04-08-2019, 05:59 AM
(04-08-2019, 05:44 AM)BluePhantom link Wrote:Did Clarko rebuild the Dawks? :o
Yes but he was only really there for 2 years of bottom out part. They made finals in his second or third year I think and won the premiership in 2008. My post was about coaches who survive a lengthy bottom out rebuild phase vs. those who come in and pick up a club already several years into that rebuild which Clarko definitely did.
Having said that - as much as I hate him - Clarkson is an undeniably brilliant coach and has impacted the modern game more than any other coach. To have taken the Hawks so quickly out of that rebuild phase to premiership is his most brilliant achievement I would have thought.
It hurts so much to write that because I genuinely hate that arrogant little sniping poison dwarf.

