{"id":11936,"date":"2018-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/footy-great-urges-afl-club-to-offer-premiership-coach-a-godfather-deal\/"},"modified":"2018-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T00:00:00","slug":"footy-great-urges-afl-club-to-offer-premiership-coach-a-godfather-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/footy-great-urges-afl-club-to-offer-premiership-coach-a-godfather-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Footy Great Urges AFL Club To Offer Premiership Coach A \u2018Godfather\u2019 Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Demons champ <strong>Garry Lyon<\/strong> says if St Kilda is a \u201cruthless footy club\u201d they will offer unsigned Hawks coach <strong>Alastair Clarkson<\/strong> a mega deal worth up to $2.5 million a year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cIf Alastair Clarkson was available, and it continues to go where St Kilda is going, they would be absolutely derelict, I think, not to explore a Godfather offer to Alastair Clarkson,\u201d Lyon has told SEN.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cHawthorn is putting off Clarko until the end of the year. From now until the end of the year, if St Kilda is a strong, ruthless footy club, that want to extent their premiership tally from one, then they would absolutely be exploring that possibility.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cTwo million or two and a half million bucks a year.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Garry Lyon: &quot;If St Kilda is a strong, ruthless footy club, then they would absolutely be exploring that possibility.&quot; | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7k2LLQUSnE\">https:\/\/t.co\/7k2LLQUSnE<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zwLWQtu0gf\">pic.twitter.com\/zwLWQtu0gf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AFL Nation (@AFLNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFLNation\/status\/993645405597351936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Demons champ Garry Lyon says if St Kilda is a \u201cruthless footy club\u201d they will offer unsigned Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson a mega deal worth up to $2.5 million a year. \u201cIf Alastair Clarkson was available, and it continues to go where St Kilda is going, they would be absolutely derelict, I think, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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