Say what you will about Rutten, but this is unprofessional from Hind. Opinions of your coach or not, refusing to engage with him publicly while there's cameras on you is embarrassing behavior from a professional athlete

Who the hell is Nick Hind to be carrying on like that?! Average player, average attitude!

Hind should be dropped. Very disrespectful of him to ignore the head coach. The look on Ben's face says it all. Hind should realise that a new coach would not like the way he disrespected his head coach. Players like this destroy coaches position, creating discontent thru the playing group.

The biggest sliding doors moment was when the bombers went back to Hird instead of staying with Bomber Thompson after 2014. Thompson had that club turning around, believing in each other and caring for each other and the board rolled him just so they could say ‘up yours’ to the AFL for trying to banish Hird from the game

This is disgusting. Wouldn't want hind on my team. No respect.

Disgraceful from Hind, he must be dropped for the final round. No matter your opinion of your coach or team mates; on gameday you simply MUST give them 100%.. But how ironic for someone like carro to comment on one's professionalism when she time after time has been caught blatantly lying and making up stories only to blame her "sources" when called bulltish on..

First, I’d stand down any player that did what Hind, and any other player did. Discipline comes from the top and the bosses must back the coaches.

Not sure what's going on with Hind, but still, when your coach is speaking to you, pay some attention at least.. You ain't a superstar, and even if you were, you're EXPECTED to listen to feedback, positive or negative.. You're not above it

The footage of Nick Hind was from the Dons v North game. Some slight of hand from the media to reinforce their narrative.

The player behaving like an entitled brat. Not the coaches fault these professional athletes dont have pride in their performance. They coast on good money, stroll around looking for excuses.

Not gonna lie what hind did is awful as a player. You listen to your coach if they are trying to give you feedback (positive or negative) you listen. It’s called respect. I know that you have to earn it but given that they played finals last year, and players coming out saying that they want to play under rutten, you would think that they would respect him. As a coach myself if i had an athlete blatantly ignoring me i would tell them to leave

Herb is gonna be fire this week

It would be amazing and extraordinary if Alastair Clarkson were to come to Essendon after being sacked from Hawthorn! Imagine the drive, passion and commitment he's going to employ to prove himself and extend his legacy. Great work Kennett!

It'll be a great concept to have sports fans or athletes have a TV or radio show where they dissect the performance of the sports media and speculate whether Wilson or Barrett or McClure should be sacked from their job or how much time they have left etc.

I love looking back at these old videos. Most caro’s predictions end up being wrong

Lloyd: why would north put all their eggs in one basket? Lloyds old club: also putting all their eggs in one basket 🤦🏽‍♂️

Very disrespectful from Hind. If Horne-Francis did this the media would have had a field day.

Hind deserves the sack, the disrespect to the coach

People like Campbell and Dodoro should have left after the supplements scandal Dodoro in particular

LOL last week Caroline said north would get clarko and now she's flipped to essendon. Must be good to change your tips daily until the games over and then spout how good you are at tipping

I think Rutten is the right coach for Essendon. He has pulled off some miraculous wins that were clearly coaching wins. He's only had 2 years to work with one of the best playing groups in the AFL. He has a team of very young, great players.

Is Clarkson really the be all and end all though? Amazing coach and obviously very successful, but he sort of faded out at the hawks.

Get rid of Hind! That sort of disrespect should not be accepted!

Disgusting and disrespectful. Hind should be embarrassed to see this. Rutten should of been in his face screaming down at him. This is what happens when players are treated like princesses and aren’t given serves and scared to lose their jobs if they don’t perform.

Move North & Saints to the VFL.

Only have to look at Carlton and Pies Clarksons, not the only good coach out there

Nothing to see here regarding the Hind Rutten footage, just the typical trickery from the media ;) Context people context.

I’m not condoning Hinds behavior. But you need to put it in context he was given a 50 meter penalty which resulted in a goal to North , it’s not as though he just came off the ground in general play and just ignored the coach.

How is dodoro still at the club. Bloke is a joke.

