Speaking on SEN's Jack and Painey, Clarkson said he would be open to the offer if the right circumstances arose.

"It depends where I am at and what I am doing at that point in time but yeah without a doubt, there's other guys out there like [Brendan Bolton] and [Chris Fagan], if it's a Tassie guy you want to coach the club you've got two rippers there who I could see in really strong roles for the Tassie side.

"From this far out, if I was unemployed then like I am now I'd be putting my hand up big time to get involved in such an exciting venture I think it's a no-brainer for the AFL competition and it's a no-brainer for Tasmania to roll their sleeves up and get behind it."

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Clarkson reiterated his desire to see a lengthy time-frame given to the new Tasmanian team if they did enter the AFL to build their talent pathways.

"We want to make sure that the bulk of the players that play for the Tassie side are heartland Tassie people," he said.

"I genuinely believe that the national competition should be truly national and it won't be truly national until Tassie are in it and, dare I say it, it's not a truly national until the Northern Territory are in it.

"Tassie should already in my view have a team in the national competition but because it doesn't well let's roll the sleeves ... let's get a Tassie standalone team."

The AFL icon suggested that this would be the easiest way to secure the crucial backing of the AFL club presidents with a decision set to be made early next year.

"I think philosophically, they like the idea of Tasmania being in a national competition," he said.

"Where they become perhaps a little bit self-centered is they don't want that to be at the expense of their club, to bring Tasmania into with compromised drafts or if every club had to give them a player which is what they had to do with the Brisbane Bears many years ago, they don't want it to implicate their club.

"If we can do something in that space I think it'll help the club presidents realise 'okay it's not going to implicate our individual clubs too much' so let's support the granting of this licence to Tassie."

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Clarkson has become increasingly vocal in his support for a Tasmanian side since publicly announcing his decision to take a 12-month sabbatical from AFL coaching.

"I want to explore whether I can give back to the game over the next twelve months, two years, I've been enormously benefitted by the fact I've been in clubland for 35 years so can I'd like to do something for the industry," he said.

"That includes perhaps doing some stuff for Tassie pushing their own team, I've obviously been involved in Tassie for 17 years, the whole time I've been at Hawthorn we've been playing games down in Tassie, I've got a really good affiliation with the Apple Isle."

"They've just fallen off the radar a little bit and the best way to get them back on the radar is to pursue this team from Tassie in the national competition which is really exciting."

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