North Melbourne coach Alastair Clarkson, regardless of apologising for delivering a remark perceived as threatening to a TV reporter, “can’t give a guarantee” he wouldn’t do it once more.
The premiership coach advised Nine journalist Elisabeth Moss “your time will come” after she and different reporters had been looking for remark when the allegations of harassment and intimidation from Kangaroos participant Tarryn Thomas surfaced.
The aggressive nature of Clarkson’s feedback noticed him later apologise to Moss and two of her colleagues, and it’s understood he spent a interval of the 45 minutes at Nine headquarters placing his personal case concerning the incident ahead.
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But talking with Seven on Monday night Clarkson conceded he would act the identical means if the scenario was repeated, framing it as “standing up for your people”.
“You’d think with the experience that you would (act differently), and I’d like to be able to say I will continue to learn my lessons, but this has been with me ever since I was a kid; if I see something unjust or untoward, I’ll defend,” he mentioned.
“And I saw something that was unjust and untoward, and I felt like I needed to defend our players and our staff – and I can’t give a guarantee that I won’t do that again in the future, because I think that’s important.
“Stand up for your club, stand up for your people. And that loyalty, whilst it’s a tremendous strength, sometimes it can be a weakness. And on that particular day with Tarryn, it was a strength in my support for him, but it was a weakness in how it was perceived outside the football club, that I’ve lost control.
“I haven’t really lost control though, because I was doing what I thought was in the best interests of the club and that was to defend what I thought was unjust or untoward.”
The former Hawthorn boss has been underneath the microscope since allegations of racism in direction of Indigenous participant throughout his time at Waverley Park surfaced.
He believes, having tried to disregard the media for the reason that detailed allegations had been reported, the eye given to Thomas after a number of girls made claims in opposition to him was “a wake-up call”.
“For certainly the last five months, I’ve probably deliberately tried to stay away from any media spotlight and attention, given we’ve been embroiled in this (Hawthorn) investigation. And then the Tarryn stuff broke and, despite how experienced I am in the game, I was just totally unprepared for the avalanche of media scrutiny that was going to come that day with Tarryn,” Clarkson mentioned.
“I thought some of the manner in which the media were asking Tarryn and our players and staff was untoward with the way they were approaching our players, particularly given it was in the race of our football club and it was our workspace.
“We’re about to train and players and staff are getting doorstopped; I thought (it) was untoward, both before training and then post training.”
Door stops are a standard incidence significantly from TV journalists as they search remark from gamers and staff officers over breaking tales.
Originally revealed as ‘Can’t assure’: Alastair Clarkson’s shock name after threatening remark to reporter
Source: www.news.com.au
