Sam Edmund

He is more than willing to put himself up there in an interviewing process against any candidate that's out there currently without a coaching position in the AFL.

Yes, well, Gerard's point about this, as I'm trying to remember, is that you can disenfranchise a whole supporter base if you go one way or the other, and that needs to be taken.

So if a coach that potentially puts himself in and beats James Heard for the process then inherits a supporter base that is 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 80% disenfranchised, well, in the end, I don't think you can let...

The tail wag the dog is not quite right, but you've got to be strong enough to stand up and say, hey, I'm voted into this position as the leader of this football club.

This is what we're going to do.

Rightly or wrongly, someone has to take control of the joint.

And I'm taking control of the joint.

We're running a process.

If James is one of 10, then James is one of 10.

I can only tell you that it's not a boat race.

This is what I'd be saying.

I don't care whether you, Caro, or you, Gary, or you, Tim, or you, whoever else, believe me or not.

It doesn't matter.

We're running a genuine process here, and that's what we're going to do.

Okay, so how would you feel, and this is a possibility too, because I think they're going to run a process, but I'm not 100% sure that that's what they're going to do.

That's what I support them doing.

But what if they were to say at some point, no, we're not going to run the process.

We've already decided who it is that we want to coach, and this person has experience.

For argument's sake, let's say that it's John Longmire.

We've decided that we're going to go with John Longmire.