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Scott had alot of flaws as a coach (lack of tactical nous and mentally fragile) but was probably better than we give him credit for now.Brad Scott was a good coach who got North into a Preliminary Final.
And history could say that he didn't leave the club's list in good nick, but I cannot really fault him and North trying to have a red hot crack at a flag with limited resources (compared to other clubs)
Think the one thing that marred his time as North coach was the haphazard way he handled Brent Harvey's 'retirement'
Sacking a club champion and fan favourite in Boomer was something he should have handled better.
Our drafting was s**t and some of our recruiting was poor (while other recruiting was very good, Waite and Higgins for example,) and that is why the list is in such a state now. Cam Joyce had a few good moments but more than a few bad ones too.
We really suffered with compromised drafts (we didn't make finals and still had first picks in the late teens for example,) and that might actually be an argument in our favour for a PP but if we end up with pick one in the MSD and the two end of year drafts and they piss off the GC end of r1 PP (for everyone) I wouldn't be complaining. We actually started to turn things around over the last two years and there is always a lag.
The Harvey sacking was a shambles. We spent the year cashing in on him, had a great start and then had serious injury worries. And dumped him like a hot potato. You'll see our membership numbers reflect the poor nature of that decision. We went from 40K to 45K members that year and then dropped back down to 40K in response to the sacking. I know people who bought first time memberships because of Boomer and haven't since.
To Harvey's credit he is still with us on game days and works well developing our younger guys.