North Melbourne Kangaroos, fitness concerns, conditioning, Nick Larkey, Alastair Clarkson, David Noble, new role, Shell Racing CEO

North Melbourne ahead Nick Larkey admits the Roos weren’t as match as they wanted to be in season 2022, however that’s all altering beneath new coach Alastair Clarkson.

North Melbourne received simply two video games in 2022 – with a type of coming in opposition to a severely Covid and harm depleted West Coast.

The membership has managed simply 9 wins throughout the previous three seasons, biking by means of coaches Rhyce Shaw, David Noble and caretaker Leigh Adams earlier than Clarkson’s appointment.

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Speaking on the membership’s three-day camp in Anglesea, Larkey mentioned health was going to be a spotlight shifting ahead.

“(Fitness boss Kevin White) Kevvie’s gone arduous with the conditioning this 12 months however I believe we want it,” he mentioned.

“Those greater classes are going to assist us come season time.

“I believe we had been only a bit off final 12 months with conditioning – as a younger group we have to construct the tanks.

“I do know Clarko’s finished Kokoda prior to now, so I’m hoping he doesn’t do three weeks of Kokoda down into three days.”

The Roos aren’t the one membership decided to show round their health, after Essendon’s internal review found their unfit players needed to improve coaching requirements in 2023.

Larkey mentioned the Kangaroos had already come “leaps and bounds” from Clarkson’s first day in November regarding the recreation plan – after former coach David Noble copped loads of criticism for the problem of his in 2022.

“I grew up a large Hawks fan – to assume (Clarkson’s) teaching me now could be unbelievable,” Larkey laughed.

“You simply take his phrase as gospel actually.

“He’s obtained an actual approach with explaining issues … it’s simple to grasp.

“How merely he places it – the ideas aren’t dramatically advanced or something.

“We’ve already come leaps and bounds to date and it’s solely been a few weeks.”

Larkey’s feedback come after former coach David Noble introduced his new profession path – as CEO for Shell Racing.

Noble admitted he had met with the AFL over the final supervisor function made vacant after Brad Scott’s appointment as Essendon coach.

But the previous Roos coach mentioned the timing wasn’t proper as he took the Supercars spot as a substitute.

“I had a chat to Gil (McLachlan) and Andrew Dillon regarding the GM function vacated by Scotty – that was actually a dialogue I’d had, however the homeowners right here (at Shell) had been a good approach down the trail with me at the moment,” he mentioned on SEN.

“The window had simply opened with Gil extending and staying on for a bit, simply as that window opened for the method with how they’d run (the GM job hunt), I used to be 95 per cent most likely down the trail (with Shell).”

Noble mentioned it took round eight weeks for him to formally decide to the function at Shell, however he was excited for the change.