Footy legend Jonathan Brown has begrudgingly revealed he has secretly been serving to to educate North Melbourne.
The shock revelation got here from utterly out of the blue within the newest episode of the Browny Podcast, that includes the Lions icon, Hawthorn nice Campbell Brown and radio persona Dean Thomas.
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The widespread breakfast radio host now admits he has been working in an off-the-cuff position with the North Melbourne ahead line, alongside the membership’s forwards coach Leigh Adams.
The Fox Footy analyst says Kangaroos coach Alastair Clarkson reached out to him and was persistent in his makes an attempt to recruit him to hitch the workforce’s teaching employees.
Brown, who performed 256 video games for the Lions from 2000 to 2014, stated he isn’t getting paid by the membership and holds no official title, however is consulting with the ahead line “out of love”.
After being repeatedly requested by co-host Campbell Brown to call the membership he was working with, Jonathan Brown finally stated he had “always wanted to be a Shinboner”.
“I’m doing it out of loving it. I’ll just turn up and just every now and again I just turn up and give a bit of confidence the young lads,” he stated.
Brown revealed it took a variety of persuasion from Clarkson to get him to enter the world of teaching on the elite stage.
“Well, to be honest, as you know, you can testify he just annoys the s*** out of me,” Brown stated to Campbell, who gained a premiership with the previous Hawthorn coach in 2008.
“Eventually you just give in.”
The Kangaroos have been the largest shock of the 2023 season with the wooden-spooners beginning their marketing campaign unbeaten within the first two rounds of the season.
Campbell Brown joked the Nova radio persona is the actual purpose North Melbourne has exploded out of the blocks this 12 months — not the arrival of four-time premiership coach Clarkson.
Brown additionally joked Brown is the explanation North Melbourne forwards Nick Larkey and Cam Zurhaar have discovered their mojo.
“I’ll just come in and just pass a bit of advice on to the lads and just give him a bit of a confidence,” Brown stated.
“I’m not working in football. I’m just giving a bit of advice.”
He admitted he has been making an attempt to maintain the state of affairs secret.
“I didn’t want to break confidences you know, but it’s obviously… Dog (Campbell Brown) knows everything in this f***ing town so it was just like a little test case,” he stated.
“How long should we go before Dog finds out about this?”
“Clarko’s doing an amazing job and Patchy (Adams) is doing an amazing job with the boys down there in the forward line.”
Brown joins a star-studded teaching employees at North Melbourne with Clarkson not too long ago including Kangaroos nice Josh Gibson to the membership’s employees.
Gibson is working with defensive position coach John Blakey
Former St Kilda coach Brett Ratten, membership icon Brent Harvey, Gavin Brown, Tom Lynch, Jordan Russell and Damian Monkhorst — Clarkson’s former ruck coach at Hawthorn — are additionally on the books.
Brown has for a number of years been serving to out teaching native junior groups in Melbourne, however has by no means beforehand made the transfer to return to the AFL.
He has been serving to to educate son Jack and daughter Olivia, who play soccer with the Camberwell Sharks Junior Football Club within the Yarra Junior Football League.
“It’s all care, no responsibility for me,” Browny advised Game Face in 2020.
“I rock up, get handed the team sheet and yell out a few directions.
“I do have an interest in coaching, so where it leads down the track, I’m not sure. I might get sick of the early mornings at some stage and decide to put the coaches hat on (in the AFL).”
It’s a slippery slide into the vortex of teaching within the AFL.
Source: www.news.com.au
