Clarkson rocked by fresh Hawthorn allegations

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Senior footy writer Caroline Wilson has reported caller allegations against erstwhile Hawthorn manager Alastair Clarkson concerning controlling behaviour.

But Wilson's claims subordinate to non-indigenous past players and, specifically, incumbent Hawthorn manager Sam Mitchell.

The caller allegations person emerged pursuing claims made by erstwhile Hawthorn players of indigenous heritage, who accused Clarkson, ex-assistant Chris Fagan and erstwhile subordinate improvement manager Jason Burt of "horrific" behaviour, prompting an AFL investigation

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The latest details agelong backmost to 2011, the twelvemonth Mitchell's woman Lyndall gave commencement to duplicate girls and the household was facing alarming wellness issues.

Clarkson, who has already released a vehement connection denying the allegations made by the erstwhile Indigenous players, is alleged to have:

Told Mitchell to manus successful his mobile telephone — the remainder of the squad was, excessively — up of an interstate clash with the Swans, contempt the information 1 of his duplicate babies was being admitted to infirmary regularly.
Expressed bewilderment earlier the twins' commencement that Mitchell was having children truthful adjacent unneurotic (Smith was 11 months aged erstwhile the twins were born) and questioned the interaction it could person connected his playing career.
Announced publically that Mitchell would miss a lucifer against Richmond owed to idiosyncratic reasons relating to the twins' wellness without the player's cognition oregon permission.
Agreed to dainty Mitchell with much respect astatine the extremity of the season, but again failed to bash so.

As reported by Wilson, the bulk of the erstwhile players contacted for remark stressed that Clarkson saw himself arsenic a begetter fig astatine the nine who, portion astatine times overstepping the people successful interfering successful their idiosyncratic lives, firmly believed helium was prioritising the champion interests of his footballers.

In summation to the devastating allegations levelled against Clarkson, 1 woman of a erstwhile Hawks subordinate said Lyndall Mitchell was berated by a Hawthorn nine authoritative (not Clarkson) for appearing to not amusement capable heartache aft Hawthorn's three-point preliminary last nonaccomplishment to Collingwood successful 2011.

Clarkson's manager and Mitchell some declined to remark erstwhile contacted by The Age regarding the caller allegations.

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