Brett Ratten says he seems like he is simply been stumped by England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow after ending his senior AFL teaching profession with 198 video games below his belt.
Ratten’s 10-match stint as North Melbourne caretaker coach got here to an finish on Sunday when his facet suffered a heartbreaking five-point loss to West Coast in Perth.
Alastair Clarkson, who stepped apart in June to cope with the fall-out from historic racism allegations throughout his time at Hawthorn, will leap again into the new seat for Sunday’s conflict with Melbourne in Tasmania.
Ratten was stunningly axed by St Kilda final yr lower than three months after signing a two-year contract extension.
The 52-year-old is resigned to the chance he will not have one other probability as a senior coach.
“I did say it felt a bit like the Dumb and Dumber scene where he looks at the good looking girl and says, ‘I’m a chance – one in a million’,” Ratten stated of his odds of discovering one other senior gig.
“That’s what it feels like going forward. It would be very surprising. And I’ve really got not that much ambition to be a senior coach.
“I’m on 198 and Jonny Bairstow has simply ripped the bails off and I’m about that far brief.”
Clarkson’s coaching return is set to dominate headlines this week, and Ratten feels the veteran is up for the challenge.
“He’s raring to go,” Ratten stated.
“He’s been up and about grabbing teams of gamers and chatting to them and imaginative and prescient of how we wish to go about issues.”
North’s 17-match losing run is their worst since 1972.
Their overall losing record is 35, set between 1933-35.
The Kangaroos (2-17) are 17 percentage points ahead of West Coast, but another win to the Eagles would put North Melbourne in the danger zone of collecting a third straight wooden spoon.
Ratten says he will miss the head coaching role, despite the challenges it presented.
“Sometimes it was arduous selections to place gamers again into the reserves or not elevate them,” Ratten stated.
“But I feel we have seen some progress from people and that is the bit about teaching that you simply’re there to try to assist folks.
“Sometimes you actually have to deliver the bad news and hopefully they grow from it and become a bit sharper and get their game right.
“That’s among the issues that I’ve actually loved on this interval.”
Ratten went 0-10 during his stint at the helm of North Melbourne.
But the Kangaroos could have easily won four of those games, with tight losses to Sydney (three points), Essendon (six), St Kilda (eight) and West Coast (five) tough to take.
Ratten hopes the Kangaroos can comply with within the footsteps of Collingwood and discover ways to win the shut video games.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
