It’s been a big week for outgoing North Melbourne Coach Brad Scott.

After 10 years at the helm of the Kangaroos it has left many in praise of extensive service to the game throughout both his coaching career and his decorated playing career as well. 

Scott played 146 games across nine seasons with Brisbane and was a member of the Lions’ 2001 and 2002 premiership-winning teams.

He built a reputation league-wide as a hardened defender who was ruthless in the contest and symbolic of the side throughout that famous era.

But what often goes under even the keenest footy punter’s radar is that Scott played his first AFL season in the brown and gold, making him one of just eight players to play for both Hawthorn and the Brisbane Lions.

Hawthorn selected the Eastern Ranges product with Pick 60 in the 1994 national draft.

After Scott failed to break into the senior team the following year, he was delisted.

But the Hawks decided to give the defender a second chance in the 1996 draft and it was a chance that Scott took.

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He played all 22 games for the Hawks in the 1997 season, averaging 15.2 touches and kicking six goals on the year.

But his twin brother Chris was also making a name for himself at the Lions and, having won the 1994 Rising Star award, had 60 senior games already to his name by the end of 1997.

With a dream of playing together, Brad requested a trade north and Hawthorn obliged.

The Hawks sent Scott packing, along with Pick 51, in exchange for John Barker, Nathan Chapman and Pick 42.

The Lions took Scott Ralph with the 51^st pick, a local boy who never played a senior game.

While Barker played 113 games as a Hawk, which included 110 goals, Chapman managed 16 appearances and Matthew Dennis, that 42^nd selection, appeared five times as a Hawk.

As they say, the rest is history.