Shannon Gill

The suspicion was it was far more serious despite the commitment to summer training, which included 10 sessions a week at one stage and improved morale and the better communication between coach and player.

North had performed dismally in 1992 and on.

It was the realization that they'd made the wrong decision.

Yeah.

So can I just share the last paragraph of Mike's story?

Typically he was seen mowing his lawns next morning.

He was reluctant to accommodate the media throng, but he wasn't nasty.

Schimmel Bush can be gruff.

He can be, he can seem offhanded.

But you would find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow before you found someone who would look you in the eye and say, Schimmel Bush is a nasty piece of work.

So he's just another great player who has found that football is far more difficult when your fate isn't in your own hands.

So Schimmelbusch hasn't often spoken about this, but there's a, so there's a Rowan Connolly piece from March 7, 1993.

However, history chooses to view Schimmelbusch's leading of the ruse to 6th, 7th and 12th in his three seasons as coach with a 31-35 win-loss record.

It will not speak ill of the motives behind his resignation.

And it quotes Schimmelbusch.

I convinced the board last year that I was the right man for the job.

But at the same time, I said that North Melbourne had been my life and that it was just as important for me to see North successful than to worry about my own ambitions.

I said that if the time came when I thought I was no longer right for the club as coach, I'd put my hand up.

The club is just too important to me.

This is Schimmelbusch again.