Voting against the AFL’s $1 million Gold Coast relocation offer was one thing, but advising league headquarters was another according to former chairman James Brayshaw. 

"Andrew (Demetriou) and Mike (Fitzpatrick) were fuming," James Brayshaw recalled.

"Funnily enough Andrew was the most measured. I went and saw (Fitzpatrick) in his office in the city, and he was not happy." 

"Their desired result was for us to move. I get where they were coming from. I was coming from the total opposite direction."

A decade on, Brayshaw and other key players involved in one of the most tumultuous times in club history have spoken in a revealing documentary ‘Keeping North South’.

The one-hour show will be aired on Fox Footy on Tuesday night from 9pm, followed by a release on NMFC.com.au.

In the documentary, former AFL boss Andrew Demetriou suggests Brayshaw’s older brother, Mark flipped his vote at the last minute.

"I think at one stage a couple of the guys (directors) were driving the bus to the Gold Coast, that's how supportive they were of the move," Demetriou said. 

Current AFL CEO Gill McLachlan wasn’t prepared to name names saying, "The only thing I remember being bemused about is someone changing their vote and someone driving the bus to the Gold Coast and suddenly it was going in reverse down the Highway." 

Mark Brayshaw, now the AFL Coaches' Association chief executive confirmed the scuttlebutt.

"I have it on authority that the AFL were shitty with me because they felt as though I was going to vote to go," he said.