Clarkson said Collingwood was one of the best clubs in the competition when it came to managing disruptive incidents.
Forward Alan Didak is set to play for the Magpies after the club failed to take any action over his "chance meeting" with Christopher Wayne Hudson, the man charged with the Melbourne CBD shootings.
"I don't think there's a better club equipped than Collingwood to cope with these type of things," Clarkson said.
"They've got a guy (Mick Malthouse) who's been a tremendous coach for over 20 years, a president (Eddie McGuire) who's one of the better presidents in the AFL in coping with how to handle media, how to handle the football fraternity.
"But it's never easy, Collingwood will handle it the way they think is best for their football club and we move on," he said.
"From our point of view we can't control any of that. We'll go out to play 22 guys in black and white stripes and hopefully we prepare in a manner that gives us our best chance to beat them on the weekend," he said.
But he had a strong warning for players who continued to flout club rules.
"The whole landscape that's changed is not so much the behaviour of players but the scrutiny of players," Clarkson said.
"It's 24-hour media now. Ten or 15 years ago newspapers would be the ones that would relay the news to the world and now it's the internet and technology.
"Newspapers now give opinion more than they deliver news and so from that point of view there needs to be more sensationalism.
"But these issues have been going on in football clubs and in general society for years and years, but it's the management of the issues now that becomes so heavily scrutinised.
"It's not so much about discipline within your club, it's how you managed the issues with the wider football community and the perception," he said.
