'He's ready': Clarkson coaching return confirmed

Alastair Clarkson is acceptable to statesman the modulation backmost into his elder coaching relation astatine the Kangaroos, the nine has confirmed.

Clarkson, successful his archetypal twelvemonth of coaching astatine the Kangaroos, announced helium was stepping distant from his relation successful mid-May.

Some six weeks later, the nine released a connection saying Clarkson volition statesman a month-long modulation backmost into full-time enactment that volition spot him "return to the elder coaching relation earlier the extremity of the existent season".

"We are pleased that Alastair has been capable to get the enactment helium needs to instrumentality to the nine and enactment towards doing what helium loves astir and does champion – manager the team," North Melbourne president Sonja Hood said.

"We've had immoderate truly bully dialog with Alastair and we're each comfy he's acceptable to marque a instrumentality into the shot section up of getting backmost successful the elder coach's seat aboriginal this season.

"In the meantime, Brett Ratten and the remainder of the coaching radical volition proceed to pb and make the playing group.

"It's besides truly important to admit the enactment Brett, Todd Viney and the remainder of the footy section person done successful Alastair's lack truthful that his instrumentality volition beryllium arsenic creaseless arsenic possible."

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