Xavier Clarke

John Longmire, my understanding is, has spoken to the President, Sonia Hood, has yet to receive another call and is still weighing up his options.

My understanding, Lee, is that the view of the experienced coaches, the senior coaches or the premiership coaches when it comes to Adam Simpson and John Longmire, is that there is some bemusement from their management that they... are going to go into a field, on a level playing field, with people like Daniel Pratt and Xavier Clarke and potentially Jamie Graham, that they're all going in, it's one in, all in, and there was no sort of guarantee for Adam Simpson that they would... maybe consider his application on a different set of merits.

And I wonder what you think about this view by North Melbourne that if you're in, throw your hat into the ring and we'll judge you against everyone else.

But they've sort of made it clear that they're probably moving away from the experienced senior coach.

as they work towards the trade period and the draft.

Xavier Clarke had a difficult relationship towards the end with Alistair Clarkson, as many as some of the other assistants did, it must be said, but did recommit to the club before Clarke O left, did re-sign a two-year deal.

Caro,

with that, surely there's nothing against Xavier or any other coaches, but after the comments that were made at the press conference that they need to go and find someone who's up with the modern game and the modern tactics, surely no one from that coaching staff can go as a head coach because they should be putting their understanding of the modern game throughout the game style they've got at the moment.

Corey Enright, who is considering offers from Geelong and Collingwood, is also thinking of throwing his hat into the ring, but won't confirm.

One who will contend for the job is Xavier Clarke.

Now, it's emerged in recent weeks, or certainly since the sacking of Alistair Clarkson, that Xavier Clark has become not the official replacement for Alistair Clarkson in his absence, but he has been working with the board, working with the executive, working with the footy department.

as they work towards the trade period and the draft.

I'm not saying he's in the gun or anything, but these are just, you know, Mick Barlow at the midfield.

Xavier Clarke's been there for a long time.

Hmm.

Um, so whoever it is will wanna have their own people in, but it's so late in the piece to do this.