Essendon great Tim Watson has suggested Matthew Knights could be the man to lead North Melbourne into the future.
Kangaroos senior coach Rhyce Shaw is on extended leave from the club for personal reasons, with the 39-year-old "almost certain" not to be coaching North next year.
Watson proposed Knights as a potential replacement, insisting that the club must go for experience this time around.
Knights was Essendon's senior coach from 2008-2010, and has been an assistant with the Cats since 2015.
โThey (North Melbourne) are not going to go with a rookie coach again, so theyโre going to go for somebody whoโs had experience,โ Watson said on SEN Breakfast.
โIโll throw one up for you โฆ this guy has been around, and heโs had a great football experience at a really successful club.
โMatty Knights got a job at Essendon as a really young coach replacing Kevin Sheedy, which was always going to be an enormous task for anyone.
โHe didnโt have the success, stayed in football, has worked at Geelong as their VFL coach then worked his way up onto the staff, he has now been around a really, really good organisation and heโs a really smart football person.
โIf North Melbourne go searching for a coach, I would suggest that they would need to talk to somebody like that, who has seen football from all sides.
โYouโre always going to be better second time around.โ
