The coach’s departure from North Melbourne was no surprise and seems amicable - yet it still provided enough intrigue to keep the news cycle spinning
Among the most popular threads of AFL commentary each season is the debate over which coach’s job is safe and whose seat is in play. The almost daily bombast on the subject is a reminder that football’s fourth estate will never not consider itself a player. It is assumed that as readers and viewers, we are looking for arguments, provocations, jock banter and the odd joke. Sadly, for the most part, they’re probably right. And while the media wasn’t agitating for Brad Scott’s job at North Melbourne, his decision to step aside has provided all that.
Let’s start with an argument, in that it was Scott’s decision to step aside. On Sunday, Scott and North Melbourne chairman Ben Buckley fronted a media conference to break no news and spoil nobody’s fun to note that the club and coach had mutually decided to part ways.
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