“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’, Brayshaw said on Triple M’s Rush Hour program.
“I have great confidence that we’ll find someone terrific and hopefully sooner rather than later.”
Cook is expected to stay at Geelong.
“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 that we could’ve used. We thought we were pretty close but in the end he decided to stay (at Geelong)…”
Brayshaw admitted he thought never allowed himself to believe the deal was done, despite positive dialogue with Cook.
“… but 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 it’s done until it’s done, until you see someone sign on that bit of paper.”
Interim CEO Cam Vale will remain in charge at Aegis Park.
“One of the issues with what we’ve done with this particular (process)…is that 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 he’ll 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.”
Brayshaw will address the club and its members at the Syd Barker and Hall of Fame dinner tonight at Crown.
