Just when it seemed likely the Kangaroos would land their man in Brian Cook, he has rejected the position of chief executive with the club. Picture: Blair Hamish Source: Herald Sun
North Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw again disappointed his club couldn't sign on a high-quality chief executive. Picture: Michael Klein Source: Herald Sun
NORTH Melbourne will continue its five-month search for a chief executive after Brian Cook's decision to stay at Geelong.
The Kangaroos were confident it could lure one of Australia's top sports administrators but were again left disappointed yesterday when Cook told chairman James Brayshaw he would not accept their lucrative offer.
North was turned down by former Football Federation Australia boss Ben Buckley two months ago.
The club is now expected to turn to interim chief executive Cam Vale.
Vale declared his interest in the position months ago, but has not been told by Brayshaw whether the position is his.
Brayshaw said the club was intent on a high-quality candidate.
"It's disappointing for us. We were hoping he'd look favourably upon coming to us because we think it was a good fit and he had a great skill-set," Brayshaw said.
"We thought we were pretty close but in the end he decided to stay.
"So what we've got to do is get back together as a board and say, 'Righto, we need to work out what we're going to do going forward to get the absolute best person to do this job'.
"I have great confidence that we'll find someone terrific and hopefully sooner rather than later."
Cook's decision to extend his 12-year tenure at Geelong was welcomed by the Cats.
Former president Frank Costa, who lured Cook from West Coast in 1999, said he hoped the Cats chief executive had decided to see through the full redevelopment of Simonds Stadium and the building of a training facility at Armstrong Creek.
"I would expect he will still get chased but, hopefully, having made this decision now, this was a big one, we should be able to see him (stay) until we see through the whole challenge of rebuilding the stadium and the alternative training facility," Costa said.
"The main pitch was to see out what we started here.
"So there's still a big challenge for Brian here, and he does respond to a challenge."
It was believed Cook had taken issue with the management style of new Cats president Colin Carter and the two spoke on Monday.
Carter said the club had tabled a new offer to Cook following North's approach.
Brayshaw said he never thought the Cook deal was over the line.
"These are convoluted processes for lots of reasons and in the end, you know I've done it long enough now to know that you never think its done until its done, until you see someone sign on that bit of paper, he said.
"We've spent a lot of time with Ben Buckley working out whether he wanted to have a look at doing it and for very understandable reasons in the end he said No.
"We spent a lot of time with Brian to see if he could do it and in the end, for the reasons hell annunciate at some stage, he said no too.
"So that chews up a lot of time and in the end, you're not too far down the track."
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