit to coach for a period last year remains ongoing.In the coming days a new layer will be added to Clarkson’s self-help in which he will work to address his tendency to use inappropriate language.

. No action was ultimately taken after an initially not entirely repentant Clarkson finally apologised.Pat Scala The Kangaroos’ bosses – who vowed after the coach verbally threatened Nine Media’s Elizabeth Moss early last year to work with their tempestuous coach to improve his demeanour – should have put far more work into its wording.

In reality the AFL has handled Clarkson with kid gloves for years and more so since he was unfairly exposed by an ABC report in September 2022 and hit with a series of horrific allegations which he has strenuously denied and which have never been proven. He still stands to receive a seven-figure settlement from Hawthorn as one resolution to that ongoing mess, but the racial overtones of those allegations still haunt him.

 

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