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A slightly left-of-centre choice here, but in 1993, North lost a pre-season practice match to Adelaide by 140 points - on 24 Feb 1993. North immediately sack senior coach and club legend Wayne Schimmelbusch, and current Essendon Reserves coach Dennis Pagan was installed. (I can't remember another coach being sacked pre-season)Pagan immediately turned North around (who hadn't made finals for 5 years), and took them to 8 straight final series through the rest of the 90s, winning 2 flags.Pagan had a reputation as a gun Junior coach - he had coached 5x U-19 premierships (at North), as well as a Reserves flag for Essendon in 1992. It is pretty clear that Pagan got the job at North because he 'knew the layout' from his 10 years coaching the U-19s there, and could hit the ground running. No one else had picked him up for a senior job in that time - eventually he left to go to Essendon Reserves in 1992 (where he won again).So - if North stick with Schimma for 1993, and he struggles again - do North have a 'serious' look for a new coach - and if Pagan puts his hand up, well - 'No one has wanted him up to now - we need an experienced coach'. Or maybe St Kilda, the Dogs (who got new coaches in 1994) or even Richmond take a flyer on him - but that seems unlikely given no one had looked at him during his previous tenures. No Pagan at North - no North 'Mid-1990s' era. Everything changes.
A slightly left-of-centre choice here, but in 1993, North lost a pre-season practice match to Adelaide by 140 points - on 24 Feb 1993. North immediately sack senior coach and club legend Wayne Schimmelbusch, and current Essendon Reserves coach Dennis Pagan was installed. (I can't remember another coach being sacked pre-season)
Pagan immediately turned North around (who hadn't made finals for 5 years), and took them to 8 straight final series through the rest of the 90s, winning 2 flags.
Pagan had a reputation as a gun Junior coach - he had coached 5x U-19 premierships (at North), as well as a Reserves flag for Essendon in 1992. It is pretty clear that Pagan got the job at North because he 'knew the layout' from his 10 years coaching the U-19s there, and could hit the ground running. No one else had picked him up for a senior job in that time - eventually he left to go to Essendon Reserves in 1992 (where he won again).
So - if North stick with Schimma for 1993, and he struggles again - do North have a 'serious' look for a new coach - and if Pagan puts his hand up, well - 'No one has wanted him up to now - we need an experienced coach'. Or maybe St Kilda, the Dogs (who got new coaches in 1994) or even Richmond take a flyer on him - but that seems unlikely given no one had looked at him during his previous tenures.
No Pagan at North - no North 'Mid-1990s' era. Everything changes.
