Shannon Gill

And Mike Sheehan actually writes the inside story of all this, that there was, after this game where they get beaten by 147 points in February, there is a funeral atmosphere at the hotel after the game.

Sounds like Mike might have been there, but...

Everyone is down in the dumps.

Board members start discussions about a week later.

It's at the Travel Lodge in South Terrace, just for what it's worth, which I think is a great detail.

North are training at the Trinity Oval in Bulleen.

I'm not sure why they were training there.

The board meets with Schimmelbusch in the car park, not in a boardroom, in the car park.

And the headline in The Age of Next Day is Schimmelbusch resigns.

Now, clearly that meeting in the car park with the board has a big thing to do with the resignation.

Know your history.

It's a cultural gold star that in the AFL we are slow to sack coaches.

Very rarely does it happen in the first half of the season and those exceptions almost prove the rule.

But that's not to say that it hasn't happened before and when it does it is rather spectacular.

The wisdom of Sam Newman before a Shannon Gill welcome in.

So Terry Wheeler and Wayne Schimmelbusch are the two case studies we've chosen.

I will.

Greg Denham story.

North Melbourne coach Wayne Schimmelbusch is expected to be sacked this weekend after coaching the Kangaroos in their final game.

His assistant, Rodney Eade, is widely tipped to replace him.