{"id":882982,"date":"2026-09-07T07:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882982\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T07:06:23","slug":"afl-news-2026-alastair-clarkson-dumps-north-melbourne-clothes-at-vinnies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/882982\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026: Alastair Clarkson dumps North Melbourne clothes at Vinnies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alastair Clarkson<\/a> is quickly moving on from his time at North Melbourne<\/a>, donating a heap of his club gear to a local St Vincent\u2019s de Paul op-shop.<\/p>\n

The four-time premiership winner was sacked by the Kangaroos last week, despite having a year to run on his coaching contract.<\/p>\n

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Alastair Clarkson. \u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Clarkson was hopeful of remaining at North and overseeing further improvement, but club bosses opted to move in a new direction for 2027.<\/p>\n

Images were shared on social media on Monday, showing a stack of merchandise and training apparel on the racks at a local Vinnies in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

One of the items \u2013 an Indigenous design jersey \u2013 even had Clarkson\u2019s name on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust days after North Melbourne offloaded Alastair Clarkson, he appears to be doing some offloading of his own at Hampton Vinnies,\u201d 9News Melbourne reporter James Ward said on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe dumped coach has dropped off a haul of his Kangaroos gear and merchandise, donated in the wake of his sudden departure last week. <\/p>\n

\u201cTraining jumpers, warm-up tops and long-sleeve polos were among the items delivered personally by him yesterday afternoon, plus a guernsey with Clarkson\u2019s name printed on the back. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t need to rush down \u2013 the collection isn\u2019t on the shop floor yet. Vinnies still have to sort and price every item before deciding what to do with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

One shopper at Vinnies admitted it wasn\u2019t a surprise for Clarkson to dump his gear, given the way his exit from North Melbourne was handled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t entirely blame him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Another passer-by said it was good to see Clarkson giving back to the community.<\/p>\n

The 58-year-old spent four seasons with the Roos, winning just 20 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alastair Clarkson is quickly moving on from his time at North Melbourne, donating a heap of his club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-882982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}