Since we seem to be speaking in absolutes, this is categorically false.
Scott vs Simpson:
6 years of "eh, we're sort of there but not quite but we are, but we aren't, but we are on certain weekends, then we aren't again", culminating in a dream run to a preliminary where we proceeded to get smacked by a team who promptly went out and shit the bed against one of the great teams of the modern era. Player development has stagnated, first round picks from 5 years ago are only just now maybe slightly coming good, the most promising players we've drafted come from our rookie list & we routinely give other teams, regardless of their prowess, 30 minutes a week to slap our testicles around. We are unpredictable and nobody, not even the supporters, can ever back us with any certainty because the coach has created two North Melbournes: one that cares, fights, runs, battles & wins, and one that falls over against the Gold Coast.
Up against a man who bled for this club, who won premierships for this club, who would kill for this club, who led this club through maybe one of the darkest periods in its history, who also just happens to currently be coaching a team with an average winning margin of about a billion points at home, sitting second on the ladder, with a dynamic midfield contained players drafted and developed into guys who lead the competition in average disposals, who win and win well nearly everywhere they go, who have a frightening forward line and are covering the loss of their best defender with another player they drafted and developed. They're doing all this roughly two years after being comprehensively pants.
Simpson would get the job over Brad and the club would be batshit insane to not give it to him if he asked.