Not sure why you wouldn't start a rebuild without a thorough search for the best available....

Jason Dunstall should lead the panel which appoints the new coach.

Gregg Popovich. That will fix them up.

I have a feeling Mark Thompson will be our coach next year and he will bring along Ling.

Jason Dunstall should lead the panel which appoints the new coach.

mick is rated around the club....big time as a person and as a coach


what will go against him is that if we gave him 2 years after we openly claimed were rebuilding the media will say how can you give a coach charged with rebuilding a team 2 years when youve said you need 3 years???

strategic mistake.... look out!

What sets him apart as footy headhunter?

Hawks interim chief executive Jason Dunstall and his fellow coaching sub-committee faced stinging criticism for their performance in the coaching search, missing out on Terry Wallace and Rodney Eade and failing to get through to Mark Harvey.

"For us it was just a matter of keeping our nerve and staying committed to what we set out to do in the first place," Dunstall said.

"We're embarking on a youth policy and we want someone who can develop and teach and educate and nurture these people.

"We're not talking about a quick fix, this is about the club going forward and being set up for 2010."

He appointed Clarkson 11 years ago. As we say, footy's come a long way since (the argument to sack MM), so what makes you think he still know what it takes to pick the right coach?

With the most unlikely of people, all-time great Hawk Jason Dunstall, sitting temporarily in the chief executive's chair, Hawthorn realised it had been too insular in the past and vowed not to be so in the future.

An unofficial in-house pursuit was catch-phrased "Refresh, Revitalise, Rebuild". It translated to committing to a brand new Hawthorn.

It rubbed many Hawk old-timers up the wrong way, and meant Rodney Eade, Terry Wallace and Gary Ayres would not be returning home.

And it produced a long shot as coach.

Alastair Clarkson, a former battling player with North Melbourne and Melbourne, who had had coaching stints with Port Adelaide as well as in the SANFL and VFL, became the future of the club.

Dunstall, simply, got his man.

It has been said that virtually at the point of first interview contact, Dunstall wanted Clarkson at Hawthorn.

In the eyes of "The Chief", as Dunstall the CEO was nicknamed by Sam Newman, Clarkson had just what Hawthorn needed.

A ruthless hard edge, a diverse coaching background, a plan and, crucially, he was once a schoolteacher.

For a club that was about to stock its playing list with kids, a teaching background became an important facet of the Clarkson CV.

A ruthless hard edge, a diverse coaching background, a plan and, crucially, he was once a schoolteacher.

Yeah I can't help but feel we're still plucking a tried and true individual just for the association. If I were a board member I'd want to hear their vision for a modern football club and how Carlton's stocks stack up with that.

Jason Dunstall should lead the panel which appoints the new coach.