’He’s right’: Roos coach accepts stinging ‘standards’ criticism in candid video

North Melbourne coach Alastair Clarkson has accepted humbling criticism of his side’s training standards, admitting it has cost the struggling side wins this season.In a video to members posted on the Kangaroos’ website on Wednesday afternoon, Clarkson directly and candidly addresed the column, admitting “Mick’s probably right.”

“It doesn’t surprise me one little bit that someone who came and observed training would say, ‘I don’t think the standards are good enough’, because that’s why we’re sitting in the position on the ladder that we are right now.Clarkson, however, isn’t hitting the panic button and said on Thursday talk of the Kangaroos’ permament demise is predictable and simply “happens in the game” to the club sitting at the bottom of the AFL ladder.

North Melbourne coach Alastair Clarkson says the club is succeeding off the field and there is no reason it should not continue its 99-year stay in the competition. Picture: Darrian Traynor / Getty ImagesClarkson said rhetoric similar to McGuire’s had been used over Gold Coast’s future in the AFL and would likely follow the next club to drop to the foot of the ladder.

“It just happens in the game. We’ll evolve and get past this, but guess what we won’t get past? If North Melbourne do improve, which we hope to do, there’ll be someone else on the bottom of the ladder in two or three years’ time and the blowtorch will be on them.” Clarkson said his winless side was bracing for further inconsistency in its contested ball game as he continued to stick with talented youth over more experienced options in the midfield.

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