Chris Fagan

But as a collective, they don't play for one another.

As a collective, they're out there trying to make sure that they do enough to get a game the next week.

And in an AFL environment, that just doesn't succeed these days.

You need 23 players all pulling in the same direction and especially leaders pulling in the same direction.

I've heard a lot of feedback that they weren't happy with how he communicated to the players, how open he was to play.

He coached at North Melbourne for how long?

If you haven't done enough research to go back and say, well, how does he coach in tough times?

When North Melbourne, prior to him finishing up at North Melbourne, they went through a number of years where they really struggled.

Surely you go back and ask the people in charge then, you go and ask the players, what was he like as a coach?

So it shouldn't be any surprises.

If he's not the best communicator to players in a tough time, and I'm not saying he is or he isn't, this is the feedback we're getting.

Surely the research and those questions have been asked prior to you employing this bloke, considering you knew how tough the next few years were going to be, considering the shape of the list when he come across.

Yeah, but how long does a sugar hit last for?

That's my biggest thing.

You talk about... And I'm sort of looking across at the North Melbourne side of things.

If Clarkson was at Essendon or Carlton, would he have been sacked last year because of the media hype, the uproar, the performances that weren't put out?

And he's still not out of trouble.

They've still got another 18 months of him.

But what you're seeing from...

a team that the board are stuck by is a bit of consistency you talk about their game on the weekend that they looked a totally different team when their backs were against the wall though they were fighting as one in that last quarter and some of their goals that they the transition the teamwork that they did in that last quarter to get up over Gold Coast