Hind is a muppet

Even the captain jogging gently rather than pushing back hard to pick up a man

Why does Caro hate North so much!!

Clarkson to Essendope* will be like Malthouse to Carlton. I hope this transpires.

Hilarious hearing the predictions on Clarko and north

If I was Hinkley there is no way I would take a North offer purely because he knows the Port list and the potential, we know North will struggle for quite a while yet

There's more to the Nick Hind vision. What they didn't show was the play right before this when Hind got his head smashed right into the ground. Bro probably didn't even know where he was.

Caroline Wilson has said at various times that Clarkson will be at every club. Of course one of those predictions will be right 😂

Pity players are not on performance contracts. I'm sure if they were then we would see a lot more effort. A lot of Modern day players are a pack of overpaid sooks. Money is all that matters to them.

Massive problem at Essendon. Is Clarkson the answer though? If he failed thanks to extreme expectations then what?

I have a list of players I would sell off also. . . Time to go Shopping. . .

That game just felt like Port letting out all their frustration for a tough and underperforming year where they lost 8 games by under 2 goals and probably were the 8th best team but just couldn’t recover from 0-5 and in the end will finish where they belong on the ladder. Should’ve beat Crows and should’ve beat Blues. Couldn’t play 4 quarters all year, so often they kicked 0 or 1 goal in a quarter when the game was on the line. Poor Essendon just copped the full pressure of a year of frustration.

That footage of Rutten made him look weak but if he had of got up and berated the player the media would be all over him too hard position to be in but clearly hes just note tuff enough on these little princesses

After all the media and commentary, Clarkson has been heard to say 'no pressure at all...'

That is a disgrace from Hind

Great predictions, guys 👏 👏 GAGF.

Caro really wants Campbell gone, I agree

Maybe it is the club that is the problem. Clarkson is smart and surely he can assess the actions of the Essendon Football Club over the last couple of years. They are prepared to throw Rutten under the bus just so they are in the game to get Clarkson. Some clubs will get rid of a coach like underwear, while there are clubs that have never sacked a club during a season. Integrity is not universal, but surely someone like Clarkson would consider the behaviour and integrity of a prospective club.

What a low act by hind. Horrible footage

Clarkson is coach three clubs next year, North Melbourne, GWS, now Essendon, this is all made up bs

Haha this did not age well for caro, bloody gold

In the old days a coach would get an anonymous 2am phone call or read about it in the papers

Hind to the VFL this weekend.

But rutton this morning said his job is ok

Has a Carlton supporter I’m very nervous if Clarkson gets the bombers job , Im the type of supporter who would rather see essendon loose than Carlton win , I loathe them

Essendon should've hired Craig macrae

Tim Watson said no way they met with Clarkson yesterday. Also last week Caro said Clarkson would be announced as head coach of North this week. You could tell Lloydy was skeptical of the meeting (or he flat out knew it didn’t happen and couldn’t say that)

What happened to Hutcie? He looks like he should be ringing a Bell in Paris.....geez ...haven't seen what he looks like in years.

This is a nightmare for North. 😔

Why would you get a half dead horse back on the track???

LETS GO BOMBERSS proud club💪

Hutch I think is a producer of this show because why else would he be there. Talks AS!

lol at Ross to eddie

turns out the Hind footage is from when the Dons were whacking North

The dons,.....such a basket case!!!!!

That aged well

It’s a boys club really.. Stringer Sheilds bad recruiting the good old boys keep their jobs Sheedy what the hell on $250 thousand a good old boy 👦

I reckon they should go after Jeremy Clarkson. Yay Essington.

Hind thinks he’s a top 10 player in the afl. Show some respect you little weasel. Truck should’ve dropped him after this.

Listen to them all - talking as if it’s a done deal. Twenty four hours later and Rutten is still coach. Well done, you parasites 👏 👏. If you were Clarkson, why would you want to go to a club that’s divided (not just at board level), has a toxic culture and are talking about/treating their current coach as if he’s already been sacked? It’s got Mick Malthouse’s move to Carlton written all over it. You have got to feel sorry for Rutten. What an absolute rabble.

Flavour of last week was the Crows camp. This week it's Essendon. What are your guesses for next week?

Bring home Hardwick

Pure speculation, fc gossip column making a mountain out of a mole hill again. First, brasher explained why he stepped down as president, that by the clubs constitution he would have to step down half way through next year. Better to step down at the end of this year and let whoever would take over the role to oversee the review and changes (if any) going forward. And nick hind had his head slammed in a tackle, gave away a free kick for umpire decent. (Can check easily on afl replay website, 4th q - time stamp 1:53:18 and 1:56:10) With the state of umpiring i can understand his frustration and not wanting advice around respecting umpires. We dont know he had a problem with rutten, its just speculation. These bits of info were left out of the 15 min long segment, probably because it did not fit fc's story they are trying to sell (now im guilty of speculation lol). Ess may be chatting with clarko but as has been said, they'd not be doing their job if they didn't. Just the way this "story" is presented it another beat up job, fc desperate to sensationalise anything they can; sad really. Ps thumbnail for this vid is pure click bait!

If hind doesn’t get dropped rutten does not deserve his job. Needs to make a statement that is unacceptable.

Much ado about Rutton

If I were Alastair Clarkson I would be going to coach GWS as their list is the best out of these three teams and surely the one that's finals bound?!;-)

Essendon's biggest problem is their toxic culture and shafting Ben Rutton because they got thrashed by a team that played well is going to make it even more toxic.

If I was Clarko and I took on this rable of a club the first move for me would be to move Hind and some others on, even just full on dumbing them if you have to, do not laugh it is required, a good coach will move on those he deems as cancer to the team, I use Blighty as an example, he took over the Crows and sacked Tony McGuinness, Chris McDermott and Andrew Jarman, 3 legends of the Club and it was not about ability, age or form, hell Jarman returned to the SANFL the following year and won the leages best and fairest. The purpose of the sackings was simple, it YELLED I am the boss, not you players, it got rid of players that were to big in the team that were controlling the attitude in the group. Clearly Hind and some others have an attitude problem and they need to go, a statement by the new coach needs to be not come into the team and hope everyone supports him and suck up to them, the new coach needs to come in and show these players that you will even up being cut and some of you will not get picked up by any other club with your present attitudes.

Pathetic excuse of a person to not even look at his coach, if the club at balls they'd show that player the door.

As good as we've had it, if Clarkson goes to Essendon Kennett should be deported.

It doesn’t matter how good a coach is if he hasn’t got the players. As soon as their team starts to fail , they leave to keep their reputations in order

Media blowing something up out of nothing. Hind gave away a 50 and a goal and knew he would be scalded by the coach so he looked the other way. Some players face up to it when there punishment comes some don't. The media failed to mention the 50 ge gave away and the reason truck wanted to talk to him. He knew what he did wrong and truck knew he knew it.... nothing more to be said....

This hasn’t aged well……..

Bring rutten and caracella back to the tigers

Caro full of crap as usual. Media quoting media. What a joke

I’ll put 5 bucks in the pot that Nathan Buckley will coach Essendon next year.

Help us Alistair Clarkson, you’re our only hope

the problem at essendon is not coaching. the players do drugs and drink too much. always out partying. no professionalism at that club. clarko should go to North. that list is full of bums

Clarkson is not a great coach Essendon is wasting their money and time…I could have coached them hawthorn teams to 4 flags drunk he won’t see another premiership only frustration.

Again wrong Wilson

This show just luuuvs the backroom gossip. It's a load of bollocks. The coach has to go, nice guy, good footy brain, but not the huge ego to be a head coach. Heppel has to go. Nice guy, pretty good at footy. Couldn't drive a golf cart to the first tee. Kick out Dodoro for being a knob. Job done.

Typical media propergander,anything for a headline.

I hope Essendon don't get Clarkson. I'm enjoying them being utterly useless ❤️

Terrible show

immature much. nic hind a baby

Dons will be top 4 under Clarkson for the next 6 years. Period